Post by cara24 on Jun 27, 2008 18:12:31 GMT -5
If you haven't read these, I suggest you do. They are some of the best novels of their kind out there. Far better than The It Girl, an attempt at a deep story about rich kids at private/boarding school, but has just ended up as shallow as Gossip Girl. In my opinion the PRIVATE novels are deep, and the plot is excellent. Yes most of the kids at the boarding school, Easton, are rich & spoiled, but they also hide secrets that are bound to crumble their perfect lives eventually. Like their friend, Thomas Pearson, but you'll just have to read to find out what happens to him.
I am almost done with the third book, Untouchable, & they will keep you on your seat. Its so hard for me not to just want to sit there & read & read the hours away just to find out what happens next.
Though most of the characters in the book are rich, the main character is not. She comes from a poor town & family in Philadelphia, she comes to Easton to escape her problems. (she's there on scholarship.)
Description of first novel : PRIVATE:
Tradition, Honor, Excellence...and secrets so dark they're almost invisible
Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy -- the golden ticket away from her pill-popping mother and run-of-the-mill suburban life. But when she arrives on the beautiful, tradition-steeped campus of Easton, everyone is just a bit more sophisticated, a bit more gorgeous, and a lot wealthier than she ever thought possible. Reed realizes that even though she has been accepted to Easton, Easton has not accepted her. She feels like she's on the outside, looking in.
Until she meets the Billings Girls.
They are the most beautiful, intelligent, and intensely confident girls on campus. And they know it. They hold all the power in a world where power is fleeting but means everything. Reed vows to do whatever it takes to be accepted into their inner circle.
Reed uses every part of herself -- the good, the bad, the beautiful -- to get closer to the Billings Girls. She quickly discovers that inside their secret parties and mountains of attitude, hanging in their designer clothing-packed closets the Billings Girls have skeletons. And they'll do anything to keep their secrets private.