Tall Cool One (A-List, #4) by Zoey Dean

Tall Cool One (A-List, #4) Reviews

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  Lauren

  I will admit I skipped all the Dee - Poppy chapters and some of Sam’s. They just do not interest me at all, and they’re always gossiping so you get a recap in the next chapter anyway. I think Adam and Cammie are cute and I’m glad Sam has a potential love interest as well. Anna, well I think it was good she’s finally alone in this book as I think her character needed some “me time.” It’s a good series if you are into Gossip Girls and Pretty Little Liars. Quick, fun, light reads!
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  Nicole (( lost in the book's world ))

  Anna is still player.. But whatever....
  
  I am so weird that I liked this series when I was young but I was never finish with it by last two books! -_- Have to finish this series then I can move on!
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  Lauren

  Honestly maybe 4.25-4.5 stars! I love this one. Cammie is showing her human side. Sam finally has Eduardo and maybe some confidence in herself. Anna is learning to be less of an uptight goober. My favorite so far! I want to stay at a fancy resort now...
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  Robyn Cee

  Book was okay. The last Thurs was the best
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  Malarie

  Honestly just reading these to try and get them
  Off my shelf.
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  Nicole Felten

  Loved it! So happy for all of the characters!
  
  To get a break from LA , Anna and Sam head to a Mexican beach resort. But what do they do when they find themselves literally lost in the desert!? I found myself very happy for all of the characters in this book, can't wait for the next in the series!
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  Shannon

  I am trudging my way through this series to remove it from my shelves. These teen romps are shallow and boring, which are already dated and feel old. This book was ridiculously longer than the others in this series and I do not think that was a wise decision.
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  Ireland

  This book wasn’t the best book I’ve ever read. But it was an easy read while I was in school this last semester. It was a little slow for most of it but I recommend this book for anyone looking for a quick and easy read.
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  Robin

  very simple love story, it was okay
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  Laura

  Absolutely dreadful. I only read it to complete a reading challenge. It's a story about a bunch of spoiled rich people that only care about themselves. Don't waste your time!
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  Amanda

  I remember not really liking this one when I read it back in freakin' middle school and I remembered why when I reread it now - not enough Cammie, too much Anna.
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  Courtney

  See my review of The A-List for my take on revisiting this series and omitting ratings:
  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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  Tiara

  i just wanted it to end honestly
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  Dani Mendonca

  ódio do meu cérebro que não consegue processar nenhuma leitura além dessa série aqui
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  Amanda

  Amanda Erakky 3/11/08
  904 Writing Arts
  Book Review
  Book: Tall Cool One
  Author: Zoey Dean
  # of Pages: 295
  Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
  Cost: $9.99
  ISBN: 0-316-73508-6
  
  Have you ever wanted to live the life of the rich and beautiful?? Zoey Dean does a great job of making you feel like one. “ ‘ Rich Americans! From Beverly Hills, California;’ shouted Sam in English. ‘ My father is Jackson Shape. The famous actor! (Dean 266) ’” That’s the line Samantha Sharpe always uses to get out of a tight situation. Which is often….
  From the last three books, a girl named Anna goes to Beverly Hills at the middle of her senior year. She graduated early and is heading off to Yale in the fall. She decides to move to Beverly Hills until the summer because she wanted to find herself, start something new. While she’s in Beverly Hills, she falls in love, and makes new friends, with enemies as well.
  This book begins when she finds that she needs to take a break from boys, her perfect mother (being perfect gets to a point when it annoys you,) and her rehab-stunt- sister. She takes her dad’s offer on going to Mexico. While she’s driving there, she realizes it’s going to be a long car ride, but not for long. In Mexico, she starts letting out her wild side.
  In the book, I liked how Dean puts many different conflicts to keep you awake. Even though there’s more than one series, if you read any one of the books, you won’t feel that you have to read the other books to understand the one you’re reading, (If you just picked up a book from the series and you haven’t read the ones before it.) Dean fills you in on what happens in the books before it, bits by bits. The further you read on, the more she recaps about what happens before that book. I also liked the reaction you get after reading a chapter. Like you might feel surprised, sad, happy, excited, disappointed, etc… It makes the book that much more interesting. Dean also gives a lot of sensory details so that you can picture the setting and the action that going on.
  Tall Cool One shows you that’s it’s okay to have a little fun and that you should be happy with the way you are/look. Sam tries dealing with her body image and have someone who will actually like her for who she is and not her famous dad. Oh, and Anna, Anna, you’ll just have read about her. All I can tell you is that this a great book that you should defiantly read. I recommend this book to teenagers because they can relate.
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  Julia Maggiacomo

