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Privilege (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Library Binding – December 30, 2008
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTurtleback Books
- Publication dateDecember 30, 2008
- ISBN-100606106022
- ISBN-13978-0606106023
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- Publisher : Turtleback Books (December 30, 2008)
- Language : English
- Library Binding : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0606106022
- ISBN-13 : 978-0606106023
- Item Weight : 1.74 pounds
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Kate previously worked for 17th Street Productions in New York, and has written several young adult novels under a different name. She lives outside of New York City.
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Plot: 19/20
Characters: 20/20
Writing: 19/20
Originality: 20/20
Entertainment: 8.5/10
Recommendation: 9/10
Total: 95.5/100
Rating: A
Review:
This book really surprised me. I was glad when I got it to review from PulseIT, but I didn't know what to expect. Privilege is from Ariana's point of view when she's at Brenda T. Trumbull Correctional Facility for murdering Thomas. Kate Brian really did an excellent job of getting into all of the characters heads and figuring out what an insane person would think while they're acting how they are.
How twisted Ariana's mind gets now that you're actually in it is amazing. While reading the Private series, you think she's just a cute little Southern belle -- but in this book you will learn differently, and some of Ariana's actions in previous books will be explained now.
Privilege will have you hooked from the first paragraph all the way to the last page. I look forward to reading Beautiful Disaster just to find out how Ariana will survive and get by. I definitely recommend you read the Private series - or at least start to - before reading Privilege. It gives you a different perspective of the book if you have.
Not this series. This is actually a spin-off from the best-selling series Private, also by Kate Brian - except that this is the story of Ariana Osgood, the girl who got expelled from Easton Academy for killing her secret lover Thomas Pearson. (Not spoiling anything...it would be a spoiler to the Private series, but if you read this book, you've already spoiled yourself - it's on the back cover.) Ariana is now in a correctional facility, but she's got a plan to get her life back on track the way she wants it.
It is amazing how Kate Brian can make you identify with, and root for, a psychopathic murderer like Ariana. Especially if you go back and read the Private series and see what kind of girl she really is - and follow the things she does in this book. But somehow, Brian draws you into Ariana's mind and makes you sympathize with her - even justify her most heinous actions, or at least brush them aside so you can read the rest of the book. Sure, there's a little suspension of disbelief involved, but for the most part Brian draws you to the end of your seat and makes you flip the pages. It's not just a shallow read about the privileged lives of a bunch of rich snobs - although for those of you out there like me who love the brand-name dropping and partying and fabulousness of Gossip Girl, that's there too. But this series is darker and older, much more sophisticated, and much more an intricately woven story with lots of suspense. You're unable to put it down. The end of almost every chapter is some kind of cliffhanger, so you can't just put your bookmark in it and go to sleep, you have to read into the next chapter. And the next. And the next...it's a great ploy, because after reading this book I couldn't wait to go back to the library and get the next ones - I had to buy them on my Kindle and read them right then and there. (Gotta love the Kindle!)
So if you're looking for a series you can dig into, get this book!
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I think the psichiatrist deserve to be fired, because he is wicked and unprofessional, and indeed.
Second of all, Ariana clearly isn't a total psychopath, because she feels guilty. Maybe only a little. Alison DiLaurentis and Amy Elliott are, because they don't. The difference is not a trivial matter. Umpf. But I'm not a psychologist. And Ariana is so interesting... just like Alison and Amy. Maybe it's the A beginning the names. :P