Main Characters: Heather Wells, Cooper Wainwright
Series: Heather Wells Series, Book 2
Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College–a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend’s upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she’s definitely having a hard time dealing with the situation in the dormitory kitchen–where a cheerleader has lost her head on the first day of the semester. (Actually, her head is accounted for–it’s her torso that’s AWOL.)
Surrounded by hysterical students–with her ex-con father on her doorstep and her ex-love bombarding her with unwanted phone calls–Heather welcomes the opportunity to play detective . . . again. If it gets her mind off her personal problems–and teams her up again with the gorgeous P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives–it’s all good. But the murder trail is leading the average-sized amateur investigator into a shadowy world. And if she doesn’t watch her step, Heather will soon be singing her swan song!
This is the second book in the Heather Wells series and because Heather rocks, she kept the party going in this one. This story takes off where the first book left off. I reviewed this book over at my old book blog, Sanctuary’s Finest and I can honestly say that I still feel the same way about this book so I’m just bringing my review from over there and planting it right here on my YA blog.
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Okay seriously? I can’t get enough of this series, I’m sucked into the world Meg Cabot has made up for Heather Wells and Cooper Cartwright, yeah they don’t get together in the first book and it doesn’t seem like they’ll get together throuhgout this book but Meg is expertly dangling the hook of hope before me and I have no doubt that they WILL get together, cause though Cooper does not seem like he likes her in both of these books, we, the readers know different…we know that he’s got it just as bad for Heather as she’s got it for him, he’s just very covert about it, instead of coming out and saying that he’s got the hots for his brother’s ex girlfriend, he does sweet things for her like, saves her from herself and the many enemies that she makes while trying unsuccessfully to stay out of the trouble Cooper told her to stay out of, she should be this TSTL heroine, but she’s not…she’s just so funny and so damn smart, it makes for great entertainment and reading.
In this book, Heather’s dorm is being labeled, Death Dorm because of all the dying students from last semester and really, who could blame them? But, Heather loves her dorms (even if she refuses to call them dorms but to hell with all that, they’re DORMS dammit!) and even though she’d like to stay out of everything, she can’t help but ask questions and go to parties and unknowingly lead students who have crushes on her on all in the hopes of getting into the party she needs to get into to get to the people she needs to talk to in order to get the answers she needs to solve the crimes Cooper has told her to stay out of, but gosh…she’s like Stephanie Plum for the college kids and I’m a fan! She may not be a size 6 hot shot klutz who is bangin’ the hottie cop with the adorable dog and the sexily mysterious Bounty Hunter with which she works with from Jersey, but Heather Wells holds her own, she’s a lively crackhead that totally cracks me up.
Her personality as seen through these books is very catchy and just fun.
And I just love it!
My favorite character of this book? Gavin McGoren. We saw him as the elevator hopping student from the last book, but he shows up again in this book and has a bigger part in it and I just love him to death, he’s so effing cute and funny, good gosh he’s funny…and I hope to see more of him!
So many things are happening in this book and the flow is fantastic, the writing superb and just everything is on point and I think you lovely ladies will enjoy it, so make sure you read it!
Good stuff.
Final Grade: B
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I have the first book from this series in my tbr pile. Cooper sounds very very interesting!!
Sounds cute. This series sounds good. Besides, I love the titles! 🙂
Did you give me any of her books to read? Hmm I’ll check it out, but sounds good and she will probably be my next YA Author I’ll look into.
Thanks for the reviews.
I adore this series so I’m sure you guys will too. I promise!
And Haven, I don’t think I’ve given you any Meg Cabot though duh, I should have because she’s the bomb. I’ll look through my books tonight and get you some MC’s to check out.
Really enjoyed this book! I have the third book in this series, Big Boned, but haven’t read it yet. I can’t wait until the new books in the series are released.
Diana
You totally should, there’s more Cooper to look forward to go on and read it! =)
oh my gosh!! i read where she went and i totally fell in love with adam!! i was so pleasantly surprised when i saw that he was your boyfriend of the month!! (: