Name: Queen of Babble (Queen of Babble #1)
ISBN: 9780060851989

Meg Cabot

Queen of Babble (Queen of Babble #1)

Robin M Cabana

I am a fan of lots of chick lit - but this book and the Lizzie Nichols character - mostly had me annoyed. How could a girl from an academic family go through four years of college and be so clueless. I really had a hard time buying that she didn't know about writing a thesis. I can see being clueless about guys or other things - as she was - but not that. And the thesis bits before each chapter were just too silly. Lizzie did grow on my after awhile, once she tried to redeem herself, but I think she was mostly just a dumbed down version of Rebecca Bloomwood from Shopaholic. Her love interest even has the same name!

Lizzie Nichols has a problem: she can't keep anything to herself. And when she opens her big mouth on a trip to London, her good intentions get her long-distance beau, Andrew, in major hot water. Now she's stuck in England with no boyfriend and no place to stay until the departure date on her nonrefundable airline ticket. Fortunately, Lizzie's best friend and college roommate, Shari, is spending her summer catering weddings in a sixteenth-century chÂteau in southern France. Who cares if Lizzie's never traveled alone in her life and only speaks rudimentary French? She's off to Souillac to lend a helping hand! One glimpse of gorgeous ChÂteau Mirac—and of gorgeous Luke, the son of the chÂteau's owner—and Lizzie's smitten. But thanks to her chronic inability to keep a secret, before the first cork has been popped Luke hates her, the bride is in tears, and ChÂteau Mirac is on the road to becoming a lipo-recovery spa. Add to that the arrival of ex-beau Andrew, who's looking for "closure" (or at least a loan), and everything—including Lizzie's shot at true love—is in la toilette . . . unless she can figure out some way to use her big mouth to save the day.

Queen of Babble

Amy Grieve

This was technically a re-read for me and I'm so happy that I picked it back up because even after all these years I still enjoyed it.

I do think a lot of my positive thoughts on this one are linked to the overwhelming nostalgia I felt reading this. Back in the day, way before my days on this site, when I picked this up it was my first time reading the 'chick-lit' genre and it's always been a book I've thought back on with a lot happy memories. 

Honestly, if I picked up this book today for the first time I probably wouldn't have liked it as much because it is pretty cringe at points especially the first 20% having to watch Lizzie struggle with how shitty her long distance boyfriend is and just having to watch a perfectly decent female character suffer through that waste of space. Lizzie was also pretty spineless at times, but, once again, I knew that she was going to grow a back bone because I've already ridden this rollercoaster. 

I can't wait to pick up the next book again!

Kourtney

What do you get when you mix a Diet Coke obsession, the inability to keep a secret, and the need to finish a thesis? You get the Queen of Babble! This book is a great beach read, but bring your sunscreen because once you start reading you won't want to stop!