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Gossip Girl #10
Would I Lie to You
Enter the world of Gossip Girl - a world where espadrille sandals are flown in from Spain, crisp cotton sundresses are made to order, and jealousy and betrayal are the ultimate summer accessories . . .
Serena and Blair are now co-muses to a super-famous designer, who just happens to live next door to Nate's Hamptons estate . . .
But how neighbourly are these new neighbours going to get? And what's this about Vanessa venturing surfside? Who's next, Dan? Never say never . . .
Serena and Blair are now co-muses to a super-famous designer, who just happens to live next door to Nate's Hamptons estate . . .
But how neighbourly are these new neighbours going to get? And what's this about Vanessa venturing surfside? Who's next, Dan? Never say never . . .
209 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 4, 2006
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About the author
Cecily von Ziegesar
105 books2,962 followersCecily von Ziegesar is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl novels, upon which the hit television show is based.
Cecily von Ziegesar was born in New York City. Her childhood dream was to grow up to be a ballerina; she began lessons at age 3 and auditioned for the School of American Ballet at age 8, but was rejected.
As a teenager, von Ziegesar commuted to Manhattan at 6 a.m. to attend the Nightingale-Bamford School. After graduating from Nightingale, von Ziegesar attended Colby College before spending a year in Budapest working for a local radio station.
Von Ziegesar returned to the United States to study creative writing at the University of Arizona, but dropped out shortly thereafter.
Back in New York, while working at book-packaging firm Alloy Entertainment, von Ziegesar became inspired to create the Gossip Girl series, which follows the lives of privileged teenagers in New York. The series climbed to the top of The New York Times best-sellers list in 2002. A spin-off series, The It Girl, made the list in 2005.
The Constance Billard School for Girls in Gossip Girl is based upon an exaggerated version of von Ziegesar's alma mater, Nightingale. She also culled events from the book from the lives of her extremely wealthy friends, as well as her own life as a perpetual gossip.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.
Cecily von Ziegesar was born in New York City. Her childhood dream was to grow up to be a ballerina; she began lessons at age 3 and auditioned for the School of American Ballet at age 8, but was rejected.
As a teenager, von Ziegesar commuted to Manhattan at 6 a.m. to attend the Nightingale-Bamford School. After graduating from Nightingale, von Ziegesar attended Colby College before spending a year in Budapest working for a local radio station.
Von Ziegesar returned to the United States to study creative writing at the University of Arizona, but dropped out shortly thereafter.
Back in New York, while working at book-packaging firm Alloy Entertainment, von Ziegesar became inspired to create the Gossip Girl series, which follows the lives of privileged teenagers in New York. The series climbed to the top of The New York Times best-sellers list in 2002. A spin-off series, The It Girl, made the list in 2005.
The Constance Billard School for Girls in Gossip Girl is based upon an exaggerated version of von Ziegesar's alma mater, Nightingale. She also culled events from the book from the lives of her extremely wealthy friends, as well as her own life as a perpetual gossip.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.
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April 21, 2018
I normally start a review with my favorite quote from a book.
Not having a single one to start this one with, shows how much of a trash it actually is.
But, I'm only 2 sequels away from leaving this series behind me once and for all, so there's no way I'm giving up on them now.
Hopefully, the next two books are a bit better.
Come on Cecily, I know you can do it!
Not having a single one to start this one with, shows how much of a trash it actually is.
But, I'm only 2 sequels away from leaving this series behind me once and for all, so there's no way I'm giving up on them now.
Hopefully, the next two books are a bit better.
Come on Cecily, I know you can do it!
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September 22, 2020I finished this earlier this morning and I've already forgotten, but I'm preeettyyy sure no one got cheated on in this one! Yay for them! 🙄 Blair is just SUCH a garbage human. I feel bad for her every once in a while because clearly no one actually cares about her, but come ON. She's a terrible friend, and person in general 🤷🏽♀️
October 6, 2020
Så nu är Daniel plötsligt homosexuell? Jag verkligen skäms över den här författaren och hur hon gestaltar LGBTQ karaktärer. Nu är det bara två böcker kvar annars skulle jag gett upp på den här serien för LÄÄÄÄNGE sedan. SKÄMS!
September 12, 2011
really? come on. Serena has been secretly in love with Nate this WHOLE time? I know these books are not great literature and they are not exactly deep, but I think the author is just grabbing at plot lines as though they are straws. it seems a bit ridiculous that even the reader has never heard an internal monologue of Serena's "realization" until the 10th book. plus wasn't it two books ago that Serena and Nate were "together"? and she never had a chance to say "i love you"? another annoyance is that now rather than span a school year or even a month like the last couple books, you know so the author can milk this series, has now become a week to two weeks at most. ugh get it over with already!
January 22, 2016
At A Glance
Genre: Young Adult; Chick Lit
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Triangle.
Cliff Hanger: no
Rating: 4 Stars
Score Sheet
All out of ten
Cover: 7
Plot: 7
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: 9
Writing: 8
Ending: 7
Total: 8
In Dept
Best Part: Orgy Party.
Worst Part: eh.
Thoughts Had: That's nasty; It's CHUCK!; Finally Nate!
Conclusion
Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yes
Short Review: It took 10 books for Nate to say "I love you" back, what a jerk, and Blair is horrible for accepting that. Orgy party was crazyyyyy, didn't see that coming. I'm sure Dan is not gay, but we'll see. Vanessa is getting desperate for sure, going after Chuck. I am ready to see how this plays out!
Review in GIF Form:
Genre: Young Adult; Chick Lit
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Triangle.
Cliff Hanger: no
Rating: 4 Stars
Score Sheet
All out of ten
Cover: 7
Plot: 7
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: 9
Writing: 8
Ending: 7
Total: 8
In Dept
Best Part: Orgy Party.
Worst Part: eh.
Thoughts Had: That's nasty; It's CHUCK!; Finally Nate!
