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Runaway (Airhead #3)

by Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)

3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 · rating details · 11,042 ratings · 610 reviews

Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from her family and from herself. She's reeling from the shock that Nikki, the girl whose body her brain was forced to inhabit, is still alive. And she's furious. Manipulative Brandon plans to use Em to discover a secret that will ensure his success, whilst Christopher is out for revenge, fuelled by his jealousy. With everyone arou...more

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Published September 3rd 2010 by Macmillan Children's Books (first published April 20th 2010)

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Jul 24, 2010 Kristi (The Story Siren) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Meg Cabot is awesome. Just plain ole' freaggin' awesome. She can do no wrong in my eyes!

Runaway was a fantastic ending to this series. The secret behind the Stark Enterprises, is so simple, it's brilliant! I couldn't believe that I didn't figure it out sooner!

If you've never read Meg Cabot before, I highly recommend that you check her out! If you like something entertaining, funny and not all that serious, anything written by her would be up your alley.

As I said above this was a really great end...more

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Oct 13, 2012 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Emerson Watts had a body of a model Nikki Howard, but it seemed that the body her brain was in, was some sort of jinxed.
or maybe, it was because of Em's fault.
but Em wouldn't let people rule over her anymore, she would find a way to escape and ranaway after everything cleaned up.
and cleaned up meant, bring down Stark Enterprises.

what a very very quick reading book. very teenage-ish I read it only in two hours. but as fast-paced as it was, pretty cool full-packed in action, comedy, romance and...more

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Jan 01, 2012 Myra Khan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Being stuck in the body of a supermodel might sound like a dream come true for some girls, but for Emerson Watts, it's turning into a complete nightmare...

I was so hooked on this series that I finished book two, put it back on my shelf, and picked up book three. And kept reading. I didn't even bother changing my status on Goodreads. THAT'S how much I was in love with the story and HAD to keep reading. Oh my god.

I have to buy book one now. In hardcover. And then hunt down Meg Cabot and have her s...more

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May 13, 2011 Kitty rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Unfortunately, I read this book before I read the second book of this series - "Being Nikki". I finished "Airhead" and was dying to read "Being Nikki" and "Runaway", but the person who borrowed "Being Nikki" has not returned it yet, so I borrowed "Runaway". To my dismay, I couldn't help myself from taking a peek at this book, and then obviously not being able to tear myself from it. I only stopped once I reached the end, and unfortunately, it was a loose ending, but it was also very sweet.

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Feb 21, 2013 Jackie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My Thoughts:

I really like the Airhead series by Meg Cabot. I guess I have always wanted to be able to switch into a celebrity's body and maybe try living their life for a few days. Runaway is the third installment in this series, and also the last. I am sad that this is the last book, as I am when all series end, but I was really satisfied with the ending.

I love all of the covers of these books and that may actually be the reason I started reading them. Okay, the plot is pretty cool too. :) The...more My Thoughts:

I really like the Airhead series by Meg Cabot. I guess I have always wanted to be able to switch into a celebrity's body and maybe try living their life for a few days. Runaway is the third installment in this series, and also the last. I am sad that this is the last book, as I am when all series end, but I was really satisfied with the ending.

I love all of the covers of these books and that may actually be the reason I started reading them. Okay, the plot is pretty cool too. :) These are some covers that I can look at and think about which part of the story it is and why Nikki/Em are doing the expressions that are on their faces.

The characters have grown on me throughout the series and even though I suppose I should have hated some of them, I liked them. I liked how I already knew so much about them and how they would probably react to such things.

Meg Cabot books are always easy for me to read and they are so entertaining. There is always at least one sarcastic character, which in this series is definitely Em/Nikki. I enjoyed the plot in this last book so much. I kept trying to think of what could possibly be going on with all of the Stark secrets, but I couldn't even guess it. It was such a thrilling idea that I was kind of thinking that if I were in the story, I would actually fall for it. I don't want to give anything away, which has been super hard to do in this review, so you should start reading this series if you haven't.

Favorite character: Christopher. He is so nice and really does try to help them get out of this mess. I think that he is a really chill guy, and wish I could have a guy friend like him.

Crush of the story: Brandon. I know he is sort of supposed to be the bad guy, but I liked him ever since the beginning. He is stubborn but I feel bad for the guy. His dad is pretty rude to him and he is just confused. I bet if the story continued, eventually he would sort of figure himself out.

