Umm, that was my attempt to read a Gossip Girl novel. But I gave up because I didn't really have time, so I used another awful novel I'd read recently instead. That one was called The Sound of Munich and is actually as bad as the title would lead you to believe. Worse, even! I picked it up because it's about a girl studying abroad in Munich. I was flipping through the first few pages, and they have her application for the study abroad program before the novel actually begins, and it's got name, age, hometown: SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA and I almost died of shock, except it all went downhill from there. EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER in the ENTIRE BOOK is a STEREOTYPE. Which, besides being lame, makes for incredibly boring reading.

And, yeah, I won't be reliable for beta-reading, sorry. But you can definitely have some sporadic cheer! *\o/*