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Summary: Gossip Girl #2
Review: This book is the absolute hands-down best book I have ever read! You definitly should give this book a try. Lately I haven't been reading much. I went to the bookstore and got the first gossip girl and just HAD to get the second. I have bought the third one and I am psyched to read it!
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Summary: Addicting series, yet another great book
Review: Cecily von Ziegesar has created a winning series with the Gossip Girl books, and YOU KNOW YOU LOVE ME does not disappoint.
Blair's turning seventeen soon, and she's terrified to find out that her mom plans to marry Cyrus Rose (quite possibly the most annoying man on the face of the planet) on her birthday. Not only is it her birthday, but it's the night she finally plans to "seal the deal" with her boyfriend Nate - something she's been waiting to do for a while now. What she doesn't know, though, is that Nate isn't as crazy about her as he used to be. In fact, he's falling for someone new!
Serena and Co. (Nate, Dan, etc) go to Brown to do college interviews at the same time that Blair and her stepbrother Aaron are at Yale. The interviews don't go as planned, to say the least.
YOU KNOW YOU LOVE ME is yet another great book from the Gossip Girl series. It starts out a little slow (as did the first book), but it's totally worth it. A fun, scandalous read. Highly recommended.
Overall grade - A-
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Summary: More gossip
Review: In Gossip Girl's second installment, Blair Waldorf and the rest of the Manhattan prep school kids are back in what was another round of great, whatelse, gossip!
Blair's seventeenth birthday is fast approaching and there is nothing else that she wants more than her hottie boyfriend Nate's full fledged attention. But birthday's aren't the only thing on Blair's mind. Blair has an interview at Yale coming up and her mother is getting married again, after a 2 month courtship, to Cyrus Rose, a man of the high society, who just happens to have a hot son named Aaron, a hippie. Worst of all, Blair's mom has chosen Blair's former best friend Serena as bridsmaid instead of Blair and of course such a big occasion must also catch the attention of Vogue, the magazine, who will be taking pictures at the wedding.
Then there is Nate himself. Blairs been so busy with all the wedding and college applications that shes been too busy to see that Nate isn't exactly hers anymore. He has been secretly dating Jenny Humphrey, a ninth-grader, whose got some pretty good attributes in the chest area. Jenny's brother Danny, the romantic poet, is still swooning over Serena, whose busy with her interview with Brown.
Bad languague, inapprapriate situations, makes Gossip Girl appropriate for only mature readers but once you get into them, you really can't put it down. The storylines are enticing and the scandals are just pure fun. The characters are great and there is never a dull moment. A definite must read if you want to catch up on some "gossip".
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Summary: great book
Review: when i saw this book, i thought it wasn't going to be good. Boy, was I wrong. This book is a great read and if you love reading about hot people and their problems, you'll love this book. You'll get into every character you read about and you will also laugh out loud because it has it's funny moments too.
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Summary: Can you say crap?
Review: Don't waste your time! These books are terrible. People should be embarrassed to read them!
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Summary: hOw CaN a StOrY b So ScAnDaLoUs??
Review: This second addition -to the scandolous tales of the privileged- definitely didn't leave out any scandal...Ever since Serena got back, Blair's been in a pissed mood which only seperates them. Serena's trying to deal with the ever-intense emotions fending off from Daniel and Blair's trying so hard to deal with just living her life. Her mom is engaged to -ech!- Cyrus Rose and Nate seems to be ignoring her. I dont want to give out any more juicy details because this book definitely gives an insight to the upperclass of New York, their love life, their perks, and the problems that they face..
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Summary: definately my favorite series!
Review: OMGoodness! I have only read the 1st book and now this one! they are great and I absolutely love them! Both of them were read in 2 days! I can't wait for the 3rd book! Once I started reading I could not put the books down, it's stuff that really does go on in teenagers lives, maybe not everything, but it could happen. I love the fact that it's actually realistic. The characters are great. But it is sad about what happens with Blair and Nate, but at least her and Serena become best friends again. I'm so excited for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th book! I hope that this series either continues or has a huge finale at the end of the series! I get so into the books that I get like emotions about it! That's how truly great these books are! I most definately reccomend this book(and I will)! It's so great that I'm actually reading during the summer when during the school year I only read the required books(and didn't even finish them!)! So kudos to Cecily Von Ziegesar! Keep up the excellent work!
