astridandlouise's Reviews (665)

same review as the first book in the series.. the storyline just got worse in a good lame easy to read chick-lit kind of way.. and yes i will probably read the third..

at the beginning of this book i thought kelly was a bit off with the pixies, but the further along i read, the more i connected with the book. sometimes she manages to go off on a tangent, but most of the time she just comes across as passionate and smart. i enjoyed it. not as much as her first, but it was still a good read.

This was so so different from the tv show! Props to the tv producers for taking an extremely average book and turning it into a worldwide phenomenon!

When I started reading this book I didn't really understand who's perspective it was being written from, and even now I don't know who was supposedly telling this newspaper style/dear diary-esque book.. Was the author? I'm really not sure. The four characters that are portrayed in the tv show are completely different in the book. Even stanford & mr. Big are completely different. They're completely the opposite of what they are in the series.

You can notice some of the stories from the first season of the tv show, thank god they changed the angle the tv show was taking in season two..

I think the way this was written was awful. The author has made herself come across as a complete snob and given the impression that she cares only for herself and the petty things of life. It portrayed to me there's more joy, entertainment and living that comes from people's dramas and personal issues that actually portraying the people living in the problems and how they try to solve them.

I'm not sure whether this is just my petty opinion or whether more people see the book to come across like this, but I had much higher expectations for this book. Bit of a letdown..

okay. this book was readable. i just couldn't picture it in my head as being a prequel to SATC. i couldn't picture her as Carrie. all i saw was a pimply teenage nerd. i'm not sure why, she wasn't exactly portrayed that way in the book. she wasn't the most popular but she wasn't entirely hated either.

for some reason my imagination pictured where she lived as very similar to the town in the lovely bones. does that make me morbid and weird? probably but i couldn't help it. for some reason i did. maybe because it was set in a similar decade? i dunno. i just really couldn't connect the two stories of Carrie together.

i've started reading summer and the city the sequel and it's like a 180. i can picture this story intertwining with SATC but it's so odd as the carrie between the carrie diaries & summer and the city appear to be so different but they're set within the same year! i don't understand why? how she has written this book is beyond me. her stories are all over the place. definitely in my opinion not the best written work i've ever come across. maybe it's just me and her work does intertwine and cross over and make sense for others, but for me it's muddled.

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these two prequels are written like novels. COMPLETELY different from the style SATC is written in! IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE?! is there no consistency in the word anymore?? i'd prefer if they were all written in the novel style, but if you start it one way you can't backtrack and take it a different direction with a different style ms bushnell. (rant over)

overly i enjoyed it. a little too gossip girl (pre new york) but bearable. i'm hoping summer and the city will prove to be much better.

it was good. finally good old SATC-esque. don't have anything really to say about it. if you enjoy SATC you'll enjoy the book.

this book had so many good ideas i'd never even thought of before. and as i'm about to embark on a new beginning; a new adventure i'm definitely going to use lots of the ideas and references that have been used in this book.

I love Tabatha, so had high hopes for this memoir. I love her business savvy style & she explained the way she conducts her own style & why. Hopefully I can take some of her no bullshit honest approach & apply it to my own managerial style.

i understand why this is regarded as such a classic, and whilst i found it easy to read, it absoultely annoyed the living daylights out of me. i found Holden to be such a whiny adolescent and whilst we're all like that at his particular age, i just couldn't connect to the character and did not want to know him. if i really like a character i like to be able to imagine being able to interact with them. all i'd want to do with holden, is slap him. it's a good book, not saying it isn't, but i just did not enjoy Holden's character at all.

well well well, how far little LC has come as a budding writer. this book is written much better than the first LA Candy book she wrote. and i found i could enjoy the book much more when i didn't feel the need to cringe at the misuse of the english language. props to you LC - and definite props to your editor... THANK YOU!

true to form, i finished the book in what felt like a day (it was a little longer), as i have with the other three books LC has written (the LA Candy series). i enjoyed this book. i didn't enjoy the storyline as much as the first LA Candy book, but the book leaves you on the edge of your seat and i cannot wait until the second (Starstruck) is released. the book follows basically the same similar storyline as the LA Candy series, except we have new blood and the return of Madison Parker. this book was basically a builder to the second book. all the little pieces spelling drama coming together where they'll explode in book number two. i can't wait to find out what happens, and i can only hope there will be a third book.

keep satisfying my guilty pleasure LC. how can something so bad, be so good?

i really wanted to be able to give this book a higher rating, but i just couldn't.. if goodreads (...get on that goodreads!!) had the ability to rate half stars it would have got three and a half..

i love love love.. beyond love this film and the adaptation of the book into film was actually pretty good, they bought a lot to the film that was missing from the book and vice versa.. and parts of this story now tie in with the film Oz (good work writers for doing your research!)..

i do love that there are so many new and different adaptations of this book, but the book just moved so quickly.. descriptive but somewhat at the same time lacking. it just felt like Baum wanted to pump out a story and quick.. even if it was a great one, he could have done so much more with it.

still love it though :)