Notorious

NOTORIOUS by

Category: Contemporary

Age Recommendation: Grades 9+

Release Date: 6/6/06

Publisher: Little, Brown

Reviewed by: Allison M. Rotonda

Rating: 5 Stars

NOTORIOUS contains more scandalous activity than a grocery store tabloid and is a far better read. Tinsley,

Callie,

and Brett were all best friends in room 303, living life at the top of the social food chain at Waverly

Academy, until

Tinsley is expelled and is replaced with another roommate, Jenny. Somehow Tinsley

manages to gain re-admittance

and quickly springs back into action, stirring things up with the new girl--and

everyone else for that matter.

Jenny desperately wants to gain Tinsley’s acceptance and finally be a part of the popular crowd, but along the

way she

begins to wonder what price she will have to pay for the life she dreamed of. To make matters worse

she falls, hard,

for Callie’s estranged boyfriend, Easy, and is forced to choose between the boy she thinks

she loves and her new

friends.

The Waverly student body dresses in a wardrobe that will have every

Sex in the City

fan aching with jealousy

and

behaves in ways that would make Paris Hilton proud! Everything is described in perfect detail, and while

some of the

situations may seem a little far-fetched to the average reader, the thoughts and dialogue in the

book are perfect.

Although it is the second book in the series, you can quickly pick up where the story left off,

and the characters are

developed so completely that it feels as though you know their pasts already… or do

you? The story ends in a way

that will leave readers dying for the next book in the series and yet ties up most

of the story lines contained in

NOTORIOUS. Be prepared, though, because this is a hard book to put down

It Girl Bk. 2: Notorious
by Cecily von Ziegesar