M or F? is SO CUTE! It's an Internet-age Jane Austen-style comedy-of-manners/romance, crossed with P.G. Wodehouse's insane plotting and W. Shakespeare's mistaken/hidden identities, told in voices similar to Brent Hartinger's Russel and a more irritable -- but just as neurotic and spaztastic -- version of Meg Cabot's Mia Thermopolis.
Make sense?
Also, if they ever make it into a movie, it would DEFINITELY need to be fashioned after a Bollywood musical.
It's just great. I admit to enjoying Marcus' chapters more than Frannie's -- Marcus was witty and angsty while Franny was (as I mentioned before) neurotic and angsty. Jeffery never interested me much, but I would have enjoyed more Glenn. I suspect that's all just personal taste, though.
Super recommendation for fans of the more breezy and fun diary books, like the earlier Princess Diaries, also for fans of Geography Club & The Order of the Poison Oak. Fans of Boy Meets Boy will be happy to know that there is another book out there that features gay characters that are out (and comfortable about it) in their high school and at home.
Great! I have this in my pile of young adult books at home and was hoping it was good. However, now I may have to push it to the back burner to review something fresh. Always a dilemma, read something new to review it or read something that someone else gave a great review?
Posted by: MotherReader | 03 May 2006 at 11:00 AM
I recently read this book too. SO cute.
Posted by: Little Willow | 07 May 2006 at 07:41 PM
i read this book
it was really cute but i didnt really like then ending except for what happens to marcus but i dont wanna ruin if for you people who are gonna read it
Posted by: kimmi | 13 September 2006 at 07:59 PM
great book
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