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    Insatiable
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    Audiobook16 hours

    Insatiable

    Written by Meg Cabot

    Narrated by Emily Bauer

    3.5/5

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    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…and hungry for more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 8, 2010
    ISBN9780062008923
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    Meg Cabot

    MEG CABOT’s many books for both adults and teens have included numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers, with more than twenty-five million copies sold worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series was made into two hit films by Disney, with a third movie coming soon. Meg currently lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband and various cats.

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    • 2/5
      I'm not one to shy away from fluff, so I went into this expecting some light silly reading but the narration is simply unbearable. The narrator is peppy even on the serious lines and can't follow punctuation properly. Awful
    • 4/5
      I liked this a lot. I have not read or watched any of the most recent vampire-inspired stuff (not because I hate it, only because I have been busy with other stuff) - but this book did a great job of cutting through the pop-culture hype and poking fun at the current stereotypes. Plus it was a great action-packed romance.
    • 4/5
      I saw Meg Cabot's name on the Early Reviewers and requested it, without bothering to read the synopsis. I forgot all about it, and was really happy to discover it in my mailbox a couple weeks later...Then I read the flap. It is a vampire book. Ugh. I am not a fan of vampires...but this is not a typical vampire book, and I really enjoyed this one. I gotta say, I haven't read other vampire series, because like I said, I am not a fan of the vampire genre...But I found Insatiable to be fun to read, quirky and amusing.
    • 2/5
      It's not bad but I couldn't really get in to it. It took me a while to care about any of the characters and I still didn't really get in to them. I don't know. I guess I just expected more. It certainly leaves room for follow up books. If that occurs I'd read the next one. This one just felt disjointed to me.
    • 1/5
      Way to slow and the date thing irritating every chapter
    • 3/5
      Meena Harper can see people's future deaths. She always tries to warn them, but this makes her seem weird. Friendless, she turned to her mother's favorite soap opera for companionship. Nowadays she writes for it, but her new boss insists on adding vampires to the show. And Meena hates vampire fiction conventions. Unfortunately for her, she seems to be trapped in a vampire novel of her own. Because her new boyfriend turns out to be the prince of darkness himself.

      The characterization leans a little too heavily on quirky traits, but that meant every character was immediately memorable. The only character that actually grated on me was Meena's brother Jon, who was just too myopic and childish during very dangerous situations for me to believe in him. What I especially liked, however, was Cabot's take on a vampire romance. Lucien comes across as a perfectly romantic hero, but Cabot drops little hints throughout the narrative that he's just a bit too removed from humanity. Although he loves Meena, he thinks about other humans with a disturbing detachment. He even views Meena's blood a little too much like it's his own after she lets him bite her once, and less like it's hers to give or withhold as she chooses. Meena's own feelings for him are suspect, as there's no way for her to tell whether she truly loves him, or whether his vampiric powers are subtly influencing her. And Meena can't think about becoming his cherished vampire bride without remembering that she sees vampires' futures as empty black voids--they are, after all, dead. Cabot has a sprightly but often ham-handed style, so I was pleased with the nuanced romance.
    • 4/5
      I'm a fan of most of Meg Cabot's books, it was fun to see her switch things up a bit and do a paranormal. I really enjoyed the book. I love hard covers, but actually wished this one was paperback so I could take it with me to read when I wasn't home because I had a hard time putting it down. The characters were funny, and reminded me a bit of Molly Harper's Nice Girl's series. I really do hope there is a sequel.
    • 2/5
      The story was entertaining enough to finish it. However, the writing is EXTREMELY juvenile. I get that this is an author for YA, but it seems written by a pre-teen. The other thing I didn't enjoy was how dumb some of the characters were. The brother has an annoying personality which attempts to be slap-stick humor but comes across as severely immature/mentally stunted, and his continuous bossing around of his sister, taking other's sides before hers is infuriating and misogynistic. Finally,the narrator always sounds like she's about to burst into tears, which she probably is, given she has to read this drivel.
    • 1/5
      Pure fluff. drivel.. I actually listened all the way through and now I'll never get those hours of my life back. At least I listened while I was working so it wasn't a total waste of time.
      Not one redeeming character, they are all vapid and ridiculous. I did laugh a few times since I tried to keep in mind this is a parody (or at least I hope it is!).
    • 4/5
      Fabulous characters and dialog! Cabot rocks!
    • 2/5
      I finished it, but that's about all I can say. Cabot makes a statement early on about how unsexy vampires are, but then proceeds to try and make them sexy. She also introduces another love interest well after he would be able to capture the reader's (and protagonist's) interest, IMO.

