It Girl 2

Ugh, Callie gets a cover and Brett never does. Callie is my least fave of the main cast by a lot. I never liked her. 

So the book begins with Tinsley back on campus. This time I'm going to do a quick summary and then list off some character details after. 

Tinsley is expecting a warm welcome from her BFFs Callie and Brett. Callie semi-gives her one but Brett is oddly cold. She's worried Tinsley is going to tell people she's nouveau riche from NJ. So instead of a nice reunion, lines are split with Callie and Tinsley on one side and Brett and Jenny, who Tinsley was annoyed to find in her bed, on the other. 

Brett tries to continue on with Eric Dalton, but after hearing rumors about the pair and being pissed they weren't directly from Brett, Tinsley sets her sights on him. And succeeds. It takes her like maybe half an hour to win him over, he dumps Brett, and ends up meeting Tinsley in NYC to hook up. Sex is not explicitly mentioned but it's implied Tinsley is quite experienced because she gets infatuated easily and then gets bored. (This is answered next book.)

Meanwhile, Easy dumps Callie, insisting it isn't because of Jenny, but it doesn't take long for he and Jenny to gravitate together. They have an easy (no pun intended) chemistry that makes them the most likeable couple of the options so far.  But Jenny swears there's nothing going on to Callie and the others. Bad idea. 

After seeing the boys, who gave her a much better welcome back, come out of the nearby woods but not say what they were doing, Tinsley gets the idea to form an all-girl secret society that Callie dubs Cafe Society. They let Brett, Jenny and a handful of other girls in, and immediately Tinsley starts setting rules like no boyfriends but hook-ups are okay. They invite the local hot pizza guy to a party and take turns making out with him. This is right after Jenny and Easy kissed on a special date so she feels bad about it but does it to placate Tinsley, who then spreads the rumor about it and Easy gets upset. 

Easy and Jenny sneak off to NYC where he runs into Tinsley. Tinsley sees him with Jenny but then Jenny and Easy see Tinsley with Eric Dalton. Easy tells Brett and they plot to take Dalton down. On her visit to his house, Brett spied a bag of weed and she tells the dean, forcing Dalton to resign. Tinsley is pissed but without the thrill of Dalton being forbidden fruit, she's over it really fast. 

However, Tinsley tells Callie that Jenny and Easy are together and Callie is predictably mad. I don't like Callie because she's manipulative, a follower, and wayyyyy too insecure, but she is right in being upset about this. Jenny and Easy both did lie to her. 

Brett and Jenny are kicked out a Cafe Society, while those girls and Heath's group of boys have a party in a Boston hotel. Easy, grumpy about the Jenny kissing someone else rumor, goes along, getting a ride with Brett's ex Jeremiah. At Waverly, a drunk Jenny sneaks Brett's phone and calls Jeremiah. Oh, forgot to mention there was a cute scene between him and Brett earlier in the book. They're a cute couple, too. Jenny tells Jeremiah she knows Brett loves him because she loves someone, too. Jeremiah tells Easy and the boys drive back to Waverly for cute reunions with the girls. At the party, it's a drunken free for all that ends with Tinsley, Callie and Heath out on the balcony in their underwear. Who's on the next balcony? The dean...and their dorm mistress! Who is NOT married to the dean, by the way. The dean orders them back to the school and says if they're not there by 9, they'll be punished. They don't make it and the punishment is pretty dramatic. The girls are being split up. