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    Tap & Gown

    By Diana Peterfreund

    4.5/5

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    Fans of Beautiful Disaster will devour Diana Peterfreund’s Ivy League novels—Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break), and Tap & Gown. At an elite university, Amy Haskel has been initiated into the country’s most notorious secret society. But in this power-hungry world where new blood is at the mercy of old money, hooking up with the wrong people could be fatal.
     
    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateMay 19, 2009
    ISBN9780440338598
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    Diana Peterfreund

    Diana Peterfreund is the author of many books for adults and children, including the critically acclaimed For Darkness Shows the Stars and Across a Star-Swept Sea. She lives with her family outside Washington, DC, in a house full of bookshelves, and is always on the lookout for lost cities or stray rocket ships.

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    • 4/5
      Eli University senior Amy Haskel is busy with writing her thesis, finding a job…and selecting a tap to take her place in the infamous Rose & Grave secret society when she graduates. Finding a good tap is hardly easy, though. There are patriots to please and complexities to work around. On top of all her responsibilities, Amy is also trying to make her relationship with her new boyfriend, a former Rose & Grave member, work.When Amy discovers Michelle, she believes she’s found the perfect person to replace her in Rose & Grave. But Michelle has secrets and problems of her own, some of which could affect Rose & Grave…TAP AND GOWN is a satisfying conclusion to this addicting series about college-level secret societies, though it is not without its unsatisfying moments. Diana Peterfreund’s strength in writing interesting and well-rounded characters still shines through, although the introduction of new characters with their own problems is rather jarring and rushed, especially when they ultimately play such a large role in the book.I have mixed feelings about the fact that this series about the inner workings and dramas of a secret society did not give more attention to the natural stresses of college. It seemed like the society members were constantly getting into one screwup after another and having their traditional “secrecy” compromised, without striking a good balance between normal academia and their society life. It’s for the sake of fiction, yes, I know, so I can’t really say more than that I hope future books set in college will actually deal with, you know, actual college life.The pacing of TAP AND GOWN felt rushed to me because a whole drama involving the possible end of Rose & Grave was thrown into the last 50 pages with hardly a hint of warning beforehand, making it so that the climax of the story and its subsequent resolution felt unnatural. As far as story arc goes, this one’s is rather helter-skelter, but fans of Amy Haskel will still not be disappointed. There is still enough wit, drama, and romance to go around.
    • 4/5
      ** spoiler alert ** The final book in Diana Peterfreund's "Ivy League" series comes to a satisfying conclusion. Amy Haskell, aka "Bugaboo", a member of Eli University's elite secret society Rose and Grave, has just returned from a stressful spring break. After being drugged, kidnapped, and threatened by the teenage son of a Patriarch on the island where she and the other Diggers were staying, Amy has only more stress to look forward to during her last months at Eli: a thesis to turn in, final exams to take, and a new class of Diggers to tap. In addition, she has a new boyfriend, Jamie Orcutt--aka "Poe"--a fellow Digger whom no one else seems to like. Amy is forced to deal with unexpected issues--such as finding out that her perfect tap has a secret history, that her kidnapper, Darren, is back out on the streets, and that Jamie has been offered a job that will take him away from Amy. As in the previous books, these issues culminate in secret society related drama and action, but are tied up neatly in the end with good triumphing over evil. Peterfreund's modern, third-wave style feminism shows up, as in the other books, in the form of Amy and the Diggirls fighting against the system and protecting their own. I feel like these books probably speak to women around my age who have grown up with the expectation of gender equality and who are far more comfortable fighting for their rights. SERIOUS SPOILER: In the last few pages, we find out that Jamie turns down his super-secret job and shows up at Amy's graduation. In any other book, I would have been pissed at this "unrealistic", sappy ending. However, in Tap and Gown, I was nearly crying with happiness (maybe it was just PMS). I think this is because I really, really did not expect it and also because I felt that turning down the job fit with Jamie's evolution as a character--i.e. from someone who likes secrets and tradition to someone who wants to be open. I still would have been happy with the book if Jamie had taken the job and disappeared "like a ghost", but the fact that he turned it down, at least in part to be with Amy, made the ending that much better. Oh, it's also hilarious that George ends up working for Teach for America.
    • 4/5
      Tap and Gown is the fourth and final book in Diana Peterfreund's fabulous Ivy League series. The series follows Amy Haskel as she is "tapped" and inducted into fictional Eli University's most prestigious secret society, the Rose and the Grave. In this last novel, Amy's tap class must come together before they graduate and decide who will be their successors in the society.I am so sad to leave this series behind. The characters are so quirky and witty, and I have loved being a part of their lives for a short time. The clever dialog between the entertaining and original characters is Gilmore Girls-esque, which only adds to the reading experience. The storyline is captivating - I really enjoyed being on the "inside" of this society for all their intrigues and drama. The setting is incredibly evocative, bringing the campus to vivid life before the reader's eyes. Overall, I really enjoyed the entire series. Tap and Gown is a little bittersweet for me, knowing that Amy's story is over, but Peterfreund has another novel coming out later this year, Rampant. It's a completely different genre, but I'll pick it up and probably will enjoy it just the same.
    • 5/5
      Amy Haskell has finally reached her last semester at Eli University. In addition to having to finish up an annoying Science credit, her D177 Rose and Grave goup must also give thought to tapping the next group of Diggers to continue on their groundbreaking addition of women and traditions as well. However, the race for quality candidates is tight, especially against Dragon's Head, and Amy finds herself finding a tap in an unusual place. This was a great final installment to Peterfreund's Ivy League series and makes me wish we could follow most of D177 into their "real" lives.