Cecily von Ziegesar

Follows of the lives of Blair, Serena, and their wealthy Manhattan friends during the summer following high school graduation.

A Gossip Girl Novel

Gossip Girl #9: Only In Your Dreams

Geoffrey Froggatt

This is the ninth book in the Gossip Girl book series. Despite that steamy kiss on graduation night, Blair, Serena, and Nate have gone their separate ways, though not for long. Blair is off to London with her English Lord boyfriend, Serena's about to become a movie star and Nate's rolling up his well-worn khakis and heading to the Hamptons. Back in New York, Dan and Vanessa are rekindling their love. I was disappointed that this book didn’t further explore a potential Blair and Serena romantic relationship, although I did like that Blair, Serena, and Nate parted ways and focused on themselves at the start. I liked the continued storylines with Serena working as an actress and Blair being entangled with Lord Marcus. Nate is the same boring girl crazy airhead. Dan’s character is sidelined in this book compared to previous books, and it was strange seeing him essentially be a secondary character in this book when he’s a main character and such a big part of the television series. It’s safe to say Dan and Nate’s characters are boring in comparison to the girls. This book sees the departure of Jenny’s character from the main book series in order to set her up for her own spin-off book series called The It Girl. I’m a little disappointed that Jenny’s character didn’t have any interesting character arcs in the main Gossip Girl book series, as I loved her character arc and storylines from the television show. I am planning on reading the It Girl book series, and I’m hoping that Jenny will have interesting storylines in those books seeing as she’s the central character. Being the ninth book in the series, I expected much more dramatic and fresh storylines and plot developments this far into the series, but none of the storylines so far hold a candle to the storylines from the television show. The amount of cheating storylines in these books cause the books to feel repetitive and boring. The constant shifts in the romantic relationships between the characters on the show were fast but they were always interesting, in the books, it often feels random and unearned. While this book series started like a clever satire of the upper crust society that the author came from, it has quickly devolved into literal “adventures” of vapid nepotism babies. The television show also declined in quality after an excellent first season, but this book series declined in quality without giving us any interesting story developments first, just a lot of set-up and storytelling potential that seems wasted. This book felt empty, like an outline of a story without any life breathed into it. This book felt boring. I just didn’t care about anything that was happening. I still have a few books left, so I hope that the climax to the story is the actual interesting part of the overall story, but with only three books left, it’s safe to say that most of these books feel like filler and padding.

Talia Dominguez 

this book was alright! so many little things happen in this book like what did the characters did in the summer!

Jessica 

Summer is here and things are heating up for our recent high school graduates in the ninth book of the pop culture phenomenon that is Gossip Girl. Sadly, Only In Your Dreams is the first of the series to be written by a ghost writer instead of Cecily von Ziegesar and it definitely shows.

But the ghost writer does capture Cecily’s series in a way the mimics her style perfectly. While it isn’t the best of the series, it is still juicy and stylish in the way that only Gossip Girl can be.

Everyone’s favorite Upper East Siders are nearing adulthood and have vowed to make this summer their best yet. Serena’s begun production as the lead in Breakfast at Fred’s, only to find out acting isn’t quite as easy as she thought. Her only saving grace is her looks and her ridiculously adorable and sweet costar, whom she definitely develops a crush on.

But is this something she can pursue? Or is he just not that into her?

And then there’s Vanessa who, after getting booted from her apartment by her older sister Ruby’s return, finds herself temporarily homeless.

Luckily for her, with Serena’s help, she is able to land a job on the movie set. And she moves in with the Humphrey’s. Rufus is surprisingly cool about it and soon she finds herself staying in Jenny’s old room. It’s a cozy little set up and things look up for our favorite edgy, badass, bald, budding filmmaker. 

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Gossip Girl #9: Only In Your Dreams A Gossip Girl Novel

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