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I have been exploring the YA audiobooks at the library recently since I think I have listened to every adult audiobook they have that I find remotely interesting. At the moment I am in the middle of listening to 'Being Nikki' by Meg Cabot. As soon as I started, it was obvious this wasn't the first in the series. But I was enjoying it enough that I went to Amazon and discovered it was the second book and the first book is 'Airhead'. Since the library didn't seem to have that one, I got it from Amazon to read on my Kindle. I think this is the first time I have ever been in the middle of two books from the same series at the same time with the second book set about two months after the events in first one.
As a guy whose tastes lean mostly towards sci-fi, I liked the bizarre premise of this series: a brainy, geeky high school girl dies in a freak accident at the same time as a 17-year-old supermodel dies of a brain aneurysm. Since the supermodel is a key spokesperson for this giant corporation, they secretly transplant the geeky girl's brain into the supermodel and then blackmail her to keep the transfer a secret. It works surprisingly well as a 'fish out of water' story where the geeky girl learns the supermodel's life isn't a bed of roses. A fun lightweight story. I have found myself laughing out loud a number of times. It is interesting enough, I may try to interest my sister in reading it using the new Kindle 'loan' feature.
Duane
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