Gossip Girl – Because I’m worth it.

This is the fourth gossip girl novel and it takes place in February in New York, well the New York of the rich and fabulous. The majority of the cast of characters have put in their applications to Universities and are waiting on their early acceptances. They are all blowing off steam and having a good time. An even better one once Fashion week starts. This is almost a land of fantasy where the high school cafeteria serves wasabi-smoked tuna burgers and somehow everyone is involved in a fashion show.

Blair the “bitchiest, vainest girl in the entire senior class” tries to improve herself by helping out the younger girls but ends up in a disastrous flirtation with a much older man. Serena the vapid but beautiful one who lands a modeling gig by walking into a store. Daniel the poet and Vanessa the filmmaker who experience wild success which rips them apart. Nate gets busted buying weed and has to go to rehab but discovers that sometimes there is a reason to get clean.

The stories in these books are controversial with copious amounts of drinking, smoking, sex and drugs, but I can see why they are so popular. These books are an escapist fantasy but never take things too far or too seriously. Even though Blair ends up in a hotel room with her older man, she doesn’t do anything. Much of the book is fluff and for those kids brought up by Entertainment Tonight and People magazine this is their ideal world. I think that the controversy should perhaps direct itself outward to the celebrity culture of our world rather than into these novels.

Age range: 14+
Ranking: Quality – 2.5/5 Popularity – 5/5