The reader is introduced to Meena on her way to work, on the subway, encountering a tourist from Eastern Europe whom she knows will die by the end of the week: in a perhaps vain attempt to change the girl’s fate, Meena gives her a card and tells her to call if she needs any help.
She’s also a psychic who, after meeting someone, can tell how and when they’re going to die. Meena Harper (yes, the nods to Dracula are intentional: her brother’s called Jon…) is a thirty-year old dialogue writer for a trashy daytime soap opera called ‘Insatiable’. Insatiable jumps on the vampire-lit bandwagon, but Cabot does something a little more interesting with it. They’re light, humorous and fluffy reads which don’t pretend to much depth, but are well-written enough to propel the characters through often fantastic plots.
The protagonists of her adult novels are a bit more realistic, struggling with early-career jobs and relationships I do rather like The Boy Next Door and Boy Meets Girl, partly for the inventive method of narrative – told in emails, messages, scribbled on receipts and menu cards – as well as the rather sweet love stories which enfold along with the rest of the plot. Her heroines tend to be fairly ordinary girls, though they don’t ever seem to have money worries and they have happy family lives, even if they have talents which make them worth writing a series about. When it comes to devouring her delightfully outrageous, phenomenally fun fiction, Meg Cabot's fans are Insatiable! And now the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries-not to mention a host of wonderfully winning grown-up novels like Queen of Babble, Big Boned, and Every Boy's Got One-has a subject she can really sink her teeth into: vampires! A deliciously twisted modern-day sequel to Bram Stoker's classic Dracula, Cabot's Insatiable will leave you laughing.Meg Cabot is best known for her young adult and kids’ books, particularly her ten-strong The Princess Diaries series, but she’s a prolific author of light, often romantic stories which do also manage to grapple with the difficulties of teenage life (well, if you happen to be American and wealthy, anyway). IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages
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