Sometimes what we ask for isn't what we really need and ends up being far from what we actually want. Emerson Watts is the right-hand girl to big star Nikki, but it seems that there aren't enough positive points about this job to make it truly worthwhile, no matter how it looks to outsiders.
Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself. As the closest person to Nikki, she is finding that a privileged life isn't necessarily a fun and exciting one --- at least not in a good way. Everybody is mad at her for some reason, and it's putting a major damper on her entire life. Only the live Stark Angel fashion show on New Year's Eve offers any respite from the bad behavior and nasty treatment Em is receiving. But it doesn't matter. Em is at her wit's end. Is there anything that could possibly shake up her world enough to put it all right again?
Nikki's life is filled with secrets, but there is a particular one that is going to change the entire game plan --- for Nikki, her career and everybody surrounding her. Can Christopher set aside intense personal feelings and help Em expose her employer to the world for what she really is? If Christopher agrees, Stark Enterprises will surely try to have them both killed --- for real this time? Emerson has to consider if she wants to keep running or slow down, expose the truth, and then suffer what could be dire consequences.
This little spy adventure by Meg Cabot is the third book in her Airhead series, about a teen star named Nikki and her surreal adventures. In RUNAWAY, everything turns a little sci-fi (I can barely tell you the general idea without giving away the major point of the plot), and I found the novel to be a little difficult to follow at times. But then again, I'm an old lady and not a young reader who is used to such spy stories.
RUNAWAY certainly will not disappoint Cabot's legion of faithful teen readers. In fact, I see a movie version in the future, perhaps with Taylor Momsen as Nikki. Before the film gets made, there undoubtedly will be additional Airhead books as soon as we know that Nikki makes it out of this craziness in one piece. So read on, Cabot fans. I'm sure another volume is on the way, but you have to ensure Nikki's survival first.
Meggin Patricia Cabot was born and and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, daughter of Barbara and C. Victor Cabot, a college professor. She also lived in Grenoble, France and Carmel, California (the setting for her bestselling Mediator series) before moving to New York City after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Indiana University.
After working for ten years as an assistant residence hall director at New York University (an experience from which she occasionally draws inspiration for her Heather Wells mystery series), Meg wrote the Princess Diaries series, which was made into two hit movies by Disney, sold over 20 million copies, and has been translated into 38 languages.
Meg also wrote the 1-800-Where-R-You? series (which has been reprinted under the title Vanished and was made into the Lifetime series called Missing), as well as numerous other award-winning, best-selling stand-alone books and series, including All-American Girl and Avalon High (on which an original Disney Channel movie was based), and several books told entirely in emails and text messages (Boy Next Door/Boy Meets Girl/Every Boy’s Got One).
Meg’s newest series include the tween hit Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls, the YA trilogy Airhead, and Abandon, the first book in a new paranormal series for young adult readers (the sequel, Underworld, will be in US stores in spring 2012). Insatiable, Meg’s first paranormal romance for adult readers, was followed by a sequel, Overbite, in July 2011.
Meg is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of books for both adults and tweens/teens. Meg married financial writer and poet Benjamin D. Egnatz on 1 April 1993, she currently lives in Key West with her husband and two cats.
