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serenitymoon 's review for:
I Will Always Love You
by Cecily von Ziegesar
Okay, so obviously we know by now that there's no real point in these books except to be a fun, quick, light reading. I mean, seriously, there's no plot. Not even a beginning, middle, and end. It's like reading someone's biography - someone very rich and famous and could do anything they want. If there was a plot, it felt repetitive and we kept going back in the same circle. I don't know exactly how there could have been 12 books when I feel like I've learned that nothing has changed in these characters. Not much, anyway. There's barely any character development and this last book mirrors the prequel so much (which happened six years ago) it's ridiculous.
But if we forget about the plot, I can't help but feel sympathetic to these characters anyway. Blair, Serena and Nate make such a frustrating triangle, but the kind that you know just can never be resolved. So it might as well be that they all end up alone again in the end. I'm also wondering if the book now has started following the show (now that's a first!) due to the Chuck/Blair hook-up (made possible by Chuck's miraculous change of character) and the return of Dan/Serena. It's interesting to say the least. In the end, this book makes for such a guilty pleasure, and if you forget that it's supposed to have a plot, and basically all the cardinal rules in writing, you might just enjoy it.
But if we forget about the plot, I can't help but feel sympathetic to these characters anyway. Blair, Serena and Nate make such a frustrating triangle, but the kind that you know just can never be resolved. So it might as well be that they all end up alone again in the end. I'm also wondering if the book now has started following the show (now that's a first!) due to the Chuck/Blair hook-up (made possible by Chuck's miraculous change of character) and the return of Dan/Serena. It's interesting to say the least. In the end, this book makes for such a guilty pleasure, and if you forget that it's supposed to have a plot, and basically all the cardinal rules in writing, you might just enjoy it.