All I Want Is Everything

Gossip Girl #3

by Cecily von Ziegesar

From Park Avenue parties to piña coladas, no one rings in the new year like Blair and Serena. The wickedly funny third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the HBO Max series.It's Christmastime and Blair and Serena are best friends again, and up to their old tricks -- partying hard and breaking hearts from Park Avenue to the Caribbean. Blair's mom and Cyrus are having their honeymoon in Salt Key. And when school lets out for the holiday, Blair, Serena, Aaron, and company head down there to blow off steam after their midterm exams.In between piña coladas and topless sunbathing, Blair and Serena plot revenge on super-jerk Chuck Bass. Everyone jets back to NYC for Serena's New Year's party, during which Nate and Blair may or may not finally go all the way . . . and Serena may or may not be discovered to be the secret fling of Hollywood's hottest young leading man.

Genres: Young Adult, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, High School

225 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 7, 2003

About the author

Cecily 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.

Reviews

[Mace · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's like binge watching terrible television. I can't stop. Now I must read the fourth. Help.

[Cati · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pretty much every sentence goes something like this: "Blair put on her Gucci dress, checked her Nokia cell phone for a text message, and then went shopping at Prada, with her Hermes bag tucked under the arm and a Merit Light cigarette in the other hand." I felt like I was reading an advertisement campaign, one in which everyone smokes and has one dimensional personalities. Which may, actually, be fairly representative of life on the Upper East Side. But it does not make for a very compelling read.

[Mainon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing surprising here, except I love it when a character in an otherwise fluffy book has serious literary pretensions. Especially poetic ones. Because then every now and again I get surprised by a great big genuine belly laugh:

Sluts
[By Daniel, a dolorous high school poet. This poem magically gets accepted for publication in the New Yorker. The New Yorker! Because, yeah, that could totally happen. Totally. I mean, it's Just So Profound.]

wipe the sleep from my eyes and pour me another cup

i see what you've been trying to tell me all along

shaving your head and handling me (so delicately)

with satin and lace:

you're a whore

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My version would go a little something like this:


Chick Lit


pour me another glass of champagne

while i wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes.

i see what you've been trying to show me all along:

your genius lies in your unabashed absurdity (such absurdity!).

i should just sit back and accept that you

are the literary equivalent of a small-town stripper:

not very talented but still so entertaining.

you keep writhing on my lap,

and i keep turning the page.

[Emma Skapetis · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was even worse than the first two. I still don't like most of the characters and I can't believe Blair almost took Nate back (I do not know what she and Jenny see in him. He just loves to smoke pot and be indecisive). Also I hate fat phobic and misogynistic these books are. The girls always care about being skinny and the guys call the girls sluts when they're the people that are with different girls all the time. However I will be reading book 4 soon because I can't stop reading this series no matter how bad it is because it is still really addictive. RTC.
Characters
Serena: I don't like her anymore. She doesn't care about school at all and all she really cares about is partying.
Blair: She is still really mean in this one but she is starting to grow on me. I can't believe she didn't realize that her mother was pregnant though (it was so obvious).
Nate: He's honestly so cringe and I keep thinking of his reaction to Jenny saying that she loves him, which was so embarrassing. The second hand embarrassment was so bad after reading that scene. Also I don't understand him wanting to get back with Blair just because she looks good. He's so shallow and he smokes pot and is so indecisive about his future that it's annoying.
Jenny: I don't like her and she's acting like a spoiled brat at this point.
Dan: My God his poems are so cringe and so bad. I really think Dan should stop writing poems (I would love to never read one again). He also wrote a poem called sluts, and I found it so offensive and misogynistic.
Vanessa: She's starting to annoy me at this point.
However I will still be reading the fourth book because this series is so addictive (even though it's really bad). I haven't seen much of the tv show yet but it has original storylines and is much better from what I've seen of it.

