Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

Reader reviewed by Meggo

I absolutely love this book. Who would not want to live in a houseful of teenage boys for a school year?? It makes me wish my parents moved to South Korea and left me with the McGowans. I love how its so rough at first for Megan but then she individually connects with all seven of the boys; motercycles with Sean, Hailey thing with Evan, painting with Finn, getting Doug out of trouble, befriending Miller, not tattling on Ian and Caleb for messing up her bike and her room. I also like how Kate Brian shows how hard it is to do the 'girly' things with Regina because not all girls like that sort of thing. I was amazed at how easily Megan made friends with Amy and Ria just from the soccer team. I thought that it was funny how Megan got out of the car for the first time and was actually checking out the boys in front of their mom. Also, the whole hazmat comment cracked me up.

Reader reviewed by Trisha

OMGOMG this is the best book ever as soon as i read the first paragraph i couldnty put it down read it all the way through no stops i LOVE THIS book i think this is one of the only books i actuyaly enjoyed reading i hope kate brians books are alol as good as this !!!! BOOKK # 2 should so be made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reader reviewed by kate

fun characters & one girl who has never been kissed before living with seven boys suck all of us love-sick girls in from the beginning to end! i couldn't put this book down, the only bad part was when it ended. If Kate Brian doesn't write a sequel i don't know what i will do!

Reader reviewed by Emma

I loved this book and im not a person who likes to read at all, but i read this book in one night. I stayed up till 3a.m. just to finish it. It was so interesting. THe Auther always kept me guess what was going to happen and who she was going to end up with. I was so happy when it was Finn. It deals wiht so much stuff. I hope that there will be a sequel. After i was done reading this book i gave it to my friend and she just finished it and loved it to. Now my other friend is reading it. Even thou im not much of a reader i would read a sequel of this if it was 5,000 pages long.

Reader reviewed by Meg

Omg i adore this book so much. I Love the whole concept of the book with Megan staying with 7 gorgous boys. Which my fave had to Finn. who wouldnt want a cute artsy kind hearted boy who lives RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO YOUR ROOM!!??
Megan had to be a very Lucky girl..But Kate needs to make a sequel i cant stand the cliffhanger at the end. who will she choose?
Evan or Finn??

Reader reviewed by Robo

Omg i totally loved this book! I swear i read like crazy fast. I finished it in less than 24 hours. Sooo funny, and suprisingly sweet. love Miller and Aimee (sigh). I totally think that there should be a sequal, like with Megan & Finn's relationship on the rocks because Evan likes her (i kinda felt that vibe at the end). or maybe Evan should be at college & Megan and Finn & everyone else should be seniors. Hurrah! no Hailey!!!! But then there would kinda be no story. Oh well, she'll come up with something.

Reader reviewed by Steph

This book is amazingly witty and smart! With all of the McGowan boys being very intresting (Doug is my favorite!) and clever. The book is very well written and had me in stitches at some points ('What you want my kidney?') and it leaves a very evil cliffhanger at the end ('he was staring at her with those intense eyes. Staring right into her. Just like he had in thouse couple of moments when she had thought, for a split second, that he wanted to kiss her.') A sequel would be splendid, and would stop me from jumping up and down going Omigosh!!!!!!!!

Reader reviewed by Sara

Megan is an army brat, somewhat relucatantly. When she refuses to move to Korea with her parents, they compromise by letting her stay with some old friends, the McGowans. Things soon get interesting, seeing as the McGowans have 7 sons. Soon Megan finds herself falling for one of the boys, setting off a chain of events that eventually leads to love and a few broken hearts.

I loves so many things about this book. Megan is such a great heroine, she is strong, but also has her weaknesses. The boys are all so unique and each has qualities that you love and hate, making them that much more interesting. I expecially love Miller, who has Asperger's Syndrome. My cousin has Autism, which is closely related, so it helped me form an emotional attachment to Miller. My sister, who is 12, loved this book as much as I did and there is a four year gap between us, so I think it's suitable and interesting for a variety of ages. It's definately not a heavy read, but it is interesting and got me thinking nonetheless.

Reader reviewed by Jocelyn

Megan has always moved around a lot, but this time her living situation has changed even more drastically than usual. When she refused to pack up and move to South Korea with her parents, both in the army, they proposed another option: spending her last two years of high school living in Boston with the McGowans. John McGowan is an old friend of her father's. What makes this so different? The fact that the McGowans have seven sons. Megan is an only child, and can't imagine living with seven boys!

Life with Evan, Sean, Finn, Caleb, Ian, Miller, and Doug McGowan is as foreign to Megan as South Korea would have been. Her best friend from Texas, Tracy, even calls it an immersion experience; Megan will go in clueless and come out speaking the language of boys!

Even if the McGowan boys and Megan are supposed to be siblings, they don't exactly relate that way. After all, they haven't seen each other since they were little kids. Now Megan is in hostile territory; she's not exactly welcomed by each of the nine members of the McGowan family (though Regina, John's wife, is more than thrilled to have another female in the house, taking tomboyish Megan on shopping sprees and to the spa). And then there's the fact that Finn and Evan are, well, HOT. And John and Regina even had a family meeting to tell the kids that they're all siblings now...but siblings don't want to kiss each other.

On top of dealing with the drama of living with the McGowan boys, Megan also has to handle starting over at a new school. She gets off to a good start when she makes the soccer team and even a few new possible friends, but that quickly goes sour when she is targeted by Hailey, Evan's girlfriend who's jealous of Megan's talent on the soccer field and living situation. Can Megan handle Boston and the McGowan boys, or will South Korea turn out the be the easy option?

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys is a fantastically fun book! It's full of great characters; even the minor characters seem three-dimensional. Kate Brian is a talented writer, and this novel is an awesome page-turner. I devoured this book; I read at every spare moment and took less than 24 hours to finish it--on a weekday! Megan's transition from shy to outspoken didn't feel one hundred percent real to me, but that was only a tiny issue; the book was still great. Like Ally Carter's book, it was one that definitely felt like there could be a sequel in the works (which is exciting), but that didn't stop it from being a complete (and completely awesome) story on its own.

Reader reviewed by Katie

THis book was awsome it was about a girl who went to live with 7 boys and fell in love with one of them, realized that he wasn't the better one and he should have fallen in love with a different one. Extremely entertaining!!!!!!!!!!
A must read book for any girl teen trying to survive in an unknown place or any other girl