‘Private’ (Private #1) by Kate Brian

15 year old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to her dream school. When she starts at school she quickly realizes, that not everything is easy. But the she meets the perfect Billings Girls who can make anything easy, as long as you do as they say. While reading ‘Private’ I found myself unable to stop reading. Sometimes you find a book where everything about it is just amazing and you get that feeling, that this is the book. ‘Private’ was exactly that for me, because I was Reed Brennan.

by Natacha

Title:

‘Private’ (Private #1)

Author:

Kate Brian

Pages:

227

Reading Level:

Advanced Beginner

Published:

July 1st, 2006

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

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Excerpt from ‘Private’

I stared across the room at the four girls and the guys who hovered around them, my pulse racing with a new sense of excitement. A few more girls sat down at the other end of their table, every last one of them was beautiful and poised, though to me they seemed second-string compared to the four girls I had seen the night before.
“What about the others?” I asked.
“Eh, they’re in Billings too,” Diana said with a wave of her fork.
So I was right. It was Noelle and her friends who were important. Noelle and her friends who were the most worth knowing.
My heart pounded against my rib cage and I pressed my sweaty palm into the thigh of my jeans. I had never wanted anything as much as I wanted to be at that table right then. If I could just enter that inner sanctum, every door at Easton would open up to me. I would never have to worry about being accepted or fitting in. I would be leaving my own crappy, depressing home life so far behind maybe I could manage to forget it altogether.


Comments

9 svar til “‘Private’ (Private #1) by Kate Brian”

  1. Hi Natacha 🙂

    Great video!

    I do have a question:

    I understand that you easily can relate to Reed, and maybe even better, you feel that you are Reed. 🙂 And as Reed, who do you like the most of the Billings girls and why?

    Keep up …

    Best wishes Peter

    1. Thank you, Peter!
      Wow, that is really good question. As Reed I would probably say Taylor, just because she helped her with her studies, but at the same time I think Kiran is such an interesting character, which is probably why I would choose her. I think she is this sweet but can be the devil it self when she needs to be, which I love!
      Also Noelle, just because she is so forward and mean and just a really interesting character as well.. 😀
      I feel like she is so much more than she lets on, and I love that mysterious side! 😀
      What about you? Who are your favorite Billings Girl?

      1. Ah, okay, haha 🙂 Yeah, It’s hard to choose only one 😉 I would also say, that we should choose a nice person, but in the real world it’s often the mysterious and maybe rude persons who impresses us. I remember that I years ago, when I read it, also thought Kiran was special.

        Amazing how Kieran Scott builded up these girls. While writing a story like this, there would be a great chance that the author would just make 4-5 girls that reminded so much of each other that the readers couldn’t distinguish them from one another. But that isn’t so. They are so unique and special, all of them.

        🙂 Peter

        1. Yeah, excactly. I think we choose them, because they often are so different from ourselves and our everyday life.

          Yes, she has definitely done it in a very special way. In some books the popular girls are often decribed as almost the same person, but with a leader. Sure, Noelle is the leader here, but as you point out as well, they are very different from one another.:-)

          – Natacha

  2. Hey!

    I will just ask about were you had buyed the book?

    Keep up, the good work!

    1. Thanks, Yasmina!
      I bought the book on wowhd.dk, it took 2 weeks, but I got it for 59 danish kroners, so it was a pretty good deal. 🙂

      1. By the way! If you buy from wowhd.dk remember, that they ship fron Hong Kong. So if you purchase under 80 DKK. You don’t have to pay taxes and handling charge (25% AND 160 DKK extra) but if you purchase for more than 80 DKK, then you’ll have to pay extra.
        Just so you know. 🙂

        1. Thank you so much, I will remmber that 😉

  3. It was a dark day. I was in the library, looking for some books. In then, I found Private (danish). It was a series of 13-14 books, but i took it, and read it. Know I’m, in the 5th book. I love Private.

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