Conclusion
Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yes
Short Review: It took 10 books for Nate to say "I love you" back, what a jerk, and Blair is horrible for accepting that. Orgy party was crazyyyyy, didn't see that coming. I'm sure Dan is not gay, but we'll see. Vanessa is getting desperate for sure, going after Chuck. I am ready to see how this plays out!
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February 9, 2009
Uses the f-word in every part of speech. No, just five of them. I don't think you can use it as a preposition or conjunction. Cardboard characters that drink, smoke, get high, and wallow in mean-spirited hatred. Not funny, not entertaining. Contrary to von Ziegesar's belief, most teens are living, breathing, feeling people filled with hope and good will, trying to figure the world out.
May 13, 2024
Well, that was a fun one.
March 1, 2015
*SPOILS*
not that anyone cares.
Just to add some insult to injury from my last review...
The thing that bothered me the most in this book (and I now realized bothered me in the other books, too) is how no one can ever finish anything they start a relationship, a job, a punishment (Nate was supposed to go to rehab for six months, lasted a few weeks. Nate was supposed to help his coach with his house, and go to AA meetings (which they didn't even mention, so I can only presume he didn't go at all (classic Gossip Girl plot-holes)). Blair getting a job. Blair and Serena and being "fashion muses". Just to name a few.), etc.
Speaking of "fashion muses"... what? I didn't understand what they were supposed to be doing or if they even were doing anything. And who the hell were those "doppelganger" girls? What exactly was their purpose?
Nate being sexually harassed and blackmailed by the coach's wife. And then the coach has the nerve to say he can't go to Yale?! Hellloooooooo, all you gotta do is tell the police you're being sexually harassed! And I'm pretty sure he's underage, too!
Surprise, surprise. Blair and Serena aren't friends anymore. But because Serena's in love with Nate. WHAT!? Since fucking when?! She had 10 books to declare her love, especially when she was DATING him!, or to atleast clue us readers in. Which brings up back to a classic Gossip Girl plot-hole. Way to start pulling shit out of your asshole now, Cecily. Which I'll say, apparently, Cecily didn't write this one, a "ghostwriter" did. But, case and point, your name is still on the books, I will still blame you.
And with that being said, for it being a ghostwriter, I enjoyed this book (and by "enjoyed", I mean I stretched my usual one star for these books to a whole measly two stars). So I'm sitting here actually thinking this phantom writer should have been writing this series this whole time. Well, if I'm really choosing a writer for this, I'd ask a well-known good author. Scratch that again. I think I'd just nuke the whole idea of these books. Let's be honest, we all lost a few braincells reading them.
But hey, Blair and Nate are back together. For now atleast. (I give it until before halfway into the next one)
In the style of Gossip Girl herself...
Will B and N stay together? Or will they continue to annoy me with their teenage tendencies?
Will S and D ever get together like the television show got my hopes up for?
Will V realize she's annoying and go away?
Will J stay away?
You know I hate you,
kwheeeels
not that anyone cares.
Just to add some insult to injury from my last review...
The thing that bothered me the most in this book (and I now realized bothered me in the other books, too) is how no one can ever finish anything they start a relationship, a job, a punishment (Nate was supposed to go to rehab for six months, lasted a few weeks. Nate was supposed to help his coach with his house, and go to AA meetings (which they didn't even mention, so I can only presume he didn't go at all (classic Gossip Girl plot-holes)). Blair getting a job. Blair and Serena and being "fashion muses". Just to name a few.), etc.
Speaking of "fashion muses"... what? I didn't understand what they were supposed to be doing or if they even were doing anything. And who the hell were those "doppelganger" girls? What exactly was their purpose?
Nate being sexually harassed and blackmailed by the coach's wife. And then the coach has the nerve to say he can't go to Yale?! Hellloooooooo, all you gotta do is tell the police you're being sexually harassed! And I'm pretty sure he's underage, too!
Surprise, surprise. Blair and Serena aren't friends anymore. But because Serena's in love with Nate. WHAT!? Since fucking when?! She had 10 books to declare her love, especially when she was DATING him!, or to atleast clue us readers in. Which brings up back to a classic Gossip Girl plot-hole. Way to start pulling shit out of your asshole now, Cecily. Which I'll say, apparently, Cecily didn't write this one, a "ghostwriter" did. But, case and point, your name is still on the books, I will still blame you.
And with that being said, for it being a ghostwriter, I enjoyed this book (and by "enjoyed", I mean I stretched my usual one star for these books to a whole measly two stars). So I'm sitting here actually thinking this phantom writer should have been writing this series this whole time. Well, if I'm really choosing a writer for this, I'd ask a well-known good author. Scratch that again. I think I'd just nuke the whole idea of these books. Let's be honest, we all lost a few braincells reading them.
But hey, Blair and Nate are back together. For now atleast. (I give it until before halfway into the next one)
In the style of Gossip Girl herself...
Will B and N stay together? Or will they continue to annoy me with their teenage tendencies?
Will S and D ever get together like the television show got my hopes up for?
Will V realize she's annoying and go away?
Will J stay away?
You know I hate you,
kwheeeels
March 14, 2024
I’m looking forward to the conclusion of this series because at this point it’s just going around and around in circles and it’s not as dramatic as I wish it would be
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July 16, 2024è la saga più stupida che abbia letto? sì.
mi piace proprio perché è totalmente priva di contenuti? assolutamente.
sono triste di essere quasi arrivata alla fine della saga? terribilmente.
mi piace proprio perché è totalmente priva di contenuti? assolutamente.
sono triste di essere quasi arrivata alla fine della saga? terribilmente.
March 25, 2022
I’m still so turned off by this whole series and author because of all the gay slurs and jokes…
October 19, 2010
How I Came To Read This Book: Twofold. One, after reading the prequel, I sort of missed the series and was sad I never read the final two books. Two, I discovered the sequel that follows up on the characters in their college years and got nostalgic. Not wanting to ruin the end of the series for myself, I got the final two books and the sequel so I could be fully up to speed.
