Drama Queens

Good Girlz #8

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

The eighth book in The Good Girlz series from national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Seniors rule the school . . . High school is coming to a close for the Good Girlz, and it couldn’t end on a better Camille, Angel, Alexis, and Jasmine are ecstatic to discover they’ve all been accepted to the same Texas university! Prairie View A&M, watch there will be four inseparable friends on campus come September, and between the cute guys, the Greek parties—oh, and the cool classes, of course—their good times will just be beginning. But college has all new rules. Just when things should be falling into place, there is more uncertainty—and more drama—than Alexis passed up an Ivy League scholarship to go to PV, but a summer scandal may bar her from college entirely. Jasmine’s struggling to nail the final exams on which her future depends . . . and Angel stuns everyone with her plans to move to Dallas with her new boyfriend. They may have their diplomas, but these girls have a lot to learn about relying on their faith—and each other—when facing life’s tough decisions.

Genres: Christian, Contemporary, Inspirational, Christian Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Chick Lit

258 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 23, 2010

About the author

ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a general assignment reporter for KRIV-TV, the Fox affiliate in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the nonfiction book Help! I've Turned Into My Mother! and three previous adult novels: My Brother's Keeper, for which she received the prestigious Gold Pen Award for Best New Author from the Black Writer's Alliance and the Nova Lee Nation Award from the Greater Dallas Writing Association; the national bestseller Let the Church Say Amen, chosen for Library Journal's Best of 2004 list for Christian fiction; and I Know I've Been Changed, a Main Selection of the Black Expressions Book Club.
Her previous Christian teen novels are Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise, both available from Pocket Books.
She is also a contributor to the story anthology Have a Little Faith.

Reviews

[Faloni © · Rating 5 out of 5]

🎭 👑 Drama Queen by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
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[Yinglin Chen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Camille, Angel, Alexis and Jasmine have their college life, and dreams planned out perfectly. Life is coming at these girls quicker then ever. It's senior year, and graduation is just less than a month away. However, problems erupt within the month. With disappointed parents, bad grades, and financial problems, it tries to rip the girls apart from each other. However, as they start to fade away from each other, they realize how important they are to each other, the problems causes them to come closer together.

Alexis gave up a full scholarship to Cornell just to go to Prairie View. However, her parents aren't so thrilled. They refuse to pay for a school that isn't an Ivy League school. However, a video of her foolish self with her friends was posted on the net, and it had ruined Alexis' life. With ther parents mad, people laughing, Alexis turns to her friends for encouragemenet and ideas.

Jasmine, needs a scholarship for college, and manages to get one with her C+ average. However, with her failing test grade in English, Jasmine needs to put together a ten page college essay within one week, to bring up her test grade. Having to choose between paying for an essay and going to a senior party, or writing the essay on her own and missing the senior party, Jasmine is having a hard time to choose. All she wants is to be able to get that scholarship and go to college.

All friends tend to stick together during their hard times, and often turn to each other for help. However, in the book, Angel had her problems hidden from her friends, and had to make decisions on her own. When people hid their problems, they often don't want you to worry about them. They make decisions on their own so they won't be judged by her friends. People are quiet, and they hide who they really are so the people she cares about can worry about their own problems, not hers.

[Imani ♥ ☮]

Wasn't able to finish this one. I haven't read a book in this series in a long time so it was refreshing to read some light, girly sistah (haha) fiction. It didn't even seem as bad as the last one I read. If only...I got to finish. Library fees. Eek.

[BCPL Youth Services Librarian]

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[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very sad the series has come to an end, but it was a wonderful ending.