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Last Christmas: The Private Prequel (Hardcover)

by Kate Brian (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (7 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1416913696
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416913696
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars What Happened Last Christmas..., 30 Jan 2009
By Nonie Baker "Nonie" (Moycullen, Ireland) - See all my reviews
This such a brilliant book. It'll make you feel glad you are at home reading it and not at Easton over Christmas!

Ariana Osgood has always been Easton Academy's good girl. She gets straight-As, is a Billings Girl and her boyfriend is Daniel Ryan, a senior. But when she is stuck at Easton in a blizzard over the Christmas break, she falls in love with Thomas Pearson. They talked and told each other their darkest secrets.

But someone wants to make sure Ariana and Thomas's Christmas holiday turn into a nightmare.So it looks like Ariana will have to fight back.

This book was a little scary at parts, but it was brilliant. It revealed a whole load of unexpected surprises about Ariana's life, and also what really happened the night Thomas Pearson was murdered.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Teens Read Too, 19 Oct 2008
By TeensReadToo "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." (All Over the US & Canada) - See all my reviews
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****SPOILER ALERT**** For readers who haven't read beyond CONFESSIONS in the PRIVATE series, this book is best left unread. Details in LAST CHRISTMAS will ruin much of the suspense in the first four books of the series.

LAST CHRISTMAS is a great addition to the series by Kate Brian. The story gives much needed background insight into Ariana Osgood, the Billings girl arrested for the murder of Thomas Pearson.

The story begins near Christmas break of Ariana's junior year. When we meet Ariana in the first book of the series, PRIVATE, she is one of the privileged senior girls at Easton Academy. But in LAST CHRISTMAS, she is the naïve, innocent roommate to Noelle Lange. Ariana is the good girl that does what is expected of her. She gets top grades, lives in the most respected dormitory, and has the perfect boyfriend, Daniel Ryan. Her mother couldn't be prouder of her.

Daniel isn't 100% perfect though. He's incredibly jealous and protective of Ariana. At the Winter Ball, he torments Sergei, a Latvian exchange student, because he caught Sergei taking photos of Ariana throughout the dance. Ariana is to spend the two weeks of Christmas break at a ski resort with Daniel and his family. And Daniel is expecting her to have sex with him while they are there. They are both (supposedly) virgins, and Ariana didn't want their first time to be in a dorm bed.

It's the final day before the school break, and Ariana has yet to finish an English paper. If she doesn't turn it in before 6pm, she will fail the assignment. So she has Daniel and his twin sister, Paige, head out without her. She promises to take a later train.

But she gets sidetracked by Thomas Pearson. He has been showing up in unexpected places over the last few days. And he shows up in the deserted classroom building as she turns in her completed paper. In a split second, Ariana gives up fighting the electric attraction she's been feeling for Thomas.

From that moment on, the snowball of her actions grows until innocent people start to get hurt. A snowstorm hits campus and strands Thomas and Ariana. Neither can be caught, because Headmaster Cox made it perfectly clear that anyone caught on campus who was not scheduled to be there will be expelled, no exceptions.

LAST CHRISTMAS is the perfect companion to the PRIVATE series. Ariana's specter hangs over the entire series long after she is carted away for Thomas' murder. This gives an inside look to her growing mental problems after she becomes involved with Thomas. I believe it also gives a good basis for the spin-off series, PRIVILEGE, due out in December 2008.

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