I first discovered Zoey Dean with How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls, a delightful novel that the CW show Privileged was based on. I'm still mourning the loss of that show! Anyway, for those of you who have fond memories of the Sweet Valley High or Sunset Island series, you will certainly enjoy this modern version. The first in The A-List series is appropriately titled The A-List. The protagonist, Anna Percy, is an old money rich girl from NYC with impeccable looks, taste, charm and intelligence. She moves to L.A. to live with her father for a change of scenery . . . but also a lifestyle change. Anna is sick of living her mother's life by way of "this is how we do things big book, east coast wasp edition." She meets gorgeous Ben Birnbaum on the flight to L.A., and immediately gets thrown into the A-List world of Beverly Hills High after she attends the wedding of Jackson Sharpe, an actor akin to Brad Pitt in star status, whose daughter Sam just happens to be at the top of said A-List. And in love with Ben Birnbaum. Add in her best friends Cammie, a saucy knockout once scorned by Ben vowing revenge, and Dee, a new-age Kabbalah yogi who thinks she's pregnant by Ben, and you can see why these books are hard to put down. The best part is you finish them in no time laying by the pool . . . the worst part is you might not have the next one on hand. After reading the first four in the series, The A-List, Girls on Film, Blonde Ambition and Tall Cool One, I'm officially hooked. Dean has created a great series of beach reads that anyone who loves great soaps will absolutely adore.[Photo: www.treebeardbooks.com]
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