The A-List #5: Back in Black: An A-List Novel (A-List Novels (Quality)) [Paperback]

Zoey Dean (Author)

Book Description

Series: A-List Novels (Quality) | Publication Date: September 1, 2005

Back in Black is the 5th guilty pleasure in this witty series that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. It's time for the Beverly Hills High senior class trip to Washington, D.C. But every year the reigning A-List call in sick and do their own trip to Vegas, baby, Vegas. Anna joins Cammie, Adam, Sam, Dee, and Parker on the Vegas trip to the uber-hip Palms Hotel and Casino. During a hypnosis show on The Trip, the group is hypnotized into telling the truth. Dee is confronted with just how whack-o she's become and Adam and Cammie are forced to confess their forbidden lusty secrets. When Anna's oldest and best friend from NYC, Cyn, and Anna's long-time adolescent crush, Scott, show up in Vegas too, Anna finds out just how dangerous telling the truth can be.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Poppy; First Edition, First Printing edition (September 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316010928
• ISBN-13: 978-0316010924
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #896,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Ending!!!!, December 31, 2005

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Danielle (Sunnyvale, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The A-List #5: Back in Black: An A-List Novel (A-List Novels (Quality)) (Paperback)

Okay so, Anna Percy's back!! *woot howl scream*

The book starts out with Sam and Anna attending the Oscars with all the lavishly dressed stars and ammusing reporters. They preceed to go to various night clubs and parties. Nothing of great importance happens for the first hundred pages, really. The start of this book strikes me as kind of slow and unexciting. The blurb on the back cover hardly does justice to it because the Vegas trip really doesn't start until a good third of the book in. But, we're getting there...

Now, the senior class trip this year for Beverley Hills High is to Washington DC. However, it's been a lasting tradition that the "cool kids" (namely Anna, Sam, Dee, Cammie, Adam, and Parker) go to Las Vegas to party it up. All goes according to plan and the juicy part comes with their wild adventures in Vegas. There are too many subplots to cover, but they include a runway contest where we see a whole lotta Cammie...an amazing hypnotist who puts everyone at each others' throats...and a few surprise cameos from a few VERY important people...

There is huge character development in all of our favorites. Anna learns how to be honest instead of using the "art of discretion" taught to her by her mother. Sam realizes how nice of a person she really is and takes pride in keeping a very important secret. Cammie lets herself jump into the scary vulnerability of love, actually showing real human emotion. And Dee, well...Dee struggles with some mental issues in this book.

Looking back, this was an amazing, quick read that brought me sqeals of joy and expressions of shock (and i rarely physically react to books.) I actually found myself jumping up and down screaming at one point...= )

So in conclusion, yes, PLEASE, buy this book. It's slow at first but it's all worth it in the end. I don't want to give anything away but a number of old favorites reappear in the book...

You won't want to miss it!!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Back In Black: Not Everything It Promised to Be, October 18, 2005

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Avid Teen Reader "Rachel" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The A-List #5: Back in Black: An A-List Novel (A-List Novels (Quality)) (Paperback)

Back in Black is the fifth novel in Zoey Dean's A-List series. After much anticipation on my behalf, the events that take place in this novel are not as juicy as I expected them to be. This novel is still a wonderful addition to the series though.
Anna and the rest of Sam's clique leave for Las Vegas, after ditching their senior class trip. When they arrive at the Las Vegas Airport, Parker commits an act that leads into a big fiasco that involves fakes ID's and gambling. On the drive over to the Palms Hotel, Cammie comes up with an idea for a tacky Vegas show-girl competition; everybody agrees to it except Dee. The competition takes place that night and Cammie pulls her 'outrageous stunt'. At the club where the competition is taking place, two shocker characters arrive, taking Anna by surprise. Over the next day, minor events that are very important to the plot take place. Dee becomes very attached to Ruby Hummingbird (Sam's baby sister) and her new interest in Kabbalah starts to take over her mind. Cammie starts to contemplate her relationship with Adam and disappears a few times with a mystery man. The next night, the gang goes to a hypnotist and many secrets are revealed while they are hypnotized, but no one will remember them when they wake up. After the show was over, everyone decided to buy the DVD that shows what they said. That night, they pop it into a DVD player and watch it. By the time the video ends, the group is outraged and many relationships are torn. While all of this is going on, Dee is struggling with her own issues at the Palms hotel. By the end of the story, Zoey Dean ties all of the loose ends together and leaves you with a cliffhanger.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST BOOK BY BEST AUTHOR BY FAR, October 17, 2005

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Avid Reader (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The A-List #5: Back in Black: An A-List Novel (A-List Novels (Quality)) (Paperback)

I don't really care much for most teen fiction, but this is the most fun book I've read in ages. I'm a college student and I picked this up in the airport just because I liked the cover. I didn't even realize it was a teen book until I started reading it. Well, it really goes way beyong a "teen" book because it is so funny, sexy and juicy with all kind of insider Hollywood info. The author is great at specific detail and at getting under the skin of what it feels like to be a teen girl. I highly recommend this very enjoyable book.