I thank Runaway for satisfying me so much; giving such an intriguing plot, some romance, friendship problems, along with mind-boggling ideas. I enjoyed it and am so sad that it is over. :( If you haven't read this series yet, try to bring the first book along for a road trip. They really are entertaining.

I would recommend Runaway for ages 13+ because it does have occasional swearing and some partying, but it is pretty clean.(less)

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Jul 21, 2011 Laura Martinelli rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: meg-cabot, young-adult, library-reread

I was really hoping for the series to redeem itself in this book, but unfortunately, that wasn't the case. There was a lot of potential in this series, which got promptly wasted.

The big problem I keep coming back to is the characterization. It's definitely the weakest part in the series, and it shows. Em doesn't grow at all in three books; by the end, she's still dismissive of pretty famous people. Also, for someone who stresses about her intelligence and goes on about how smart she is, Em's kin...more I was really hoping for the series to redeem itself in this book, but unfortunately, that wasn't the case. There was a lot of potential in this series, which got promptly wasted.

The big problem I keep coming back to is the characterization. It's definitely the weakest part in the series, and it shows. Em doesn't grow at all in three books; by the end, she's still dismissive of pretty famous people. Also, for someone who stresses about her intelligence and goes on about how smart she is, Em's kind of dumb. Everything important about Stark or the operation, someone has to spell it out for Em before she realizes the truth. I think the only thing she figures out on her own is the spyware on her computer in the first book. For example, when she and Christopher discover Project Phoenix, they both can't figure out what the name means. I can understand being confused with the city, but then they have to look up alternate meanings of phoenix, and they still can't figure it out. It's not until Em goes to the shareholders' auction that she finally figures out “phoenix = rebirth.” (And even then, she doesn’t make the symbolic connection.) Not to mention, I cried bullshit when Em said she didn't really know what a phoenix is. She plays a fantasy MMO, how the hell has she never heard of a phoenix. (Again, if you're going to call someone a geek, make them a geek! /tangent) She doesn't even realize Brandon's motives for keeping her and Nikki under lock and key; Em even buys into Brandon's excuse of "Oh, sure, we'll get you a surgeon to switch brains back." It would have been more believable if Em was book smart but really horrible with people, but this is never a part of her character.

There's no foreshadowing to any of the revelations. We find out why Em's mom was so against superficiality and a straw feminist- it's because her mother stopped telling her that she was pretty! Aside from being a bullshit Freudian excuse, there's no lead-up to it. Em's parents only show up once a book, and after their appearance in the first book, they only exist to harp on her for neglecting her schoolwork. Our villain, Robert Stark, isn't menacing or even feels like a threat- he shows up once a book and leaves. The reveal about Project Phoenix auctioning off college students to do brain implants doesn't feel as earth-shattering or has any impact on the plot. Nikki could have had a great character arc about getting over her vanity and accepting her new body, but apparently, all Lulu has to do is make Nikki over into a Goth and suddenly everyone thinks she's hot again. *headdesk*

And the plotting is just bad. The worst part is when Em sneaks into the Project Phoenix auction and secretly films it on her phone. Stark catches her and smashes it. While it's not a great plot twist, it still would have put an element of mystery to the plot- how they going to prove what's going? Can they still bring down Stark? But instead, Em goes to Lulu, calls Christopher, and reveals...that Stark broke her iPhone, but she filmed the meeting on her Stark phone. BAD WRITING 101. SHOW DON'T TELL. It doesn't help that ten pages later, Em repeats this information to Stark. There's a decent plot gun here that doesn't get used, and the whole conversation with Christopher should have honestly been cut in the editing stages.

For a series about superficiality and accepting who you are, none of the characters ever seem to get this point. Everyone (except for the bad guys, of course) ends up happy, paired off and pretty. Em's still a model, but now she can tell people who she really is and is justified being a bitchy to the popular girls. Which...really? This is the happy ending? It's almost like an aborted prequel to the Uglies series, where everyone in the country is obsessed with looking pretty, but have to be reminded that "People shouldn't be judged by their looks!" But they still want to be pretty instead of just normal. It's even the bad guys' motivation- well, Stark's is just money, but all of the shareholders are willing to kill off attractive coeds just to look pretty and young again. I feel like there's supposed to be a commentary on how we as a culture view attractiveness, but it fails so hard by making all of the main characters superficially attractive and keeping them that way at end. (I know I keep harping on about this series, but seriously- Uglies. Read it.)

