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Author Ziegesar's Book Reviews

All I Want Is Everything
Serena and Blair have repaired their friendship and are now best friends. Blair is getting over being dumped by boyfriend Nate for freshman Jenny. Blair's life has been in upheaval due to her mother's marriage to Cyrus Rose, a man Blair considers to be a loser. The Black and White ball has arrived and everyone is coupling up and shopping up a storm to find the perfect outfit. Blair's stepbrother Aaron escorts Blair and Serena to the ball and ends up be...
Because I'm Worth It
Blair and Serena have managed to repair their fractured friendship and are now leading a peer group at their high school. During a peer group session Jenny confesses that she's considering breast reduction surgery to decrease the size of her double D's. Blair makes the mistake of admitting she's considering breast augmentation surgery, a story which hits the school rumor mill as soon as the meeting concludes. Serena is head over heels in love with Bla...
Gossip Girl
This is the first book in this series, which is centered around a group of teens living on the Upper East Side in New York City. With her best friend gone, Blair is now the most popular and prettiest girl at school. However, when Serena comes back from boarding school, things start to change. Everyone has started to pay attention to Serena again and are ignoring Blair, even Blair's boyfriend, Nate. Serena is then ignored by Blair, as Blair begins spreadi...
I Like It Like That
Blair Waldorf is not impressed by her mother's plans to vacation in Oahu with her family over spring break. Although her younger brother Tyler and stepbrother Aaron are exccited, Blair is so over surfing and hanging on the North Shore. And she doesn't want to spend any time with her lame stepfather, Cyrus Rose. And why is her pregnant mother sporting Juicy couture track suits and acting like a woman half her age? Serena is still bumming out over being...

Ziegesar booklist

Nobody Does It Better
In this installment of the Gossip Girl series Blair, Serena and their friends are up to their usual tricks. It's senior year and everyone is eagerly awaiting their college acceptance letters. Blair is supremely urinated because she has been wait listed at Yale while best friend Serena and boyfriend Nate have already been accepted at Yale. Serena is indifferent about her college acceptances, despite the fact that she feared she wouldn't get in to desi...
Only In Your Dreams
Only In Your Dreams is written in the same style as the other novels in the Gossip Girl series. Gossip Girl is the narrator of the stories; an unknown person who writes a online gossip column. The books follow the lives of a group of upper-class students in upscale New York. Only In Your Dreams takes place during the main characters summer after graduation. There's Serena; the blonde beauty who's latest stint landed her the role of Holly Golightly in a r...
The It Girl
Jenny Humphrey goes to an New York upstate boarding school after the media trashed her saying that she had relations with almost every member of her brother's band; the rave; and now she must learn to navigate her way through the social scene of her new school. Jenny Humphrey came under siege when a scandal came out about her and her brother's band. The media implied she had relations with everyone in the band including her brother. Subsequently, she w...
You Know You Love Me
Blair Waldorf is a teenager who is used to getting what she wants. Blair lives on New York's upper east side, jet sets around the world, attends a ritzy private school and hobnobs with the rich and famous. The one thing Blair really wants is to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Nate. Still reeling from Nate's confession that he slept with her former best friend Serena before they started dating, Blair is still refusing to be friends with Serena. Sere...