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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
I was bored so I read it. I don't like the Queen of Babble.
Definitely the best of the 3. Lizzie sure grew in this one, still made some really silly choices making poor Chaz wait so long. Luke really showed his true colors in this one, and let me tell you they weren't pretty! he was such an Ahole ugh. He was alright in the other 2 books but he just took the cake in this one.
So glad Lizzie wasn't such a pathological liar in this one either. That really bothered me in the other 2 books. There was absolutely no need to lie, and she still does it anyway, and yet she has a tendency to babble a lot, which most would construe as saying her feelings with no buffer, but not in this case apparently, cause lies just pour out of her as easily as honesty. She reminds me of Mean Girls with the word vomit all the time.
I really liked the ending, I thought it was very fitting for them and Chaz was just so cute at the end! xD he was the one babbling for a change.
If you started this series and didn't like as much as me, I recommend to keep on going cause it does get better and it's a nice closure to the trilogy.
So glad Lizzie wasn't such a pathological liar in this one either. That really bothered me in the other 2 books. There was absolutely no need to lie, and she still does it anyway, and yet she has a tendency to babble a lot, which most would construe as saying her feelings with no buffer, but not in this case apparently, cause lies just pour out of her as easily as honesty. She reminds me of Mean Girls with the word vomit all the time.
I really liked the ending, I thought it was very fitting for them and Chaz was just so cute at the end! xD he was the one babbling for a change.
If you started this series and didn't like as much as me, I recommend to keep on going cause it does get better and it's a nice closure to the trilogy.
My opinions on this book were similar to my opinions on the middle book.
I like Lizzie as a character, a kind-hearted, hard-working, determined-to-succeed young woman who also talks too much, has trouble keeping secrets, and makes mistakes. I love her desire to help people and to turn that into a career.
BUT the problems I had with the second book were still here in this book, and in some cases stronger. Lizzie's obsession with getting engaged to Luke takes over the book, overwhelming her attraction to other men, her common sense, her friends' opinions, and her own instincts telling her that it's not a good idea. At no point does she talk to herself (or to us, the readers) about why getting engaged to Luke (or getting engaged at all) is so important to her, or why once it happens it upsets her. She still doesn't take her friends' advice, and she still refuses to acknowledge that there might be something wrong with her relationship with Luke. On top of all of that (the worst part of it, for me), she doesn't talk to Luke, her future partner, about any of it; they both are content to exist without discussing their problems at all.
Running parallel to this plotline is Lizzie's almost-relationship with Chaz, her best friend's ex-boyfriend, who featured prominently in the sweet ending of the second book (right before the cliffhanger). I loved Chaz. I definitely wanted Lizzie to be with Chaz. But the dragging out of their relationship, a kind of will-they won't-they (while tangled in Lizzie's problems with Luke) sort of killed it for me. I love reading about sweet, sexy, and honest relationships when I read romances, and what happened in the second book promised more of that from Chaz, but failed to deliver in this book. At least for most of the book.
And I had sort of hoped that this disastrous engagement to Luke would be important to Lizzie's character arc, leading her to realize that maybe getting engaged and eventually married isn't something she needs to worry about right now, that working on her career for a few years is more important, etc. But it didn't. If anything, she only became more obsessed with getting married, using something Chaz says about marriage being a terrible institution as a reason to not hook up with him. Lizzie describes it to us as wanting to know that a relationship is going somewhere, which I think is understandable, but her seeing any and all potential relationships as having an endgame of getting married, even in the first month or so, was frustrating.
So: I like Lizzie (in general), and I enjoyed the few sweet, sexy, and honest moments she shared with Chaz in this book, but here the negatives started to outweigh the positives. I'm still giving it three stars, on account of I love Cabot's writing and the books usually consume me, despite my misgivings.
I like Lizzie as a character, a kind-hearted, hard-working, determined-to-succeed young woman who also talks too much, has trouble keeping secrets, and makes mistakes. I love her desire to help people and to turn that into a career.
BUT the problems I had with the second book were still here in this book, and in some cases stronger. Lizzie's obsession with getting engaged to Luke takes over the book, overwhelming her attraction to other men, her common sense, her friends' opinions, and her own instincts telling her that it's not a good idea. At no point does she talk to herself (or to us, the readers) about why getting engaged to Luke (or getting engaged at all) is so important to her, or why once it happens it upsets her. She still doesn't take her friends' advice, and she still refuses to acknowledge that there might be something wrong with her relationship with Luke. On top of all of that (the worst part of it, for me), she doesn't talk to Luke, her future partner, about any of it; they both are content to exist without discussing their problems at all.
Running parallel to this plotline is Lizzie's almost-relationship with Chaz, her best friend's ex-boyfriend, who featured prominently in the sweet ending of the second book (right before the cliffhanger). I loved Chaz. I definitely wanted Lizzie to be with Chaz. But the dragging out of their relationship, a kind of will-they won't-they (while tangled in Lizzie's problems with Luke) sort of killed it for me. I love reading about sweet, sexy, and honest relationships when I read romances, and what happened in the second book promised more of that from Chaz, but failed to deliver in this book. At least for most of the book.