The Plot: The guys and gals of the Upper East Side are officially graduated, and herein lies a brief glimpse of how they’re spending their summer vacations, or at least a few days of them. The majority of the gang is in the Hamptons – Blair and Serena as fashion muses, Nate as a blackmailed workhorse, Chuck as a man of leisure, and Vanessa as a morose nanny. Dan is back in the city exploring his sexuality, while his sister is overseas and present only in postcard form. Gossip Girl of course is omnipresent to capture the latest seesawing relationships between all of the characters – friends, lovers, and foes.
The Good & The Bad: Sadly, the latter half of the Gossip Girl series got really lame when Cecily von Zeigesar stopped writing them and a ghostwriter stepped in. That’s actually why I stopped reading them, and this book is on par in terms of the quality. It’s hard to explain the subtle differences that exist, but they’re there – you can feel this imposter persona doing their ‘best Gossip Girl’. Beyond that, the other big problem with the later books in the series is the fact they only highlight a few days, in comparison to the much longer time spans in the earlier books. If you recall, the first three books covered all the way through to the winter holidays, and there were over ten books in the series! The incredibly short time span of entries like this one makes the action seem frivolous, too fast-paced for its own good, and forced.
Of course, the books are fun and silly and easy to read, and this book is no different. Dan’s storyline was pretty funny, and it’s always a kick to get this far less sanitized version of the characters (compared to their TV show alter egos). Mostly it just got me interested to get to the final book in the series, and follow it up with the sequel. All in good time I guess.
The Bottom Line: A flimsy, forgettable entry in the Gossip Girl series.
Anything Memorable?: Nawsers, just that if you’ve only watched the show and you decide to give the books a go, prepare to be incredibly surprised.
50-Book Challenge?: Book #47 in 2010
The Plot: The guys and gals of the Upper East Side are officially graduated, and herein lies a brief glimpse of how they’re spending their summer vacations, or at least a few days of them. The majority of the gang is in the Hamptons – Blair and Serena as fashion muses, Nate as a blackmailed workhorse, Chuck as a man of leisure, and Vanessa as a morose nanny. Dan is back in the city exploring his sexuality, while his sister is overseas and present only in postcard form. Gossip Girl of course is omnipresent to capture the latest seesawing relationships between all of the characters – friends, lovers, and foes.
The Good & The Bad: Sadly, the latter half of the Gossip Girl series got really lame when Cecily von Zeigesar stopped writing them and a ghostwriter stepped in. That’s actually why I stopped reading them, and this book is on par in terms of the quality. It’s hard to explain the subtle differences that exist, but they’re there – you can feel this imposter persona doing their ‘best Gossip Girl’. Beyond that, the other big problem with the later books in the series is the fact they only highlight a few days, in comparison to the much longer time spans in the earlier books. If you recall, the first three books covered all the way through to the winter holidays, and there were over ten books in the series! The incredibly short time span of entries like this one makes the action seem frivolous, too fast-paced for its own good, and forced.
Of course, the books are fun and silly and easy to read, and this book is no different. Dan’s storyline was pretty funny, and it’s always a kick to get this far less sanitized version of the characters (compared to their TV show alter egos). Mostly it just got me interested to get to the final book in the series, and follow it up with the sequel. All in good time I guess.
The Bottom Line: A flimsy, forgettable entry in the Gossip Girl series.
Anything Memorable?: Nawsers, just that if you’ve only watched the show and you decide to give the books a go, prepare to be incredibly surprised.
50-Book Challenge?: Book #47 in 2010
December 31, 2012
Everyone has graduated (except for Nate who is working at his Coach's Hampton house). Blair and Serena have these weird European twins flown in by Bailey Winter who end up trying to take over their spotlight from the fashion campaign B & S were muses for. Vanessa had started babysitting in the last book, but in this book she leaves after coming to the Hamptons. She comes back to the city to find Dan exploring his sexuality with a guy named Greg (coworker at The Strand). This happens in a drunken same-sex orgy that was originally supposed to be a literary salon. The story and even some of the editing seemed very lazy. On page 126, they misspelled the word "brother" and put "bother". The one thing I will say was that this was the first time I've seen the series use a Craigslist ad and letters. I also liked some of the quotes being quoted during the literary stuff that was going on (ex. "Weren't ideas, when all is said and done, so superior to reality?" page 64). That was a pleasant surprise, but it wasn't something I could enjoy for long. I was more annoyed than shocked when Serena had her "realization" that she loves Nate this whole time. Not only was it in the tenth book, it was also in the last third half of the book. I'll read the other books after this only because I bought them (so I don't want to waste money). However, I don't know if wasting my time reading them will make up for the money. Since the TV show is over, I don't feel as obligated anymore to finish the series if it's not that well-written. We'll see. My next review will show my decision.
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January 30, 2017
2.5 / 5 stars rating
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Nothing had changed and yet everything had. That thought made her unexpectedly sad.
Yet again, repetition strikes this muddled series (Gossip Girl even admits it in the quote above). While this series has never been spectacular, it was at least interesting in the beginning to catch a glimpse at how the 1% live. Now, though, we can’t seem to get past old plot lines. These characters never really grow or develop, making my reviews redundant.
This novel features:
- Vanessa going through three? (I honestly lost count) different jobs in as many months
- Dan and Vanessa awkwardness. Again. Though one new little tidbit was Dan’s literary orgy, although this entire plot line felt forced (even Dan doesn’t understand it)
- More drama, drama, drama with Serena, Blair, and Nate (I’m so sick of this love triangle). Once again, Serena proves to be the worst best friend in the world, and Nate proves to be a pothead.
That’s pretty much all that happens in this book. Oh, and Serena hooks up with a guy she’s already dumped. See the repetition? It’s still a readable quick skimmer, but the life has definitely left this series.
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Nothing had changed and yet everything had. That thought made her unexpectedly sad.
