Reviews - Bienvenue a Easton

238 reviews for:

Bienvenue a Easton

Sidonie Van den Dries, Kate Brian

3.45 AVERAGE

schadwick77's review against another edition

2.5

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

skywalkermarvels's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

bookedinsaigon's review against another edition

2.0

A new series emerges out of a world already full of Gossip Girls, A-lists, and Cliques. Sophomore Reed Brennan has been accepted into the prestigious Easton Academy on scholarship. Getting out of her depressing hometown and her emotionally abusive mother’s grasp is liberating for Reed, but it is not too long before she once again feels like retreating into her usual antisocial loner shell. The only bright spot in her life is the bad boy Thomas Pearson—totally wrong but dangerously attractive and attentive to her.

Then she meets the Billings girls. They are beautiful, brilliant, and the best…and there are only four of them who really matter: Noelle, Ariana, Kiran, and Taylor. Reed thinks that she’ll be set if she can only become one of them, and so takes every opportunity to suck up to them. Sure, some of the things they make her do, such as stealing a test, make her think twice, but Reed knows that without the Billings girls, she’d simply be another sophomore nobody at Easton.

However, the Billings girls and Thomas don’t get along. In the meantime, Thomas has secrets of his own, too, and Reed fluctuates from desperately wanting to be part of the Billings girls to hating them for having a sickening power over everyone. Can Reed love Thomas, please the Billings girls, AND stay true to herself all at once? That seems like an impossible mountain to climb.

There is really nothing that has already been written in Private. Thomas is the stereotypical guy we hate to love, and Noelle is your average two-faced perfect villainess. There will certainly be room in this world for Private and its fans, though.

labunnywtf's review against another edition

1.0

I don't know how old Kate Brian was when this series was published, but I definitely know how old she was when she wrote them. 12. Maybe younger.

I feel like I need to go back to my review of the awful Pretty Little Liars series. As bad as that was, this makes that look like Shakespeare.

These characters, Reed most especially, are about as three dimensional as a photocopy of the Mona Lisa that you could buy at the Thrift Shop.