[Zoe Stewart (Zoe's All Booked)]

Messier and messier as we go along 😂 I've never finished this series, but I've read The It Girl several times, and I'm forever waiting for everything to go down with Jenny in this series. I'll get to it when I get to it I guess 😂

[Ashleigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

These books really are a great break from the more morbid, intense, or fact-laden books I like to read. It's nice to slip into a world where the only problems are superficial and none are deeply and utterly important or life changing. I guess that's what reading is great for though: escape from reality into all kinds of worlds.

[Penelope (Penelope’s Picks) · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5

This book was just as entertaining as it was to me at 12. Love this series immensely. Gossip Girl can do no wrong in my eyes, but I have about ten more books to go...Hope it lasts!

[Sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

i don’t care about the 3.55 average rating, this was everything and more

[Brooke ♥booklife4life♥ · Rating 4 out of 5]

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: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: 9
Writing: 8
Ending: 8

Total: 8

In Dept

Best Part: Still bitchy girls.
Worst Part: Far fetched things.
Thoughts Had: That would never happen; wow new undies

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yes

Short Review: I'm pretty sure the whole lets ask Serena for autographs just because she was out with some famous person would never happen! Why must everyone buy new underwear at the same time!? Blair's obsession with Audrey H. is crazy and she needs to lower a bit. Jenny was white jacket crazy in this book for sure, glad it runs in the family.

Review in GIF Form:

[Freyja (semi-hiatus) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gossip Girl yine bildiğimiz gibi. Herkes istediği kadar gömsün ben seviyorum yapacak bir şey yok.

Elime almamla neredeyse bitirmem bir oldu. Gayet akıcıydı diğer iki kitapta olduğu gibi. Bu kitapta pek kayda değer bir şey yaşanmadı, o yüzden üç yıldız veriyorum. Onun dışında kendi tarzıyla yazılmıştı yine, lüks markalar ve şampanyalar havada uçuşuyor. Dediğim gibi, bomboş bir seri ama ben seviyorum, herkesin kötü alışkanlıkları vardır.

Serena da yine bildiğimiz gibi, şımarık şımarık hareketler, gıcık oluyorum. Forever Team B.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

- I didn't care for this one as much as the last two. Seemed like being on break from school made everything less interesting.

Summary:

- Everyone goes to the Black and White Ball, where Flow (rock star du jour) is performing. He sees Serena and falls for her immediately. Serena has fun with him for a sec, but then gets bored of him like always. Leaves him begging for more at the end of the book. Starts hooking up with Aaron, Blair's stepbrother, who is trying to get over his incestuous crush on Blair.

- Blair and Serena head with Aaron, Aaron's friend Miles, and the rest of Blair's fam to St. Bart's for Christmas break. Blair almost loses her virginity to Miles but decides against it last minute because she's really not that into him (Aaron walks in right as she's leaving and gets the wrong idea). She also finds out that her mom is pregnant much to her horror. In addition, Blair decides to write her Yale admissions essay as a screenplay about Audrey Hepburn attending college because she's obsessed with Audrey and her glamorous ways. Despite flirting with Nate she ends this novel single.

- Jenny is super into Nate and Nate is too stoned to notice. They do cutesy stuff like seeing the Nutcracker, buying each other underwear, and making out in the park but things get too heavy for Nate when Jenny says "I love you" (as well as finding out she paints portraits of him all over her room...). Nate spends New Years Eve flirting with Blair and when Jenny catches them she knows it's over.

- Dan is a douche-bag as always. Vanessa wants to sleep with him but he's too dramatic to consider it. Thinks she's a slut when she shows off her new nice underwear for him. He writes a poem calling her a slut, whore, etc., sends it to her, V thinks it's good and gets it published in the New Yorker. Vanessa also accidentally films Jenny and Nate hooking up in the park (not knowing it was them) and then her sister's friends upload it to the internet for everyone to slut-shame Jenny (including her dick of a brother and dad). For some odd reason Vanessa and Dan make-up on NYE just as she's getting noticed by a famous movie director.