      Sloppy.
    • 3/5
      So I give it a 3.5 really. It wasn't the best but also not the worst! Defiantly funny parts and cheesy parts so good for reading.
    • 4/5
      I have never really understood the appeal of vampires. Why on earth would you enjoy some dude not only biting you but also drinking your blood? Can you imagine kissing that? I thought kissing a smoker was unappealing, but the aftertaste of iron takes the cake! That's why I was so relieved to discover that Meg Cabot had created a character who could actually agree and understand my disdain for the vampire species.

      My favorite thing about Cabot is that she has a wicked sense of humor. This novel had some fairly intense moments but Cabot kept it light by making it very clear that this is a parody of sorts. If you have read Insatiable and didn't laugh at least once, I'm sorry.

      At first I was a tad irritated when Meena started falling for the vampire, but then I realized that she thinks he is a prince and she may just be more in love with the idea that she could be a princess. You point me in the direction of four heterosexual women who would not feel the same. Therefore, I decided to not be annoyed by her feelings. What ended up really irritating me was actually how unbelievably quickly everything progresses. One minute Meena loves Lucien and hates Alaric and then in a hot minute everything changes.

      The book seemed to start off really well and then morphed into, daresay, lazy writing. It stopped being quite as funny and just kind of irritated me. With that said, up until the last hundred pages I was enjoying the ride and looking forward to more which is why I gave it the rating I did. I doubt I will read the next book because I'm just not really interested.

      As a random side note. If you have read this book, did/could you picture Meena as Tina Fey?
    • 2/5
      Okay so it wasn't until I was like a quarter of the way through the book that I realized that this is JUST LIKE TRUE BLOOD. Mind reader meets vampire and they fall in love. Well Meena can't read minds, just tell you when you're going to die. She works for a soap opera as a dialogue writer and she's having a very bad week. She was passed over for a promotion and the prince of darkness is in love with her and she with him, wreaking all kinds of havok in her life.

      Short chapters usually mean that pacing will be quick but honestly this book just felt like it dragged a little bit. I may have liked it better if it had been a little bit pared down. It felt like it took way too long for Meena and Lucien to meet and then it took way too long for them to find out each others secrets.

      The characters were mostly all likable (except for Meena's brother Jon he was kind of a pain in the butt and I frequently found myself wanting to strangle him.) There were also some minor characters I would have liked to have gotten to know a little bit better.

      There was one thing I was a little bit confused about(I'm going to try and be vauge cause I don't want to cause a spoiler). Knowing who Lucien is descended from and due to several brief mentions of a great grandmother named Wilhemina Harker I find myself wondering if all of these characters are supposed to be direct descendents of the characters from Drakula or if the writer was just doing an homage. Meena being a descendent of the original Mina Harker might explain where her powers came from.
    • 1/5
      *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*
      Okay, normally I dont hate on books. I see them as entertainment - a view into another person's mind and/or fantasies. They're fun. I learn something new, its a bonus. I only need a strong main character, a decent plot and an ending that doesnt make me puke or scream.

      I did lots of these during Cabot's vampire novel. About the only thing I found interesting was when she punts a bat off the top of the building - but not enough amusement to redeem a book that either is an attempt at cashing in on the vampire hype OR Cabot's way of making fun of the literature.

      First off, it starts way too slow. It took 1/3rd of the book for whats-her-face and whats-his-face to meet. Oh right, Lucien and uh..whatever. I cant even remember their names. The characters were meh, the plot was..more meh and the ending? Love triangle? Really? I get it, a sequel, well played madam. Yet..

      Lucien is clearly insane. One moment hes thinking "redemption, salvation" and the next hes thinking "con her into letting me bite her" and the next "i want to make my meal into a vampire so we can be together forever!" *headdesk* Do they have mood stabilizing drugs for Vampires? If not, I have a fantastic guinea pig right here! He starts off as decently cultured, intelligent and hoping for redemption and makes a speedy de-evolution into..Im not sure. Creepy stalker? He sounds EXACTLY like Dimitri Belikov from the Vampire Academy series. "One day, my pretty, my stalking will come to fruition and I will eat you!" Oi.


      And the weird Palatine guard? Oh lord. At least his character isnt too insane, over the top or stalkerish. We learn most about him, and his character is most fleshed out. He isnt realistic, though. He was treated so badly when a child and now he wants to save everyone from vampires? Sure its possible, but his reasoning in the book? Do we get it? I dont remember, honestly.

