- Blair agrees to help be a peer group leader for a group of freshman in order to make her application stronger for Yale. She ends up with Jenny in her group, who technically stole Nate from her, but there are no hard feelings because Nate just dumped Jenny on NYE's and Blair feels like that's punishment enough. Peer group isn't super successful, because Serena's also a leader and instead of talking about things like body image or issues with school that the freshies are worried about, Serena spends the whole time gushing about herself per usual.- Serena is in a relationship with Aaron, Blair's stepbrother, after hooking up with him at New Year's. Serena is crazy in love, as she is with each of her beau's. Aaron ends up getting into Harvard early admission so they have a lot to celebrate. But then Serena gets asked to be in the fashion show at Fashion Week for Les Best and ends up getting wrapped up in herself on the night she's supposed to be celebrating with Aaron. She embarrasses him by writing "I LOVE AARON" on her t-shirt for her look during the show, and he decides to slink out before the after-party. Serena doesn't really notice and instead likes being adored by all her fans and starts an impromptu snowball fight with all the models & designers. Aaron ends up ending things with her in a very vague way while Serena is in the middle of shooting a perfume commercial a few days later. So the end of another relationship for Serena - big surprise.- Jenny meets Elise, a fellow freshman, in peer group and they're suddenly attached at the hip. Jenny is smitten with a cute guy she sees at Bendels, but as the book progresses it becomes clear that Elise is smitten with Jenny (Elise has Jenny paint her naked a la Titanic). Mystery boy agrees to meet up with Jenny on a bus on Valentine's Day, which thankfully helps Elise get the picture that Jenny and her are only friends (though Jenny did make out with her for a bit, so it's not like Elise was creating things up out of no where).- Blair chops off all her hair to look like Audrey Hepburn while she stresses about doing a re-do interview for Yale with an alumni friend of her dad's, Owen Wells. Once she meets Owen, she decides to have an affair with him because she needs to feel more sophisticated and he reminds her of Cary Grant. Thankfully, Blair doesn't lose her virginity to him because it turns out he's married and has a kid - Elise, Jenny's friend and one of the girl's in Blair's peer group! Blair washes that man right out of her hair by chopping her hair of even more like Mia Farrow.- Nate gets caught buying pot in Central Park and has to go to rehab after school. There he meets Georgina Sparks, a wealthy drugged up heiress. When he gets stuck in a snow storm with her, he realizes the extent of Georgie's drug abuse and calls the the rehab clinic for help fearing she's OD'ed, which probably saves her life. Instead of being upset, this cements their love and *snap* Nate has a new romance (despite Blair's short strange attempt to woo Nate back by dropping into his rehab group therapy class).- Finally, the agony of Vanessa and Dan. Dan finally agrees to give up his precious virginity to Vanessa, even though he called her a whore in the last book for daring to think about it. Then his poem calling Vanessa a whore gets published (thanks to Vanessa submitting it to the New Yorker) and he uses his new fame/ego to cheat on Vanessa with Mystery Craze, a hot mess of a writer he meets at Fashion Week. Vanessa meanwhile gets into NYU and has her film put in a fashion show, which Dan fails to notice because he's too involved in himself. Vanessa catches Dan mooning over Mystery Craze at a joint poetry reading that he hides from her, which upsets Vanessa but she still decides to film it because it's "beautiful" and Dan is creating "art" *major eye roll*
http://lola-kiss.blog.cz/1409/protoze...Ale ale ale. Na obzoru se rýsují nové postavy a nové trable. A kdo je na vině? Všichni. V téhle knize nezůstane nikdo s čistým štítem. A ideální slovo? Hříšníci.Serena se dala do kupy s Aaronem, ale klidně na něj zapomene. Pokud je středem pozornosti, nikoho jiného nepotřebuje. Serena se chová jako malá holčička, a ne, není to roztomilé. A Aaron? Rozešli se, respektive on s ní.Blair se ostříhala podle Audrey Hepburn -ano! - ale pak se v záchvatu žalu, nechutenství a zhroucení svého filmového světa chopila nůžek. Šmik! Vlásky mizí. A důvod? Hledala vzplanutí u otcova kamaráda z Yalu, třicet osm let a ženatý. Hlavní problém nastal, Blair se totiž seznámila s jeho dcerou na stejné škole.Dan se vyspal s Vanessou. Otiskli mu báseň v časopise The New Yorker, a na slavnostní akci, kam ho pozvala manažerka - jeho báseň "Kurvy" měla úspěch - potkal děsnou holku a podvedl s ní Vanessu. Několikrát.Vanessa stejný večer, kdy měl Dan oslavu, prožívala vlastní úspěch svého krátkého filmu, použitém při módní přehlídce. A flirtovat s kluky? Zelená.A jak to s Vanessou a Danem dopadlo? Vanessa zašla potají na Danovo