- Chuck was in the story for like 2 seconds - nothing like the tv series.

[Monte Price · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the last one in the series so far that has been rebranded, which means that it's the last book that I will be reading for the foreseeable future. This was probably the installment with the most questionable content, but it's also the first time that we've gotten to see Dan for a significant amount of time. This was a serendipitous time to pick it up as it is set in the Christmas/New Year's time of year. It's also the book that really kind of doubled down on this Blair/Aaron Cruel Intentions vibe that I wasn't really here for. Just like I wasn't really here for this Flow character that was disconnected from literally everything else that was going on. Still, it was a cute moment even though there was a lot of this book that I thought was just plain uncomfortable to read about. Again, you know if you're in the target audience for this or not and I probably would never just blanket recommend this to anyone.

[Tiffany Spencer · Rating 2 out of 5]

All I Want Is Everything (Updated)
Blair and Serena are in the ballroom at the Saint Claire’s Hotel where the annual Black and White ball is being held. Blair is bad mouthing Jenny Humprey whose there with her ex-boyfriend Nate. Serena says she doesn’t get it. She thought Nate and Blair were destined to be together. Blair says she doesn’t believe in destiny anymore. Destiny is just an excuse to sit around and wait for something to happen instead of making it happen.

Aaron comes over with his friend Miles and asks Blair to dance, but she blows him off. Katie and Isabelle come over and the conversation turns to summer plans. Blair and Serena will be going to St. Barts for Christmas break. Blair’s mom and Cyrus gave Blair, Tyler, and Aaron permission to bring a friend. After the total is announced, Flow (the performer for the evening) invites Serena to ride out with him in his limo. Only she invites all her friends... including Nate and Jenny.

Meanwhile, when Blair passes Nate to go on stage, he’s distracted by her for a minute, but Jenny’s big breast bring his mind back to her. Nate and Jenny are thinking about him saying I love you (to Jenny) before they hop in the limo with the others. Meanwhile, Dan and Vanessa are together at his place. He questions her about her ex boy friend (a bartender) that she admits she had sex with (but not a lot). Dan is insecure about being a virgin but when Vanessa tries to take it to the next level, he tells her he’s not ready and needs a more “organic” setting. Vanessa says it’s fine and changes the subject to upcoming plans of trying to get into NYU and shooting a film for her application. She encourages Dan to publish some of his work, but he’s not ready for this either. So, she drops it.

Flow plans to hit up a club. Only Jenny is uncomfortable with this because other than her body she looks young. So, she tells Nate she has to get home. Nate really isn’t feeling going to the club. All that loud noise will kill his high. And then Miles and Blair are getting a little too close. At the door, he kisses Jenny on the cheek. Jenny wonders what went wrong. She asks Dan and Vanessa what they think of Nate. Neither think anything good about him but they don’t want to hurt Jennys’ feelings. So, Vanessa just says she thinks he’d make a good boyfriend. Only Jenny doesn’t want “a good boyfriend”. She wants the passion she sees in the portrait “The Kiss”.

At the club, Chuck, Isabelle, and Katie are taken home. Aaron realizes he’s the odd man out and walks home. Before Blair and Miles go in the club, Miles kisses Blair politely. Blair and he kiss again on the way in the club. This time it’s not so polite. She decides if Serena can have fun with a random guy for the night so can she. It’s not long before Serena turns into an over-night celebrity after being seen at the club and coming out of the Tribeca in the LA post. Dan completes his midterm and works on a poem about Vanessa. Done with her history midterm, Vanessa day dreams about her film which will document *real* things that go on in the city. Unlike Serena’s photogram of her and Flow.

In Jenny’s health class, they discuss if you should wait to have sex until you’re in love. Jenny’s opinion is yes it might take a while but if you’re not you should break up. The teacher says you should try out different guys before you make the decision. Jenny wants to ask how long she should wait before she tells Nate she loves him or should she wait for him to say it, but she’s interrupted by a classmate and she shy’s away from it. Jenny then decides there’s no harm in telling him because she’s sure of how she feels.