      The heroine is flaky, has a useless ability that Im nto even sure WHY vampires would need it. Who care how my food is going to die? Damn. She whines about some totebag, and when she finally gets it? Doesnt want it. Kinda like how she wanted Lucien then didnt want him - but wants the guard guy instead once she has the prince(not a theme here? I cant even begin to take this book seriously enough to remember names..cept the one named after the vampire in Underworld.)



      Mrs Cabot, is this a spoof novel? If so..it made me hate vampires like you wanted, but unfortunately just yours. I will not be reading book two. Anyone want to light a bonfire of Insatiable?
    • 5/5
      Meena Harper is a dialogue writer for Insatiable, TV's number two daytime soap--the she hopes to become head writer for the show she's loved for years (even before she worked on it). There's something else Meena Harper does, something she doesn't let everyone know about . . . she knows when people are going to die just by meeting them.

      She knows from experience that people aren't quite open to receiving her news, so she's found ways to warn them without quite telling them why they need to keep her number around or avoid elevators or chicken wings.

      Meena's life is about to get a whole lot more interesting because not only is Insatiable about to introduce a vampire storyline to compete with Lust the number one soap (which Meena hates because vampires are misogynistic monsters), but her talkative neighbor sends out an e-vite for a dinner party with her husband's cousin, a Romanian prince who's in town.

      Lucien Antonescu, a history professor in Budapest is in town to catch a serial killer leaving exsanguinated girls in NYC parks--and, apparently, attend a dinner party.

      Soon, his nemesis Alaric Wulf of the Palatine Guard-a group of vampire hunters headed by the Vatican--is also in Meena's life and a vampire war is under way. Not to mention her pregnant best friend or her laid off brother living with her trying to convince her best friend's also laid off husband to become a cop.


      While it's true the summary makes it sound like there are about ten million things going on in Insatiable (and the Amazon one says some things that I'm pretty sure aren't revealed until later a good bit later on--or I missed them!), it's okay because it's 464 pages. And because it all works together.

      The characters each have their own things going on and their own reason for being in the story; they're not just there to provide something another character needs. And a soap opera is a perfect backdrop for a vampire story if you think about it--the absurdity that's always in soaps and the suggestion of vampires to normal people being absurd if you're rational.

      Meena hating vampires, being so sure they're fictional (and also kind of dumb), and also being so, so against having them on her soap made the story even more enjoyable. Really this is partially an anti-vampire book that is also the best vampire book I've read in ages.

      The relationships between the characters are so real and compelling that I wanted more because I really just couldn't get enough of any of them--or this story.I think this is a series and I desperately, desperately hope it is because there are certain characters/relationships/storylines that I really just need more of--and soon.

      I'm starting to think I do better with Meg Cabot's adult books than I do with her YA books (and wonder if that's true for anyone else?). I think this was her NaNoWriMo novel, too and that's just insanity to me.

      It is above a YA content level--not like Jeaniene Frost's Halfway to the Grave (review on my blog) but a little more than Cabot's own Size 12 Is Not Fat (review on blog, too). If you're good with that content level I very much suggest reading it!

      The hugest of thank you's to the publisher for sending this book to me because I might not have read it very soon if I hadn't gotten it in the mail and I massively adored it.




