Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers

Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers by Louise Rennison (amazon)

This is one of the recent books in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series. The first book was the great Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging. I think ATFFS started the craze for British chick-lit for teens. I’ve read ATFFS and a few of the other books in the series, and while they are all very funny, sometimes I wonder about an author’s ability to keep a long-running series fresh. If the reader is already familiar with Georgia’s obsession with her nose, tendency to end all words with “osity”, and her insane posse of girl-school friends, what can the author do to keep things fresh? In this case Georgia travels to America aka “Hamburger-a-gogo-land” with her parents to attend a clown car convention in Memphis. Since she’s currently obsessed with a new Love God named Massimo who happens to be visiting America, she’s willing to put up with her embarrassing Elvis-wigged parents and go on vacation with them. When she returns to England she has to deal with lovely looking but tiny shoes, a letter from New Zealand, the always present Dave the Laugh, and the terrors of German class. I did laugh out loud several times while I was reading this but. I think at some point all series have to end, and it is starting to get a little annoying that Georgia still fails to realize that the only boy she needs to snog is Dave the Laugh. Poor Dave the Laugh!