Blair writes her college application essay on why she admires Audrey Hepburn. Her teacher tells her it’s not personal enough. So, now Blair will have to spend her vacation working on it. Nate and Jenny go Christmas shopping at Barney’s. She gets him silk boxers with a sail boat. He takes her to the lingerie store and she buys a pair of silk thong panties. Jenny blushes and Nate doesn’t see why. Blair wears thongs all the time. Jenny loves that he’s so unbothered about it. He suggests going to a hotel to have “hot chocolate” but they bump into Blair and Serena.

Blair decides to screw with Nate by saying their buying presents for Flow and Miles and gets him to tell his opinion on different colognes. She purposely chooses one that gives him nostalgic feelings about her. Serena suggest Jenny buy him some for Christmas, but Jenny tells them she already bought him silk boxers. This infuriates Blair and Serena has to pull her away into another store. Nate sees a perfume bottle in the shape of a ballet dancer and invites Jenny to see the Nutcracker with him after they have dinner at her place the next night. It’s always been something he’s enjoyed seeing with Blair.

Dan is having problems with his poem and then decides that maybe he’ll write it about sex. Meanwhile, Vanessa pays a visit to Victoria’s Secret and decides to pick out something sexy to entice Dan. After Jenny and Nate go see the Nutcracker, Nate is in a good mood and for once actually talks to Jenny about his future plans instead of getting high. Jenny gets bold and tells him she’s wearing the thong. He chases her and wrestles her into the snow. Jenny says she loves him. He pulls down her pants exposing her butt and blows a rasphberry on her butt cheek. She asks if he has on her boxers but he checks and says no. Deciding to try it again, she tells him she loves him a second time and he says it back. Neither know that Vanessa has shoot the whole thing (although she hasn’t seen their faces).

Dan invites Vanessa back to his room and starts to tell her how he can’t write anything good anymore. When he turns around, she’s wearing the skimpy lingerie. The moment feels wrong to him and he turns his back to her. He asks if she wants to show him what she shoot in the park and says maybe not. He suggests they go back to the table but she says she better go. Dan doesn’t stop her and wonders if he can get a good poem out of this

Serena starts to receive a lot of gifts from Flow but then thinks after getting prank flowers sent to her at the resort from Katie and Isabelle all the gifts might now be from Flow. Jenny shows Nate her room. To his astonishment, her walls are covered all other with him in different art styles. He kisses her and tells her he has to leave (and luckily he gets a call from his friend Jeremy). Her makes it seem like an emergency and says he’ll be back for NYE. She tells him she loves him again but he gives her a stuffed animal and tells her to pretend it’s him. (Not saying it back).

Blair hasn’t gotten much work done and lets Serena convince her to go to the beach (and go topless after trying to avoid Miles and Flow. Miles, Tyler, and Aaron are on the beach surfing. Tyler is grossed out, Miles is impressed, and Aaron doesn’t like it. Miles awkwardly invites Blair to the Christmas Eve party. Then Flow shows up and is thrown off by how blasé Serena is. He invites her to hear him play and tells her he can’t wait for her to come so he can give her his Christmas present. Blair calls her a hypocrite for acting like she hates the stuff he gives her but wanting the gifts anyway. Serena has to admit she does want the gifts.

Vanessa finds out Ruby loaned her camera to her friends and they posted what they saw on the internet. Dan is trying to find something to cure his writers block and one site suggest he write the first word that comes to mind and then go from there. A good friend of his sends him the link. Rufus walks in the room and hits the roof. Dan looks at the video dumbfounded and feels somewhat responsible. He notices Vanessa’s camerawork and writes the word SLUT. Rufus grounds Jenny and tells her she can’t see Nate. She tells him she and Nate are in love and she didn’t know. He tells she doesn’t know what love is and that doesn’t make it ok.