Yet again, repetition strikes this muddled series (Gossip Girl even admits it in the quote above). While this series has never been spectacular, it was at least interesting in the beginning to catch a glimpse at how the 1% live. Now, though, we can’t seem to get past old plot lines. These characters never really grow or develop, making my reviews redundant.
This novel features:
- Vanessa going through three? (I honestly lost count) different jobs in as many months
- Dan and Vanessa awkwardness. Again. Though one new little tidbit was Dan’s literary orgy, although this entire plot line felt forced (even Dan doesn’t understand it)
- More drama, drama, drama with Serena, Blair, and Nate (I’m so sick of this love triangle). Once again, Serena proves to be the worst best friend in the world, and Nate proves to be a pothead.
That’s pretty much all that happens in this book. Oh, and Serena hooks up with a guy she’s already dumped. See the repetition? It’s still a readable quick skimmer, but the life has definitely left this series.
November 12, 2012
I couldn't really pay attention in this one because it wasn't that interesting. It was basically the same concept but slightly different surroundings. The only difference is Dan might be gay or bisexual and Nate finally confesses his love to Blaire. Oh but wait! Serena is really upset because surprise surprise SHE is in love with Nate and decides to write him a letter about it. Do you think Nate even read the letter? Of course not. Blaire did. So there goes that temporarily happy threesome. Oh and Nate, he totally isn't getting his diploma. Was anyone else disgusted with the coach's wife hitting on him? I'm surprised Nate contained himself. Either way I'm still going to finish this series even though I knew it was possibly going to suck after the gang finally graduated high school. And so far, I've been right about that.
April 25, 2018
I actually thought for a second this one might be different but it's exactly the same thing as always. The same shit happens over and over again, but this time Cecily move on the being gay is funny thing and is now making fun of a character who might be questioning his sexuality, because having 2 gay "characters" whose sole purpose is to be a joke is not enough.
May 5, 2020
This one was funnier than some of the others. I always enjoy reading about Hamptons shenanigans, it just seems like another planet!
May 21, 2015
Loved it!
October 14, 2021
I don’t know what to expect from these anymore.
If we could stop getting reminders about Dan’s poem in the Times, that would be so appreciated.
If we could stop getting reminders about Dan’s poem in the Times, that would be so appreciated.
April 11, 2022
Serena and Blair are the new inspirational muses of the famous designer Bailey Winter's collection and will spend the summer at his house. But neither Serena nor Blair suspected that spending the season in Mr. Winter wouldn't be that pleasant. Two foreign look-alikes of B. and S. are already occupying the house, and they will spare no effort to make their lives hell. But speaking of B. and S., obviously, they won't let it go.
Vanessa also decides to take a vacation from New York: As a nanny, she gets a room in the Hamptons, but when she sees that all she wanted to do was go back to Dan's apartment, she goes looking for B. and S.. However, when she gets home de Bailey, B, S were already gone, along with Nate, who coincidentally lived next door. Nate was in the Hamptos doing summer work at the Lacrosse coach's house, to get his degree - which Nate had been denied in the previous volume of the series - but when the coach's wife started blatantly hitting on the boy, he was fed up. of this summer. He didn't think twice about accepting Serena and Blair's invitation to go to the family ship and spend the rest of the summer sailing.
Dan, who spent the summer working at a second-hand bookstore in NYC, meets a new colleague, Greg, who is as addicted to books as Dan himself, and together they found a Literary Salon. When he meets Greg, Dan ends up raising doubts about his sexuality, thinking he had become gay. But when Vanessa returns home (after staying for a short time at Bailey's, being his inspirational Muse), after venting to her, he doesn't deny the possibility that he still has feelings for her. Serena's brother Erik decides to prepare a party for Serena, who turns 18. The party is a success, but for Serena, her night was shattered when she heard Nate say "I love you" to Blair. She writes a letter to Nate, but it never reaches Nate: when Blair discovers the letter, she tears it up.
In my opinion, the strong point was that until this book, I thought nothing was secret to Gossip Girl, but who knew that our #1 diva managed to keep her biggest secret from her this whole time? We discovered, after these 10 books, that yes, Serena has feelings: she didn't cheat on her best friend for cheating or had sex with Nate for having sex, she had, all this time, a secret crush on him. Contrary to what GG has always said, she can be interested in a guy for more than 30 seconds!
Vanessa also decides to take a vacation from New York: As a nanny, she gets a room in the Hamptons, but when she sees that all she wanted to do was go back to Dan's apartment, she goes looking for B. and S.. However, when she gets home de Bailey, B, S were already gone, along with Nate, who coincidentally lived next door. Nate was in the Hamptos doing summer work at the Lacrosse coach's house, to get his degree - which Nate had been denied in the previous volume of the series - but when the coach's wife started blatantly hitting on the boy, he was fed up. of this summer. He didn't think twice about accepting Serena and Blair's invitation to go to the family ship and spend the rest of the summer sailing.
Dan, who spent the summer working at a second-hand bookstore in NYC, meets a new colleague, Greg, who is as addicted to books as Dan himself, and together they found a Literary Salon. When he meets Greg, Dan ends up raising doubts about his sexuality, thinking he had become gay. But when Vanessa returns home (after staying for a short time at Bailey's, being his inspirational Muse), after venting to her, he doesn't deny the possibility that he still has feelings for her. Serena's brother Erik decides to prepare a party for Serena, who turns 18. The party is a success, but for Serena, her night was shattered when she heard Nate say "I love you" to Blair. She writes a letter to Nate, but it never reaches Nate: when Blair discovers the letter, she tears it up.
In my opinion, the strong point was that until this book, I thought nothing was secret to Gossip Girl, but who knew that our #1 diva managed to keep her biggest secret from her this whole time? We discovered, after these 10 books, that yes, Serena has feelings: she didn't cheat on her best friend for cheating or had sex with Nate for having sex, she had, all this time, a secret crush on him. Contrary to what GG has always said, she can be interested in a guy for more than 30 seconds!
