Reed Brennan arrived at Easton Academy expecting to find an idyllic private school experience -- challenging classes, adorably preppy boys, and a c...
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Apr 01, 2011
Sam
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Reading this book I couldn't help, but think"where the hell did natasha go?" she was in the first few chapters and then disappeared. Otherwise I absolutely loved this book! Kate Brian is an incredibly talented writer! Although I must say that I miss the old Billings girls, these characters are mediocre compared to Noelle, Krian and Taylor. And the entire time I wanted Cheyenne to drop dead, well I got my wish. I hated Cheyenne so much, she almost made me stop reading the book. When Ree
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Oct 09, 2010
Jessica
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Inner Circle, the fifth installment of the Private series starts a brand new school year at Easton Academy. With the Billings girls gone, Reed is sad, but a little bit excited to have a normal school year. However, Reed is going to get ANYTHING but normal.
Cheyenne, a character who is mentioned in the other books, but who doesn’t really play a prominent role is the new self-proclaimed leader of Billings dorm this year. Reed hates that Cheyenne and some of the other Billings girls want t More...
Cheyenne, a character who is mentioned in the other books, but who doesn’t really play a prominent role is the new self-proclaimed leader of Billings dorm this year. Reed hates that Cheyenne and some of the other Billings girls want t More...
May 21, 2009
Telka
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In this book, Reed comes back to Easton in a more positive attitude, because guess what? The blackmailing, lies, deception, and murder are finally over-the killers were caught and everything is finally going normal. Well... almost. This year the old Billings Girls are gone and the new Billings Girls are in. Welcome Constance, Missy, Lorna, Kiki, Astrid, and Sabine. The only problem is that the head of Billings, Cheyenne Martin, doesn't want some of the new girls in Billings, and she will try
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Aug 28, 2011
Paperback Princess
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Apr 05, 2010
Kari
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Oy Vey! A lot is a changin’ at Easton Academy. Noelle and the “Mean Girls” are gone. Inner Circle picks up at the beginning of Reed’s second year at Easton. The last we’d heard from her was winter break of her first year. And as I said, a lot has changed.
There’s a new headmaster, Reed has a new roommate and there’s a new Billings “Queen B”. Not to mention 6 open spots at Billings and 80 years of tradition that are being thrown out the door.
The “Mean Girls” may have treate More...
There’s a new headmaster, Reed has a new roommate and there’s a new Billings “Queen B”. Not to mention 6 open spots at Billings and 80 years of tradition that are being thrown out the door.
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Mar 19, 2011
Jerry
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Apr 14, 2010
Maddie
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Having read the other books, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this little sucker. (: And I am definitely glad I did! Kate Brians books are so stunningly written. Maybe not the details, but she gives her characters so much life. Nobody is perfect in her books, maybe thats why I like them so much. This book was surprise after surprise, and just when I thought I knew what was going to happen next, something totally opposite would happen.
This book really made me feel. I mean, everythin More...
This book really made me feel. I mean, everythin More...
Oct 26, 2010
Rose
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"Inner Circle" is the fifth novel in Kate Brian's "Private" series. I'll admit this is one of the first novels I've read in the series, and I've read them a bit out of order. However, reading the novel does make me want to read more, as Brian maintains such a fluidly paced, dramatic interpretation of Reed Brennan's return to Easton Academy.
After last year, Reed returns for the new semester looking forward to new changes. She's a regular member of the elite Billin More...
After last year, Reed returns for the new semester looking forward to new changes. She's a regular member of the elite Billin More...
Apr 24, 2009
Purplycookie
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Reed Brennan arrived at Easton Academy expecting to find an idyllic private school experience -- challenging classes, adorably preppy boys, and a chance to create a new life for herself. Instead, she discovered lies, deception, blackmail, and...murder. But, thankfully, the killers were caught and the nightmare is finally over.
Now, with a new school year ahead of her, Reed steps back on Easton's ivy-covered campus ready to start over. Reed is no longer under the fab four's protection, More...
Now, with a new school year ahead of her, Reed steps back on Easton's ivy-covered campus ready to start over. Reed is no longer under the fab four's protection, More...
May 17, 2009
Shonda
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It’s Reed’s junior year at Easton Academy. She has returned to school determined to move forward after the tragic events of last year. Now that the Billings Girls are gone and a new headmaster has been hired, Billings House won’t be the same. The new headmaster assigns six new girls to Billings, against the traditional process. This causes dissension among the current Billings Girls, which will eventually lead to an outcome that none of the girls will see coming.
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Jun 10, 2010
Noa
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Inner Circle is the 5th book of the Private novel series. After a hard very hard year with lots of conflicts and dangerous problems that almost cost Reed’s life, she decides to come back to Easton Academy. Six of the Billing Girls left the school because they were accused for Thomas’s murder. Cheyenne, another Billings girl, becomes the new leader (she also becomes Reed’s enemy). She make 6 other girls, Constance, Missy, Lorna, Kiki, Astrid and Sabine do many tasks to fully belong into Billings
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Jul 27, 2011
Amna
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this book didn't really live up to my exceptions as the other books did. I guess without Noelle and her crew these books won't be soo great.