Nate meanwhile is with some friends in a country house in Maine. One of them tell him about the link but he’s high and thinks they’re bs ing him. They ask if he’s still with Jenny and he can’t remember what happened with her and says nah. Blair decides to make her essay a screen play called “Audrey Goes to College”. At dinner, Elenor drops the news that she’s pregnant. Blair is so angry, she dances with Miles and gives him a passionate kiss on the dance floor. Aaron watches happy that Miles can make her happy but goes to cut on with them to get a dance with Blair, but they’ve already walked off. Serena distracts him with a dance. As she dances, she starts to notice him. Flow gets jealous watching the love of his life and decides no more slow songs.

Blair decides to give it up to Miles and goes back with him to his room. Aaron is in a bad mood and Serena tries to help and gives him some potatoe. Flow comes over to the table, asks Serena is she enjoying the music (she says their great) and then says after his set he’ll buy her a drink and give her his present. She says she’s tired and asks if she can meet him for breakfast. He agrees and kisses her (which starts a bunch of talk). Flow then dedicates a song to Serena (Dark Night). Serena can’t help but he flattered because he’s gorgeous. Aaron says he’s going back to his room. Serena offers to go with him. She’s taken in by the beach and invites Aaron to go swimming but he says that’s ok.

Miles is taking too long with foreplay and Blair is thinking about Nate. Blair tells him she has to go. Only, she can’t find her dress. All of a sudden, Aaron is in the door staring at her. Miles finds Blairs dress and passes it to her. She leaves the room and ends up running to the beach and throws herself into the water. She runs into Serena and they ask where Miles and Flow are. Each answers who cares. Blair says she might go back tomorrow. When they get back to the room, a parrot is waiting for Serena and it says I love you Serena! Marry me! Serena says she’ll be leaving with Blair tomorrow and gets out her bag.

Stuck in her room, Jenny makes Nate a care package with “Romeo and Juliet”, blueberry Pop Tarts, and a picture of her, the play bill from “The Nutcracker” and a lock of her hair. Dan tells Jenny, it was Vanessa that fllmed them. Jenny asks how he knows and he tells her to watch the video. Jenny knows there must have been a good reason she did it and how it ended up on the internet. Dan starts to write his poem that goes Wipe the sleep from my eyes and pour me another cup. I see what you’ve been trying to tell me all along. Shaving your head and handling me (so delicately). With satin and lace:You’re a whore. He emails Vanessa the poem. Even tho she’s hurt, she thinks the poem is Brillant and knows she has to get it published. So sends it to the editor of “The New Yorker”.

Nate opens Jenny’s box and everything in it reminds him of Blair. Serena calls and invites him to her New Years Eve party and even tho he wants to avoid Jenny as long as possible, he agrees to come after he hears Blair would be there (which Serena notices). Dans gets a letter from the editor that his poem will be published and he’ll receive a check for 800.00. Dan is pissed and heads to Vanessa’s to chew her out. Vanessa receives a message from a film maker who asks her to meet him in Central Park because he’s seen her video and wants them to work together.

With her dad out and Dan not around, on New Years Eve Jenny decides to go to Serena’s party, Nate and Blair conversate at the party, Blair asks where his kindergartner is and he says they broke up. They then discuss plans for the future. Someone congratulates Nate on the video. Blair doesn’t know about it. He doesn’t tell her. Aaron arrives at the party, sees Blair and Nate, and notices the change in her. He’s heartbroken and realizes Blair isn’t his to have. He again lets Serena distract him with a dance nothicing how gorgeous she is.

Inspired by what she sees in the park, Vanessa decides to call her film “Only In NY”. She doesn’t notice her film idol Ken Mogul sit down next to her. Dan sits next to the guy and he admires Vanessa techniques to Dan and calls her beautiful which Dan doesn’t like but he realizes that maybe Jenny was right. Maybe she’d had nothing to do with posting that link. Somehow her work had just made it into the wrong hands. The guy introduces himself and asks Dan if he’s ever had anything published and Dan says he will next month.

