In Meg Cabot’s novel Boy Meets Girl, Kate Mackenzie is introduced to the man of all men, Mitch Hertzog. Mitch is the brother of Stuart Hertzog, who is engaged to Amy Jenkins, who is Kate’s boss, who hates her guts. Mitch is also the man who gets Kate fired from her job.
It all started when Ida Lopez, the Craft Food Services dessert cart operator for the New York Journal, refused dessert to “the” Stuart Hertzog, legal counsel to the Journal.
Kate has just broken up with her boyfriend of several years and is frantically searching for a new place to live, so she can stop mooching off of her best friend and her husband. While Kate has enough problems in her social life, Amy aka the T.O.D. (Tyrannical Office Despot) has decided to put her in charge of firing Ida. The other employees at the Journal love Ida and her desserts, including Kate. Much to her dismay, Kate does as she is told and fires Ida. While she is trying to pick up the pieces of her life and continues to ignore her stalker ex, Kate soon discovers that Ida isn’t going to leave peacefully. Ida tries to sue for breach of contract.
This is when Mitch Hertzog and Kate Mackenzie meet, as he is the lawyer representing Kate and Amy. Mitch sets up a conference to interview Kate about the whole dilemma. After the meeting, however, the game changes for Mitch. Not only does he find himself attracted to Kate, but he also finds that Kate is on Ida’s side because she never thought she should have been fired in the first place, and he completely agrees.
Stuart finds out that his brother is doing work on the case behind his back and this work happens to side in favor of Ida instead of against. Then with much deception, Kate is blamed for not completing the proper steps in Ida’s termination, and everything comes tumbling down.
Boy Meets Girl is an awesome chick lit book that’s quite a different and unique read. This novel isn’t your typical chapter-and-paragraph-formed story. Although it has the typical plot structure of other books, this plot unfolds in the form of emails, instant messages, phone conversations, and letters. With much deceitful drama, handsome men, and crazy exes, this book will entertain its readers with many laughs along the way.
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