Girls on Film (The A-List, 2)

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Summary: Hurry-up and write the third one!!!!
Review: I thought the a-list novels were fantastic!!!! with an edgy,but yet real feel, i think the third one could have potential.....but if you really want to be an author with a reputation....HURRY UP AND WRITE THE THIRD!!!! keep ben and anna together, but let adam know that anna did like him because if i were him.....he would hate her guts if she didnt!!! so if you have never read the a-list....you should they are great books!!! this book shows teenagers how great dramatized books can be!!! and i am actually 14....the age wouldnt go up further....teeheehee...

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Summary: thank god there's gonna be a 3rd
Review: I thought the entire thing was really slow. Adam as a character is kind of boring, so I found myself just kind of sighing while she deliberated between the "good" boy and the "bad" boy. Always go for the "bad" boy in fiction, duh :)
The last scene was the best, basically because Ben is so much more interesting, then say Sam and her lesbian tendancies which were portrayed sort of creepily with no explanation.
Then there's the whole "pregnancy" with Dee that COULD have been made interesting and was just a foot note and explained out in a paragraph.
For the third I hope there's a lot more Cammie and a LOT more Ben

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Summary: SO MUCH BETTER THAN GOSSIP GIRL!!!
Review: I was quite a fan of the GG bks, but I've found a new love and it's THE A LIST books. GIRLS ON FILM was even better than the first book. It's well written and treats readers as if they have a functional brain. Plus Anna Percy is a huge root-for and there really isn't anyone to root for in the GG series. The wish list stuff (designer this and that) is fun to read about, but it's the characters that really grab me. In this book you learn a lot more about all the main characters, and the ending is incredibly romantic! I can't wait to get my hands on book 3. And 4 and 5 and more... This is the closest pop fiction to real lit I've ever read. Zoey Dean is a fabulous author and I just loved this book!!!

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Summary: BEST BEACH READ EVER!!!
Review: If you want the best book you can pack to take along on vacation, this is it. I'd call it pop fiction for girls with a functional brain. Anna, the heroine of this series is smart and literate -- definitely not an airhead. But since she's arrived in Beverly Hills from her rich New York prep school life, things haven't gone smoothly. She is determined to break out of her "good girl" box, which means, guys, adventures and did I mention guys? There's a great combo of reality (the kids having sex, doing drugs, being dysfunctional) and fantasy (the kids having great sex with hot guys, money to burn and every top label everything of your dreams). I like GOSSIP GIRL, but in my opinion this is a vastly superior series. Not only is it hilarious, you can actually root for Anna, and you won't regret it the morning. I heard Zoey Dean is a grad student at UCLA who actually lived a lot of what is in this series. It certainly reads like an inside job!! This is the best!!!!

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Summary: My Favorite Teen Series
Review: Lately a lot of books have come out in the teen genre and few have lived up to the expectations I 've set for them. Zoey Dean's second offering in the A-List series was what I expected it to be - a fun, decent, light read that can be picked up at any time.

The story basically follows Anna Percy, a New York high school socialite that moves out to LA to restart her life with her dad and initially plans to take an internship but after that falls through she ends up having to go to Hollywood High with some characters she met at a celebrity New Years Eve bash. The main pupils Anna has to tangle with are Sam Sharpe (daughter of a famous movie star questioning her sexuality in this book), Cammie Sheppard (Who has some big problem with Anna because her ex-bf is interested in him), Dee Young (Hippie chick whose big secret from the last book is further explored in this one), Adam (A possible love interest for Anna), and a few other minor characters. Oh and readers of the last book, Ben (Annas one night stand/possible love interest) does come back...

This chapter of the A-List life story follows a few days in Anna's life as she works on a movie project with Sam about class and love, deals with her rehab-escaped sisters return, frets about boys, and lands a new internship at her fathers girlfriends business.

While there are a lot of fun twists and turns throughout, the main problems I have with this series are the dialogue and plot development. Dialogue-wise Zoey Dean needs to get a better handle on realistic teen speak, and while understandably she avoids the cliches of Hollywood Valley Girl speech, the text is disjointed and too plain for anyone, especially teenagers to say. Imagine seeing the story read out by actors and actresses and a lot of the dialogue used just seems too formal and unrealistic for people of this age group and time period to be saying. The second problem I have is the length of time the action takes.

Each book generally spans about a week to two weeks which is a ridiculously short time for any deep character and plot development to happen - particularly noted with what happens between Anna and Adam in this book. Of course it is assumed the storylines are cut so short because Dean has set her characters in the second term of grade 12, which is looking to be a foolhardy choice given that the stories are incredibly unrealistic time-wise.

Either way if you like most of the teen fare out there you'll probably enjoy this novel as well, as its not a terrible read and has enough of a decent storyline in it to keep you interested and guessing.


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Summary: Very fluffy and pop
Review: Love "THE A-LIST"? You'll get a kick out of Dean's follow-up, GIRLS ON FILM, a juicy, steamy entrant into the lives of the rich and glamorous that rule the L.A scene.

East Coast transplant Anna is confused about Ben. Does she love him, or hate him? It's a mixture of both after he abandoned her on his father's boat -- the NIP N'TUCK -- on New Year's Eve. She tries to get her mind off him by focusing on her film project with ex-enemy Sam, while they try to reshoot a scene from "The Great Gatsby" for lit class. And Sam keeps having lesbian dreams about Anna. Uh oh.

Despite Anna being the only stable personality in this whole book, she's pretty colorless. All her thoughts are archaic and predictable, and -- from replay -- it seems she has no voice of her own. All we know is that she's blonde, tall, is a clean-cut student and hates her father. The same is true with Ben Birnbaum. He's basically a moviehunk -- an actor who only gets boosted into roles because of his look, not his talent. He's basically just another hot guy. How does this matter to the story?

I've said my bit. It's your choice.

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Summary: Best book ive ever read
Review: Okay...The A-List, Girls on Film was a really good beach book. While reading it I really enjoyed it. The writing is decent and the charecters are really fun to get to know. If your looking for a book with sex, lies, and backstabing then you will love this book. Get it and have FUN with it...

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Summary: Best book ever
Review: Omg like this was sooooo good! i hated the way it ended though... thanks god she is making a third book!!!!!! it was sooo good but i think the first one was just a little better.

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Summary: the must read book this summer!
Review: omg! this was the best book ever....i have read all of the gossip girl books already so then i moved onto the a-list novels...i must say i think that the this book might have been better than the gossip girl books...i even got all of my friends hooked into reading them! you have to read it!

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Summary: It was OK.
Review: Personally, not my faovirte. I loved The A-List which enspired me to pick up Girls On Film. It was kind of confusing. Anna choosing to stay away from boys then with in a day getting rid of that wish. The characters seemed to devlope different personalitys from the first book and be more in each others lives. The ending was weird; it seemed like an uncomplete cliff-hanger. If you've read The A-List you should probally read it just don't expect too much.