Jenny sees Nate with Blair, throws her pendant at him and leaves. Blair realizes Nate is a has been and she tells him he’s another reason why she can’t wait to go to Yale. She lets him light her cigarette and then tells him he can be gone and leaves him sitting there.

As the clock counts down to midnight, Aaron asks Serena to come outside with him. Flow shows up and starts to serenade Serena with a lame song. She leaves him standing there and walks off with Aaron. Ken Mogul gives Vanessa his card and tells her to call him, but she’s too busy making up with Dan. Flow offers Jenny a ride. She tells him to get lost. Serena and Aaron decide to kiss after the fireworks. Blair walks up on them to go ahead already. She kisses Aaron on the cheek. Then hugs Sirena. Then she leaves them to their moment. She decides that her play won’t end with finality and just cut to the next day.

My Thoughts:
A lot of things in this rubbed me the wrong way. Serena rubbed me the wrong way because she's a thoughtless playgirl that really doesn't seem to consider anyone's feelings. She didn't consider Blair's nor Dan's. And in this book, there's a new fling. whom she doesn't mind taking his gifts (she even says) but then half the book she's going out of her way to avoid him. Dan REALLY rubbed me the wrong way because I was starting to think he was the only one with substance, but he slut shame's his girlfriend for wearing sexy lingerie for HIM! Then his sister *who didn't deserve it* Nate rubbed me the wrong way because he's the worst kind of dog! The kind that only care's about getting high and lusting over big butts and breasts. Blair rubbed me the wrong way because of the way she toyed with Miles affection, attempted to have sex with him, and then kicked him to the curb. Jenny just made me want to shake her and yell WAKE UP! I think the only one who didn't annoy me in this book was Vanessa. All she seemed to want to do was make a great film and have sex with her boyfriend.

Rating: 4

[Jenna M · Rating 4 out of 5]

The novel All I Want is Everything, by Cecily von Ziegesar, is a story that is centered around two wealthy and fashionable girls Serena and Blair. The other characters, including a filmmaker, a poet, Blair’s ex boyfriend,a young girl desperate for love, and Nate’s friends- add drama to the story, leaving the reader wanting to read more.

The setting and the plot of this story is very interesting and realistic. Blair’s ex boyfriend, Nate, is stuck in a love triangle. He and Blair had dated for so long, and as he tries to move on by dating another girl, he is constantly reminded of Blair and the times they used to share together. As well, during this book the girls are trying to get into college, and Blair has her hopes set on getting into Yale.

This is a great book for people who like romantic comedy books with a hint of mystery and excitement. I find this book highly addictive, which is probably because I’m a teenager and can relate to the feelings and situations to the characters. It’s common in high school to experience the stress of writing college essays, and to be confused about love. Everyone has a dream school that they want to get into, and everyone knows what its like to meet that special someone.

I also think this book is great because of the tone that Cecily Von Ziegesar uses to tell the story. For example, she says, “A half-eaten banana? How romantic” (150). Her sarcasm and sense of humor makes the book funny and enjoyable. Some of the decisions the characters made in this story were very surprising and unpredictable as well. Overall, all of the action and problems that the character’s face will definitely keep any reader on the edge of his/her seat! I recommend this book for teenagers in high school because I feel like they will definitely enjoy reading about the chaos, decisions, and drama that is involved with being a teen.

[Nepeta Leijon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Chanel

Doir

Shitty book.

If I had to pick three words to describe this book, these would be it. The amount of name dropping in this book ridiculous. I've never seen so much name dropping. Not even in My Immortal.

Also, Waldorf getting pregnant? Not a plot twist. Everyone knows that since they got married in the last book. I'm a genius, aren't I?

So, let's begin with this review, shall we?

This book was mediocre, with little plot, and I wanted to kill all the characters. I have a bit of a violent streak, don't I?

The story starts off during midterms and ends on New Year's. Of course, there's so much shit that goes on, that I got confused.