There's some good points to the series, and the plot could have been decent. But Cabot drops the ball on the interesting plot threads, and the conflict never feels as big or as important as the characters make it out to be. (Not that I'm condoning the murder of attractive coeds, but you get my point.) It also feels like the books were set up to be a trilogy just for the sake of being a trilogy, and would have really worked better as just one volume. And I think I've gone on enough about how bad the characterization is.

I've mentioned in another review that I know that Meg Cabot can write good, well-plotted books, but sometimes it feels like she just writes something for the sake of publishing it and as whole, this is what the Airhead series feels like to me. There's just too much wasted potential here, and it really disappointed me.
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Dec 29, 2011 Kayla Guyette rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

(Spoiler Warning! Do not read unless you have read the previous Airhead novels).

Well things aren’t looking good for Emerson Watts. Not only has she been kidnapped by Brandon Stark, but she’s also been forced to break the heart of Christopher (the one boy she loves). All so she can keep the real Nikki Howard safe. For those of your reading who haven’t read the Airhead series Emerson’s body was destroyed and her brain was transplanted into Stark supermodel, Nikki Howard’s. Emerson was forced into...more (Spoiler Warning! Do not read unless you have read the previous Airhead novels).

Well things aren’t looking good for Emerson Watts. Not only has she been kidnapped by Brandon Stark, but she’s also been forced to break the heart of Christopher (the one boy she loves). All so she can keep the real Nikki Howard safe. For those of your reading who haven’t read the Airhead series Emerson’s body was destroyed and her brain was transplanted into Stark supermodel, Nikki Howard’s. Emerson was forced into Nikki’s life just to discover everything was not what it seems. She and her family were informed Nikki was brain dead when Emerson’s brain was put in—that wasn’t the case. Nikki was murdered by Robert Stark to keep her quiet because she was trying to blackmail him. But the real Nikki Howard is alive and kicking in a new body.

Now Emerson must get Nikki to share the secret worth being killed over. Nikki’s willing to give up that information—but only if she gets her real body back. Things don’t get easy for Em who now is dealing with problems with her parents, her own broken heart, keeping Nikki and her family safe, all the awhile dealing with Brandon.

With the help of her sister and Lulu Em gains the upper hand. And soon enough, with the help of Christopher and his cousin Felix, Em has a lead on the secret that got Nikki killed (well kind of killed). Now they need to fit the pieces together and expose Robert Stark. But it’s a fight against the clock, if Robert Stark got away with murdering Nikki Howard once he can surely do it again. Not to mention Em (well Nikki) is set to walk the runaway at the Stark Angels New Years Eve show in the million dollar bra—something Em’s feminist mother does not approve of.

Runaway is filled with action, suspense and some all around hilarious dialog. While Christopher’s supervillian/superhero mood swings get old, Em begins to understand why he is that way. With this being the third and final book in the series, readers can be assured they’ll receive closer and not a cliffhanger. All around Runaway leaves you with a happy ending for all. But at the same time, leaves you wanting one more book (or even mini book) of life after controversy for Em and Nikki. Perhaps maybe even a spin off book about the adventures of Nikki pre and post “death”.

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Apr 28, 2012 YAL Book Briefs rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This is a very different Meg Cabot book. Perhaps it's because of the darker tone the series takes, it's not everyday your brain gets put into a different body, but it doesn't come off as light and fluffy as some of Meg's other series. Be that as it may, Meg does know how to write a good mystery. The second book in this trilogy is probably the strongest since there is a lot of plot exploration in the book. While the trilogy had a s...more

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Dec 28, 2011 **Kaylin** rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I'm going to give my review on all three books on this book cuz I don't want to write 3 separate ones.