Cheyenne takes over and the new headmaster tries to enforce everything and leave billings girls as only a place to live. Cheyenne will not accept this, the new head master sends in 6 girls that none of the billings girls had approved of beforehand. Cheyenne tests them and does cruel things, that's when Reed can't take it and goes against her with t More...
Cheyenne takes over and the new headmaster tries to enforce everything and leave billings girls as only a place to live. Cheyenne will not accept this, the new head master sends in 6 girls that none of the billings girls had approved of beforehand. Cheyenne tests them and does cruel things, that's when Reed can't take it and goes against her with t More...
Feb 26, 2009
Izlinda
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New school year - Brian skipped over spring semester/last two quarters of Reed's first year. Guess there wasn't enough drama, though I would have liked to know what Billings was like then with the girls gone.
So there's a new headmaster and he's putting down the rules pretty hard, particularly on Billings. Or as he says, a "sorority." (Which is pretty much true.)
Some parts of the book seemed rather high-drama and annoying, but I did like the ending. You can a More...
So there's a new headmaster and he's putting down the rules pretty hard, particularly on Billings. Or as he says, a "sorority." (Which is pretty much true.)
Some parts of the book seemed rather high-drama and annoying, but I did like the ending. You can a More...
Oct 26, 2011
Angela
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If we could do halves on this i would.
I would personally rate it 2 and 1/2 stars.
I really disliked how Kate Brian cut out the entire rest of the year from the 4th to 5th book. It's frustrating to start the next book and suddenly a girl has all these new friends she rarely talked to... I guess the series would be too long if she actually made stuff happen but honestly it's like a whole new group of people that we are focusing on... I really did like the Cheyenne/Josh problem though. It More...
I would personally rate it 2 and 1/2 stars.
I really disliked how Kate Brian cut out the entire rest of the year from the 4th to 5th book. It's frustrating to start the next book and suddenly a girl has all these new friends she rarely talked to... I guess the series would be too long if she actually made stuff happen but honestly it's like a whole new group of people that we are focusing on... I really did like the Cheyenne/Josh problem though. It More...
Aug 10, 2009
Stef
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Finally Reeds life is back to normal or almost back to normal after a year of DRAMA... While cheyenne is head... There are stilll some secrets that they know about people... Will they tell everyone or keep it shut?? While everyone is finally getting over Thomass dead and who the murder was there is still drama!? Well not a lot...
I connect to this becase there is always gonnna be drama and you will never get away from it.
I give this book 5 stars because I just love how in e More...
I connect to this becase there is always gonnna be drama and you will never get away from it.
I give this book 5 stars because I just love how in e More...
Dec 05, 2010
Catherine
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I’m not usually the type to read (and enjoy) books about the lifestyles of the rich and the shameless, but the more and more I read the Private series the more and more I find myself willing to make an exception for Kate Brian’s series.
Inner Circle is my second Private novel, having read Suspicion (the eleventh in the series) first1 and one thing I have been impressed with is the recapping the events of previous books in the series. As someone reading out-of-order I’ve appreciated the More...
Inner Circle is my second Private novel, having read Suspicion (the eleventh in the series) first1 and one thing I have been impressed with is the recapping the events of previous books in the series. As someone reading out-of-order I’ve appreciated the More...
Dec 28, 2011
Andrea
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Reed goes back to Easton, which comes as a suprise to some, considering what she went through her first Semester there. She's back though and ready to show that she does deserve to be there, and with her boy friend Josh she knows she can do it. Things seem to be going well until the new head master, Comwrell, tells the girls they do not get to chose who lives in the house. Reed handles it well, but Cheyenne, not so much and she tries to make the girls earn their way in. When Reed stands up to he
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Aug 31, 2009
Christine
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This book is part of the sequel to the Private series which started as when Reed Brennan arrived at Easton Academy expecting to find an idyllic private school experience -- challenging classes, adorably preppy boys, and a chance to create a new life for herself,but instead, she discovered lies, deception, blackmail, and...murder. But, thankfully, the killers were caught and the nightmare is finally over except now the old billings girls are gone.Now with a new school year ahead of her, Reed step
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Jun 11, 2009
Noemi claudine
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This ist he 5th book in the private series. Cheynne is made president of billings. and 6 new members are added to the Billings, Kiki, Astrid, Lorna, Missy, Consatnce, and new comert Sabine. Everything is goignwell except t hat cheynnee hates reed and Reed hates Cheyenne. Secretd are Uncoverd and a schooking ending wants everyone hungry for more.
I cant connect to this bok by a connection. In my old shchool I used to have a enemy, i hated her, and she hated me. We were s More...
I cant connect to this bok by a connection. In my old shchool I used to have a enemy, i hated her, and she hated me. We were s More...
