Despite the fact that one of the girls has ended up with Nate at this juncture, this rivalry seems to have softened with the two girls seemingly making amends about the fact that one ended up with Nate. Fans of the show often find it intriguing to read the books to see where the show's creators stayed true to the source material and where they introduced new storylines or character arcs. There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! In the show, however, this plotline is eliminated, and she instead wants nothing more than for her peers to pay attention to her for once.

The books held a special appeal for me, because from third through eighth grade, I attended the Nightingale-Bamford School, the real-life Upper East Side girls’ institution that Constance Billard was based on. The American Library Association selected the Gossip Girl series as Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers in 2003. We are clued in pretty quickly to the major players (Blair, Nate, Chuck Bass, Serena) and then some random characters that I didn't really worry about. Nate constantly feels the pressure of wanting to be his own person while fighting against the life his family wants him to live, which includes going to an Ivy League college, Blair as his wife and the culture of New York’s Upper East Side.Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. but what makes the program so awesome is that they just stole a premise, a few characters, and a general plot outline from the novel . Hachette Group re-released all of the original novels in electronic book format between 2008 and 2009. The Gossip Girl universe was born in 2002 when the first of the Gossip Girl books was published, and by the end of its run, Cecily von Ziegesar's sizzling young adult series included 13 books.

Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. Serena and Dan have a very brief fling rather than a series long infatuation and Chuck and Blair have a mostly off screen relationship that definitely isn’t one of the major ones of the series. The novel series is based on the author's experiences at Nightingale-Bamford School and on what she heard from friends. Plus, her Goodreads author bio begins: ‘Cecily grew up in Manhattan and went to an all-girl’s school on the Upper East Side. Access to the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts, including exclusive series.The books either end with Blair and Serena fighting (which usually means Blair acting haughty and pretending to be in Roman Holiday or some such, and Serena being totally oblivious to the fact that Blair is mad at her), or with Blair and Serena making out with each other in front of a bunch of people at some party. A relatively minor but important character in the books, bad boy Chuck Bass became a primary member of the Gossip Girl cast and one of Blair's main love interests when the franchise moved to television. Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen are the main focus of the books but the exploits of all the characters are chronicled by the gossip blogger, Gossip Girl. I was five years old, and theses characters were swanning about New York City in high heels, smoking joints and date-raping 14 year olds. Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep–sometimes with each other.

They rent limos and get drunk or high in them on their way to Manhattan clubs where they then hook up with all their friends and their friends' friends. Yk the parts you fast forward bc it doesn’t have ur favourite characters in the scene or it’s a completely unnecessary scene u know u don’t have to watch but will acknowledge happened? In the books, she went boarding school due to romantic complications, and she was expelled for partying too hard. This book filled me with such untold rage I couldn't even bring myself to finish it, even though it only took me an hour to get through the first half. Holy shit he is such a freaking creep the way he treats girls honestly makes me so uncomfortable because he was totally the 'no means yes' kind of guy who didn't give two shits about consent.It's written like a cheap fantasy, complete with overt descriptions of the houses, clothes, and everyone's looks. Nate's interest in Serena causes conflict between her and her frenemy, Blair, who is also Nate's girlfriend. And the stress and expectations are preposterous, with college and social etiquette and whatnot, and any one toe out of line can have you packing for boarding school in an instant.