Overall I give these books 4 stars out of five. It has an interesting plot, although slightly unbelievable at times. I loved the characters most of the time but Em bothered me at parts. She seemed to completely become Nikki and ignore her parents. It made me mad that she would keep things to herself and not talk to people like not telling Christopher that it was really her. I would have found a...more

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Jun 25, 2011 Parvathy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: teen flick lovers

Shelves: young-adult, movie-material, light-reads, chick-lit

It's official I can't give more than three star rating to this series but I have got to say this series gets more interesting with each book. "Runaway" is the best book in the series not just because the series ends with this book but because it lacks all those redundant narratives that rendered the previous books less enjoyable. The story is fast paced and the characters less annoying although I can't say the same for Christopher because he is by far one of the most annoying characters that I h...more

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Jun 17, 2011 Emma rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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While I definitely enjoyed these books, some parts, while realistic, seem like a little bit of the wrong message to be sending to teenage girls. As an adult, I appreciate the realism, but I feel like teenagers should still be under the impression that boys will like them for who they are, and they shouldn't have to pretend to be helpless to get a man. Or being pretty is helpful in life, but there's a legitimacy to be a tomboy or an outcast, especially when you're sixteen, which I feel kind of ge...more

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Jun 03, 2011 Leyla Y rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Emily Watts is trying to get away from everything. She’s in a new super model’s body and doesn’t know how to live this crazy, famous life. She wants to hide, but everyone knows who she is because she’s a super model now. Stark Enterprise (The modeling company) doesn’t want Nikki to tell everybody the secret, and that she’s really just Em Watts, a normal teenage girl. Her celebrity boyfriend is controlling but she can’t dump him because of the fame. And plus, he’s her boss’s son. She still talks...more

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Apr 16, 2011 Shaelah rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Meg Cabot is, for me, a guilty pleasure. Pure chick-lit escapism, I read her books when I really just don't want to have to think much. So I'm not against her books in general. I just really did NOT enjoy this series.

It felt like there wasn't actually too much story, so Ms Cabot had to do some SERIOUS filling in.

I just couldn't stand the constant references to actually being dead. Like, 'Oh I could totally go and do that. If I wasn't dead already, that is.' EVERY TIME there was even the slightes...more

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Apr 03, 2011 Rachel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit, fiction, young-adult

Runaway is the third and I'm assuming final book in Meg Cabot's Airhead series. This review assumes that you've read the first two books in the series and may have spoilers for them if you haven't.

In Runaway, Em Watts has finally figured out what sinister project Robert Stark has been up to all this time and works with her friends to expose him. Along the way she and Christopher try to make the transition from best friends to boyfriend/girlfriend.

I had Robert Stark's secret project figured out...more

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Nov 13, 2010 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Runaway is third and last book of the Airhead series by Meg Cabot. This series was about how Emerson Watts, a normal teenage girl, who got killed in a tragic accident. When she died, Nikki Howards, a supermodel, also dies in the same room, at the same time. When Emerson dies, they had to perform a surgery that put her brain into Nikki's body. It was the only way that Em could survive. Nikki was considered braindead already. In Runaway, Em has to worry about Robert Stark, the man who killed her,...more Runaway is third and last book of the Airhead series by Meg Cabot. This series was about how Emerson Watts, a normal teenage girl, who got killed in a tragic accident. When she died, Nikki Howards, a supermodel, also dies in the same room, at the same time. When Emerson dies, they had to perform a surgery that put her brain into Nikki's body. It was the only way that Em could survive. Nikki was considered braindead already. In Runaway, Em has to worry about Robert Stark, the man who killed her, not killing the important people in her life. She has to worry about that because he might them if he tells the whole world about his secret. His secret is that he has been killing and performing the brain surgery for years. The surgery is actually illegal and the whole world doesn't know what he is doing. When he performs these surgeries, he murders innocent people so they become his "donors".
I LOVED this book and its series. It was an amazing book. It had romance, comedy and even a little bit of science/technology. You don't get that in many books, do you? But in this one you do, and it'll probably keep you turning the page every second. My favorite part of this book was seeing Em's relationship with everyone. I loved her relationship with Steven, her (Nikki's older brother, but since she's Nikki, "her" older brother. Confusing? @_@ ) older brother. I always wanted an older brother like him. In the book, he listens to Em and asks her if she needs him to beat someone up when he saw that she was sad. He was the perfect older brother. I loved her relationship with Christopher too! Christopher is Em's boyfriend who she's known for a LONG,LONG time but has recently became her boyfriend. In the book, he seems very stubborn but he's very romantic. He "swoops" in and comes to rescue Em when she's stuck in a house with paparazzi everywhere. In the end of the book, he also gives her a bracelet that said "Em Watts" because he knew that she was still having a hard time being Nikki Howards. It was SOOO sweet.
So in conclusion, this book was fabulous. Six out of five stars!(less)

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Oct 29, 2010 Bailey rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved the book because it has science, romance, and mystery all in one great book! I would recommend it to any girl because it is a great book that any girl would love. I wanted to keep reading because I wanted to know what happened to Emerson Watts if she would stay Nikki forever or become somebody else. At some parts of the book I felt worried for Em if she got herself into trouble, at other times I felt happy for her when her crush found out who she really was.

