I confess: I think she’s terrific.

The ’she’ I refer to could be applied to both the author of Rites of Spring (Break), the phenomenal Diana Peterfreund, and to her lead character, Amy “Bugaboo” Haskell. In the third installment of the Ivy League Novels, RoS(b) continues to dish out the intrigue, the developing romance, and a side helping of humor to make a rather satisfying read.

The first two novels in the series, Secret Society Girl and Under the Rose, were both masterfully written and plotted. Diana’s writing style grips the reader from page one, and refuses to lessen it’s grip until you’ve reached the conclusion. One of her strengths is her voice. She plants you in Amy’s head, and you feel like you’re running alongside her as each new experience comes.

In RoS(b), Amy confronts her inner demons about an earlier relationship and attempts to figure out her own emotions on the matter while balancing out her life attempting to protect herself from a rival society’s pranks. When she goes in search of some escape during Spring Break on Rose & Grave’s exclusive island, she finds that pranks follow her and the other Diggirls. As others attempt to unravel the secrets of who’s responsible for the attacks against D177, Amy starts to keep some of her own secrets.

Not to give anything away or anything, but I was totally rooting for the ‘hero’… since book one.

I’d recommend the series to anyone who loves stories filled with secrets and intrigue. And anyone who’s a member of a secret society, fraternity, or sorority. The bond between brothers (or sisters, as it were) can never be broken.

I should know - and so should my sisters. *wink*