  It’s been six weeks since Anna Percy left New York to live with her father and become one of Beverly Hills’ elite teens. In that time, she’s been emotionally entangled with two boys, made friends and enemies. Zoey Dean chronicled these events in three previous parts of The A-List series. Tall Cool One is the fourth installment in the best-selling set. Fans will appreciate that the story picks up right where Blonde Ambition left off. Anna has a bad case of Ben on the Brain. Not helping matters is the sight of her previous crush Adam hitting it off with self-centered Cammie. Anna makes a spontaneous escape from all that troubles her. Sam can’t bear to share a house with her famous father and pregnant, 21-year-old stepmother. Bizarre preparations for the impending birth drive Sam to flee reality as well. While Anna and Sam rest at an exclusive resort, shallow Cammie experiences true feelings of love for the first time. However, insecurities and lies jeopardize her relationship with Adam.
  I enjoyed this book for multiple reasons. One reason I enjoyed reading this book was because it keeps the reader at the edge of their seats. Since this book is telling stories of four different people, the drama and shocking findings are endless. I also enjoyed the glitz, glamour, and rich aspect the book took place in. Every chapter as about the life of elite teenagers, which every-day teenagers dreams about. I also loved how the story was almost narrated by a teen which made the book easy to comprehend and follow. Tall Cool One was also a fun virtual vacation to Las Casitas alone. Reading about the amenities of that resort is delicious. The fantasy plot keeps the momentum of this series going.
  I would strongly recommend this book to a friend to read. I would in particular recommend this to teenagers and not adults. Although adults might enjoy reading about the glamorous life this book is centered on everyday teenage girl gossip. The Tall Cool One is also better suited for teenagers because of the vocab used in this book. Over all I think it is a good read for anyone willing to read it.
  
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  Grace Loris

  I found this to be really good.
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  Trisha W.

  his book started out slow for the first chapter, then it picked back up again, then it went down hill again. There were many times I was going to close the book and be done with it, but I ended up finishing it. This is the fourth book in the A-list series. I was told that you didn't need to read them in order and the way the book was written I believe that.
  A problem I had with the book was the celebrities popping up all over. I know this is an A-list book directed towards celeb city but just the way the celebrities are mentioned in the book really annoyed me and it took me a couple of pages to get back into the book. For example, Sam's young step-mother is pregnant and she wants to name the baby Ruby Hummingbird. Then down the page it says; "Sam found the name very affected but knew the kid would fit in fine in a town where girls were named Rumer, Coco, and Apple." This just annoyed me for some reason. The way the book is written you know that the girls have money but you don't see them as these high society people who hang out with the celebrities. So when a Celeb name is mentioned you think, Where did they come from?
  The book did pick up towards the middle/end when it was just Anna and Sam and it got funny. I wish the rest of the book would have been written funny like the end. But it is like the author got funny in the middle/ end of the book and no where else. I also wish at the end the guy would have been for Anna and not Sam because Anna's relationship was left hanging at the end.
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  Brittany

  How I Came To Read This Book: Danielle lent it to me.
  
  The Plot: Anna Percy and Sam Sharpe are in need of a break from their high-strung LA rich girl lives - so they take their rich selves down to Mexico to an exclusive resort called Las Casitas to engage in some fun and flirting. Meanwhile back home, dippy Dee has moved into the Sharpe household to help Sam's stepmom prepare for her pending baby girl, Ruby Hummingbird, and Cammie is struggling with her strong feelings for Adam Flood - that are being increasingly pent up due to their lack of, shall we say 'release'?
  
  The Good & The Bad: This was definitely my fave A-List book to date - after reading it back to back with "Rites of Spring (Break)" I think I'm in the mood for a tropical escape! I can't say the book was anything wowza (hence why it only earned 3 stars) but it definitely peaked my interest more than the previous books - perhaps because Dean finally took the girls out of nasty, flippant mode and made them a bit more human and interesting. I liked how the timeline on things wasn't so abrupt (a big problem in the Gossip Girl series) - that Dean finally acknowledges the changes/emotions the girls are going through aren't going to make them change overnight.
  
