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rebroxannape's review against another edition
3.0
Every Boy's Got One is another fizzy romance just like the previous two in the series. Again, it is written all in emails, and journals. I didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the first two. The use of the epistolary form was handled clumsily and lazily in this one, to the point that our heroine is transcribing a climactic conversation while it is happening and the hero is actually commenting on the font she is using. Self-parody on the part of Meg Cabot? Maybe. But if so, it was self-indulgent and maybe a whiff disrespectful to the reader? Maybe? I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
It was seriously lacking much of plot. In the previous two, we had an almost murder mystery, mistaken Identity, quirky and funny secondary characters, vicious office politics, serious legal problems, and really bad people to root against. Other than the two protagonists misunderstanding and disliking each other at first and how they come to value each other and fall in love in the course of the book, there isn’t much to this one. All problems and conflicts are wiped away fairly easily and “off stage” albeit cutely. There was no anticipation of how a major conflict, conundrum, or misunderstanding was going to be solved. Also, the romance struck me as a mutual crush, rather than a great love. Ironically, this was based on Meg Cabot's real-life elopement with her husband of 25 years!
That all said, it was cute and amusing, and kept me reading, chuckling, and engaged.
It was seriously lacking much of plot. In the previous two, we had an almost murder mystery, mistaken Identity, quirky and funny secondary characters, vicious office politics, serious legal problems, and really bad people to root against. Other than the two protagonists misunderstanding and disliking each other at first and how they come to value each other and fall in love in the course of the book, there isn’t much to this one. All problems and conflicts are wiped away fairly easily and “off stage” albeit cutely. There was no anticipation of how a major conflict, conundrum, or misunderstanding was going to be solved. Also, the romance struck me as a mutual crush, rather than a great love. Ironically, this was based on Meg Cabot's real-life elopement with her husband of 25 years!
That all said, it was cute and amusing, and kept me reading, chuckling, and engaged.
smuttea_matcha's review against another edition
2.0
I hated the format. I hated it so much! I can't stand the whole letter, text, e-mail, and diary formats in books so I try to avoid them. This book was an exception because the summary caught my interest. Jane's bitchy attitude annoyed me but I guess it sort of grows on you because near the end I wasn't as annoyed. I don't plan on reading the first two books because of the formatting but this book wasn't too bad. Her obsession with writing in the journal bothered me because even in the end when Cal is trying to explain himself she is writing in it. I got an image of her staring into his eyes while she wrote in her book without looking.
ljcl_'s review against another edition
5.0
This is my all-time favourite book. I'm not sure why, but I think it's because it shows that no matter how much you hate a person, you can end up falling in love with them, just like Jane and Cal. I loved how Jane gave a detailed account of each day, of how she felt towards Cal etc.
ameserole's review against another edition
3.0
Okay, so Every Boy's Got One was a bit better than the previous book but not by much. At least to me. I also just realized that I read this series in a weird ass order. Book 1 and 4 were done before I even jumped into 2 and 3? Not sure I understand my logic on this but I'm going with it anyways.
In it, you will meet Jane and Cal. Now this is definitely a enemies to lovers romance because these two did not mesh in the beginning. So it was kind of interesting to see what banter I could possibly get between these two. Boy did they banter, a lot. I loved it all. Some of it was funny and other times I just rolled my eyes and went along with it.
Both character definitely had their owns flaws in my eyes because I honestly couldn't tell you who I liked more. They are pretty much equal in my ways because they both annoyed me so many times. I will say that the romance did have it's cute moments but that's about it. This book also made me super jealous and want to travel the world.. but I can't at the moment. Ugh. Stupid pandemic!
In the end, I guess I'm just glad that I finished another series this year.
In it, you will meet Jane and Cal. Now this is definitely a enemies to lovers romance because these two did not mesh in the beginning. So it was kind of interesting to see what banter I could possibly get between these two. Boy did they banter, a lot. I loved it all. Some of it was funny and other times I just rolled my eyes and went along with it.
Both character definitely had their owns flaws in my eyes because I honestly couldn't tell you who I liked more. They are pretty much equal in my ways because they both annoyed me so many times. I will say that the romance did have it's cute moments but that's about it. This book also made me super jealous and want to travel the world.. but I can't at the moment. Ugh. Stupid pandemic!
In the end, I guess I'm just glad that I finished another series this year.
hpitcher15's review
so when i first picked up this book and found that it consists of diary entries and emails i had already made up my mind that it wouldn't be a very good book but i would finish it anyways. Oddly enough though, i actually liked this. it was cute and interesting even if it was kind of boring at parts. the main character is very interesting and the male lead is also...even though he seems to have a fairly creepy foot fetish that could be considered strange. all in all....it wasn't that bad.
vll295's review against another edition
3.0
I got started on Meg Cabot through the Princess Diaries. I expanded to take on the Heather Wells Series and Boy Series. Interesting books.
anishadb's review against another edition
2.0
I was rereading it, and I really wanted to like it because I remember loving this book, but I just couldn't.
dizzybell06's review
2.0
Cute and quick read, but probably wouldn't read it again. It follows the same format of the other books in Cabot's "Boy" series although this one wasn't as good as the other two.