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    Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
    Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
    Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
    Audiobook9 hours

    Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

    Written by Meg Cabot

    Narrated by Justine Eyre

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Big mouth. Big heart.

    Big wedding. Big problems.

    It's the wedding of the century!

    Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Life's become a dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings—not necessarily her own—as Lizzie prepares for her dream wedding at her fiancé's château in the south of France.

    But the dream soon becomes a nightmare as the best man—whom Lizzie might once have accidentally slept with . . . no, really, just slept—announces his total lack of support for the couple, a sentiment the maid of honor happens to second; Lizzie's Midwestern family can't understand why she doesn't want to have her wedding in the family backyard; her future, oh-so-proper French in-laws seem to be slowly trying to lure the groom away from medical school and back into investment banking; and Lizzie finds herself wondering if her Prince Charming really is as charming as she once believed.

    Is Lizzie really ready to embrace her new role as wife and mistress of Château Mirac? Or is she destined to fall into another man's arms . . . and into the trap of becoming a Bad Girl instead?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateDec 31, 2013
    ISBN9780062330352
    Author

    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
      this book had its moments but most of the time I just felt so lost listening to it. I've read the first of the series and I've also listened to it, but the whole while listening to Queen of Babble Gets Hitched I always felt like I was missing some key information and when the ending came I thought that was it??? maybe I should've read or listened to the second book and then I'll give this one a try again.
    • 4/5
      The book will be officially released on June 24, 2008. I got an advanced copy for free when I went to TLA (Texas Library Association).:-pThis is the third installment in a series (after Queen of Babble and Queen of Babble in the Big City) featuring Lizzie Nichols. The book starts with Lizzie having spent the night with Luke?s (Lizzie?s ex-boyfriend) best friend Chaz. However, Luke suddenly reappears and asks Lizzie to marry him, she consents. Most of the book is devoted to this love triangle and Lizzie must choose what she really wants while running Chez Henri wedding gown restoration shop on her own, while the owner recovers from a heart attack. OK, so you?re thinking, typical chick lit. Perhaps, but there is a reason why the genre is so popular. It?s fun. The heroines are always slightly neurotic, but you love them for it. Lizzie is hilarious? the things she babbles about both in her head and aloud to other characters are funny. It?s modern. Making fun of reality TV show starlets and models, check. The appropriate amount of fashion icon name dropping (Lizzie is a huge fan of Lilly Pulitzer and The Woodlands just happens to have a Lilly Pulitzer store in Market Street), check. I haven?t read either of the first two novels in the series, but you don?t have to in order to enjoy it. Obviously, this book isn?t for everyone. It?s for people who appreciate chick lit (and there?s no need to be ashamed of that!).
    • 4/5
      This is the third book in the Queen of Babble series. Lizzie wakes up with Chaz when there is a knock at the door. It's Luke, Lizzie's on again-off again BF. He gets down on one knee and proposes. Lizzie accepts, of course, but begins to immediately have second thoughts. So much second thoughts that she breaks out in hives when she begins to plan their wedding. I enjoyed this book and thought it was a perfect ending to the series.
    • 5/5
      Still more love!!!!!
    • 5/5
      This book was my least favorite among the queen of babble series! i was very disappointed in alot of ways, first how come that a girl like lizzie who adores weddings and love dresses can't have a wedding of her own but a secret marriage bcoz the guy she likes can NOT compromise on his idea of weddings! i mean come on if he loves her enough he would do it for her! and how come that luke turened out to be a jerk when he was prince cahrming all along! i didn't like this book! i thought it would end differently! very bad ending! and by the way what's up with the famouse charecter that is totally like paris hilton, only different name! not creative enough if u ask me! I gave it a five star for 2 things only, The fashion tips and bcoz I love this series.

      In the third book, Lizzie accepts Luke's proposal and while he goes to Starbucks to pick up coffee and coke, Lizzie hurries back inside her apartment and tries to get a sleeping Chaz to leave before Luke comes and assumes that something happened between them. After much ado, Chaz leaves grudgingly, after warning Lizzie that she was making a terrible mistake and that she and Luke would not last. Luke returns later to the apartment and both of them sleep together and inform their family and friends that they are engaged. Lizzie keeps hearing Chaz's parting words in her head and is quite upset by it. Her best friend Shari, who is living with her new girlfriend and boss, Pat, is upset with Lizzie for accepting Luke's proposal as she felt that "he was too perfect". Lizzie then continues to take on a famous celebrity, Ava Geck as her client. Lizzie is still unsure about how she feels about Chaz, even though all her friends, including Ava, think she is in love with Chaz and not Luke. Luke takes Lizzie, Chaz and his new girlfriend Valencia out to dinner where Lizzie and Luke have a heated argument about their wedding and Lizzie leaves in a huff. She gets into Ava's limo when she arrives in front of the restaurant and they go to Lizzie's apartment where Luke meets them later. He and Lizzie agree to take some time off. Later, Luke flies to France while Lizzie attends Shari and Pat's barbecue party where she gets a phone call saying that her grandmother is dead. She flies to Ann Arbor and is joined by Chaz. Lizzie realizes that she is love with Chaz and both of them finally sleep together. Lizzie is a little upset about cheating on Luke but knows she doesn't love him. Monsieur Henri sells his business, leaving Lizzie jobless. Luke asks her to join him in Paris but she refuses. She breaks up with him when he gets back and soon, she and Ava Geck start their own clothing line. A little later, Chaz reveals to Lizzie that Luke was cheating on her with his classmate. Luke goes back to become an investment banker again and Chaz and Lizzie end up getting married.
    • 1/5
      Again my suggestion is to stop at book number one.
      Book number three goes beyond annoying. As I said in my review of book number two, I think the author should have left it at the happy romantic ending of book number one.
      The last book of the series completely destroys the romantic hero of book number one, Luke, which had been already largely abused in book number two, making him a spineless jerk.
      But then it goes way too far:

      DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU STILL WANT TO READ THIS BOOK

      The author makes the protagonist’s best friend a lesbian, so that the Queen of Babble can discover without regret of being in love with the best friend’s ex-boyfriend ??? Hello?
      The perfect romance of book number one, badly battered in book number two, now it is completely erased.
    • 4/5
      I liked the story alright but the characters were a bit superficial. Lizzie is appealing if a bit insecure, but her friends are annoying and the two men she's debating between are so obviously the right and wrong choices.
    • 4/5
      So, as I’ve been complaining a lot about this series as a whole and how it would work so much better if it wasn’t a trilogy. And I say that because the third book is completely different from its predecessors in tone. The set-up of this perfect, fairy tale life with Luke is stripped away and you have Lizzie making seemingly bad decisions and starting to stand on her own, both professionally and privately.

      I said in the last review that I was disappointed with Chaz’s storyline and basically forcing him into the love triangle role. While it still bothers me, I actually like Chaz as a love interest. He’s likeable, Lizzie’s comfortable with him, and you want him to win. And while Luke becomes almost pretty undesirable, he’s still someone Lizzie tries to love back. You see hints that he’s not happy with Lizzie throughout book 2—particularly at the end—but his behavior and actions become more unlikeable. The only thing I would have liked is that Lizzie confront Luke about the possibility of him cheating; it’s brought up twice, but doesn’t go anywhere.

      To continue with Chaz, I do like him as a love interest. He likes Lizzie, and is supportive of her whenever she makes a bad decision. I also liked the fact that he’s not into weddings, but not opposed to marriage. Even the ending felt a lot more believable with him and Lizzie deciding to just fill out a form than her whirlwind romance with Luke.

      One of the parts I really enjoyed is the expansion of Lizzie’s bridal team—I’ve almost always enjoyed the supporting cast in Meg Cabot’s books, and it really shines here. I like how Tiffany and Ava start off as know-nothing characters, but as the books go on, their real personality shows through. I didn’t like Ava at first, she felt too much like a Paris Hilton clone; but again, as the book went out, you got to see more of here.

      Speaking of supporting characters, I’ve been neglecting to mention Lizzie’s grandmother for the previous books. In those, she felt more like a side character who shows up and sprouts off a few one-liners with a handful of good advice peppered in. While I liked her, I never felt like she played a huge role in the plot. However, I really felt her presence more in this book. You get a better sense of how close Lizzie was with her grandmother, especially during the funeral scene. It seems a bit forced, but you get to the heart of Lizzie’s feelings and how much she misses her ornery, drinking Grandma.

      I mentioned that the series takes a surprising turn, and it does. Again, if the first two books had been combined, this would have been more of a shock, but I enjoyed …Gets Hitched at lot more than the first two, because it doesn’t go with the normal conventions of the first two books.
    • 4/5
      Warning: This review assumes that you have read the first two books in the Queen of Babble series and may have spoilers for them if you have not.

      The Queen of Babble Gets Hitched picks up right where the last book left off. Lizzie has woken up in her apartment next to Chaz and Luke is pounding on the door. Luke has come to propose to Lizzie – and she accepts! She starts to prepare for her wedding but something doesn’t seem quite right. In the meantime, she is in high demand at Chez Henry bridal gown restorations after doing a fantastic job restoring a wedding dress for Jill Higgins who was marrying into high New York society.

      I thought this book wrapped up the series beautifully. Lizzie is growing and becoming a serious business woman but she is still just as charming and funny as ever. I can’t really go into too many details about the plot without giving too much away.

      I listened to the audio version of this book, narrated by Justine Eyre as the other two are. She does a wonderful job as usual. She had a great, quirky voice for Ava Geck, a Paris Hilton type character introduced in this book.
    • 2/5
      I've always enjoyed Meg Cabot's books - even the early ones written under all those different names. But 'Queen of Babble Gets Hitched' was a let down.

      The plot and characters reach a new height of superficiality.

