Chick Lit: Queen of Babble in the Big City

Queen of Babble in the Big City, Meg Cabot (3rd book for Chick Lit Challenge!)

The second book in the Queen of Babble series, we find Lizzie in New York City after her summer in France with her best friend Shari, Shari's boyfriend Chaz, and Luke, Lizzie's new boyfriend.

So everything's great, except that Lizzie has no job, no money, and no place to live.  Deathly afraid that the big bad city is going to chew her up and spit her out like it did some girl from Anne Arbor named Kathy, Lizzie takes a job that earns no pay, and agrees to live with Luke, who she's known for 3 months.

This book felt like a continuation of the other book.  Which, hello, it should as it's a series.  But more than that, it felt like it was supposed to be part of the same book.  Like Cabot wrote it all at one time, her publisher got a hold of it and said "I bet we can make three books" and chopped it up at the desireable points.

This is beneficial for one reason - I didn't have to sit through a chapter of "previously, on Queen of Babble."  Which gets soooo annoying.

It's also irritating, for one reason - the ending does not feel like an ending but more like an annoying cliff hanger from a prime time soap opera.  What will happen to Lizzie now?  What will her answer be?  How will she get out of this jam?

And, I can see the end from here.  It's not a bad ending, and really with Chick Lit, who can't see the end from 50 pages in?  It's part of it's charm.  It's comfort food in that you know what it tastes like, and it tastes good.  Chocolate ice cream for the book lover soul.

I still miss Luke.  He had that one charming scene on the train in the first book and it's like he's never been heard from again.  It makes me sad.  Shari, also, took a big jump out of this story, and was replaced by Tiffany and the lovely french people that own the bridal store.  Both of these are very funny characters, and I hope they are present in the next one.

I enjoyed the book, finished it in no time, and I enjoyed the back story of the wedding dress refurbishment and all the wedding info / quotes throughout.  Like I said, we're sort of in "wedding mode" around here so it's fitting and fun.  Definitely worth picking up at the library or the used book store.