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Summary: Gossip Girl
Review: The Gossip Girl series is incredibly addicting. Nate, Serena, Blair, Dan, Jenny, and all of their friends are living the high life in New York City. Serena and Blair are the two most beautiful girls at Constance Billard's all girls' school. They had been best friends since the fifth grade, but now something has come between them. Blair has lost her best friend and her mother is getting married to a guy she doesn't like one bit at all, and on her 17th birthday! To top it off, her college interview at Yale didn't go as she planned. Blair has to try to figure out how to get her life back, while Serena is having the time of her life chasing boys, buying clothes and make up, and partying with her brother at Brown University. Every guy that ever sets eyes on Serena falls in love with her; she's beautiful, popular, and very flirty. Serena's boyfriend at the time is Dan, a senior at St. Judes, and he is obsessed with her. Dan writes poems every day about Serena, and his sister, Jenny, wants to be exactly like her. Jenny is a freshman at Constance Billard, and tells her brother almost everything.
Nate and Blair have been dating for two years. Last summer, Nate cheated on Blair with Serena, so now Blair and Serena are worst enemies. Blair thinks everything is fine with Nate, but he's secretly cheating on her with Jenny, a freshman at Constance Billard. In two weeks, Blair's mother is getting married to a jerk, Serena is one of the bridesmaids, and Nate is supposed to be her date. Her Yale interview was a disaster. What is she going to do with her life? "There was a good chance she [Blair] wasn't getting into Yale, even after her father's embarrassingly outrageous donation. Nate didn't love her. She didn't even have the same last name as the rest of her family anymore" (Ziegesar 220).
Serena isn't too worried about not being friends with Blair. She knows she's more gorgeous than Blair. Dan is in love with Serena, but Serena isn't in love with Dan. He writes love poems about her in his free time and she doesn't know about them. Dan decided to send her a poem. It freaked Serena out; she thinks he's obsessive now. Serena stops talking to Dan and he doesn't know what he did wrong. Serena and Dan were supposed to go to Brown together, but before they leave Nate and his buddies ask if they can come along for the ride. Serena allows them to come and Dan is heartbroken. He thought Serena loved him. "What depressed him [Dan] was that she didn't want to be alone with him the way he wanted to be alone with her. If she did, she wouldn't have turned their cozy weekend away into a rockin' slumber party" (Ziegesar 125).
Eleanor Waldrof and Cyrus Rose are getting married two days after Thanksgiving, Blair's birthday. The Friday before the wedding, all of the bridesmaids go out to get manicures, pedicures, make up, and all of the things that need to be done before a big wedding. The guys are out trying on their tuxedos and getting hair cuts. Blair and Serena have to be with each other at the salon, and Blair isn't too happy with that. In the middle of her pedicure she gets up and storms off, no one sees her until the wedding. The ushers pick up the bridesmaids in their hotel suite and take them to the wedding. The wedding goes as planned, and everything is perfect. The reception, however, is a disaster. Serena ignores Dan completely, but Dan meets Vanessa and falls in love. Vanessa's more his type. Blair spots Nate with his freshman girlfriend and Serena spots Dan with his new girlfriend. Both Serena and Blair run to the bathroom, not knowing the other one is in there. Blair is crying on the sink, and Serena is there to comfort her. Blair's birthday didn't turn out to be so bad after all; she had her best friend back. "Blair scooted back on the bed so she was sitting right next to Serena...the two girls watched Audrey Hepburn flit around her apartment and flirt with her new neighbor" (Ziegesar 225).
Any middle or high school girl can relate to this series. The books keep you asking for more. Everyone deals with gossip in their school, everyone gossips. It's a bad habit but everyone does it. The characters in this book are spoiled, but have to go through the same things any regular kid would have to. Their lives aren't as great as everyone thinks they are. They are easy to relate to. This series is addicting and keeps getting better every time I read it. Every teenager should read this, you'd be surprised at how much it's like real life!
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Summary: Gossip Girl is back, and she has some juicy info!
Review: YKYLM is an excellent second part to Gossip Girl, while the first one focused more on S being back and B trying to avoid her as much as possible, this one gets rid of all the explaining and going to the past, instead we are left inside the world of rich manhattan teens, and their lifestyles are not disappointing.. at all! College applications and Blair's mother wedding are all the rage within this book... oh yeah and the romantic drama heats up intensely. With B and N going through rough times, Dan getting a little "stalkeresque" with Serena and Jenny getting N as a love interest.. this book just keeps getting better and better!
