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Gossip Times Three (By ''Amy Goldman Koss'') is a book about...
Gossip Times Three (By ''Amy Goldman Koss'') is a book about...


Let's just say it might as well be called ''Tween Drama Tropes [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]]''
Let's just say it might as well be called ''Tween Drama Tropes [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]]''


The book begins with the narrator [[Cloudcuckoolander|deciding what to call the main characters]] since she can't use their real names because they'll never speak to her again. She decides on [[Theme Naming|Abby]] (Because she was the first one to fall in love with Zack), Bess and Christy.
The book begins with the narrator [[Cloudcuckoolander|deciding what to call the main characters]] since she can't use their real names because they'll never speak to her again. She decides on [[Theme Naming|Abby]] (Because she was the first one to fall in love with Zack), Bess and Christy.


Abby is [[Single-Target Sexuality|love]] with Zack, one day Bess calls him cute, this gives Abby stomachaches of paranoia, Bess begins to date Zack, Christy still doesn't get the boy girl thing, and it begins.
Abby is [[Single-Target Sexuality|love]] with Zack, one day Bess calls him cute, this gives Abby stomachaches of paranoia, Bess begins to date Zack, Christy still doesn't get the boy girl thing, and it begins.
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* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: The girls consider calling themselves the Dashing Daughters of Divorce, but then reconsider since it sound Dreadfully Dull.
* [[Alliteration]]: The girls consider calling themselves the Dashing Daughters of Divorce, but then reconsider since it sound Dreadfully Dull.
* [[Adorkable]]: Christy.
* [[Adorkable]]: Christy.
* [[Alphabetical Theme Naming]]: Every tween in the story is named from A to F aside from Zack.
* [[Alphabetical Theme Naming]]: Every tween in the story is named from A to F aside from Zack.
* [[An Aesop]]: [[Zig Zagging Trope|Discussed, Averted, Played with then played straight.]]
* [[An Aesop]]: [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Discussed, Averted, Played with then played straight.]]
* [[Anticlimax]]: Chapter four, where Bess and Zack break up, is one paragraph long.
* [[Anticlimax]]: Chapter four, where Bess and Zack break up, is one paragraph long.
** The actual ending.
** The actual ending.
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* [[Cool Pet]]: Wheezy, Abby's dog.
* [[Cool Pet]]: Wheezy, Abby's dog.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Via flashback with the Narrator.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Via flashback with the Narrator.
* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: In-universe we have an Abby preferred couple. When Abby believes that Fred and Emma are going to be blown apart by Hurricane Bess even though Emma doesn't really care about Fred.
* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: In-universe we have an Abby preferred couple. When Abby believes that Fred and Emma are going to be blown apart by Hurricane Bess even though Emma doesn't really care about Fred.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Discussed.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Discussed.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The type of medicine that [[No Periods, Period|no heating pad or chalky medicine can fix]].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The type of medicine that [[No Periods, Period|no heating pad or chalky medicine can fix]].
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** Everybody is named in alphabetical order apart from the adults: Abby, Bess, Christy, Dawn, Emma, Fred, Gilda and [[Odd Name Out|Zack]].
** Everybody is named in alphabetical order apart from the adults: Abby, Bess, Christy, Dawn, Emma, Fred, Gilda and [[Odd Name Out|Zack]].
** Abby>Bess>Christy is also the order in which the girls date Zack (Though only the last sticks)
** Abby>Bess>Christy is also the order in which the girls date Zack (Though only the last sticks)
* [[Oddly Named Sequel]]: The narrator considers doing this, but decides against it (Actually, her creative writing teacher discourages her.)
* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: The narrator considers doing this, but decides against it (Actually, her creative writing teacher discourages her.)
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: Christy has a lot of things she'd love to do, but she can't do them because of Bess and Abby.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: Christy has a lot of things she'd love to do, but she can't do them because of Bess and Abby.
* [[Plot Twist]]: The narrator promises THREE plot twists in THIRTEEN chapters.
* [[Plot Twist]]: The narrator promises THREE plot twists in THIRTEEN chapters.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Fred in-universe.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Fred in-universe.
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Abby and Zack until after Bess dumps Zack.
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Abby and Zack until after Bess dumps Zack.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: On purpose in-universe. The narrator likes to tease us about the Max/Bess disaster and the Fred/His Mom/Dr.Y debacle, but the book ends without any explanation. That's why she calls him [[Meaningful Name|Dr. Y]] in the first place.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: On purpose in-universe. The narrator likes to tease us about the Max/Bess disaster and the Fred/His Mom/Dr.Y debacle, but the book ends without any explanation. That's why she calls him [[Meaningful Name|Dr. Y]] in the first place.
* [[Totally Radical]]: ''For Reals!'', only used once by Christy.
* [[Totally Radical]]: ''For Reals!'', only used once by Christy.
* [[Wide Eyed Idealist]]: Lindy with love. Every time is completely different and she knows this one is
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Lindy with love. Every time is completely different and she knows this one is
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Complete with a fake ending where Bess and Gilda die.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Complete with a fake ending where Bess and Gilda die.


Latest revision as of 05:41, 28 December 2014

Gossip Times Three (By Amy Goldman Koss) is a book about...

Let's just say it might as well be called Tween Drama Tropes Discussed

The book begins with the narrator deciding what to call the main characters since she can't use their real names because they'll never speak to her again. She decides on Abby (Because she was the first one to fall in love with Zack), Bess and Christy.

Abby is love with Zack, one day Bess calls him cute, this gives Abby stomachaches of paranoia, Bess begins to date Zack, Christy still doesn't get the boy girl thing, and it begins.

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