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This book is about teenagers from New York City’s Upper East Side. Gossip Girl is a world of jealousy and betrayal, where everything is hip, beautiful, and far more fantastic than anything you ever imagined. It’s February and most cities are a cold, gray wasteland. But the New York in Gossip Girl is busy with college applications and Fashion Week.

The book starts off with the teens waiting anxiously for the college acceptance letter to come in early while several stuff kept their minds distracted. Nate Archibald was being busted for buying marijuana from a dealer that is working for the police. Nate ends up in a Rehabilitation Center which turned out to be a blessing in disguise, or maybe not. Nate’s ex-girlfriend, Blair, hooks up with her alumnus interviewer while waiting for her step-sister to be born. Serena is smitten with Blair’s stepbrother but happiness does not last long though. Dan’s little sister Jenny is in love with Leo. But no one seems to know who this mysterious Leo is! Dan and Vanessa’s relationship turned sour when a yellow-toothed poetess came into their way.

My favorite part was when Blair made the smart choice about her relationship with the alumnus interviewer. She managed to dump him before the situation could get any worse. It changed my opinion of her as a vain and materialistic girl.