Friday, May 10, 2013

Tap and Gown, by Diana Peterfreund (Secret Society Girl #4)

My reviews of the previous books can be found here: Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break)

Graduation is approaching and tap time has arrived. Amy and her brothers are searching for suitable Eli-ites to replace them in Rose and Grave and are running into a few more issues than expected. Amy's list of prospective Diggers is growing and shrinking, and while she's doing recon on her candidates she's also trying to finish her thesis and get closer to her new boyfriend. Everything comes to a climax when information is revealed about Amy's first choice that threatens to undo over 50 years of society history.

This book was a great ending to a great series. I was nervous that the last book would totally undo all the awesomeness of the previous books but thankfully it didn't. Funnily enough, all my predictions about this book were wrong. George and Clarissa did not end up together, Matthew did not get a Digger boyfriend, and the Diggers didn't redeem themselves. Though they did seem a lot less pathetic. My only disappointment was that Michelle wasn't in any previous books. She was awesome and had way too few appearances.


5 stars. The best of the series.
Tap & Gown (Secret Society Girl, #4) 
The countdown to Amy’s graduation has begun, and suddenly the perfect ending to a perfectly iconoclastic college career is slipping from her grasp. Her new boyfriend is considering an offer he can’t refuse, while Amy hasn’t even filed her fellowship applications. And the young woman she’s chosen to take her place in Rose & Grave seems to come complete with a secret life already intact.

Lunging toward real life in the world beyond the hallowed halls of Eli University, Amy finds trouble around every corner, from society intrigues and unlikely stalkers to former flames and mandatory science credits. Surely it couldn’t get worse . . . until Initiation Night explodes into a terrifying scene and into a final test of wits for a young woman just trying to make it out of the Ivy League in one piece.

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