Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl #1)

Reader reviewed by boobookitten

OK, so it is filled with the lives of teenagers who live their lives as if they were in their early to mid 20s with wild and crazy abandon.  True!  With that aside, it is juicy, well written and non-violent.  The characters, whether you like them or not have been deeply developed.  I am 40.  In my day, the juicy books that my parents may not have wanted me to read were sneakily read anyway.  Period.  As was a lot of my own underage drinking, smoking, sex and other stuff.  If you look at me now though, you'd never guess that.  I went through that stuff and turned out ok.

Parents- you might want to read them.  Not to forbid them- good luck!  But to know what your kids will read, and frankly because they were deliciously addicting!  I loved them.  And since I know what's in them, I can talk to my daughter about the stuff inside.  I found myself remembering the corresponding people at my high school and identifying me (a cross of Vanessa and Jenny) as well.  I give the entire Gossip Girl series a 5 star thumbs up!

Reader reviewed by Susie

Gossip Girl is the best book i have ever had the pleasure of reading it is full of sex, drugs and a little romance thrown in too along with a girl named Blair who is up tight and down right cruel. Then there is Serena Blairs best friend but when Serena comes back all hell breaks loose. Then there is Nate the lax playing pot head who every one wants to do. Blair hasn't but guess who has. Read this book and you will fall in love with Gossip Girl books forever.

Reader reviewed by ladeedah

A peek into high class, Upper East Side living, private school going, designer clothes wearing rich teen's lives. Everyone is rich and beautiful and just might stab each other in the back. When Blair's former best friend Serena returns from a year at a European boarding shcool, she threatens Blair's spot on top of the social strata that she has been enjoying in Serena's absence.

I definitely recommend this delicious piece of chick lit because the characters are just as rich, snobby and evil as you would hope! Still, while all of the characters might seem to be rich, snobby carbon copies of each other, they are all very different! I can't wait to read the whole series!

Reader reviewed by Emily TT

If you're into mindlessly fun and juicy teen novels welcome to paradise. If you're into un-superficial novels do not pick up this book. Repeat do not pick up this book.
If you love gossip, hookups, betrayal, lies and secrets in books pick up this book.
In a way, the mysterious Gossip Girl has biting wit. In a way.
The plot is that Serena, Blair's former best friend comes back from boarding school. All her former friends are acting a tad icy to her.
But Serena did something very bad with Blair's stoner boyfriend Nate (kind of a wimp) in 10th grade. And when Blair finds out, well she really doesn't like Serena.
Juicy.
Read the books and watch the show,
Emily TT

Reader reviewed by Becksters

This was a really good book, and I enjoyed reading it. But I think it gives the rest of us a bad name. What I mean is, I go to a Prep school in Manhatten, and I think this book showed the very worst of what we are. I mean, even though I don't really have any friends, or any money, I'm sure the rich popular people aren't stuck up at all.

But I likes the book none the less. It was fun to pretend I had friends and money... for a little while at least.

Reader reviewed by Sam

Every girl has been there, evry guy too. The world of of drugs, alcohal and sex. GOssip Girl is a great book that talks about differnebt kids living in New York who are rich, popular and can do whatever they want. This book shows how we will act once in our life as a teen. This book is Realistic Fiction. This is what happens when we go deep into the heart of teens and bring out their wild child inside!

Reader reviewed by Kate

Mostly every girls dream is to be rich and famous, and beautiful, but Serina and Blair have it all. They have the looks the money the house's and the boys. Everything a young girls heart could want. This book is so engrossing, you will be finished with one garantee in a week, for me a night. Live, Breath, Gossip... and ofcoarse the girls.

Reader reviewed by Jen

This first novel of Cecily von Ziegesar's best-selling series is not a disappointment. This book whisks you into the lives of NYC's elite and sets the stage for the preceding books in the series. If you haven't read this book yet, then what are you waiting for?! Get inside the secret club called Gossip Girl and you won't be dissappointed!

Reader reviewed by LJK

Gossip Girl, the first novel in the series, is exactly the novel that I expected. The characters go to fancy parties, attend exclusive private schools, and party like rock stars, or NYC society girls. And yet, they also worry about grades and standardized tests, have family issues and problems with friends, and basically act like most other high school kids only with a lot more money and freedom. There's not a lot that's original about this book, and yet there are moments when it absolutely nails the experience of wealthy children like nothing else that I've read. Girls will love these books and I know that I, slightly past girlhood, will read them all.

Reader reviewed by noxzeema

In the first book we see a group of over-priviliged high-society seniors, tightly focused on Serena, Blair, and Nate. Vanessa, Dan, and Jenny are also main characters in the book, and though they attend the same school, they are not on the same social circuit as the others.

With rotating points of views in each chapter, the reader will begin to feel sympathy for these people that most of the time people just end up envying. Like how Blair will always be ONLY second-best around Serena, thats why she tries to keep her out of the social loop.

Or with Jenny, who tries to see what its like on the other side of the looking glass and gets burned badly.

Its like the Clique series for the older teen, very good, light read.