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When it comes to devouring her delightfully outrageous, phenomenally fun fiction, Meg Cabot's fans are Insatiable! And now the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries --not to mention a host of wonderfully winning grown-up novels like Queen of Babble, Big Boned, and Every Boy's Got One --has a subject she can really sink her teeth into: vampires! A deliciously twisted modern-day sequel to Bram Stoker's classic Dracula, Cabot's Insatiable will leave you laughing...and hungry for more!
Author Notes
Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana on February 1, 1967. She recieved a fine arts degree from Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City, intent upon pursuing a career in freelance illustration. Illustrating, however, soon got in the way of Meg's true love, writing, and so she abandoned it and got a job as the assistant manager of an undergraduate dormitory at New York University, and writing on the weekends.
Meg wrote both The Princess Diaries and The Mediator: Shadowland (under the name Jenny Carroll), the first books in two series for young adults which happen to be about, among other things, teenage girls dealing with unsettling family issues. Her latest book is entitled, Insatiable.
Meg now writes full time, and lives in Key West, Florida with her husband.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Cabot (Princess Diaries) winningly applies her trademark likably fallible protagonists and breezy storytelling to a vampire war in New York City. TV writer Meena Harper creates fabulous plots for Insatiable, the second-highest-rated soap opera, thanks to her burdensome if lucrative psychic ability to see into the future and determine how people are going to die. And just as Insatiable is switching to a vampire theme to attract a younger demographic, a spate of chilling murders-by-exsanguination grips New York City. Enter Lucien Antonescu, a sexy, melancholic Romanian history professor/vampire who recognizes that the murders are the work of rogue vampires who have broken away from his order. (Lucien happens to be the son of Vlad the Impaler, whom Bram Stoker gave such a bad rep.) Lucien's opposition: Alaric Wulf, a sympathetic detective from the Palatine Guard, who hopes to use Meena and her prophetic gift to stop the murders and track down Lucien. Unfortunately for Alaric, Meena is a little in love with Lucien. Cabot is less concerned with creating a convincing family tree for Lucien than with creating sparks between her characters, who feel pleasantly natural even as they live alongside the vampires next door. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
The author of the popular Princess Diaries series and Queen of Babble (2006) jumps on the vampire bandwagon. Meena Harper is a young soap opera writer who possesses the power to see how people are going to die. This ability has allowed her to save the lives of those she cares about, but it's also made her something of an outsider. Her dreams of becoming the head writer on her show, Insatiable, are dashed when the job is given to a well-connected rival who wants to add a vampire character to the sudser. Meena is dismayed by the turn of events at work until a mysterious stranger named Lucien rescues her from a bizarre bat attack. Their romance takes off, until a smoldering vampire hunter named Alaric breaks into Meena's apartment and tells her the man she's dating is the prince of darkness. Meena doesn't want to believe her lover is actually a vampire, but the gravity of the situation becomes apparent when she finds herself embroiled in a deadly vampire war. The vampire craze may be reaching the oversaturation point, but this novel's appealing love triangle and Cabot's popularity should draw plenty of readers.--Huntley, Kristine Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Cabot, best known for her YA series "The Princess Diaries," has also authored a long list of contemporary adult books that read like quirky romance novels. Her latest is told in turns by three main characters: Meena, a slightly psychic soap opera writer; Lucien, the vampire prince of darkness; and Alaric, a Palatine Guard who kills vampires with a comically named sword. Often Meena complains about monster misogynists, but she's out to save herself (and everyone else), turning the typical portrait of damsel in distress on its ear. VERDICT What starts as a chick-lit standard-a leading lady is beleaguered at work by a rival-turns quickly into a comic novel complete with a smart and snarky heroine with a hero complex. With delightful tongue-in-cheek digs at leading vampire franchises like Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series, True Blood, and Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series and a highly developed pop-culture sensibility, Cabot's offering will appeal to her fans, chick-lit followers, and crossover readers from the paranormal romance and urban fantasy genres. [Audio CD ISBN 978-0-06-198851-6.]-Stacey Rottiers, Ann Arbor, MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
