Read all about the powerful, rich and beautiful teens of Beverley Hills High in this new collection of the first three titles in the national bestselling series The A-List.
The author of The A-List series and How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls, which has been renamed and turned into a TV show known as Privileged on the CW in September 2008. Zoey Dean's books are produced by the media packager Alloy Entertainment, which created Gossip Girl, The Clique Series, and The A-List and sold them to Little, Brown and Company. Zoey is currently working on The Talent series. She is also working on The A-List: Hollywood Royalty. Zoey Dean divides her time between Beverly Hills, California, and her favorite small islands in the Caribbean.
This series has to be my favorite book series. It is an everyday story about high school girls and drama, similar to Gossip Girl and other shows seen on television. In this story, the reader follows a group of girls that are of the highest society of Beverly Hills, California. Not only is it exciting to follow them through their shopping adventures, Beverly Hills Hotel brunches, or celebrity friendships, but reading about drama and waiting for what happens next gives any reader the ultimate sitting-on-the-edge-of-your-seat curiosity. As cliche as the books sound, many girls (and some guys, of course) love reading teenage dramas. Not only are they exciting, but the reader has a slight understanding of what its like to be part of the rich and the famous. They also to find that being an average teenager that lives in a small town is not so different from those who live in the 90210. I would recommend this book to high school girls.
Okay, so this review is way overdue since I honestly don't remember when I read this book, but I DO remember really hating this particular one, which immediately led to my disliking for the entire series.
I remember after reading the last page, I was left with the thought that I could have skipped books 2-9 and nothing would have changed... I mean, I understand the appeal of the full circle ending, but I didn't think anything worth noting happened in those middle books, besides the typical petty, suntanned romance drama.
Meh. At least I can be comforted by the fact that I started this series when I was 12/13.