Main Characters: Lizzie Nichols, Luke de Villiers
Series: Queen of Babble series, Book 1

What’s an American girl with a big mouth, but an equally big heart, to do?

Lizzie Nichols has a problem, and it isn’t that she doesn’t have the slightest idea what she’s going to do with her life, or that she’s blowing what should be her down payment on a cute little Manhattan apartment on a trip to London to visit her long-distance boyfriend, Andrew. What’s the point of planning for the future when she’s done it again? See, Lizzie can’t keep her mouth shut. And it’s not just that she can’t keep her own secrets, she can’t keep anything to herself.

This time when she opens her big mouth, her good intentions get Andrew in major hot water. Now Lizzie’s stuck in London with no boyfriend and no place to stay until the departure date written on her non-changeable airline ticket.

Fortunately, Lizzie’s best friend and college roommate is spending her summer in the south of France, catering weddings in a chateau. One call and Lizzie’s on a train to Paris. Who cares if she speaks only rudimentary French? One glimpse of gorgeous Chateau Mirac — not to mention gorgeous Luke, Chateau Mirac’s owner — and she’s smitten.

But while most caterers can be trusted to keep a secret, Lizzie’s the exception. And no sooner has the first cork been popped than Luke hates her, the bride is in tears, and it looks like Chateau Mirac is in danger of becoming a lipo-recovery spa. As if things aren’t bad enough, ex-boyfriend Andy shows up looking for “closure” (or at least a loan), threatening to ruin everything, especially Lizzie’s chance at ever finding real love — unless she can figure out a way to use that big mouth of hers to save the day.

My cousin Lexi was the first person to pimp this series out to me. She swore that I was going to love it and because we have similar tastes in books, I picked it up and of course, loved it.

That was a long time ago.

This time around, I think I loved it more. The story starts off with Lizzie Nichols just graduating from college (or so she thought) and heading off to England to spend time with her boyfriend Andrew who turns out to be a total douche who complains to his family about what a fatty she is and who does other douchey things that makes Lizzie up and run off to spend the summer with her best friend Shari and Sheri’s boyfriend Chaz, who are staying in France at Chaz’s friend’s house. When she hops on the train, she meets up with a guy who she is totally digging and ends up spilling her guts out to him.

The guy she spills her guts out to turns out to be Chaz’s friend, the guy that they’re staying with and Luke (that’s his name) turns out to be a total dream boat and the book just sort of takes off from there.

I really enjoyed this book and I enjoyed getting to know Lizzie. She got herself into trouble a bunch of times because of that mouth of hers but in this book, it was funny and at times, cute. Meg Cabot does a great job of making you come to care for the characters in this book and she’ll have you cheering Lizzie on as she goes from one problem to another but in the end, you’ll be happy with the journey that Lizzie has gone on so far but you’ll also be anxious for more from this cast of characters.

This is the first book in the Queen of Babble series and I have every faith that if you’re a fan of Meg Cabot and a fan of Contemporary Young Adult fiction that you’ll enjoy this book.

There’s much to recommend this book from the laugh out loud moments that are all over the place, to the charming cast of characters, a hot stud of a hero in Luke (who is totally dream worthy) and a perky heroine in Lizzie. You’ll love Shari and Chaz and you’ll definitely want to rush out and buy the next book so if you haven’t read this series, I think you should.

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