And I had sort of hoped that this disastrous engagement to Luke would be important to Lizzie's character arc, leading her to realize that maybe getting engaged and eventually married isn't something she needs to worry about right now, that working on her career for a few years is more important, etc. But it didn't. If anything, she only became more obsessed with getting married, using something Chaz says about marriage being a terrible institution as a reason to not hook up with him. Lizzie describes it to us as wanting to know that a relationship is going somewhere, which I think is understandable, but her seeing any and all potential relationships as having an endgame of getting married, even in the first month or so, was frustrating.
So: I like Lizzie (in general), and I enjoyed the few sweet, sexy, and honest moments she shared with Chaz in this book, but here the negatives started to outweigh the positives. I'm still giving it three stars, on account of I love Cabot's writing and the books usually consume me, despite my misgivings.
This series falls under the light and fluffy chick lit category. Lizzie Nichols is realizing her dream of working in a dress shop refurbishing vintage wedding gowns. At the end of the last book, she moved out on her boyfriend who wasn't ready for a committment and found herself getting drunk and attracted to his best friend who used to date her best friend. At the beginning of the book, Lizzie's boyfriend shows up and proposes. Lizzie accepts but wants to vomit every time she thinks about planning the wedding. The owner of the dress shop has a heart attach and Lizzie is left to run the shop and manage celebrity clients on her own, as she finds herself falling for her fiance's best friend. The story is obvious but sometimes I like them like that.
I've enjoyed this series tremendously. I need a good laugh and a great escape and this gave me both.
This just did not in any way live up to the other two in the series.
It was much too repetitive for my liking, and I spent the entire read thinking: Just do it already. Just hook up with the other guy.
It's as if the second novel ended with that exact 'plot twist' - Oh, they are supposed to be together. OK. And then this third novel just does ... nothing - but dwell on that and draw it out.
You could maybe (MAYBE) argue that it's a fairly accurate illustration of what Lizzie goes through during those 9 months or however long it is - BUT it doesn't work either way. I'm left with the impression that there was nothing more to say, the story was finished, but she started this third and final novel and therefor had to finish it, and couldn't go for a short story so she had to fill just short of 300 pages with text ...
If only it brought something else to the plate as well, plot wise, or even just in terms of the writing or it being extra funny, ... just give me something.
Nope. A bit of a disappointment.
It was much too repetitive for my liking, and I spent the entire read thinking: Just do it already. Just hook up with the other guy.
It's as if the second novel ended with that exact 'plot twist' - Oh, they are supposed to be together. OK. And then this third novel just does ... nothing - but dwell on that and draw it out.
You could maybe (MAYBE) argue that it's a fairly accurate illustration of what Lizzie goes through during those 9 months or however long it is - BUT it doesn't work either way. I'm left with the impression that there was nothing more to say, the story was finished, but she started this third and final novel and therefor had to finish it, and couldn't go for a short story so she had to fill just short of 300 pages with text ...
If only it brought something else to the plate as well, plot wise, or even just in terms of the writing or it being extra funny, ... just give me something.
Nope. A bit of a disappointment.
Gosh darn I love Lizzie !! I love this entire series!! Meg Cabot just makes her so real and i found myself connecting with her on multiple levels. I think is was a nice end to the series and would read it again in a heart beat!!!
UNPREDICTABLE! I never thought it would end up like that. Well, I almost thought Lizzie would really pursue the wedding with Luke and forget everything that happened between her and Chaz but then she can't deny the fact that Chaz is really a good guy, a total package, because he's been there when Luke, that A-hole prioritized making money while Lizzie lost her Gran. I really miss Gran tho. She's been that punk grandma everyone wants to have. :D And the idea of Lizzie and Ava partnering for a clothing line was briliant. The last part was Chaz telling Lizzie that he applied or marriage was the bessssst! I adore him. I know he never really believe in marriage but when it comes to people we love, we tend to take risks. :D
Dear Meg Cabot, my friends and I are really waiting for another book sequel. Book 4 ! Book 4! Babble Queen gets kids ! I think I love that! Please,please? :D
Dear Meg Cabot, my friends and I are really waiting for another book sequel. Book 4 ! Book 4! Babble Queen gets kids ! I think I love that! Please,please? :D
Of course, the fact that I was infinitely more excited for the conclusion to this than Twilight demonstrates how weird my life truly is. Also, this was quite worthy, even if predictable.
This is a good story and great characters, but it is marred by really repetitive writing in Lizzie's internal dialogue and reactions to things. Just needed a good thorough editing to make it great. I'd give it 3.5 stars. This was the most mature of the 3 Queen of Babble books, and definitely my favorite.