The Paige Turner

A blog for young adult book lovers

Gossip Girl: The Carlyles: Love the One You're With by Cecily von Ziegesar

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 240 (This is going to be a slightly shorter review because I read the book about two weeks ago) I think this is, by far, the best Carlyles book in the entire series. The first one was good because it was a new series, with new people, but this last book was a great way to end the series. I really like books that take place on an island, especially rich people on vacation and that's what this was! So the Carlyle family goes on an island vacation and the triplets bring some of their friends along...

Gossip Girl: The Carlyles: Take A Chance On Me by Cecily von Ziegesar

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 240 These books are starting to sound too much like the original Gossip Girl series. The way the characters are starting to act and behave is suspiciously similar to Gossip Girl. And you're probably thinking, well yeah! Cecily von Ziegesar wrote both series'! But in actuality, she didn't! She created The Carlyles series, and a lady named Annabelle Vestry was the one who actually wrote the series. And it doesn't even say her name on the front cover! If I was her I'd be a little upset, because it...

Gossip Girl: The Carlyles: You Just Can't Get Enough by Cecily von Ziegesar

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 208 This is the sequel to the first Carlyles book appropriately called The Carlyles, and it was just as good as the first! The beginning was a little slow but they usually are for me with Gossip Girl books, I'm not sure why. But as soon as you really get into the story and what issues are going on in the current novel, the book gets better and better. Gossip Girl/Carlyle books, for me, are like the TV show The Hills; totally addicting and a guilty pleasure! Sure there are books with more quality...

In My Pants Tag

So John Green technically started this tag and basically you find books that no one else has and make a...ahem dirty sentence out of it. Well, not a sentence, but take the title of the book and add "In my pants" to the end of it to see what nasty, freaky, dirty things come up. I think you can also only choose books you own? I could be wrong. Check out mine: (and for those of you who have done this tag; sorry if I've repeated any!) The Great Gatsby in my pants Me and Mr. Darcy in my pants Thrill Ride in my pants The Boyfriend League in my pants Island Girls (And Boys) in my pants A Year in Europe in my pants To Catch a Pirate...

Labor of Love by Rachel Hawthorne

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 296 Out of all of Rachel Hawthorne's books, that I've read so far, I think I liked this one the least. This teen chick lit takes place in New Orleans where Dawn and her two friends Jenna and Amber are rebuilding houses for the post Hurricane Katrina effort. Once the girls land in New Orleans they try to experience the most of the city and go to get a psychic reading. At the reading the psychic predicts that the girls will meet boys and fall in love but will also go through some heartbreak. The...

Liebster Award

Wow! Huge thank you to Sidra over at the World of Ardis book blog, for tagging me for the Liebster Award. For those of you who don't know, it's a blog award for those who have 200 followers or less. To be considered to receive the award a blogger must; reveal eleven facts about themselves, answer eleven questions, tag eleven other bloggers for the award, and then ask eleven questions to the people they tagged. So here we go for mine! Eleven Facts About Me: 1. I have been reading practically before I could walk! My parents always...

June Book Haul

Here are all the books I got in June! I grabbed a couple classics from my used bookstore (however, all the classics were brand new) since they were all under $5 and I figured I should expand my reading horizons over the summer so I got: The Giver by Lois Lowry See my review here! The Time Machine by H. G. Wells See my review here! A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry I will not be doing a review of this play since I read it in school a while back. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Review coming soon! The Catcher...