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March 26, 2019
This week, I read "Would I Lie to You a gossip girl novel" by Cecily von Ziegesar. It's a book about overly-privileged kids in the upper east side of Manhattan. This time, Serena and Blair (who are best friends now) are icons for a new and famous designer. They find out that there's two other girls there who seem like exact replicas of them which they think is weird, so they trick the copies into going rouge. Meanwhile, Nate (Blair's ex boyfriend) begins to miss Blair and starts to regret ever breaking up with her. On the other hand, Dan is out and confused. A guy co-worker kisses him, which he thinks is weird. While he questions who he works with, Vanessa moves over to the Hamptons for her babysitting job and lives with Dan and Jenny in her own room. This isn't so smooth, as now nobody really knows her place. for instance, she's mistaken for the help at another party which isn't really a complement to a teen on the upper east side and actually isn't the help. This ends when Serena, Blair, and Nate all run away together and check off things to do for Serena's birthday. The story leaves us with questions like do Nate and Blair end up together and what did Nate actually tell Blair. I would recommend this book to viewers of Gossip Girl who know what's going on in the story and can tell where they left off. Overall, this was a very good book and I loved it so much!
August 15, 2025
Au moins c’est rapide à lire ! Je ne comprends toujours pas l’utilité de Gossip Girl dans les livres puisqu’elle n’a aucun impact sur la vie des gens et qu’on dirait qu’ils ne lisent même pas. Bref, pas très cohérent.
October 9, 2021
If I was trapped in a library and had to burn books for warmth, I'd run straight for this series
May 2, 2022
The ups and downs between B and S are so hard to keep up with but at this point I NEED to know who ends up with N!
December 22, 2023
The one where there's an orgy party! Dan thinks he might be gay- and Rufus tells him that he has also slept with men and Dan's mom sends him a giant dildo .
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February 29, 2024Would I Lie To You
Blair and Sirena arrive at Bailey Winter’s retreat. They’ve been invited there to inspire Baileys’ new line. Blair is immediately attracted to a slightly familiar model-esque guy introduced as Stephan (Urel?) He reminds her of Nate. Sirena tho finds an attraction to Bailey’s dogs. After giving them the tour of the bar and showing them the pool house and where they’ll be staying, he introduces them to the two bootleg imitations of themselves Sylvania and I beza. They’ll be the faces for the new ad so they’ll have to study and imitate them. Blair immediately notices hat they’re up to something.
Nate is hiding out in the attic of Coach Micheal’s house trying to avoid work when his wife starts to call him. He tries to put out his “roach” but he’s caught. She says she won’t tell the Coach if he does her a favor. She drops her top and shows him her lower back where she’s gotten a butterfly tat and tells him to help her apply the ointment. Dan and Vanessa have an awkward encounter before he gets ready to go to work. They’re now roomates but seeing her in his boxers makes him wish they could go back to before (and he could catch her in the hallway in the middle of the night -leading to them in his bed-). At Dan’s job he gets a new employee -Greg-. He recognizes him from his brief stint with the Raves and asks him if he has any poetry he can read. Dan tells him about working on a novella. Greg says he’s starting a salon for literary lovers and asks him to join. Dan agrees to this and offers to help him make out a missionary statement. He also needs help coming up with a name. Dan gives him his address-happy to have an excuse to make new friends-.
Vanessa-this day- is watches Niles and Edgar-the twins-. She’s taking them to Central Park. She thinks about the last time she saw Dan and his new girlfriend in the park. Their mother is thinking of how the last time they went they ruinted their clothes. She’s also thinking of how he ditched the blond but yet they’re just friends and how she doesn’t want to do anything to ruin that-or does she-. Their mother invites Vanessa to go to their summer place on the beach. She gets the same pay and evenings off. Vanessa doesn’t like the beach but what else does she have to do other than think about Dan so she says it sounds lovely. Blair isn’t happy with the look alikes and keeps saying theier -Ibeza- is stealing her clothes. Even so much so she wants to stay inside. Sirena tells her just wear something ugly and see if they copy that. This gives Blair an idea. Blair and Direna go out to get some sun -naked-. Immediately this catches their attention and they tell the wanna be’s it’s the latest thing. Immediately they drop their swimuits (but are noticeably uncomfortable with their bodies). The wanna be’s suggest calling to Stephane and when he comes out Sirena and Blair take off running.
She thinking of Nate when all of a sudden he appears. Sirena runs to him for a hug. Blair tells him to strip. Nate is flabbergasted. Before he can do anything Sirena and Blair take off running again and tell him to think of them that night. At Coach Micheals, Babs butters Nate up by making him breakfast. His mind is on seeing Blair naked. He makes his escape when she gets a little to close and asks to make a phone call (to his friend Anthony). He asks him to pick him up. He tells her he’s too sick to work today. She tells him they should get him out of his clothes and to bed, but he tells her his ride is there (and just then Anthony arrives). They start to talk about Blair and Sirena. Anthony gives him the idea to seize the day. Carpe diam!
Vanessa arrives at the Morgan’s mansion. Immediately she sees its not gonna be what she thought when she’s asked to cook and then Mrs. Morgan decides to warlk around naked. (I know her children are probably horrified). Dan comes home to a note and isn’t happy to find Vanessa gone. At work, Dan shows Greg an ancient book “The Poet’s Way” that’s supposed to be “the Holy Grail” of literary books. Greg asks Dan to read him a passage. So, he does. Greg tells him he’s glad they meet and then he hugs him. Dan doesn’t take the hint and just gives him the book. Greg hugs him again and Dan wonders why he’s always attracting geeks. Vanessa funs into some Constance girls on the beach when Edgar funs off. Up until then she’s feeling isolated. Then she sees the look a likes and thinks maybe Sirena and Blair might be there. They catch her staring and aren’t happy about it. She tells then they look like someone she knows and this gives them an idea.
