Nomination Post #7

[torigates]

Hey all! Time to dust off your nominations! This month will be an open theme. Whatever you want, no matter what it is. Nominations are due by July 29, 2011. Voting will be open July 30 until the 31st.
How to nominate:

1. Name of book.
2. Small blurb about the book (can be copied from Amazon or similar site)
3. Why this book is awesome.

1. Name

Comments

[katayla]

1. Name of book. Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund
2. Small blurb about the book.
In a fabulous blend of the bestselling traditions of Prep and The Devil Wears Prada, Secret Society Girl takes us into the heart of the Ivy League’s ultraexclusive secret societies when a young woman is invited to join as one of their first female members.

Elite Eli University junior Amy Haskel never expected to be tapped into Rose & Grave, the country’s most powerful-and notorious-secret society. She isn’t rich, politically connected, or…well, male.

So when Amy receives the distinctive black-lined invitation with the Rose & Grave seal, she’s blown away. Could they really mean her?

Whisked off into an initiation rite that’s a blend of Harry Potter and Alfred Hitchcock, Amy awakens the next day to a new reality and a whole new set of “friends”-from the gorgeous son of a conservative governor to an Afrocentric lesbian activist whose society name is Thorndike. And that’s when Amy starts to discover the truth about getting what you wish for. Because Rose & Grave is quickly taking her away from her familiar world of classes and keggers, fueling a feud, and undermining a very promising friendship with benefits. And that’s before Amy finds out that her first duty as a member of Rose & Grave is to take on a conspiracy of money and power that could, quite possibly, ruin her whole life.

A smart, sexy introduction to the life and times of a young woman in way over her head, Secret Society Girl is a charming and witty debut from a writer who knows her turf-and isn’t afraid to tell all....

3. Why this book is awesome. SET AT COLLEGE! SECRET SOCIETIES! AWESOME RELATIONSHIPS OF ALL KINDS, INCLUDING MULTIPLE FEMALE FRIENDSHIPS! (I will warn, though, that this is the first book in a four book series. But they only get awesomer and it's a completed series, so I think that goes in the plus column!)

[thelake]

My favouriteeee! ♥

[katayla]

It's even winning at the moment! Let's get some more people hooked on these! :D

[thelake]

YES! I'm so glad about that! :D

[katayla]

Wait, you haven't already? Why do I even still talk to you? ;)

(But yeah! I don't think I fully realized that part of Tam Lin? Or realized that it would be such a big part of the story, at least? And college stories do seem so rare.)

[katayla]

I am! But I'm only on page 60, lol. I don't think I've finished anything in a week.

[katayla]

I can lend you The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All-Time: Ranking Sports' Most Notorious Fixes, Cover-ups, and Scandals, but that's probably not the kind of nonfic you're looking for either!

I'm doing nothing, oops.

[katayla]

Yeah! I should read Moneyball at some point. And YES. I do feel like those kind of things often work out awesomely.

Ahhhh, yes, I have that problem, too. I think I'm good at the actual dialogue, but should work on the thing surrounding it more.

[katayla]

Yep.

Heh. I think I always tended toward the sparse! Description is hard for me.

[katayla]

HHahahaha, but yeah. I keep feeling like what I like to read doesn't match up with what I'm good at writing.