Invitation Only by Kate Brian

Questions and Comments:
This book is the second book in the series Private. The other book was about a private boarding school. Reed is introduced as a freshman to this new school. Then, there are the legendary Billing Girls. The Billing Girls apparently are like "The Mean Girls" movie. They control basically everyone and almost everything. Reed longs to be one of them and in the end of the first book, she does. The second book then starts. Apparently she has to clean for the Billing Girls as part of a deal for them accepting her into their dorm room. A girl then blackmails her with a picture that could get her kicked out of school. In return, she has to snoop through the things of the girls who accepted her and who she considered her friends, for evidence to be used against them in a recent cheating scandal. I think that Reed is actually very brave and I can understand her position. She is actually snooping and she is finding weird things. It makes me think twice, because my first impression was that the Billing Girls were a group of spoiled rich kids, but apparently they have problems, some serious and some minor. Near the end of the book, Reed agrees to go to some party called "The Legacy" which is top secret and you can only be admitted if your family has been in New York for about 4 generations. Reed can only get in a certain way, through a guy, as a date. She finally gets in. There, the party lives up to its expectations with luxurious rooms and expensive gifts ranging from the thousands. She tries desperately to look for Thomas, which I think if a waste of time. Her boyfriend, Thomas is currently MIA suddenly and nobody knows where he went. After a while, she confronts the Billing Girls about the things she found and they tell her that it was all a test to see if they could trust her. I found this part especially shocking because everyone played their part SO well, so it was a bit unbelievable when they suddenly had a twist like that. I was kind of pissed at the same time because I felt that they had no right to decieve Reed like that. After she finds out, they tell her that she passed the test and she is officially accepted into the Billings House. They go on with the party and soon sneak into their private school. Suddenly, they see that there are police cars everywhere on campus. Reed then hears that her boyfriend is dead. The book ends, which is a huge cliffhanger.

I think this book was really good. The first one was good too and I didn't know if Kate Brian could top the first one but she did. The book was very suspenseful as well as entertaining. There were hardly any boring parts in the book. I plan on reading the next book, Untouchable, soon.