Dan had his first meeting at the “Song of Myself Salon”, Before the meeting, Dan notices a picture of Greg -a portrait- of him make on a stepladder. They drink a little absinthe before the others come and then they arrive. Dan gets nervous. Greg slips him his spoon-to calm him-, Dan’s welcoming speech is a little slurred from the drinking. He asks Greg for the book and he suggests they go around the room and introduce themselves. The others are Penny, Suzzana, Peter, and Frannie. Dan nods off and then sees that the others have paired off and are making out. Dan could have sworn someone was kissing him before he woke up. Greg then tells him it’s ok. They’re all passionate and kisses him. Dan is about to resist but then finds himself kissing him. Then his mind clears and he rushes to the bathroom to puke blaming the absinthe. (Jenny keeps writing but Dan isn’t responding).
Sirena thinks about Nate as a party is about to be thrown. Blair sees a bottle of Nair in the trash and finds this suspicious. (The Nair is in the shampoo bottle) Blair declairs marches out but sees that all the party guests are men (which her dad would love). Blair and Sirena “accidently’ spill their drinks on the wanna be’s white, Versace, dresses and their guest custom pillows. Bailey resumes the party. Blair and Sirena jump the fence and find themselves at the Archibald. Then they see Nate. They ask him to take them home and run toward his car.
Vanessa happens to see Chuck and tells them what he saw -involving Blair and Sirena-. He points out the two she saw were imposters. Vanessa ends up at the bar that night and runs into the girls again. (Wait no this is Bailey’s party and she’s crashing it). She catches the eye of Bailey himself and tells him she’s looking for Blair and Sirena. He tells her he doesn’t know where they are (and doesn’t care) but she’s the one he’s looking for. Then he asks her to spend the night. She sees the opportunity and says she’d love to. Nate suggests they set sail on his boat and Sirena and Blair are down. Only when they get to the dock, Mr. Archibald has taken the boat out.
The next morning, Dan wakes to his dad saying “Male Balls” only he’s really saying “Mail Call.” He thinks of how far he went with Greg while looking at the vase Jenny sent. He thinks it looks like a penis. His father tells him it was made by his mother. But why would she send him a vase shaped like a penis? Could this be a sign? Rufus babbles on about his own salon days and how wild and crazy they got. He tells him about a bunch of friends he went out skinny dipping with and how a passionate argument found him and a male friend rolling around naked on the beach. Dan asks him is that normal and Rufus says all that passion has to go somewhere. So to Rufus it was quite common for a sam the same sex to end up maked at a salon. Dan finally writes Jenny back and tells her he’s gay.
Sirena, Blair, and Nate then head to Sirena’s to raid her fridge before they go to track down “The Charlotte” (Nate’s boat). She makes plans to meet up with Eric and hopes someone will remember the next day is her birthday. Blair seductively takes off her bra and asks Nate can she sleep in his shirt, but when she’s changed Nate is asleep next to Sirena. Nate tho squeezes her hand and after this Blair falls asleep too. At work, Dan delights in the fact that he can still get a boner from thinking of Bree and her yoga positions. Then he jumps in the air and clicks his heels. At an impromptu party thrown by eric, Sirena wonders what’s up with Blair and Nate, but then she sees someone who she was once seeing and that told her he loved her. At the time, Sirena did like him but love? He says he wasn’t sure what happened to her after she left the school and he couldn’t get in contact with her. He came o ut to wish her happy birthday. Vanessa decides to film in the aviary talking to the “audience” as she does about this is where Bailey comes up with his creations. There’s a table full of his pencil sketches. Bailey catches her and tells her she’s not allowed in this room. He tells her no one can see the preliminary sketches until he’s done and tries to shield the drawings from her. vanessa apologizes but on her way out he sees the camera. She tries to explain but then when asked she lies and says she didn’t film anything. Bailey gets frantic with the thought of someone trying to sale his work to the public and Vanessa explains it’s not like that. He sends her to her room and tells her they’ll discuss her punishment at dinner. Vanessa decides to go to her room and pack alright (so she can leave Bailey’s apartment and go back to Dan).
Nate rescues Blair from the drunk advances of Eric and asks her to go with him upstairs. Before they do he tells her that he has to tell her something. He tells her he loves her. Sirena somehow hears this and realizes it’s the truth. She’s seen the looks since the breakout. So, she distracts herself with Henry who tells her she’ll get a present at midnight if she can stay up that long. Dan finds himself watching a television program with Greg, Only he doesn’t remember ever inviting him over. It’s a little awkward. It feels right but at the same time it feels wrong having him there. Thankfully Rufus appears and Dan invites him to join them and tell some of his unromantic stories. Blair and Nate get back together.
Jenny writes Dan back and congratulates him for coming out of the closet. She says her mom told her when he was younger she’d always catch him hiding in her closet trying on her dequin dresses. When Vanessa comes home, D an tells Vanessa he’s gay. She tells him that just because he experimented doesn’t make him gay. Or he could just be bi. Deep down tho she thinks it’s just another “phase” and when he’s over it she’ll be there to show him he isn’t. Nate and Blair sneak away the next day, but when he stops at a gas station, he receives an angry call from Coach Micheals. His wife told him he was smoking in the attic. Blair finds a letter from Sirena to Nate telling him that she loves him. Blair shreads the letter and lets them blow away in the wind.
My Thoughts
Hmm.. There wasn’t a whole lot to comment on in this one. There use to be slightly interesting random people thrown in but there’s been less and less of that as the series is ending. Vanessa’s part was frankly boring. I just felt VERY sorry for the twins. No son or daughter wants to see there mother walk around naked or even half naked TRSUT ME.. Just NOO! I can only hope and pray she doesn’t do this around *them* but then they could have walked in the room at ANY time. And shouldn’t she have AT LEAST asked Vanessa is this made her uncomfortable. Vanessa liking Chuck *was* slightly amusing. Chuck is so… It just doesn’t seem like she’d even look twice at him and that’s even despite his body. Yada! Yada~ Yada~ Nate and Blair got back together. Yada~ Yada~ Yeada some old guy is in love with Sirena and she sleep with him but she loves Nate! I was more interested in Coach Micheal killing Nate. That would have been more satisfying than love triangle that has dragged on and on and on book after book. Although I am surprised Nate didn’t sleep with Babs. It was weird my book reader read her name as “Bob”. Now Dan being gay.. I think he gave in a lil too oeasily. What I mean is this? There were ABSOLUTELY no indication he liked the kiss. He puked for God’s Sake! Then he wasn’t the initiator. Dan being wrong. Dan is a boring character (mostly-other than his stint in the rock band-_ but GAY?? I saw it coming but Maybe he and Chuck will have a thing.. Hmm that might just make him more interesting.
