Meg Cabot
Point
Release date: May 13, 2008
List price: $16.99 (352p)
ISBN: 978-0545040525
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Review - "Airhead"
Reviewer: Charise Payne
Rating:
Meg Cabot, the New York Times best-selling author of such classics as The Princess Diaries and Avalon High, brings her readers her newest would-be classic Airhead.
Airhead is the first in a series that follows the life story of Emerson Watts, a self-proclaimed outsider at Tribeca Alternative High School. Em, as her family and friends call her, is a smart, video-game-loving tomboy. Her joys in life are hanging with her best friend Christopher and playing Journeyquest, their favorite game. She despises all things girly, and hates that her sister wants to be a popular cheerleader (or as she and Christopher call them — part of the Walking Dead). She dreads anything that makes you one of them: the girls with the cute body, great hair, great nails, and an empty brain.
But things change when Em and Christopher are begged into taking Em's younger sister to a day at the newest mega-story grand opening so the cheerleading wannabe can see her newest lust British singer Gabriel Luna. Tragedy strikes. After a horrible life-altering injury, Em finds herself in the hospital attached to tubes and wires, but she has no clue why she is there. She discovers that not only has she been there a full month and that her life has been drastically changed, but that her worst fear has come true: through an experimental surgery Em, has become Nikki, a 17-year-old supermodel.
Airhead is a cute book that most young readers will love. I enjoyed its premise: that who you are on the inside is what matters. I also loved the look into the world of a supermodel. Their lives are not as easy as they seem.
My one issue with the book is its ending. I know the book was setup to be a series, and that it hasn't ended technically, but I would have liked to see the first one wrap-up better. But like other avid readers, I eagerly await the next installment, Being Nikki.
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