I liked this book but I didn't like it as much as the 1st one. I liked how this focused more about how Carrie "fell in love" with NY and how she met Samantha and Miranda. Fun how Charlotte was introduced at the end of this one because that probably means there will be another book after this one. 
 This was a fun summer read but it took me a week to read (very weird for me because I read the 1st one pretty fast). 
 This book had more sex, drugs, etc than the 1st book. 
 Characters in the story: I didn't like Bernard, Carrie's love interest. Kind of reminded me of Aleksandr Petrovsky so I really didn't like him at all. I knew Carrie would end up hooking up with Capote. I liked L'il...felt bad what happened to her and I just felt like she was dumped in the book when she left New York and I wanted her in the book longer. Overall, I was confused at some points of the book remembering all of the characters. 
 I would recommend this book to people that liked Sex and the city (both the tv show and the movies) but they would have to read Carrie Diaries first.