Rating: 5
Blair and Sirena arrive at Bailey Winter’s retreat. They’ve been invited there to inspire Baileys’ new line. Blair is immediately attracted to a slightly familiar model-esque guy introduced as Stephan (Urel?) He reminds her of Nate. Sirena tho finds an attraction to Bailey’s dogs. After giving them the tour of the bar and showing them the pool house and where they’ll be staying, he introduces them to the two bootleg imitations of themselves Sylvania and I beza. They’ll be the faces for the new ad so they’ll have to study and imitate them. Blair immediately notices hat they’re up to something.
Nate is hiding out in the attic of Coach Micheal’s house trying to avoid work when his wife starts to call him. He tries to put out his “roach” but he’s caught. She says she won’t tell the Coach if he does her a favor. She drops her top and shows him her lower back where she’s gotten a butterfly tat and tells him to help her apply the ointment. Dan and Vanessa have an awkward encounter before he gets ready to go to work. They’re now roomates but seeing her in his boxers makes him wish they could go back to before (and he could catch her in the hallway in the middle of the night -leading to them in his bed-). At Dan’s job he gets a new employee -Greg-. He recognizes him from his brief stint with the Raves and asks him if he has any poetry he can read. Dan tells him about working on a novella. Greg says he’s starting a salon for literary lovers and asks him to join. Dan agrees to this and offers to help him make out a missionary statement. He also needs help coming up with a name. Dan gives him his address-happy to have an excuse to make new friends-.
Vanessa-this day- is watches Niles and Edgar-the twins-. She’s taking them to Central Park. She thinks about the last time she saw Dan and his new girlfriend in the park. Their mother is thinking of how the last time they went they ruinted their clothes. She’s also thinking of how he ditched the blond but yet they’re just friends and how she doesn’t want to do anything to ruin that-or does she-. Their mother invites Vanessa to go to their summer place on the beach. She gets the same pay and evenings off. Vanessa doesn’t like the beach but what else does she have to do other than think about Dan so she says it sounds lovely. Blair isn’t happy with the look alikes and keeps saying theier -Ibeza- is stealing her clothes. Even so much so she wants to stay inside. Sirena tells her just wear something ugly and see if they copy that. This gives Blair an idea. Blair and Direna go out to get some sun -naked-. Immediately this catches their attention and they tell the wanna be’s it’s the latest thing. Immediately they drop their swimuits (but are noticeably uncomfortable with their bodies). The wanna be’s suggest calling to Stephane and when he comes out Sirena and Blair take off running.
She thinking of Nate when all of a sudden he appears. Sirena runs to him for a hug. Blair tells him to strip. Nate is flabbergasted. Before he can do anything Sirena and Blair take off running again and tell him to think of them that night. At Coach Micheals, Babs butters Nate up by making him breakfast. His mind is on seeing Blair naked. He makes his escape when she gets a little to close and asks to make a phone call (to his friend Anthony). He asks him to pick him up. He tells her he’s too sick to work today. She tells him they should get him out of his clothes and to bed, but he tells her his ride is there (and just then Anthony arrives). They start to talk about Blair and Sirena. Anthony gives him the idea to seize the day. Carpe diam!
Vanessa arrives at the Morgan’s mansion. Immediately she sees its not gonna be what she thought when she’s asked to cook and then Mrs. Morgan decides to warlk around naked. (I know her children are probably horrified). Dan comes home to a note and isn’t happy to find Vanessa gone. At work, Dan shows Greg an ancient book “The Poet’s Way” that’s supposed to be “the Holy Grail” of literary books. Greg asks Dan to read him a passage. So, he does. Greg tells him he’s glad they meet and then he hugs him. Dan doesn’t take the hint and just gives him the book. Greg hugs him again and Dan wonders why he’s always attracting geeks. Vanessa funs into some Constance girls on the beach when Edgar funs off. Up until then she’s feeling isolated. Then she sees the look a likes and thinks maybe Sirena and Blair might be there. They catch her staring and aren’t happy about it. She tells then they look like someone she knows and this gives them an idea.
Dan had his first meeting at the “Song of Myself Salon”, Before the meeting, Dan notices a picture of Greg -a portrait- of him make on a stepladder. They drink a little absinthe before the others come and then they arrive. Dan gets nervous. Greg slips him his spoon-to calm him-, Dan’s welcoming speech is a little slurred from the drinking. He asks Greg for the book and he suggests they go around the room and introduce themselves. The others are Penny, Suzzana, Peter, and Frannie. Dan nods off and then sees that the others have paired off and are making out. Dan could have sworn someone was kissing him before he woke up. Greg then tells him it’s ok. They’re all passionate and kisses him. Dan is about to resist but then finds himself kissing him. Then his mind clears and he rushes to the bathroom to puke blaming the absinthe. (Jenny keeps writing but Dan isn’t responding).
Sirena thinks about Nate as a party is about to be thrown. Blair sees a bottle of Nair in the trash and finds this suspicious. (The Nair is in the shampoo bottle) Blair declairs marches out but sees that all the party guests are men (which her dad would love). Blair and Sirena “accidently’ spill their drinks on the wanna be’s white, Versace, dresses and their guest custom pillows. Bailey resumes the party. Blair and Sirena jump the fence and find themselves at the Archibald. Then they see Nate. They ask him to take them home and run toward his car.