Dec 22, 2011
Jennifer
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Reviewed by Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen for TeensReadToo.com
Previously in PRIVATE:
Josh Hollis, Reed's new boyfriend, was arrested since everyone believed that he was the killer. But the murder of Thomas was finally solved when Ariana had confessed to going back, after the girls had kidnapped him and tied him up, and beating him to death, mainly because Thomas loved Reed more. While Ariana was arrested, so were the other girls, while Reed found her way More...
Previously in PRIVATE:
Josh Hollis, Reed's new boyfriend, was arrested since everyone believed that he was the killer. But the murder of Thomas was finally solved when Ariana had confessed to going back, after the girls had kidnapped him and tied him up, and beating him to death, mainly because Thomas loved Reed more. While Ariana was arrested, so were the other girls, while Reed found her way More...
Jul 05, 2010
Nian
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Although I loved the Private series from the very beginning, I thought the latest installment was a bit disappointing.
Last year was about betrayal, lies and murder. But that's all in the past, and Reed Brennan, whose suffered through it all, is ready for a fresh start. And a fresh start means that the old Billings Girls are gone. Now there's a new headmaster who doesn't care about the Billings House being a legacy. And Cheyenne, who's appointed herself as the new Billings Queen, is More...
Last year was about betrayal, lies and murder. But that's all in the past, and Reed Brennan, whose suffered through it all, is ready for a fresh start. And a fresh start means that the old Billings Girls are gone. Now there's a new headmaster who doesn't care about the Billings House being a legacy. And Cheyenne, who's appointed herself as the new Billings Queen, is More...
Nov 12, 2010
Alyssia
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Aug 18, 2008
Tiny Pants
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This was the first book I read in the Private series, which I'd previously avoided, figuring it would be just another stupid boarding school series. And indeed yes -- the boarding school milieu, marveling at the beautiful buildings and old-school New England ambiance, the cable-knit cashmere sweaters and the perfectly-worn-in designer jeans -- are getting to be beyond cliche.
That aside though, the fast-paced plot of these books makes them very different from some of their boarding s More...
That aside though, the fast-paced plot of these books makes them very different from some of their boarding s More...
Oct 09, 2010
Angelia Fransisca
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With Noelle and co out of the picture, Reed's life in Easton cannot be more anymore peaceful. Or so she expects. Cheyenne Martin has finally shown her true self & that means more drama at Billings.
Six girls were chosen to be at Billings by the new headmaster. Cheyenne & Josh seem to have something going on behind Reed's back. Reed wants no drama, but when things going out of control, she has to stand up for what she thinks is right - even if it means declaring war with Cheyenne & the o More...
Six girls were chosen to be at Billings by the new headmaster. Cheyenne & Josh seem to have something going on behind Reed's back. Reed wants no drama, but when things going out of control, she has to stand up for what she thinks is right - even if it means declaring war with Cheyenne & the o More...
Dec 31, 2008
Ella
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All the murders and the people who lie are gone. Now the dean orders that Reeds friends from the other dorm must live in the Billing house no mater what. Everyone id fine with that but Cheyenne Martin.
I can make a text to text connection with the book Klepto because in the 2 books there is always someone who has to be in charge a rude. They are booth really good books too.
I would give this book 5 stars because in this book they are very descriptive and I could really unde More...
I can make a text to text connection with the book Klepto because in the 2 books there is always someone who has to be in charge a rude. They are booth really good books too.
I would give this book 5 stars because in this book they are very descriptive and I could really unde More...
Jul 19, 2011
Wyatt
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Can I just say that I think Reed and Josh are so cute in this book? I really liked this book but it feels like I skipped a book from Confessions to Inner Circle. We missed a whole semester of drama, but I guess it just goes to show all you haters that this really is a murder mystery series and not a teenage drama.I think with every book, it just keeps getting better and better!!!!
Jan 17, 2009
Kenya
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This was an excellent book. I am currently reading the other novel to this series. This novel was very interesting and mysterious. The novel is so planned out which makes it even more exciting and to have me continue to read it. This one was about Reed Brennan starting a new school year at Easton Academy. As i continued to read this novel more drama was influenced by the characters in the novel. This book was really good and i am reading the follow- up to this book and it gets even better.
Oct 29, 2010
Sydni
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Jun 24, 2009
Hanna
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After finishing the 4th book in this series I wasn't thrilled when I started the 5th book because I knew it would be a lot different and I thought it wouldn't be as interesting. However it turned out to be just as captivating as the first four books in the series where its a real page turner untill the very end of the novel and your left still wanting more.
Feb 22, 2009
Christine
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The fifth book in Kate Brian's "Private" young adult series - a saga about inner sanctum rich and privileged kids at an east coast private school.
As a librarian I like to keep up with what the teens are reading - a benefit being I can screen what my daughter reads. This book is appropriate for ages 12 and up.
As a librarian I like to keep up with what the teens are reading - a benefit being I can screen what my daughter reads. This book is appropriate for ages 12 and up.