  The Bottom Line: The A-List is heating up!
  
  Anything Memorable?: Well...I got tooth/gum surgery done this week, so this was my reading material while lounging around the house and healing.
  
  50-Book Challenge?: Book #40 in 2008.
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  Leelynn (Sometimes Leelynn Reads) ❤

  The more I go through these books, the more I feel like Anna should just give up on boys completely and focus on her relationships with her girl friends. I mean, when her and Sam are actually on the same side, the two can take on anything, that's so much fun to see. When she's constantly having to fight with Cammie and Dee, then it gets hard to deal with. Why can't they all just be friends and say "screw you" to Ben and the rest of the boys that cause them nothing but heartache and headaches? I say, girls rule and boys drool.
  
  I'm probably not going to go too deep into this review since the book is really short and sweet. Honestly if I really wanted to, I could read it in a day while I'm waiting to fall asleep or while I'm enjoying dinner by myself. It's that quick, and I'm glad these books are. Honestly we don't need these books to be over 300 pages in order to be interesting. Zoey Dean keeps it straight and to the point, making sure that the drama contained in each segment of the series is enough to make us wanting more. That's how I like my teenage drama books, and this is no different.
  
  I still need to finish the rest of the series eventually, and hopefully I will soon. I just say that I need Anna to actually be friends with these girls and I need Cammie to stop being such a biyotch to Anna so much. Ben doesn't like you anymore, so get over it. Besides, Adam is a much better option anyway. He actually treats you like the princess you think you are.
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  Yasmina

  Anna needs a time-out from all her boys, and Sam's hunting for a good one to love. So together they make a getaway to Las Casitas, Mexico, the super luxury spa where Angelenos go to get more sun. They spend the week waterskiing, scuba diving, saloning, and yes, smooching with boys.Then a crazy lunch leads to Anna and Sam heading to a bar and they get drunk and stumble into the desert. After regaining their senses, they realize they have gotten rid of their watches and phones and they notice a huge storm brewing. They encounter a deserted mansion and fall asleep. They are awoken by guards and eventually Jackson Sharpe, along with Cammie and Dee, flies in and saves them.
  
  I can connect to Anna and Sam because sometimes I feel like I just want to get away and go somewhere that no one will bother you. I just wish I were them and SUPER rich so I could do that!
  
  I gave this book 5 stars because it kept me hooked throughout the whole book!
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  Tiny Pants

  Having actually enjoyed the third A-List book, I was excited to read this one. Had this series actually turned a corner? Unfortunately, no. This book, while getting props for being randomly named after a horrible Robert Plant solo hit from the '80s, was terrible. It picked up exactly zero of the plot from the last one that was exciting, and in fact acted as if some of those things (specifically Cammie getting a stepsister with no explanation of her origins and the same character getting severely punished for sabotaging her father's TV show) appear to have never even happened. And somehow Sam went from a size 8 to a size 10 or 12. Still not fat! Oh the actual plot = Sam and Anna on vacation in Baja California, only if you've ever been to BC, there is nowhere that looks like this nor would have the climate that it is described as having in February.
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  Lee

  This is the first book I read in the series. It was an okay read.
  
  The Pros
  I loved the sneak peek into the glamorous lives that the protagonists led, the complications and the inner demons they battled with daily. I was also glad that Cammie, from which I originally thought was a two-dimensional character, actually turned out to be somewhat good. I was also interested in the lives of people in Los Angeles, specifically in Beverly Hills, considering I just migrated to Los Angeles myself. I also loved Anna's character, which for the most part was adorable and quirky.
  
  The Cons
  A lot of portrayal of Los Angeles kind of scared me. All the talk about being too conscious of the weight, of the fashion sense and all that nonsense kind of disturbed me to the very least.
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  Jessica

  this book receives a four star rating mostly for the fact that its the first one in the series with no noticeable screw ups. no really its not that exceptional im still wondering why i liked this series and why i feel compelled to finish it but it was just nice to see someone finally editing. I liked seeing sam finally find a guy who'll hopefully take care of some of her body image issues because im sick of the poor little rich girl routine. it was fun watching anna unwind while high. other than that it was pretty much the same as all the other books. cammie's a bitch dee is just weird and anna has even more guys falling at her feet without even trying