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Summary: Gossip Girl at her best
Review: The title, YOU KNOW YOU LOVE ME, is most likely derived from the way Gossip Girl signs her web posts on her site, gossipgirl.net. All the fans know this!Blair may be bitchy but she does have the most depth out of all the characters - and she is bright, unlike... ...Nate, who acts like an utter jerk at Mrs. Waldorf's wedding, the worst day of Blair's life, a time when she reallllly needs some support. He takes it up with Jenny Humphrey, a stalker freshman at Constance Billard, a prestigous all-girls school where she gawks at and aspires to be the kinds of girls Blair and Serena Van der Woodsen already are without any effort required on their parts. All Nate does is smoke weed and he expects to get into Brown because his interviewer convinced him to apply early action. So suddenly, right before the application date, he's completely diligent and absorbed with his school work. Nate is instantly drawn to Jenny because he feels he doesn't need to strive to impress her, which is the opposite of the state of his relationship with Blair. Serena is no longer the leper she was in book one. Nope. Now she is officially cool again, despite the fact Blair hates her guts. Now that Serena is herself again, boys flock to her as if they have been beckoned. She is beautiful, graceful, and lithe, just like a delicate nymph. Still, she is the source of a lot of Blair Waldorf's anger and frustrations, especially with her constant nonchalant and carefree attitude. She too wants Brown admission. She too has mediocre grades. So she figures she'll win the film festival and show Brown she's something more. With Vanessa Abrahms, film lover and admirer of Dan, who once swooned over Serena (romantic triangle!!!), things work out in Serena's favor. Even if they didn't, you know she'd persevere. And if Brown doesn't want to accept her, "&@#$ it!" as her hot older brother and Brown enrollee, Erik, tells her. Dan is pathetic. He writes poetry expressly for Serena, all about his "love" for her. Alas, Serena wants no more than friendship. Dan and Vanessa get together over his caffeine and nicotine fix, and suddenly, everything is peachy and Serena is old news. I love how GG's pressing issues are always solved, if not in the first, then usually by the next. Except for... ...Blair's Yale admission. It's her father's alma mater. Blair is gorgeous and has brains to boot. She could probably even do Harvard if she felt like it. But she only has eyes for Yale, which is a shame since she totally screwed up her interview. Of course, she can always blame her stepbrother, Aaron, being he had her in a cheesy motel room eating Chee-tos and chocolate bars and didn't wake up (and wake her up) until a half hour before the very interview began. Still, she can't blame Aaron for the fact she KISSED HER INTERVIEWER! ::ouch:: Aaron is laid back and Ivy League bound. The son of fat and rosacea-faced Cyrus Rose, his existence thrives on herbal cigarettes. He's a good character addition to the series and although Blair seems to loathe his existence at first, by the end of the book, she's coming around to being okay with him, in the tiniest way imaginable, that is. Now for Mrs. Waldorf's wedding to homely Cyrus! Everyone has a part in it, whether it be a guest or a maid of honor, like Serena, Kati Farkas, and Isabel Coates. Everyone will be there, including the staff of Vogue magazine, to take pics for an upcoming issue. Blair seemingly at first has no support or a way to channel her teen angst and anguish over the fact her mother is marrying a rich nitwit. Rich, yet a nitwit nonetheless. Nate is no help, as he totally blows her off and then goes off to smooch with Jenny behind her back. Mrs. Waldorf herself is urging Blair Cornelia Waldorf to become Blair Cornelia Waldorf-Rose. Until Serena finds her amidst a hysterical sobbing fit, complete with mascara-laced tears, it seems as if Blair is destined for doom. I love that Blair and Serena rekindle their friendship in Blair's time of need. You knew their reconciling was going to pop up sooner or later. Everything usually does go right in the world of Gossip Girl. :) Read this one. Von Ziegesar has her great and okay Gossip Girl books and I have yet to hate an installment of the series. This second book is one of the better novels!
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