The main plot was Jenny's so called porno. First of all, no one cares. Second of all, Miss. Z, it's a well known fact that thin women do not have triple D's. The more you know.

Nate, that asshole, is a big two time player who can suck a dick. And then choke on it. He leads on Jenny and then he wants Blair, even though he made out with Jenny in front of her?

What is this book teaching young girls? That if you're a virgin, you're a loser? That if you have small breasts, you're worthless? It seems like it.

I'm done with this series. I am done with it.

[Phoenix2 · Rating 2 out of 5]

All I Want is Everything is the third book of the Gossip Girl series, and it follows the characters through the Christmas season, and into more messes and love trouble. At this point, it is just fun reading about them, with the narration being light and funny, and the characters being insufferable.

[Jenn G · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one wasn't my favorite ... Nate is so dumb in this one I can't stand him. Also I read this book in french (the first two were in English and on audio) and I hated it... The translation was not good and Blair is called Olivia in it. I'll continue the series but I don't think I'll read another one in french.

[Andee · Rating 4 out of 5]

plzzz these are so chaotic

[Nadhira Satria · Rating 4 out of 5]

look away, i'm rereading all the gossip girl books for some serotonin

[Elina Mäkitalo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sarjan tyyli jatkuu samanlaisena kuin aikaisemminkin. Kirjoitustyyli on jouhevaa ja jossain määrin kiinnostavaa mutta melko pinnallista. Käänteet tapahtuvat melko nopeaan tahtiin, ihan kuin välistä olisi poistettu tekstiä. Jos pitää tällaisesta niin ihan lukemisen arvoinen vaikkei ihan parasta mahdollista olekaan. Luen kyllä koko sarjan mutta pikkuhiljaa. Nyt pieni tauko sarjasta ja luen jotain muuta nyt välissä.

[Jen | jenreadsx · Rating 3 out of 5]

The third book in the series was a little bit more exciting but oh my… some characters are just written as being plain clueless. Not picking up on social cues and living in an alternative reality in their head

[Melody · Rating 3 out of 5]

The only comparison of the series and the book is that Vanessa is mega annoying in both, oh and so is Jenny.

[fansof · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75

[Izzy]

continuing my Ultimate Gossip Girl Reread. this one took me a while longer to get to because apparently three other people in my library ALSO wanted to read it for some unfathomable reason. i was almost personally offended by how long i had to wait lol

stray thoughts this reread has been putting in my head:

what makes these trashfire books so darn engaging and interesting is the narration voice. it's full-on sarcasm all the time and i'm only noticing it now that i'm reading these as an older person. when i was a kid (and again, i read these at 11, so i was very much a child) i took everything way too literally and it changed my entire perspective on these books (see: my review for the first book where i discuss about not eating eggs for nearly ten years because blair waldorf calls them "chicken's abortions". yeah.) that's what makes these books so good. you get someone looking at these kids' ridiculous lives and pointing out just how ridiculous they are.

WHICH IS WHY GOSSIP GIRL SHOULD'VE BEEN DOROTHA ON THAT STUPID FREAKING TV SHOW!

and i know the show and the series are two entirely separate entities, but still. what makes Gossip Girl successful is the narrative style, a style which the old tv show managed to capture quite well (especially in season 1) and the new one is still struggling with. they're different because the focus of the books is not on the characters per se, but on the absurd things that happen in their lives, while the show had to shift this in order to be interesting for more than one season.

that's why the books' main goal is never to find out who gossip girl is, because it doesn't really matter. gossip girl was someone watching in the background, and their lives were so much bigger than that. but once the show made the characters its center point, it allowed for this unseen narrator to play a bigger part in the story. all they needed to be was someone who could blend with the background and be everywhere without being noticed, and the show had the means to actually introduce this character to us and give them a name by having blair and the others interact with ~the help~ in a way they never would in the book.

who the hell would've been better for the task of being an undercover spy than the HOUSEKEEPER? i mean it's really an obvious conclusion lol

anyway i can't believe i wrote that many words about a gossip girl book. who am i even. all of that to say this has been fun and rereading this series is definitely the best decision i've made all year.