The main characters were Emers...more

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Oct 18, 2010 Lauren rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The book was complete success in my eyes, and it practically turned its own pages. Runaway is the third book in the Airhead series by Meg Cabot. The first, Airhead, was about Emm Watts and international super model Nikki Howard. In a terrible accident which caused Emm's body to die, and Nikki's brain to die, a brain transplant occurred. Emm Watts's brain entered Nikki Howard's body and became Nikki. The second book, Being Nikki was about how Emm was living the life of Nikki Howard. While living...more The book was complete success in my eyes, and it practically turned its own pages. Runaway is the third book in the Airhead series by Meg Cabot. The first, Airhead, was about Emm Watts and international super model Nikki Howard. In a terrible accident which caused Emm's body to die, and Nikki's brain to die, a brain transplant occurred. Emm Watts's brain entered Nikki Howard's body and became Nikki. The second book, Being Nikki was about how Emm was living the life of Nikki Howard. While living the life, she did some investigating on her case and found out that the real Nikki Howard was in fact alive and her brain was in a different body. The third book, I just recently finished, was about how Emm in Nikki's body is trying to understand what is actually happening. She learns that her case is just a tester. The company she works for, Stark is selling the bodies of young beautiful people to elderly rich folk who want a new body. Stark tells the public that these young people have had a terrible "tragedy."

I found the book and its entire series incredibly intriguing. I am a girl that loves chick lit and reading love stories, and behind all the mystery, this really was just a love story. Emm Watts was secretly in love with her best friend, Christopher, and when she "died" she knew she'd never be able to show him her true feelings. But as the series progressed, Christopher found out of the tragic accident and reciprocated Emm's feeling for him. I was really impressed with how well we got to know Christopher. He started off as just a plain extra-nobody character but as I continued reading I got to see his real side, which was cool and collected at times but also romantic and he was a total jerk other times. I also really enjoyed how Meg Cabot kept Emm and Christopher's relationship on and off. Aside from the whole brain transplant thing, it was a good side story. When you got bored of the mystery and confusion, you could always turn to what’s happening between Emm and Christopher. They would constantly argue and bicker and make up, but you as a reader knew that they'd be together in the end.

Another aspect that I really enjoyed was the mystery! It kept me wondering and interested. I would always be wondering about what would happen next and who would do what to whom. I think that the whole idea was greatly executed when it appeared on the text. Emm Watts as Nikki Howard was a great detective. She did a really nice job of finding out clues to what really happened and she was able to uncover the truth, which was great. It was great how the author used the weirdness and strangeness of the medical world and the brain transplanting and intertwined it with the mysterious side of it all.

What really made me love the book was the whole idea in itself. I give Meg Cabot many props for her totally unique idea. I have never before heard of a young unpopular girl who has a brain transplant with a world famous super model. I was very impressed with how the author put the whole idea together. The entire plot ran pretty smoothly with a few extra insignificant minor details here and there, but otherwise it was awesome.

Meg Cabot is a fantastic writer who finished off the series very well and I think that any reader of any age would really enjoy the book and its series as well. I would recommend this book to any of my friends and adults too, it truly is a pleasure to read. My one complaint is that the series ends here; I wish it would continue so then I know what happens next and how the story turns out.
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Sep 04, 2010 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review assumes you have read the first two books in the series, as a result may contain information that could be viewed as spoilers.

Cabot ends her Airhead series on a strong note with Runaway. Having followed Em Watts through the catastrophic accident that turned her into Nikki Howard and then the subsequent changes made not only to Nikki’s life but the lives of those around her we get to the most action packed portion of the series. Filled with corporate espionage and a great big helping...more This review assumes you have read the first two books in the series, as a result may contain information that could be viewed as spoilers.

