1. she writes great books. And not just cold, mindless chick lit, but chick lit with sense and meaning and heart.
2. she promotes girl power. Her heroines are never damsels-in-distress; instead, they save the day.
3. she wrote Avalon High.
Avalon High is the best book I've read from Meg Cabot so far. And please, don't associate this with that Disney movie of the same title - even if it was loosely (very, very loosely) based on the novel - because the movie changed almost everything: the plot, the characters, even the protagonist's name. I mean, that is why movies can never be as good as the books they're based on: they spoil everything.
Okay. Going back to the book. I finished it today and it was awesome. The protagonist is Ellie, who moves to Annapolis because of her professor parents' sabbatical (a year-long vacation professors take every seven years or so). Her new school is the typical high school with jocks and cheerleaders and all. But she soon realizes that not everything is what it seems because everything seems eerily like...the history/legend of King Arthur repeating itself and Ellie and her friends may or may not be reincarnations of those famous people from hundreds of years ago.
It seems all far-fetched and ridiculous, but the way it's written, and the characters make it pretty believable and realistic. And if you had thought the Arthurian legends boring (I did, when we were studying it in class), read this and you'd get a whole new perspective. Cabot melds history, romance, drama, fantasy, and humor in one juicy, satisfying novel.
Wish there was a series. Wish movies do stick to the original. And wish I can spend my whole summer escaping to the world of Meg Cabot.
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