Book info

• Title Boy Meets Girl
• Author Meg Cabot
• Year 2004
• Genre Romance

Meet Kate Mackenzie. She: works for the T.O.D. (short for TyrannicalOffice Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal); is sleeping on the couch because her boyfriend of ten years refuses to commit; can't find an affordable studio apartment anywhere in New York City; thinks things can't get any worse. They can. Because: the T.O.D. is making her fire the most popular employee in the paper's senior staff dining room; that employee is now suing Kate for wrongful termination, and now Kate has to give a deposition in front of Mitch Hertzog, the scion of one of Manhattan's wealthiest law families, who embraces everything Kate most despises... but also happens to have a nice smile and a killer bod. The last thing anybody -- least of all Kate Mackenzie -- expects to find in a legal arbitration is love. But that's the kind of thing that can happen when... Boy Meets Girl.

Thoughts

Kate’s a PR assistant and through emails, answerphone and instant messages, scribbled notes on menus and letters from the boss, she tells the story of her struggle against the unfairness in the workplace, whilst she discovers a whole new breed of man.

Kate’s lovely, Amy or the T.O.D is not. Mitch is lovely, a real proper gentleman. And Kate’s friend Jen is lovely, sticking by her and making it all right at the end.

I didn’t think I’d like it, given that it’s not really writing, it’s more a hotch potch of messages telling a story, but it’s actually really interesting. Sometimes the format seems a bit forced, and it can be hard to know who is saying what. It is quick and fund to read, though.

I liked it, didn’t take long to get through.

Rating: 4 / 5