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Title: A-List #2, The: Girls on Film : An A-List Novel (A-List) by Zoey Dean ISBN: 0-316-73475-6 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 07 April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: awesome read
Comment: this book was great!!! it showed the truth behind high school and even junior high communities...it showed that smart people can be both themselves and have zest while their at it.. anna was a great person and didnt like to hurt people while cammie was an awkward and selfish character who couldnt stand people who got in her way. sam was outgoing, but questionable. while whats her name was ditzy and fun! ben was witty and hott. and adam was smart but edgy(as much as his protective parents would give in)...i havent read the gossip girls because the cover makes it sound to dramatic...if you liked the a- list series so far, you should try the sweep series...they are interesting and fun, but at the same time dangerous and mysterious!
Rating: 5
Summary: SO MUCH BETTER THAN GOSSIP GIRL!!!
Comment: 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!!!
Rating: 1
Summary: I appluad Zoey Dean for single-handidly lowering the bar.
Comment: And I completely promise, no spoilers.
A-List sucked, plain and simple. First you have your Anna Percy, aka WTF?-girl. She has no real personality. Sure, she's tall, lithe, blond, and you're reminded of this every paragraph, but it seems Ms. Dean has used this as some sort of excuse for having no real character personality, unless you can call "boring-as-all-hell" an attribute. You make the call.
Then you have the proverbial bitch-on-wheels trio, Cammie, Sam, and Dee. As if their names and their one-syllable genericness wasn't enough to piss you off just by reading them, I have more bad news: they suck. In the first book, Zoey Dean made them out to be some sort of unbreakable trio, with Dee and Sam being Cammie's bitches. Well, here's the reality: Dee just kind of gives a bad name for blond people, as if Dee wasn't a bad enough name to begin with, and Sam sort of befriends Anna and has sexual urges towards her. Oops, as it turns out, the clique is actually not-so tight after all! Turns out nobody's afraid of Cammie either!
Speaking of, I hate Cammie. She's not mean, and her dialogue just doesn't flow right. Not that anyone else's dialogue flows right, but hers is just plain annoying. Oh yeah, then there's some girl named Susan who has a big ass. She's Anna's sister with an alcohol-addled mind and trust me, you won't like her.
Next, we have Ben. Oh God, he totally rescues the whole book from a fiery death. Just kidding--you'll find no personality here either! After macking it with his underaged cousin and becoming a freaky freak who stalks Anna "So-Not-Worth-It" Percy and at random points starts acting all gay and "OMG I WANT YOU BACK LOL I WANT TO BONE YOU ANNA!!", he finally gets his girl back and then they allegedly have kinky hotel-room sex. ALLEGEDLY.
Oh yeah, and as for his ditching Anna excuse on New Year's Eve? Nope, it wasn't a drugged up movie star--it was his dad gambling away the family fortune! Oh yeah, and about those no-spoiler warnings? Tee-hee, I was just messing with your mind.
So that's the big surprise of the book. He couldn't tell Anna the truth, even though the truth was still a lot more better than his actual lie. It like that at that point, Dean expects us to go, "Oh my goodness! What a complete plot twist! I wonder if Anna will get back with Ben? Let's go host an orgy!"
But this review isn't entirely bitter. There is one good attribute to this book. His name is Adam. He is the only character who might even be interesting, but of course we don't want to see any interesting characters! We want the rich and bland good-looking ones, not the only character that might actually have a well-developed personality. Heavens no.
This book sucks. Anna bitches the whole time about how much Ben hurt her. Darling, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you're smart then you should know that bad boys are bad for a reason. If you want to have someone love you for your personality and not just for what's beneath your belt, date a Carebear.
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Title: I Like It Like That: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar ISBN: 0316735183 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 05 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The A-List by Zoey Dean ISBN: 0316734357 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Summer Boys by Hailey Abbott ISBN: 0439540208 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar ISBN: 0316909688 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Clique by Lisi Harrison ISBN: 0316701297 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 05 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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