It Girl 3

Man, I love this one. 

It's trustee weekend and parents are in town, including Easy's dad, who demands Callie's presence at dinner, even after Easy explains they've broken up. He even says she'll come as his guest then. Not wanting to subject Jenny to his relentless father, Easy asks Callie to go...and neither says a word to Jenny. Now this would have been fairly easy to explain. All Easy would have had to do is say his father is a total hardass and he wanted Callie there, so Easy wanted to save Jenny the awkwardness of that being her first meeting with his dad. It would still have been odd but it would have shown he cared about Jenny properly. But Easy is a jackass so he hides it all. And then after seeing how well Callie handled herself with his dad, Easy suddenly has feelings for her again and then he's all torn for the rest of the book. 

Most of the action (aside from that dinner and the one between the dean, Brandon's dad, Brandon, Julian and Tinsley) occurs within the Dumbarton walls...or on its roof. Tinsley's newest Cafe Society party takes place on the roof because Heath decided to have six half kegs delivered to Dumbarton and Tinsley got him and Julian to put one on the roof. Only the girls are caught and because they fled to their rooms, none were caught red-handed and EVERYONE in the dorm is on lockdown all weekend. 

On lockdown. With dorm mistress Pardee busy with trustee activities. With five remaining half kegs under the bed of the quiet girl on the first floor. Can you say party? The boys use the convenient tunnels underneath the school to sneak into Dumbarton and the shenanigans are on. 

Let's check in with our couples. 

Jenny/Easy: Easy is smitten with Jenny again once he's around her, but when she goes to get them beer, there's a "teacher alert" (it's not actually a teacher) and he hides in Callie's closet. She finds him there and is surprised but they end up making out. 

Brett/Jeremiah: Jeremiah snuck in not through the tunnels and the pair are about to have sex when they're interrupted by the not-a-teacher and Brandon, who are going around trying to get everyone to come out of their rooms again. 

Tinsley/Julian: After flirting all book, they get together in the end but Tinsley wants it kept secret. She's partially worried about the rumor mill learning she's dating a freshman but mainly, she hates relationships and feels trapped once she's in one, so she wants to avoid the labels. 

Everyone gathers for a game of I Never and all the secrets spill.

Brett and Tinsley are virgins. Everyone jumps on Tinsley because she's apparently told a lot of stories about her experience. She gets mad and clarifies that she never specifically said she had sex, although Easy remembers an instance of bragging where she may have. Not that he speaks up. It's just his brief PoV time. Easy is more interested that worldly Brett is a virgin, starting to put together that most of Brett's worldliness is a facade. 

Angry about the attention on her, Tinsley guns for Easy, spilling his secret about taking his ex to dinner with his dad instead of his current girlfriend. Now EVERYONE involved gets pissed at Tinsley including Callie. 

Jenny, who fled upstairs upon this revelation, is followed by Kara, the quiet girl whose room got the kegs hidden in it. More on her shortly. They talk and then Brett comes in, followed shortly by Callie. All four girls discuss how much men suck. Callie had a scene with Easy before this where she basically told him off, too. Good. I lied when I said I never liked Callie. I like her in the latter half of this book. 

So most of the main girls are bonding and Tinsley is left out but she's with Julian so she doesn't care. 

Now for character details. 

CALLIE: Now it's mentioned Callie has an accent. She also has asthma but somehow smokes a lot. It's mentioned she can't have as many cloves as she likes but she can somehow smoke regular cigarettes? Eh. And she's gotten a haircut and indulged in a lot of retail therapy. 

PARKER: Parker is a senior who is mentioned in passing a couple times. I think he was mentioned in the first book. He's from either France or Belgium and is in Jenny's art class. It may have been clear which country he's from in the first book but I was too lazy to look it up so I'm borrowing Jenny's not knowing. 

RIFAT: Tall. Volleyball captain. Dark curly short hair. Described as "Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta" short but Natalie sports a shaved head in that movie. If Rifat has curls, her head isn't shaved. Rifat is described as having dark skin so I think she may be black with an Arabic name but it isn't said. 

ALAN: Ever-changing Alan is now blond. Big crush on Alison.

Czech cover

And finally, KARA: My baby. Kara is the quiet girl, dubbed the "Girl in Black" by Brett and Jenny, that lives on the first floor and is also in Jenny's art class. She used to be fat and Heath bullied her about it so she left school, lost weight and came back. He didn't even recognize her and she throws beer on him in a great scene. She has light brown hair with a honey tone or something like that and large "greenish-brown" eyes. Kara isn't one of the brand-wearing girls, though her mother is actually a designer. That's her on the cover, sporting the dress Tinsley told her to wear, though she changes into something that feels more her later in the party. Kara loves comic books, is an artist, and is good at saying what she thinks. She can be bold and sassy, sarcastic and supportive. I love that she got a cover so early, although I do think Brett should have been on this cover, Tinsley on the fourth, and then Kara fifth. But if we're skipping ahead for anyone, Kara deserves it. She's a total badass.