As a fan of the show, I guess I was expecting something a little different than a high-school teen book. Reading the blurb, I assumed we would get to know Carrie's past a little. I guess that is what the book delivers but somehow I just couldn't make the connection between the Carrie in the book and the Carrie in the T.V. series. A large part of me actually wishes I hadn't read it as I never learned where Carrie's driving passion to become a writer came from. The plot was quite predictable and though Bushnell attempts to emulate the problems that arise in the series, I found that this didn't work due to the fact that the characters, though supposedly teenagers, are just 20-something girls with cardboard personalities and a school framework.