      10/10
    • 4/5
      I'm a sucker for vampire stories, so I had a feeling I would enjoy Insatiable. Glad to say I did! This was my first Meg Cabot book. I enjoyed her characterizations and writing style very much. I was pleased to see the many references made to Bram Stoker's Dracula throughout the book. Not just when Meena takes out her copy, but the many hidden references that a reader who is unfamiliar with the Bram Stoker novel may be unaware of. If you're a fan of Meg Cabot, or a fan of vampires, definitely check this one out!
    • 3/5
      This is NOT a 3 star book. This is a 1 or 2 star book with a couple moments of truly nice characterization that I loved so much I gave a 3 star rating. Given that the protagonist of the story is a soap opera dialogue writer ENCOURAGED(forced) to develop a vampire plotline for her show, I have to wonder if Meg Cabot was ENCOURAGED to write this book. Without the too few moments of truly delicious internal dialogue that made the pricess diaries for me, this is just a poor attempt to cash in on vampire mania.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book.Meena Harper is a special woman that just by watching you she knows how you're going to die. She writes for a soap opera and now her bosses want to put vampires in the story! Vampires! She can't stand them, especially when they're going to destroy a soap that goes on for 30 years. So when her strange neighbor Mary Lou invites her for dinner to meet her relative that is also a "Prince", she decides to accept to get some ideas to remedy the mess her bosses want to make by putting vampires in the show. What she does not know is that she will fall in love for the prince and she will discover to be not only in a "vampire war" on the network, but in a REAL vampire war, and that she is at the center of it all.Very amusing.
    • 5/5
      Great book!
    • 3/5
      I bought this for my school library, and would expect the older students who enjoyed Meg Cabot's teen books to be really pleased with it.Meena Harper (see what she did there?) is a TV writer who doesn't believe in nonsense like vampires - even though she has supernatural powers herself - and is horrified when she is required to write sensational vampire plotlines for the soap opera she works on.But life has a big surprise for Meena - I don't need to spell it out do I? The plot is fairly predictable and unsurprising, but Cabot can write engaging characters, and the action scenes are exciting. I liked the ending, it sets things up for the sequel, but in a way that works with Meena's character.This is in no way an exacting read, but it is quite fun and I know that some of my year 10 and 11 students are going to love it.
    • 5/5
      I normally try to avoid Meg Cabot, simply because I've found some of her writing too teeny-bopper for me, but this book was written for adults and features an all-adult cast list. Now this is a book that could be made into a movie.
      The book starts out as an anti-vampire book, and makes fun of the over-saturation in pop culture through Meena Harper's character. I love Meena's character right away, with her writing skills and passion for a decades-old soap opera, she is someone I can relate to. Her ability to predict others' deaths only makes her more intriguing. I also find it fittingly ironic when more and more of the people around Meena turn out to be vampires, as she eventually acknowledges herself.
      Even though the book is written for adults, Meg Cabot still keeps the writing clean, skipping through the intimate bedroom scenes with only the smallest of hints at the sordid details. She also leaves many of the gruesome aspects of the plot up to the imagination of the readers, which I prefer.
      Because this book is all about tongue-in-cheek irony, it is only fitting that the state of Meena's mind -- the jumbled mess of a writer -- attracts the prince of all vampires, Lucien, who happens to be a Romanian history professor when he isn't attending to his princely duties. I get the feeling that there is more to Lucien and Meena's attraction to each other than what Meg Cabot is telling the reader, but by the end of the book, this is still a mystery. Plus, a good-looking vampire slayer suffering from too much micromanagement and even less communication skills causes some interesting conflicts and obstacles for Meena and Lucien. His attraction to Meena is like water to a sponge, but Meena is less drawn to Alaric.
      I wasn't crazy by how the book ended, but it made sense for Meena's independence. Still, I'm hoping Meena's choices will change in the next book, Overbite.
    • 4/5
      Really enjoyed this book. Thought the sense of humor was brill. The only part I didn't like was the dragon to be honest but the rest was very good.
    • 5/5
      Fun and funny and romantic. Sort of perfect for what it is - romantic, comedic, fantasy adventure.
    • 3/5
      Good antidote to a lot of the Twilight creepy stuff, and I'm glad Meg Cabot wrote it, but meh. Fair characters, good plot, but just ok. I liked that the heroine ended up making healthy choices, but more than most of Cabot's books I just am not the demographic.

      I also have a really hard time with anyone wanting a $5000 purse. Really. I did like the dog. And the HR handbook of the Vatican based vampire hunting group. Actually a lot of the background stuff was more fun than the story and more like Cabot.

      Meg Cabot's YA usually works for me, and I read a lot of YA even though I'm in my 50s but this one felt stilted and written as a response as much as an independently developed story. I'll buy more if she writes them, but not in hardcover.
    • 3/5
      I should have read this instead of listening. There were times the heroine's waffling and indecision was drawn out and the dialouge was bogged down with Dracula history so skimming would have helped
      But...it was Cabot so it was also fun, clever and breezy. I both liked and was frustrated by Meena, the heroine. I appreciate that Cabot has her make tough choices at the end. It will be interesting to see where she goes with this series.
    • 4/5
      My first reaction to this book: “No. We’re not doing the vampire thing, are we? We are? *defeated sigh*” (This was announced at the height of the vampire craze). And yet, my feelings of foreboding were proven wrong.