Current Series Ranking:
1. All I Want Is Everything (this has been one of my faves since i first read this series. i just love the whole serena and a freaking mtv rockstar thing)
2. Gossip Girl
3. You Know You Love Me

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book because it sort of made me hooked in a way that I wonder what will happen next. Some characters were amusing esp. B and S. I think N is just one rich, handsome, stupid and spineless boy. Maybe B just liked him initially because of looks and looks and looks but there's nothing else. B must just felt attached to N because of so much time they had together. She built every fairytale in her mind w/ him as a prince so she found it hard to let go. Character? I wouldn't want a boy that one second he's in love w/ me and w/ the sight of another girl he falls out and then the next second he's knocking on my door asking if he can come back. Oh...but I liked S's character best between B and her. She's just kind yet bitchy. Flirt but cautious. If you want some time to read an entertaining book, but didn't want to get emotional, try this series. But one thing is for sure. I wouldn't read the next books unless it’s on sale. Its regular price is a bit cost-y with its content quality.

[BespectacledBookGirl · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I don't mean any shade, since obviously I'm reading these and continuing the series. But these are so, so bad. It's all telling and no showing, which makes for disjointed character arcs and herky jerky plots. The only reason we know Blair and Serena are "up to tricks" is because it says literally, "Blair and Serena are up to tricks!" But, there are no actual tricks, no description of the girls characters, personalities, or thoughts, and very little description of scene and ambiance save for product placement. Nate just looks confused and stoned, Jenny's plot merely hinges around her cup size, Dan is a pathetic chain smoking poet, and Serena wears a lot of bikinis. That's it. That's the plot of this book. Yet somehow, for all these shortcomings, the result is a kitschy, comical, escapist read. The show is so much better on many levels so unless you're burnt out from a year of serious reading, pass on these books and just read the wikipedia summaries ;)

[Erika Schoeps · Rating 1 out of 5]

Why am I still reading this series? Who the hell knows... Man did I used to love these in high school. The nostalgia of looking at these and feeling overwhelming love is weird. As an adult, all I get from these books is a ton of disappointment.

Moments of genuine humor are trapped here among superficial, mostly unlikeable characters. I did enjoy watching Serena do whatever the fuck she wanted and disregard men. I did enjoy watching Blair finally take a stand against Nate. Good, strong female shit.

But besides that, everyone is basically interchangeable. Also, these characters are so unbelievably lucky it'll suck you right out of the book.

Is Erika seriously going to continue reading this book series even after giving it a single star? Unfortunately, probably.

[Emmaline · Rating 3 out of 5]

I started this series in my first year of university. A little late to the game most definitely but I’m a fan of the tv show. It’s so different from the show though, which I find strange and surprising. It’s not the best series I’ve ever read but for some reason I can’t stop reading them? I guess it’s my form of the trashy romance novels my aunt is obsessed with. It’s a contemporary which is basically sacrilege for me but I guess living a life filled with that kind of ridiculous luxury is fantasy enough to satisfy my alternate reality needs. I would give it 3 stars, I’m trying to be more honest with my ratings. Recommend for those who love rich people who do stupid things.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall this book was ok but I do not recommend this book to readers that get easily bored or like books with super deep meaning because this book is teen drama and it is real life meaning it could happen to a fellow teen but this book did get boring at one point and it was never really captivated my mind completely. It is interesting to read just for fun but only if you really enjoy this type of genre. There is more the this series and I can say that I will not be trying to read them unless I have too. Again this book was ok but not super in my opinion.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one took me longer to read than normal, probably because I chose a paperback over the Kindle version. It was actually a 2.5 star book.
I would never recommend these to friends. However, there is something about the series that I find mindless and entertaining. Like TV in a book.