Vanessa happens to see Chuck and tells them what he saw -involving Blair and Sirena-. He points out the two she saw were imposters. Vanessa ends up at the bar that night and runs into the girls again. (Wait no this is Bailey’s party and she’s crashing it). She catches the eye of Bailey himself and tells him she’s looking for Blair and Sirena. He tells her he doesn’t know where they are (and doesn’t care) but she’s the one he’s looking for. Then he asks her to spend the night. She sees the opportunity and says she’d love to. Nate suggests they set sail on his boat and Sirena and Blair are down. Only when they get to the dock, Mr. Archibald has taken the boat out.
The next morning, Dan wakes to his dad saying “Male Balls” only he’s really saying “Mail Call.” He thinks of how far he went with Greg while looking at the vase Jenny sent. He thinks it looks like a penis. His father tells him it was made by his mother. But why would she send him a vase shaped like a penis? Could this be a sign? Rufus babbles on about his own salon days and how wild and crazy they got. He tells him about a bunch of friends he went out skinny dipping with and how a passionate argument found him and a male friend rolling around naked on the beach. Dan asks him is that normal and Rufus says all that passion has to go somewhere. So to Rufus it was quite common for a sam the same sex to end up maked at a salon. Dan finally writes Jenny back and tells her he’s gay.
Sirena, Blair, and Nate then head to Sirena’s to raid her fridge before they go to track down “The Charlotte” (Nate’s boat). She makes plans to meet up with Eric and hopes someone will remember the next day is her birthday. Blair seductively takes off her bra and asks Nate can she sleep in his shirt, but when she’s changed Nate is asleep next to Sirena. Nate tho squeezes her hand and after this Blair falls asleep too. At work, Dan delights in the fact that he can still get a boner from thinking of Bree and her yoga positions. Then he jumps in the air and clicks his heels. At an impromptu party thrown by eric, Sirena wonders what’s up with Blair and Nate, but then she sees someone who she was once seeing and that told her he loved her. At the time, Sirena did like him but love? He says he wasn’t sure what happened to her after she left the school and he couldn’t get in contact with her. He came o ut to wish her happy birthday. Vanessa decides to film in the aviary talking to the “audience” as she does about this is where Bailey comes up with his creations. There’s a table full of his pencil sketches. Bailey catches her and tells her she’s not allowed in this room. He tells her no one can see the preliminary sketches until he’s done and tries to shield the drawings from her. vanessa apologizes but on her way out he sees the camera. She tries to explain but then when asked she lies and says she didn’t film anything. Bailey gets frantic with the thought of someone trying to sale his work to the public and Vanessa explains it’s not like that. He sends her to her room and tells her they’ll discuss her punishment at dinner. Vanessa decides to go to her room and pack alright (so she can leave Bailey’s apartment and go back to Dan).
Nate rescues Blair from the drunk advances of Eric and asks her to go with him upstairs. Before they do he tells her that he has to tell her something. He tells her he loves her. Sirena somehow hears this and realizes it’s the truth. She’s seen the looks since the breakout. So, she distracts herself with Henry who tells her she’ll get a present at midnight if she can stay up that long. Dan finds himself watching a television program with Greg, Only he doesn’t remember ever inviting him over. It’s a little awkward. It feels right but at the same time it feels wrong having him there. Thankfully Rufus appears and Dan invites him to join them and tell some of his unromantic stories. Blair and Nate get back together.
Jenny writes Dan back and congratulates him for coming out of the closet. She says her mom told her when he was younger she’d always catch him hiding in her closet trying on her dequin dresses. When Vanessa comes home, D an tells Vanessa he’s gay. She tells him that just because he experimented doesn’t make him gay. Or he could just be bi. Deep down tho she thinks it’s just another “phase” and when he’s over it she’ll be there to show him he isn’t. Nate and Blair sneak away the next day, but when he stops at a gas station, he receives an angry call from Coach Micheals. His wife told him he was smoking in the attic. Blair finds a letter from Sirena to Nate telling him that she loves him. Blair shreads the letter and lets them blow away in the wind.
My Thoughts
Hmm.. There wasn’t a whole lot to comment on in this one. There use to be slightly interesting random people thrown in but there’s been less and less of that as the series is ending. Vanessa’s part was frankly boring. I just felt VERY sorry for the twins. No son or daughter wants to see there mother walk around naked or even half naked TRSUT ME.. Just NOO! I can only hope and pray she doesn’t do this around *them* but then they could have walked in the room at ANY time. And shouldn’t she have AT LEAST asked Vanessa is this made her uncomfortable. Vanessa liking Chuck *was* slightly amusing. Chuck is so… It just doesn’t seem like she’d even look twice at him and that’s even despite his body. Yada! Yada~ Yada~ Nate and Blair got back together. Yada~ Yada~ Yeada some old guy is in love with Sirena and she sleep with him but she loves Nate! I was more interested in Coach Micheal killing Nate. That would have been more satisfying than love triangle that has dragged on and on and on book after book. Although I am surprised Nate didn’t sleep with Babs. It was weird my book reader read her name as “Bob”. Now Dan being gay.. I think he gave in a lil too oeasily. What I mean is this? There were ABSOLUTELY no indication he liked the kiss. He puked for God’s Sake! Then he wasn’t the initiator. Dan being wrong. Dan is a boring character (mostly-other than his stint in the rock band-_ but GAY?? I saw it coming but Maybe he and Chuck will have a thing.. Hmm that might just make him more interesting.
Rating: 5
November 14, 2024
all the characters are so annoying😭
November 20, 2018
I actually enjoyed this one way more than the past installments in the series the last 100 pages I was just flying through them it was good. They aren’t the best books but they are enjoyable to read every once in a while but ehh I’m kind of just waiting to finish the series now lol
July 2, 2025
These books are insane and the author is just making them do and say anything at this point. Yet I am still going to finish the series bc I'm stubborn.
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