Sunday, August 31, 2008

Review 8: Girls on Film by Zoey Dean


Title: Girls on Film (A-List)
Author: Zoey Dean
Publisher: Poppy Publishers
Rating: 5/10
"Anna had come to Los Angeles in the hopes of reinventing herself, and Ben had seemed the perfect boy with whom to debut the new and daring her. But now, when she considered everything that had happened with Ben between the heavenly plane flight and the hellish conclusion, Anna was convinced, more than ever, that her usually impeccable taste did not extend to guys."
The Lowdown:
Anna Percy is not your typical Beverly Hills teenager. In fact, she is quite a different one. Born and raised in the good old NYC Upper East side, she is used to private school Blaire's and shopping at Barney's. But what she is not used to is the California attitude of girls like Cammie, Dee, and Sam.
After an incident involving a guy she just met on the plane, Anna falls in love, but abandons the guy when he abandoned her without an explanation. The story picks up from there, and Anna trying to forget what happened in the past.
The Good:
A. Sam and Anna being friends.
B. Anna's sister.
C. The ending.
The Bad:
A. Is it just me, or does it sound so 90210?
B. The whole novel was so boring. The first novel was so awesome and FUN. This novel was anything but.
C. Dee's pregnancy thing. That was totally stupid.
D. How the good always overcomes the bad. Is that how our world really runs?
E. The title so does not make sense. Girls on Film? Was there a movie involved by chance, and if so, did it have anything to do with the real plot.
F. Does school mean nothing to Zoey Dean? Don't high schoolers get a ton of HW?
The Consensus:
I really liked the first A-list novel. The second one just dragged on and on and bored me half to death. I seriously hope that the next novel is better than this crap.

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