Overbite

De: Meg Cabot

Narrado por: Emily Bauer

“She is a master at entertaining and amusing readers.”
—Booklist

Nobody does vampires like Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries and Queen of Babble novels. Overbite is Meg’s sexy and hip sequel to her bestselling Insatiable, the story of a soap opera writer with precognitive powers who is recruited into the Vatican’s war against demons and the undead. Unfortunately Meena Harper has a major Achilles Heel—namely her lingering affection for her ex-boyfriend, Lucien Antonescu, son of Dracula, the prince of darkness. Anyone who loves Twilight, True Blood, and Lynsay Sands, not to mention the singleton fiction of Sophie Kinsella, Jennifer Weiner, and Jane Green, is going to want to sink their teeth into Overbite.

Eh

Not Meg’s best work, to be honest. Did I persevere after the first book? Of course, I did. I had to see how it ended. Unfortunately, the main character is probably the least likable of all of the characters, and the book's reading was at times painful to listen to. The narrator was probably doing the best she could with what she had. However, her accents were trash and annoying. Would I have purchased this book again? Probably not. There are so many other series by Cabot that are far more entertaining.

Wonder if Meg Cabot got Bored

I LOVED the first book of the series and was so intrigued with Meg Cabot's take on vampires. This book while much shorter, was slow, unclear and suddenly ended.

Emily is a great narrator and really delivered in this book - it wasn't her fault the story did have much subtext.

It starts out really exciting and action packed but about a 1/3 of the way through, one starts to lose interest. I was anticipating a deeper plot line when they mentioned the Jersey devil - but it really didn't take that fun turn into story land.

I did enjoy how we got to know Alex more, somehow he turns out alright. But if there's another one of these stories coming out, it needs to be more like the first.

loved it

it keeps your attention! great story. the accents are funny though. good story telling though to help differentiate between characters

Fun story. Great narrator.

If you could sum up Overbite in three words, what would they be?

Vampire. Love. Confusion.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I love all of Meg Cabots books. This series was much different than the rest of her series which made it so much more interesting. Even though I read the book right after it came out hearing it makes it come to life.

Falls Flat

I am a Meg Cabot lover and proudly call her my favourite author, but this book leaves a lot to be desired. Usually I devour her books in a day or two, but this one took me two weeks!
I didn't sense the author's usual passion for her characters and the reader seemed like they were trying to push themselves too hard into doing accents they couldn't do.
I'd say listen if, like me, you're a Meg Cabot complete-ist, but otherwise skip it.
And if it's your first time to the author, definitely start with a different series! Perhaps the Airhead novels or The Mediator series. Or if you want a vampire connection and something more adult go with Queen of Babble read by Ilyana Kadushin (whose voice you'll recognize from Twilight).