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Ding dong, the drama is gone! (Or is it?), May 27, 2009
The blonde, beautiful and poetic nineteen-year-old Ariana Osgood has had quite an adventure since she escaped the mental institution she was in for murdering her ex-boyfriend. Since then, she has lied, cheated, stolen and murdered her way into a new life. Now she is Briana Leigh Covington, a sixteen-year-old redhead entering for the first time at Atherton-Pryce Hall, more exclusive than the Easton Academy, her former boarding school. She has to make a fresh start. Out with the old, in with the new. But Ariana has to encounter something she never has before: she's the new girl, the outsider. She has to kiss up to queen bees, be the butt of jokes from mean girls and set her eyes on hot guys while keeping her real identity under wraps. She is in constant alert, hoping no one would recognize her or have met the real Briana. And things get much worse what with Briana's ex-boyfriend still alive, a former flame searching for Ariana, and a fellow psycho inmate on the loose knows all of her secrets... The million-dollar question is: will Ariana have to whack more people in order to maintain this second chance at living a semi-normal life? But not all is bad. She has a chance to enter the "Privilege House," the most coveted dorm in campus. And we all know how competitive Ariana is...
This second book in the Privilege series -- a spinoff from the Private novels -- is much more enjoyable than the first one. Beautiful Disaster focuses on what made Kate Brian popular among teen readers: the privileged private school lifestyle. At the same time, it also has the mystery elements that have made Private so riveting. Ariana is definitely an interesting character, very complex and at times sympathetic, and Brian showed excellent judgment in creating a spinoff based on this character. Now that the Private novels have jumped the shark and entered the realm of bizarre and over the top, I think I will abandon those novels in favor of this one. For although Privilege is at times contrived and unrealistic, it is nevertheless very entertaining and I look forward to reading the next installment. This is a quick and fun read (read it under three hours), a great change from the rather intense novels I have been reading lately and I highly recommend it.
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This Girl is Nuts, November 17, 2009
After reading the first book in this series, I was eager to get started on this book. Arianna is nuts. She really thinks that she is going to just live someone else's life and no one will ever find out. She is trying to start over from two years ago in her life. So why not go back a little further. She's 20 or 21, pretending to be a sixteen year old. Brianna's grandmother really isn't going to notice that her grades went from failing to straight A's? And now she suddenly wants to go to Princeton? She gets herself out of every sticky situation she comes across. She still thinks that it's OK to kill if she has to, or if someone pushes her to do it. Rather than lay low she is desperate to "live it up" no matter what she is "driven" to. Again, it's everyone else's fault. The ending was a little predictible, but at the same time left you wondering what is going to happen in the next book. Kate Brian does a really good job at keeping you at the edge of your seat.
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Wicked thy name...., August 31, 2009
This second privilege book (beautiful disaster), is so wicked to read of; with Arianna ditched out of jail and going off to boarding school just outside of D.C. for another chance of life of the wealth with somebody else name---who's now dead; she make new friends and chatting along with the hottest guy on campus, everything gone right for her, not quite yet when things turns around when her ex-cellmate came by and hunt her and wants money from it and her ex-lover came by along as well to wanted her back.
This book is to die for and can wait for the third book in october.
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