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gotosleepgabi 's review for:
Avalon High
by Meg Cabot
*spoiler spoiler spoiler below*
Will calls her Elle. He's the only one that does this. Because Lady of the Lake starts with an 'L'. That's pretty much the best answer to the question "How cheesy is this book?" And yet I enjoyed it. With the exception of the Princess Diaries, I tend to enjoy Meg Cabot's stand-alone books more, and this one is like Classic Cabot (as opposed to newer stuff like the Abandon, Airhead, or vampire series'). Classic Cabot is cheesy, but it can also be pleasant if you're into that sort of thing. This was a nice read. Not great. No amazing world-building, some unanswered questions, but it's a small scenario where she leaves the magic stuff ambiguous, which actually works in her favor because she's good at conveying emotion and scene, not so much world building (as Abandon and Airhead have taught me; I think Princess Diaries probably works because it was not afraid to be cheesy, was not formulaic, and had enough writing space for her to actually grow that world out; God, I wish she would write something like that again. But I'm getting sidetracked).
I liked the romantic leads, I liked the idea of a protagonist who likes floating in water and running and checking water filtration levels often and doesn't like bugs but doesn't necessarily want to kill them, who thinks her parents are dorks but is also comfortable in their style of life. I liked the 'nice' description of Guinevere's fill-in (although it did come at the cost of perpetrating that whole she-wasn't-evil-but-she-WAS-vain-and-kind-of-vapid reading of Guinevere...so single quotes around nice for that). Good to lose some time with. Rereading it? Probably only after a good long while and you've forgotten most if not all of the salient plot points.
Will calls her Elle. He's the only one that does this. Because Lady of the Lake starts with an 'L'. That's pretty much the best answer to the question "How cheesy is this book?" And yet I enjoyed it. With the exception of the Princess Diaries, I tend to enjoy Meg Cabot's stand-alone books more, and this one is like Classic Cabot (as opposed to newer stuff like the Abandon, Airhead, or vampire series'). Classic Cabot is cheesy, but it can also be pleasant if you're into that sort of thing. This was a nice read. Not great. No amazing world-building, some unanswered questions, but it's a small scenario where she leaves the magic stuff ambiguous, which actually works in her favor because she's good at conveying emotion and scene, not so much world building (as Abandon and Airhead have taught me; I think Princess Diaries probably works because it was not afraid to be cheesy, was not formulaic, and had enough writing space for her to actually grow that world out; God, I wish she would write something like that again. But I'm getting sidetracked).
I liked the romantic leads, I liked the idea of a protagonist who likes floating in water and running and checking water filtration levels often and doesn't like bugs but doesn't necessarily want to kill them, who thinks her parents are dorks but is also comfortable in their style of life. I liked the 'nice' description of Guinevere's fill-in (although it did come at the cost of perpetrating that whole she-wasn't-evil-but-she-WAS-vain-and-kind-of-vapid reading of Guinevere...so single quotes around nice for that). Good to lose some time with. Rereading it? Probably only after a good long while and you've forgotten most if not all of the salient plot points.