Cabot ends her Airhead series on a strong note with Runaway. Having followed Em Watts through the catastrophic accident that turned her into Nikki Howard and then the subsequent changes made not only to Nikki’s life but the lives of those around her we get to the most action packed portion of the series. Filled with corporate espionage and a great big helping of sleuthing Em and her closest friends fight Stark Industries to take back control of their lives.

Runaway has me continuing to enjoy the characters Cabot created in this series. The addition of Nikki’s family (and Nikki herself) in book two enhanced the experience further as the gang delved into how to resolve their Stark Industries generated problems. Specifically, throughout her plight to find balance between her real family and the new family she’s acquired Em is further split in two by her feelings for Christopher. I liked the push and pull of their tentative movements between friendship and romance. More than that, I thought Cabot wrote it in a way that wasn’t childish or overbearing. It was a question of need as compared to want.

Interestingly, through the entire series these children (and at times the reader can lose that aspect) are portrayed as better adults than their elders. There has been great debate lately (well always really) about the role parents play in YA literature and I have to say in the case of this series I found it refreshing that the parents were there but played a backseat to the situation. They were bound by circumstances beyond their control and struggled to deal with it with just as much difficulty as their children wer. Kudos to Cabot for writing in just the perfect mix of parental involvement.

While the ultimate resolution to Em’s Stark Industries problem wasn’t particularly different than other books of this kind I will say that it was quite satisfying. In the end, this satisfaction came more from the journey we took with Em than the actual resolution itself. Though the way it ended wasn’t half bad either!

Once again, for those interested in a fun and light read with a little intrigue, some pop culture celebutant action and good relationship drama then the Airhead series is definitely one you should consider picking up. In fact, get all three at once, it’s so good you’ll want to read it straight through. I did!(less)

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Sep 03, 2010 Vanessa P rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was the final book in Meg Cabot's Airhead trilogy. I had a lot of fun reading this trilogy. This wasn't my favorite book of the trilogy but it was still a good read. It was a good way to end the trilogy. I love happy endings.

Emerson is on the run...kind of. She was kind of kidnapped by Brandon. She ends up escaping pretty easily. This is the book where we find out what's been going on. Why was Emerson's brain was put into Nikki's body. What is Project Phoenix? Well, it's all pretty exciting...more

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Aug 21, 2010 Bareerah rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

With this series, I thought the books lost something each time the next one came out. I loved the first book, it was hilarious and sweet. The second one wasn't as good, but I enjoyed it all the same. With Runaway, I was, instead of enjoying the book, annoyed at the main character for being so whiny. Not in the selfish ditz-y blonde kind of way (that was Nikki), but the 'Oh, why does everyone hate me I'm just trying to be nice...' kind of way. Em lost some of her charm in Runaway, and so did many...more

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Jun 28, 2010 Runa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Man, I missed Meg! I was so excited to see what would happen in the final installment of this series, especially with the semi-cliffhangery ending of the 2nd book. It wasn't one of my favorite series by Cabot, not by far, but it held my interest, and I did keep reading, and I'm glad I did so. Right off the bat, my first thoughts before reading were a hope and a prayer that Meg would include Christopher through the whole book, instead of just bringing him in for a satisfying romantic conclusion,...more

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Jun 11, 2010 Rebekah rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

The book actually rather annoyed me. There is a lot of content I would classify as filler and it got tedious to read. For example:

Every time Em mentions her clothes while locked in Brandon's house, she has to refer back to how Brandon bought out a whole boutique of her size. EVERYTIME! So when Em brings up her clothes ten times in the first fifty pages, I get tired of the references. Because I've already read how she got the clothes, I don't need to be reminded EVERY TIME SHE MENTIONS THEM. I re...more

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Jun 07, 2010 John rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Title: Runaway

Author: Meg Cabot

Publisher: Point (Scholastic)

Cabot's books are known as some of the best YA chick lit out there. How To Be Popular was my first book of yours, and it’s combination cuteness and morality was hilarious and made for a great read. The only other book of hers I’ve read is Avalon High, which really was not her best moment in the literary world. So, I came into Runaway with a few concerns. As good as it sounded, stepping into a series at the possible tail end was not some...more

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May 16, 2010 Sara rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is the third book in the Airhead series. It talks about a girl named Em (short for Emerson) who had to switch bodies with a superstar. Em learns how to deal with he new body, and her new lifestyle, but when she discovers a shocking secret about Nikki, the superstar she swoupt bodies with, she is confused and left thoughtless.

