Secret Society Girl: An Ivy League Novel

by Diana Peterfreund

Amy Haskell is a junior at elite Eli University. She is not a campus standout; rather, she is the flirty editor of the school’s literary magazine. What she lacks in family wealth and connections, she makes up for in hard work and pluck.

And that’s why she is so surprised when she is tapped by the school’s most secret of secret societies, Rose & Grave. Why her? Why now? If this is, indeed, not a hoax, she will be one of the first women tapped by the society.

The reasons for her inclusion are not nearly as important as the issue of women being tapped. The “diggers” have tapped their first coed class, and the society’s board is most displeased.

Okay, so I’ve now revealed the entire plot of this novel, which shows you how thinly plotted this novel really is. You won’t find any greatly drawn characters or snappy dialogue. Heck, you won’t even experience a good sense of setting, which is quite disappointing.

Clearly, our Ivy League author has some major publishing connections. Why else would this mediocre novel have ever been published?

8/19/10