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Title: Gossip Girl, The Carlyles #1
ISBN: 0316020648
Author:
Cecily von Ziegesar
Publicate Date: 2008-05-06
Publish: 2008-05-06
List Price: $10.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: huge disappointment
I had read all of the Gossip Girl and It Girl books leading up to The Carlyles #1 and was looking forward to its release. Well, I was very disappointed when I started reading it. The new characters are bland to me and it was just plain hard to get into. I would recommend all of the novels in the It Girl series and all of the Gossip Girl books up until The Carlyles. I just found this book very boring and couldn't finish it.
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2: eh...its an ok book
im actually surprised that i didnt like this book so much. im a huge fan of gossip girl series (and the show), but this book wasnt even close to how addicting and great the other series were. i miss the old cast and their storyline. i wasnt drawn to any particular character, and some of their storylines were predictable.
basically this book is about three triplets(avery, owen, and baby) who come to ny, and try to get acquainted with the city. avery wants to be friends with the popular girls and become the student council. owen is inlove with his new friends girl friend, and baby hates ny and wants to go back to where she used to live.
thats pretty much the basic storyline.
what i did like about the book was the way the author writes. cecily von ziegesar, is one of my favorite authors. i like her flow in the book, and the way it doesnt drag on.
overall, this wasnt my favorite gossip girl series, but as a devoted fan ill give it another chance with the next book.
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3: Pretty Good Start
Avery, Baby, and Owen Carlyle moves into Blair Waldorf's old place on the Upper East Side. Avery immediately wants to be a teen socialite, Owen is desperate to find the girl he fell for the summer before who lives in NY as well and Baby just wants to go home to Nantucket. As they all quickly find out what they want isn't easy. Avery's makes enemies with the wrong girl in school: popular girl Jack Laurent. Owen quickly finds out that the girl he wanted is the girlfriend of his only friend Rhys Sterling and Baby tries to get herself in trouble so she can be expelled and go home.
It's a good start to a new series and a lot of people are going to make the mistake of comparing the Carlyles and the other characters to the old characters of the now retired original series but you have to see it in a different light as a different series which is what it is. There is very little mention of the old characters in the blog and readers will have to know that the B in the book isn't Blair and the J isn't Jenny. Unlike in The It Girl, the characters aren't cookie cutters of the ones in the original Gossip Girl series. Although this book is mainly about the triplets, the character that makes the book interesting is Jack, who is supposed to be the Blair (or queen bee) of this series although if you ask me she's more like Cammie from the A-List. Jack stands out in the series and I can't wait to see what she does next since I know she wants revenge on the Carlyle girls after what happens at the end. So far none of the guys work for me. Just like with the original series there are only two main ones: Owen and Rhys and one supporting one, J.P. (Jack's boyfriend) whose point of view we don't get to read. Owen is a little too egotistical about his looks and Rhys is too sensitive after his breakup with Kelsey who isn't worth it anyway but there has only been one book so hopefully they will improve throughout the series. I hope the series doesn't get stale and boring like The It Girl did after the first three books, though.
Grade: B+
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4: Its GOSSIP GIRL DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been reading these books from book 1, I'm am a lover of Gossip girl and i always will be. This book is really great .
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5: This is not a wicked ho-ho; it's a slutty ho-ho!
This novel of Gossip girl is such of not joking; seeing the remains of these old casts of the UES people are gone off to college and leaving their silver spoons behind, seeing the new cast of the UES people are done bit of lack for nonething; with the heated up secrets, blackmailing and the rest of it (that i can't tell it towards you on amazon.com) sounds bit of fest of heated up trouble for these young teens who's are rich and glams all over it without the tempted behind them, they could be ashamed of themselves by letting these pre-teens or teens girls reading it towards them.
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