From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up - This series installment chronicles a week and a half in the lives of Jonathan and his friends Mickey, David, Arno, and Patch. When they aren't partying and hobnobbing, the teens (occasionally) attend the hottest private schools and live in the world of Manhattan's elite. Jonathan has a crisis over his father's past business dealings that involved stealing huge sums from his friends' parents. Each boy also faces a series of romantic entanglements. The story is told in alternating third-person chapters and Jonathan's first-person narration. The book is similar to Cecily von Ziegesar's "Gossip Girl" titles, Zoey Dean's "The A-List" series (both Little, Brown), and other novels about the rich-and-fabulous crowd, with plenty of drinking, swearing, and talk about shopping and sex. It will appeal to fans of
The O.C.,
Mean Girls, and other pop-culture teen artifacts. The book doesn't break any new ground, but its pacing, high drama, and general readability will make it a success.
- Amy Patrick, New York Public Library Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
'It's physically impossible not to fall madly, unreasonably in love with each one of the Insiders. Like a good party, you won't want this book to end. Afterwards, you'll need some time to recover, but the only real cure would be MORE' Cecily von Ziegesar, author of Gossip Girl
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