Overbite

Version: Unabridged
Author: Meg Cabot
Narrator: Emily Bauer
Genres: Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date: July 2011
Length: 10 hours, 15 minutes
Ratings:
Formats :
  • MP3
  • M4B
Tell Your Friends:

Hot Titles

  • World Without End

    by Ken Follett

    • Book Rating: 4.5/5

  • A Storm of Swords

    by George R.R. Martin

    • Book Rating: 5/5

Overview

Meena Harper has a special gift, but it’s only now that anyone’s ever appreciated it. The Palatine Guard—a powerful secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican—has hired her to work at their new branch in Lower Manhattan. With Meena’s ability to predict how everyone she meets will die, the Palatine finally has a chance against the undead.

Sure, her ex-boyfriend was Lucien Anton­escu, son of Dracula, the prince of darkness. But that was before he (and their relationship) went up in flames. Now Meena’s sworn off vampires for good . . . at least until she can prove her theory that just because they’ve lost their souls doesn’t mean demons have lost the ability to love.

Meena knows convincing her co-workers—including her partner, über-demon-hunter Alaric Wulf—that vampires can be redeemed won’t be easy . . . especially when a deadly new threat seems to be endangering not just lives of the Palatine, but Meena’s friends and family as well.

But Meena isn’t the Palatine’s only hope. Father Henrique—aka Padre Caliente—New York City’s youngest, most charming priest, has also been assigned to the case.

So why doesn’t Meena—or Alaric—trust him?

As she begins unraveling the truth, Meena finds her loyalties tested, her true feelings laid bare . . . and temptations she never even imagined existed impossible to resist.

This time, Meena may finally have bitten off more than she can chew.

Author Details

Author Details

Cabot, Meg

"Meg Cabot knows that one of the best cures for feeling gawky and conspicuous is reading about someone who sticks out even more than you do. Her books for young adults invariably feature girls who have extraordinary powers that carry extraordinary burdens. Cabot's The Princess Diaries and its successors, Princess in the Spotlight and Princess in Love (to be followed in spring 2003 by Princess in Waiting), offer the diary entries of Mia Thermopolis, who discovers at age 14 that she is actually the princess of a small European country. This adds significantly to her extant concerns about crushes, friendships, algebra, and her algebra teacher, who has the audacity to romance her mother.

Cabot, a native of Indiana weaned on Judy Blume and Barbara Cartland, was already a successful romance novelist (as Patricia Cabot) before she began writing for young adults; her alter-alter ego, Jenny Carroll, began a new series shortly after The Princess Diaries debuted. The Carroll books are divided between the Mediator series, starring a girl who can communicate with restless ghosts; and the 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU books, in which a girl struck by lightning acquires the ability to locate missing people.

Cabot writes her books in a conspiratorial, first-person style that resonates with her readers. She has obviously kept a grip on the vernacular and the key issues of adolescence; but what makes her books so irresistible is the mixing of the mundane with the fantastic. After all, who wouldn't like to wake up and be a princess all of a sudden, or a seer? Cabot takes such offhand notions and roots them firmly in the details of average, middle-class American life. In 2002, Cabot introduced a new heroine with her All-American Girl, featuring another average Jane who is thrust into the spotlight when she inadvertently saves the U.S. president from assassination.

Cabot continues to write her Patricia Cabot romances, which are generally set in 19th-century England and play on class differences and changes of fortune. As with her books for young adults, Cabot's romances have earned praise for their lighthearted humor and well drawn characters. In its review of Lady of Skye, Publishers Weekly noted, ""Cabot writes romance almost without peer, creating passionate love scenes readers will swoon over, delivered with poetry and beauty, and memorable secondary characters."" In 2002, she united her talents for period romance and YA fiction with Nicola and the Viscount, the first of several planned historical romances for teens. Cabot is branching out in the adult sector as well: She releases two modern-day romantic mysteries, The Boy Next Door and She Went All the Way, in 2002 as Meggin Cabot."