      I like this book—for starters, Meena’s an enjoyable protagonist. She’s well-meaning, but because of her precognition, you can really tell how reserved she is. Sure, she obsesses over handbags and men, but she doesn’t really get hung up over it, aside from an increasingly frustrating morning. Which I can relate to; I’ve had those days when a little thing like someone getting something that I want drives me over the edge. I like that she’s genuinely torn about her feelings for Lucien, and she actually makes a fantastic argument for not wanting to be with him. Meena feels more natural and realistic, even with her powers and the vampires. Also, I like Lucien and Alaric as love interests, despite the LOVE TRIANGLE aspect. They both have a good, natural chemistry and dialogue with Meena, and I can reasonably see her with either one. If I had to nitpick, I really didn’t like knowing a thousand tiny details about Alaric. There’s an annoying tendency to make main characters quirky, which is okay; but when there’s quirk after quirk, it feels less like characterization and more like a gimmick. I’m kinda waiting on the second book to pass judgment on Alaric’s characterization.

      The supporting cast is good, but I wouldn’t say that they’re particularly memorable. I liked Meena’s brother, Jon, if only because his incompetence leads to some pretty good “Nice Job Breaking It” moments. I wasn’t a huge fan of Leisha, if only because all she seemed to do was fulfill the Pregnant/Married/Fat Best Friend role. The only real standout side character was Mary Lou Antonescu, while despite being comic relief (and a very obvious Real Housewives jab), was a fresh breath in the book.

      My biggest problem with the plot is that the revelation that the bad vampires are behind everything: the vampire plot line on the soap Meena writes for, the murders, and are basically preparing to take over the world. It feels too coincidental and just seems to act as a way to wrap up the plot for a first book in a neat little bow. It also reeks of comic book villainy, I expected the vamps to start twirling mustaches as they evil laughed. At the same time, though, I read it as a jab toward how prevalent vampires are in the media at the moment (or when it was written—2009).

      There are two major nitpicks I’d like to point out—Meena continuously references Stoker’s Dracula (makes sense, as Lucien is supposed to be Vlad Tepes’s son) but she and other characters ultimately fail these references. For example, the vampires bursting into flame in sunlight is brought up as being a staple in any vampire lore across the cultures…except that idea was introduced in 1922. The second is that when Meena recounts the book’s plot to herself, she mentions that Mina Murray falls in love with Dracula. FAIL—Mina was forcibly bitten by Dracula and is actually disgusted by him. (Rape implications!) If Meena had referenced a film version rather than the book, I would have been okay with this comparison, but since it is specifically the Stoker novel, my inner English major is just screaming “Wrong! Do not pass Go! Do not collect $200!”

      I think the major reason why I really enjoy this book is that it’s one of the few recent chick lit paranormal novels to point out that there’s a downside to the whole vampire schtick, as well as pointing out how messed up romanticizing death and vampirism is. Meena even says “How is knowing a guy wants to kill you is hot?”—it’s so dead perfect when you look at a lot of the big paranormal series. (And yes, someone does accuse Lucien of sparkling at least once.) I like that Meena doesn’t like the idea of vampires, mostly for that reason. On the other hand, we have Mary Lou, who does like being a vampire and the “life” that comes with it. (In other words, “Vampirism: It’s not for everyone.”) Meena’s argument is that she doesn’t want to die, because it’s not a real life, a point which really comes across when you find out what the bad vampires are actually doing. Plus, it’s an argument that make sense.

      Again, there are many things that I do like about this book, but it does have its faults like the majority of novels out there. The dialogue is snappy, I enjoyed the characters; however, there were a few things weighing down in the back of my mind. I’m really interested in reading the sequel and see what improves.
    • 1/5
      I stuck with this book and really wish I hadn't. Half of the characters are complete morons and the beginning of the book is slow. I was very annoyed to have spent my reading time on this book only to have it end the way it did. I won't read Cabot again.
    • 3/5
      Sometimes I feel like if you've read one Meg Cabot book, you've read them all. And then I feel slightly blasphemous.
    • 3/5
      I normally finish Meg Cabot books it one to two days. I find them to be light and enjoyable reads that are funny and entertaining. So I'm a little confused about why it took me so long to finish this book because I really enjoyed the characters and liked the idea of the plot.

      I really liked Meena, the story's protagonist. I love that she can tell how a person is going to die. I love that her dog's name is Jack Bauer. And I especially love that in a book about vampires, Meena doesn't like them. That fact makes her relationship and interactions with Lucien all the more realistic. Despite the fact that Lucien charms her, Meena is wary of him and his motives and nature. This makes the story more relatable and more realistic (because who wouldn't be hesitant around a vampire, even if they are charming and handsome?). I also enjoy the fact that Lucien doesn't sparkle.

      Overall, I enjoyed the book. While it isn't my favourite Meg Cabot book I am looking forward to reading the sequel. And if I ever get a dog I am naming it Jack Bauer.