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Book Review of Under the Rose: An Ivy League Novel

Under the Rose: An Ivy League Novel
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It's just so hard to find an intelligent, funny, and suspenseful series, which is why I adore Diana Peterfreund's IVY LEAGUE novels. They contain everything I want in a series about college students: secrets, romantic entanglements, and pages and pages of side-splitting collegiate conversation.

Amy is engaging, wry, and endearingly stumbling through life as a secret society member at an elite university. She is dynamic and can hold her own in any situation. But the brilliant characterization doesn't stop there. Every character has his or her own personality. Likewise, the plot is intricate and clearly shows the amount of time that went into planning and writing Amy's world.

UNDER THE ROSE is a thriller/mystery story for the estrogen-prone, chick lit for the brainy.