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Summary: So much like real life!
Review: This book is so much like real life. It's about rich, catty girls who live in the rich part of New York City. In this book, the girls are applying to collage. Even more stuff is happening in this book than the first one. Blair doesn't want to go to collage a virgen but it's very hard for her since she is with Nate. Serena misses Blair as a friend and doesn't know what's she's gonna do without her in collage. Nate is tired of Blair always bothering him so he goes off dating another girl who is in the 9th grade. This book will keep you asking for more!
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Summary: Ha!
Review: I think this book and this series is hilarious! Some people will probably think it is catty or trashy but if you just look at the humor you will definitly enjoy it. It's ironic that these people who seem to have everything still have screwed up lives. But I'd recommend this to all teenage girls who are looking for something funny and juicy to read. It's all the fun of gossip with none of the harsh consequences!
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Summary: It's amazing!
Review: It is so amazing that when I read this book, I thought it had been written about me! Me & Blair are so much alike - we both live in New York, we both go to exclusive schools and we both live on the Upper East side. You Know You Love Me is a captivating book which keeps you guessing the whole way through. I'd reccomend it to any teenage girl who wants a book about real teenagers going through real stuff.
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Summary: The second book that builds on the first...
Review: This book was a good second book to the gossip girl series. I felt like I got to know some of the characters much better, especially Blair and Jenny. Blair's mom announces her upcoming engagement, Jenny meets Nate, and the whole gang gets ready for college. The only thing that really annoyed me was that Serena seems to perfect to be true, and Dan was a bit stalkerish. I am totally ready for the next book and plan to pick it up soon!
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Summary: LOVE IT!
Review: This book is soooo good! its just a book you HAVE TO PICK UP! i was apprehensive @ first, but anyway, just pick up the damn book! it simply rules!
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Summary: Pure Fun
Review: "You Know You Love Me" is a continuation of the last book in the "Gossip Girl" series entitled "Gossip Girl." Ziegesar brings back Blair and Serena's scandalous, yet enticing, affairs, and their minor problems."You Know You Love Me" begins with the characters of "Gossip Girl" applying to Ivy League Colleges, and Blair planning not only her seventeenth birthday, but also helping her mother get ready for her wedding, which is being photographed for Vogue. Yes, the magazine. Then there's Serena, who is being constantly pursued by Dan, a disturbed poet with intense affections. But, although these kids are rich, obviously money can't buy you everything. At least it can't buy Blair Waldorf everything. For Blair's seventeenth birthday bash is coming up, and she knows that the only thing that she can possibly wish for is Nate Archibald, her troubled, yet gorgeous, boyfriend, of course. But little does she know that while she's sending out college applications, Nate is fooling around with Jenny Humphrey, a ninth-grader!! This book is set for people 15 & over, due to bad language and racy content. Fans of "Sex and the City" and "Cruel Intentions" will relish in the likeness of this book, and the characters rich and scandalous lifestyles. A great read when you're looking for some...gossip. Erika Sorocco
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Summary: Trashy drivel, but mildly entertaining
Review: I'd have titled the review "Deserves zero stars," as I do with the books I truly hate. Yes, the characters are transparent, cliched, and so overdrawn they're almost cartoonish, and yes, the plot is plodding and often difficult to follow (though this may be because I never read the first novel, simply entitled "Gossip Girl"). The writing is dull and mechanical, and every conceivable teen-novel formula character/situation is present. (There's the ugly, goofy stepfather-to-be, the mother who neglects to realize she's planning her wedding for her daughter's 17th birthday, the ugly-duckling girl, the hated but virtuous outcast... yadda, yadda, yadda.) So what one redeeming quality DOES this book have? I think that the concept of the book (the lives of society teens and the paparazzi who follow them around) is really intriguing and could make a great YA novel--if the author decided to make her writing more original and her plotlines and characters easier to care about. Here's hoping that Ms. von Ziegesar does just that and turns this mindless fluff into something worth reading.
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Summary: Gossip isn't the greatest
Review: There are some people who are writing reviews stating that this is the best or one of the best books they have ever read. It is far from the best, but it is a really enjoyable beach read. It is a fun book to read and an entertaining one...
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