I've never read the Sex and the City novel, but I decided to give The Carrie Diaries a try. This book introduces us to Carrie Bradshaw when she's still in high school and her group of teenage friends. Sadly, Carrie wasn't as ground breaking in high school as she tended to be in the SATC series. She's actually quite predictable, and a very different Carrie than the 30-something version I know and love. But, it doesn't mean she can't evolve into that person -- no one wants to be who they were in high school for the rest of their lives, including Carrie Bradshaw, I'm sure. As a 17-year-old, she already has some of her most famous qualities -- including her adventurous sense of fashion -- and the desire to become a writer. But this Carrie is also very different; she's a virgin, a romantic, a standout on the swim team, and is willing to do what boys want in order to keep them interested in her.
I think the best part (and the worst) of this book is that we know what Carrie's future holds. Not in the sense that we know which boy she'll end up with, or where she'll go to college. But in the sense that we know soon enough, she'll be painting Manhattan red with her faithful companions, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha, regardless of how 1979 turns out.
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