vystoupení a uviděla ho v akci, s tou žlutozubou holkou. Tomu se tedy říká bomba, zvlášť pokud to celé natáčela na kameru.A malá Jenny? S novou kamarádkou zažila lesbický polibek, ale ona je na kluky. Kamarádka Elise má smůlu. Jako důkaz je toho Jennynin nový objev, kluk jménem Leo.Natě skončil v léčebně kvůli koupi marihuany, a navíc se doopravdy začal léčit - vlastním způsobem. A koho tam nepotkal? Další novou postavu Georginu Sparkovou. Jestli se ti dva dají dohromady? Jdou tím správným směrem.Blair se snažila znovu navázat vztah s Natem, ale uviděla ho s Georgie, když se nechala zapsat na tu samou léčebnou kliniku jako Nate. Jak to dopadlo? Blair ze sebe vysypala celý příběh své rodiny a také novinku - zvracení vyvolané stresem. Cože to? Slovo bulimie jednoduše odmítla vyslovit, to by bylo pod její úroveň.Serena a Blair měly další neshody, ale nakonec to byla právě Serena, která jela pro Blair do léčebny. Blair si vybrala Serenu jako vzor pro obnovu své slávy, takže neváhala zavolat, aby ji Serena vyzvedla na ne-zrovna-lázeňském-pobytu.
What do You think about Because I'm Worth It (2003)?
Serena is perfect.Serena always gets all the things she wants without even making an effort.Serena has boys waiting in line.Serena dated a rockstar.Serena is going to be a model.Serena this.Serena that.I'm guessing that in the next one she's actually going to save the dolphins.This one was just bad.I'm giving it 1.5 stars only because of Blair ofc.Us short girls have to stick together.Dan was depressing me,Vanessa is irrelevant anyway and Nate is annoying as hell and the new friend he made in rehab isn't promising either.I was starting to like Jenny for the first time since I started this series and by the end of the book I regretted that.The last two books were so much fun to read,but this one was so awful that I think that I'm going to need a break from the series for a while.
—Darija
“Because I’m worth it” is part of a series called the Gossip Girl Novels. This book follows the lives of several teens, mostly seniors, through the month of February in New York City. In this book, the seniors are waiting to see if they have been accepted early into their college of choice. Also, Valentine’s Day and Fashion Week are major events that all the characters are stressing/excited for. In my opinion, reading this book was a waste of my time. I could not relate or find redeeming qualities in most of the characters in this book. Everyone was very self involved and only superficially nice to one another. There was not a big build up or climax in the story. I continued to read, hoping something would happen, but I was disappointed. The things that do happen in the book are boring and very unbelievable. I understand why this book is on the banned book list. A lot of the material is focused on drugs and sex. Also, almost every character is a chain smoker, but beautiful? Highly unlikely. I might put this book in a high school library because it seems to be popular. It may even bring in students that would otherwise not use the library. I would, however, display it with other books of similar appeal that might be of better quality to try to get readers to look at them as well.
—Jonathan Nonnemacher
This is the fourth book in the Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar. It starts out where the third book left off, with the gang going more and more crazy. This series, although it is funny, is very unrealistic to a person who has never lived a privileged New York life, but it is still worth the read - hey, it is fiction! There are many new characters introduced in this edition of GG and they are all a little more off kilter then the originals. Nate meets a new girl, who is completely out of control and just when a normal person would have given up on her, he is typical Nate and hangs around. Jennifer makes a new best friend once she realizes that her brother has moved on and doesn't really have time for her anymore. This friend seems normal at first but just watch out! Dan and Vanessa meet some interesting new people and their relationship is more messed up than ever! In the first few books, I really liked Serena but in this book she really starts to show her true colors. I won't say much more so you can form your own opinion. Blair is more messed up than ever, but anyone who has read all the books should have seen that coming. Overall, I thought this was a pretty good book as far as this series goes. There are two main reasons that I am giving this book 3 out of 5 stars: First, it seems that the author is trying to hard to get all of the characters to continue interacting with each other, it is becoming painfully obvious in this book. Some seemingly random characters become very closely attached to other more important characters in unbelievably obscure ways. Second, the new character introductions are so out there that few of the characters are actually believable. None of them are people that a reader wants to fall in love with!
—Kara
