Gossip Girl
Cecily von Ziegesar
Gossip Girl Review
The first three books in the Gossip Girl series are Gossip Girl,
You Know you Love Me, and All I Want is Everything, by Cecily von Ziegesar.
They are "light" fiction, not meant to betaken seriously for plot or deeper
meaning. I would rate these three books as a 2 on a scale of 1 to 4. These
books should only be read by a mature teen who knows that irresponsible
behavior, drugs, alcohol, eating disorders, and bad values do not make one
popular or cool.
With that in mind, the first book starts with the beautiful,
popular, rich girl, Serena returning to the Upper East Side of Manhattan
from boarding school. Her best friend, Blair, has turned against her and has
turned her other friends against Serena too; but that shouldn't be a problem
for Serena. The second book is full of applying to colleges, that is Ivy
League Colleges. Most of the girls do not try hard in school, but with all
of the money in their families, they think daddy could easily make a big
donation and secure his daughter's spot. The third book takes a different
tone. Serena and Blair become best friends again and start planning awesome
parties and getting into all sorts of trouble; after all, it is winter
vacation.
The strengths of these books are that they are fun to read, and
once you start to read them, they are hard to put down. The weakness are
that nothing meaningful actually happens in them. They are full of obnoxious
teenagers who do obnoxious things, but they are well written. If the reader
can understand that the characters are not doing the right thing, they may
end up enjoying these books.
By Julia, Menlo Park, CA
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