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xoxo Gossip Girl

Okay, so I was supposed to post yesterday but life has been happening. Friends and family still blessed and recovering, and I'm back to this last month grind in undergrad!!! Senioritis from high school is nothing like what you'll experience in your last semester of college. You think you know, but TRUST ME when that last semester hit (especially the last weeks) you will start contemplating your life and if you need a degree!! Any who, moving on...

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar. Can you imagine all your secret dealings, including your friends, family, and enemies being broadcasted all across the city? Well that is what is happening here. The Upper East Side of New York City holds the richest and most connected families you have ever seen, and their children are going to high school together. Nothing but groundbreaking drama ensues, with the costs being more than anyone ever imagined. Drugs, sex, death, and much more! An unknown blogger by the name of Gossip Girl holds all of their secrets, but how?

This series right here is straight FLAMES!! I started reading them in middle school and loved every book! Well, every book I read because they were published from 2002-2011, thus spilling over into those hectic high school years. There are 13 novels (one is an alternative world) and also a side story about the Carlyles (another Upper East Side family 4 novels), but that isn't all and I'll get to that later!

Let me give y'all a rundown of the most important  Gossip Girl characters though!:

• Blair Waldorf
• Serena van der Woodsen
• Nate Archibald
• Dan Humphrey
• Jenny Humphrey
• Vanessa Abrams
• Chuck Bass

This novel series was picked up and turned into a TV series (available on Netflix)!! I was hype when it began airing in 2007(-2012), since I read at least 6 or 7 of the books. Immediately, I noticed that the show is loosely based on the novels; however, the main points are still the same. I would say this is one of the few book to show/movie adaptations that feels more like an alternative (remake) story, rather than just a mess with a title steal. In the book things are very much different though, so no reading to guess the show ending. Some characteristics of out main crop of characters are slightly different, as well as their storylines being completely changed! One in particular is Jenny Humphrey!

It is the later I mentioned, and Cecily von Ziesegar has worked her magic again!!! She wrote the The It Girl series (10 novels) as a spin off from Gossip Girl, focusing on Jenny Humphrey. Remember "book Jenny" is nothing like the show character! One SPOILER I will give is that Jenny does leave the Upper East Side to attend a boarding school, which brings us here! And it is DOPE you hear me!!!!

Waverly Academy is a new start from Jenny as she leaves her Manhattan self behind. She comes across a new elite group (because that's a regular occurrence in real life), and finds herself in the mix. There is no anonymous blogger here sabotaging the group, they do it the old fashioned way: on accident or maliciously. Everyone is apart of the drama, because the boarding school is set up the students and teachers are always around each other *sips tea*... The battles of love, betrayal, lies, and deceit are rampant here at Waverly. Jenny Humphrey was trying to leave her old life behind, but she may need to pick it back up to show everyone exactly who she is!

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Much Love,

Khariah