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

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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!!!

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.

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.

Anna and the rest of the A-list ditch the senior class trip to Washington DC and go to Las Vegas instead. It is a great idea for a book and Zoey Dean gives this book all the cool stuff she does in all the rest. There is romance. There is betrayals. Cyn and Scott, who are Anna's best friends from New York, show up and really shake things up for everyone. The A-list books are so much fun to read because they have some of the nasty comments of Gossip Girl but also you really, really like Anna. I read this book without getting up and I have to say that I'm really looking forward to the next one when it comes out.

Deciding to ditch the Washington, D.C. trip for the second year in a row, the Beverly Hills High School A-List crew finds out a lot more about love, life and gambling than they expect. This time around they add to the fold Anna Percy, the newly acquired New York born-and-bred WASP who has become a best friend to Samantha Sharpe. With Las Vegas ready and waiting, this elite group of friends ends up doing and seeing things that wouldn't dare cross their minds in Beverly Hills.

Their own little private "senior" trip turns out to be more raucous, funny and astoundingly truth-packed than they ever imagined. From Parker Pinelli winning a much-needed $20,000 that he ends up having to forfeit because he's underage, to the girls' stint in a Vegas showgirl contest, this is a never-ending whirlwind. Joined by Anna's New York friends, Cyn and her boyfriend Scott, things get a little sticky when they all become participants in a Las Vegas revue featuring a famous hypnotist. Everyone has gone bananas --- that is, except Samantha, who has to witness the entire, horrific event.

Things go from bad to worse as they all settle down to watch the DVD, and shocking truths about who they really are begin to surface. Can their friendships outlast the reality of how they all feel?

Zoey Dean does it again in the fifth installment of this New York Times bestselling series. From beginning to end, readers will be swept away into the world of the A-List, realizing that although these characters are filthy rich with loads of money to expend, they are also human --- breathing, living, and having the same issues as "regular" folks. BACK IN BLACK is a great addition to this hilariously funny series.

--- Reviewed by Belinda Williams

After I had read the 4th book in the a-list series, I thought it would be very hard to get any better. This book proved me wrong with its twisting plot, and the "sin city scene" making the characters more honest with each other. Everyone's secrets are revealed, and no one can take them back. Fabulous 5th part to the series, and I'm going to start the 6th very soon.

this book was amazing i didnt want to put it down... i liked how it fit with the other 4 books and i cant wait for the 6th one to come out next year... this book is a great book for teenage girls in ways i was able to relate to it... and i liked how it gave a lot of detail i felt like i was there while it was all happening...

Without a doubt, "Back In Black" is the best in the A-List series so far. While I was disappointed in "Tall, Cool One," this made up for it!

The entire book is full of action, comedy, and terrific character descriptions--making it have an awesome plot. It held my interest the entire time and is my new favorite in this series.

In the fifth book, readers get to 'see' Cyn, Scott Spencer, and a new character, Brock. The drama around these three, Cammie, Anna, Sam, Adam, Parker, and Ben (thank God for him!) is incredible.

Absolutely perfect!

The forth book wasn't what I expected it to be; it was getting kind of boring. And I think that Anna+Ben couple is getting old. I really liked the begining of the A-list serie but now, I think that it's only a bad version of Gossip Girl.

i have read all the books up to this one is this series so far and i LOVE them(: