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I can't lie. I hit a certain point and just starting skimming. Too close to "gossip girl" to me. ( )

I was about 1/4 of the way through this when I realized it was a YA book, which I usually don't read. Then my first reaction was to clutch my pearls and fan myself, because I can't believe that THIS is a Young Adult book. Back in my day, when we had to walk 5 miles to school uphill both ways, you had to steal your mother's paperbacks to read smutty sex stuff. It was surely frowned upon to write books FOR teens that were all about smutty sex. Alas, times have changed.

To be fair, there wasn't really a lot of detail and the heroine of the piece is a beautiful, brainy virgin. But the book was about spoiled, wealthy Beverly Hills kids who do nothing but abuse substances and randomly hump each other. It's like a Jackie Collins novel with younger people and better dialogue - fun, but complete trash. So of course I enjoyed it, but if I had a teenage daughter I wouldn‰ÃƒÂ›Ã‚ªt be suggesting that she read it. ( )

In Zoey Dean's realistic fiction novel, The A-List, Anna Percy decides to jet off to New York to L.A. to get away from her perfect image. Her life is completely changed around in a mere 24 hours. She meets Ben Birnbaum on a airplane who she may or may not love, attends an Oscar winners wedding on the arm of Ben Birnbaum, and visits an after-hours back-lot party on New Years Eve. After all the new and thrilling stuff Anna experiences in L.A., things slowly start to go downhill. Ben leaves her stranded on a dock, completely heart broken, and her dad is treating her more like a friend than a daughter. In the end will she rekindle the relationship she had with her dad or the boy she thinks she's in love with, Ben.

Zoey deans Novel the-list is like any other teenage book. Kids fall in love and either try stay together or fall apart. What the author did that was quite confusing was she keep switching point of views. Every chapter it switched off from Anna to Sam. It was very contemplating because Anna was the main character, and Sam doesn't have much influence in the story except she wants Ben to herself. I recommend the A-list for 8th graders because there's some foul language. The novel overall was very interesting.

This was much better than The Clique. I'd recommend it for those who enjoy Gossip Girl or Pretty Little Liars. ( )