Pants on Fire

Reader reviewed by Holly

Okay, let me say this first, I'm a HUGE Meg Cabot fan, so of course I picked this book up. Meg usually has the best books and they are great! This book didn't have it, though.

It was slow and you could tell what was going to happen next. I was highly disapointed with this one.

Someone painted Tommy Sullivan Is a Freak on the gym wall and then Tommy moved away. Then he comes back and Kate has totally changed. She's dating Mr Popular and has the hottest and coolest friends. So, what's up with Tommy?

Reader reviewed by Stephanie

Katie Ellison is an accomplished liar. She tells people she enjoys eating quahogs when she actually cant stand them. Shes cheating on her boyfriend of four years, Quahog football player Seth, with Eric, the drama hottie. Katie is so used to telling lies to let people hear what she thinks they want to hear that its almost like shes forgotten who she is.

Then a part of her unpleasant past reappears. Tommy Sullivan, once a skinny freak who was run out of town for doing something absolutely unforgivable by the townfolk, is back. Only this time, hes 100% hot. And Katie has a bad addiction to kissing guys, even though she technically already has two boyfriends.

With Tommy, however, it feels like things are different. Its the way they have conversations that make her think, unlike her conversations with Seth, which are mostly about food and football. Its the way he remembers all the little quirks about her, back from in middle school when the two had been friends. And its also the way she cant stop thinking about him.

But at the bottom line, its time for Katie to stop lying to herself. She has worked so hard to lie her way from social paraihdom to the girlfriend of the most well-liked guy in school and best friend to the most popular girl. Is she willing to give it all up now for the only guy whos ever made her heart beat fast?

I didnt enjoy this as much as Meg Cabots previous books. Nothing really happens, and the characters are flat. Katie is a typical Cabot protagonist who likes to get off topic and who fails to show any true conflict and resolution, while Tommy is a stereotypical bad boy hottie to the point where I want to gag. However, if you want a light read, then by all means, go ahead and read this one.