I enjoyed reading this book. It was very interesting to see how everyone changed from the second book from the series, to this book. It was suspenseful, even thou...more

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Apr 19, 2010 Barbara Bell rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As Meg Cabot’s newest release “Runaway,” opens, we see that Em Watts is hiding, from the paparazzi, from her family, from her friends, and even from her own life. Forced into an unhappy partnership with her non-boyfriend (who just happens to be the power hungry son of her evil employer), Em is at her breaking point. Now she’s just waiting her time out, but the waiting is taking to look. She is, in fact, waiting for the live Stark Angel fashion show and for the real Nikki to stand up and reveal w...more

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Jan 31, 2010 Rachael rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Em Watts is hiding. Even though she’s become more adept at dodging the paparazzi, she can’t keep running away from her family, friends, obligations, and most of all, herself. Forced into an unhappy alliance with her not-boyfriend who just happens to be the power hungry son of her evil employer, Em has just about had it. Now she’s just biding her time, waiting for the live Stark Angel fashion show and for the real Nikki to reveal what she found out about Stark Enterprises and what led to this who...more

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Apr 27, 2010 Maddie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

You know when it's just one of those days, where everything goes wrong, and you just want to go to your room and cry? Most people would talk to friends, or distract themself. Well I read a Meg Cabot book. (: Her books are freiking AMAZING. This was the perfect conclusion to the Airhead novels. It's just as good as the other two; perhaps better. I'm going to miss Emerson Watts. Or should I say, Nikki.
I was surprised with who some of the characters ended up with. I mean, Gabriel Luna with Nikki? A...more

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Feb 08, 2012 Julia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, romance, sci-fi, ya

I picked the Airhead CDs up at my library and have been listening to them for the past few weeks. I'll start off by saying the voice actor does a wonderful job with this series and it was a pleasure to listen to.

Meg Cabot, I'm beginning to think, is a bit of a genius. This series deals with Emerson Watts who while at a Stark Mega-store grand opening is hit on the head by a large plasma tv is resurrected into the body of Nikki Howard, a young super model who represents Stark enterprise, by way of...more

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Oct 16, 2012 Lauren Swanson rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: realistic-fiction

Great book. Em is at a party, and she sneaks up to a room that she is not suppose to be in. She finds out from a video in the room, that Robert Stark is selling children to old people. The old people are auctioning kids to get brain transplants so the old people can live longer in another persons' body. Robert Stark catches her in the room that she is not suppose to be in. He says that if she tells anybody about the video, that he will auction off Em's sister to an old person. In the end she te...more

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Jun 09, 2012 Oky Septya rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, science-fiction

Nilainya 3,5 harusnya

Jadi Em diculik oleh Brandon Stark yang ingin mengancam posisi ayahnya sendiri sekaligus memaksa Em jadi pacarnya lagi. Nikki (yg asli) bersama ibunya dan Steven (kakak Nikki) juga ikut dibawa Brandon ke Villa pribadinya di pulau terpencil.

Nikki yang masih belum terima karena tubuhnya sekarang milik Em meminta Brandon utk membedah otak mereka agar tubuhnya kembali. Dan yah~ Em jadi serbasalah. Apalagi ia sudah terbiasa dg tubuh cantik Nikki dan lumayan menikmati profesinya s...more

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About Meg Cabot

Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).

Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flun...more Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).

Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby--writing novels--for emotional succor. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses.

She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, selling fifteen million copies worldwide, many of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, and was made into two hit movies by Disney. In addition, Meg wrote the Mediator and 1-800-Where-R-You? series (on which the television series, Missing, was based), two All-American Girl books, Teen Idol, Avalon High, How to Be Popular, Pants on Fire, Jinx, a series of novels written entirely in email format (Boy Next Door, Boy Meets Girl, and Every Boy's Got One), a mystery series (Size 12 Is Not Fat/ Size 14 Is Not Fat Either/Big Boned), and a chick-lit series called Queen of Babble.

Meg is now writing a new children's series called Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls. Her new paranormal series, Abandon, debuts in Summer of 2011.

Meg currently divides her time between Key West, Indiana, and New York City with a primary cat (one-eyed Henrietta), various back-up cats, and her husband, who doesn't know he married a fire horse. Please don't tell him.

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