      Come on Meg, put some effort into the next one and give us another cute comedy.
    • 3/5
      To be honest, I was quite disappointed with this novel. It just doesn’t live up to its 2 predecessors’ hype. The plot is thin and boring, and the characters don’t really develop much. Nearly the entire first half of the book consists of Lizzie trying to convince herself that she loves Luke, and it isn’t until someone beloved dies that the plot starts to get mildly interesting. Even then, the pace slows down a few chapters later, up to the weak ending.

      However, Cabot’s witty writing saves the novel from being totally unreadable. It also helps that the story is quite unpredictable, therefore keeping what little interest you have in the novel, a trait inherited from the previous novels. I think most readers only found the novel readable solely due to these 2 factors.

      Overall, Queen Of Babble Gets Hitched is a somewhat nice end to the trilogy. Hardcore fans of both Meg Cabot and the Queen Of Babble trilogy may give this novel a try. Otherwise, stay away.
    • 3/5
      After Luke finally proposes, Lizzie is ecstatic until she realizes that everytime she even thinks about planning her wedding, she starts to get hives. She keeps remembering her almost-fling with Chaz on New Years Eve and how Chaz always seems to be there for her and always makes her laugh. When Lizzie's beloved gran dies, Chaz shows up to comfort her. Her fiance who is spending the summer in France, can't (or won't) make the trip. Lizzie is in turmoil. She is single-handedly running M. Henri's business after he has a heart attack and is so busy, she doesn't have time to think let alone plan a wedding. All of her friends disapprove of her engagement to Luke and she can't seem to answer the real question: Who does she really love?

      This is the third and final installment of the Queen of Babble series. This one drags a little bit, but Cabot fills the story with her trademark zany characters, witty dialog, romance and sex. I'll miss Lizzie and her friends!

      I listened to this on audio CD and I think listening to it made it much more fun than reading it. The voice of Justine Eyre (who has read several of Cabot's books) is the perfect voice for Lizzie.
    • 5/5
      Totally satisfying and entertaining read.
    • 4/5
      Another fun adventure for Lizzie Nichols. This book finds her engaged to a man she might not love and possibly in love with his best friend. The book also revolves around Lizzie career as she takes it up a notch as New York's new premiere wedding dress designer. There are a ton of pop culture reference once again in this one, including a character who resembles in more than one way, Paris Hilton. A fun chick-lit read in the vain of Confessions of a Shopaholic.
    • 4/5
      A satisfying conclusion (?) to the Babble series. Lizzie is engaged to one man (at last!), but finds her heart may belong to another. Cabot brings her always amusing dialogue to the forefront in this good summer read.
    • 4/5
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      Queen of Babble Gets Hitched - By Meg Cabot





      In "Queen of Babble Gets Hitched" Lizzie Nichols, budding wedding dress designer and restorer, ("Queen of Babble" and "Queen of Babble in the Big City") finally gets her wish. Luke, her ex returns to New York with a killer rock and a proposal. Of course this comes after she spent the night (semi - platonicaly) with Luke's best friend Chaz. It quickly becomes obvious that although she accepts Luke's ring and proposal, things are not all wedding dresses, white doves and roses. Everyone can see that Luke isn't right for her...everyone except Lizzie herself. Until she starts breaking out in hives at the thought of planning her own wedding, and being very thankful that Luke will be spending the summer in France.

      A light hearted, quickly read book with some really great secondary characters Ava Geck ( a Paris Hilton-like celebrity) Mr and Mrs Henri, owners of the shop where she creates and restores, and of course her best friend and Chaz's ex-love, Shari.

      Meg Cabot finishes this trilogy with all the humor that the first two books introduces and gives us a happy ending too!
      An excellent beach read, and I would recommend that if you would like to read this, while you can read "Queen of Babble Gets Hitched" as a stand alone, it really has a better impact if you read the first 2 books first.
    • 5/5
      Loving the ending, although I wish we had an actual wedding, or rather, an elopement, than just a certificate. I wish they'd tell at least someone, but at least they're married. I have to say, I never thought Lizzie/Chaz would make a good couple--until I read the exerpt for the book. They are so much better than her and Luke, who really is just great looking and didn't give her any freedom, responsibility, or anything. Chaz is outpsoken and has his morals and beliefs and he sticks to them. He's all around a better, sweeter guy, and I'm really glad they ended up together.
      The character of Ava Geck was the most annoying thing in the universe.
      I really didn't see Tiffany ending up pregnant, that was too random to be plausible.
      Loved that Lizzie finally got her own place.
      Really didn't like that Gran died, that was sad, but again, somewhat predictable.
      *sigh* Those two lines, "I think I'm in love with my fiance's best friend" "So, I've got it worse, I'm in love with my best friend's fiance" were just the sweetest line sin the entire book. Chaz, you adorable sap!
      Loved it overall. Wish there was a sequel or at least an epilogue, a peek into what married life was like for them, and if it lasted.
      I just think that with all this stuff about marriage, she at least deserved a wedding. I suppose Meg might have done it like this for the irony, but I don't think it worked all that well. Lizzie needed her own wedding, darn it!
      Ah well. Still amazing