A review by geo_ix
Nobody Does It Better: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily Von Ziegesar

3.0

I hate Serena even more than I did watching the show. God she’s so selfish that scene was WOW. She’s all vibes and no thoughts and is shocked when she’s caught. Nate’s s stoner loser who thinks women are interchangeable and every time I think these two are finally thinking of anyone but themselves they prove me wrong. Jenny’s a brat. Dans a loser. Chucks a wanker. Vanessa’s intolerable. Blair is awful. The show did a better job at making me feel some empathy for the characters because it’s the only thing the book lacks, which means I’m always mad at the characters for just being assholes in every situation. They’re never redeemed and that, paired with all the fatphobia, homophobia etc (I understand it was a different time but it’s definitely not it and I don’t care) is very ick. I like them, but I’ll never love them. I’d never recommend them today and it’s honestly sad that this was what was sold to us as kids back then because it really normalised it at such a young age and it never should have been a thing.