Georgetown Academy
Author: Jessica Etting & Alyssa Schwartz
Series: Georgetown Academy
Pages: 136
Publisher: Coliloquy, LLC
Release Date: October 24,2012
Source: Via Netgalley
Thanks so much for providing a copy for me to review
Summary:
It’s the beginning of a
new political administration. That might not mean much at most high
schools, but at Georgetown Academy, Washington D.C.’s most elite prep
school, January 20th means new alliances, new flings, and new places to
party.
While freshmen—nicknamed “interns” for their willingness
to jump into bed with anyone higher on the D.C. totem pole—navigate the
not-so-friendly halls of GA searching for Algebra and Bio classes, the
school’s lifers have other things on their minds.
For
self-proclaimed D.C. royalty Brinley Madison (of those Madisons), the
first day of school is all about establishing the social hierarchy and
playing the part of perfect political wife to her boyfriend, the
outgoing Vice President’s son. Too bad he has a wandering eye that puts
Bill Clinton’s to shame. Can she keep him, and her own secret vice, in
check?
Ellie Walker, Brinley’s best friend, floats through the
halls on the arm of golden boy Hunter McKnight (the JFK of GA). But when
her ex-boyfriend, Gabe, returns to town and her Senator mother’s
political nemesis is reelected, Ellie’s life starts to snowball out of
control.
Shy, quiet Evan Hartnett is more into books than beer,
and her closet is full of t-shirts and jeans instead of Jason Wu and
Jimmy Choo. No one’s ever really noticed her—but she’s been noticing
them. When her star rises as an intern at D.C.’s most-watched political
news show, she soon finds the two worlds colliding in ways that make her
question what’s secret and what’s fair game.
New girl Taryn
Reyes is all laid-back, California cool; with a father who’s in line to
be the first Hispanic president, she’s ready to dive into the D.C. scene
with an open mind. But when her fellow students turn out to be more
interested in spreading rumors than making friends, she realizes that
forging a drama-free path might be a lot harder than she thinks.
With
so many new friends and former flames in the mix, things are bound to
get a little heated. And while diplomatic immunity might keep the cops
away, there’s not much it can do about the press.
In a town where one
teenage misstep can turn into a national scandal, the students at
Georgetown Academy will have to be on their best behavior—or, at least,
they’ll have to make the world believe that they are.
Because there’s only one rule: whatever you do, don’t get caught.
Georgetown Academy follows the life of four girls who go to
G.A – Evan, Teryn, Brinley, & Ellie . These girls are at this academy
because their father or mother is a politician and serves in the Senate or
House of Representatives. Each girl has
encountered each other in some sort of way. G.A. tests these four girls
throughout the course of this book and show what they are willing to do and
what they are not. Not only does each girl have something to hide, that no one
else knows, they all have some boy trouble and that only leads to one thing –
drama. Let’s face it who doesn’t like a book with drama!
Like I said before, each character is different! Evan
Harnett is your average smart girl, but dreams of becoming a reporter. So in
order to fulfill her dream she sits on the sidelines and tries to be as discrete
as possible because while nobody notices her, she notices them and watches their
every move. Her best friend is the star baseball player and is super awesome! He may just be a little more into rainbows and
unicorns than the average guy ;). Everything is going according to her plan
until, Hunter starts to notice her and she develops a crush on him, but it will
never happen because he is her Ex best friend, Ellie’s, boyfriend.
Evan was definitely
my favorite character of all of them because she’s smart and doesn’t care if
she doesn’t have any friends besides her one. Then, she and Hunter are like the
cutest thing and while I love Ellie there just might be a whole lot more stuff
going on in this book that will make you want Ellie and Hunter to be together!
(Hint, hint)
Since there are so many girls I won’t talk about all of them
except Ellie, but I do have to talk about plot.
Oh boy! Okay, while this book had a lot of events happening,
the plot was just… not that great. I hate having to talk bad about this book,
but honestly there was no plot development what so ever. There was just a lot
of things happening and a lot of drama. The characters never changed throughout
this book and while their background stories were great, the story felt very
rushed.
It felt as if the
book left off on the climax because the whole book was just introductions and
rising action. There are two more books after this one and I feel as if maybe those
books should have been combined with this one.
While that was off for me, I still really enjoyed this book
and it did leave off on the climax leaving me to want more and find out what happens.
This book really brings the element of politics and everyday drama that these politicians
may encounter. This book also takes on a
unique angle and peaks my interest because it explores the lives of daughters
of politicians. If you like drama and
politics this is definitely the book for you.
Even with the problem I encountered with the plot, I still
loved this book because it was very fast paced and made my interest of politics
even more. Don’t miss out on this book!
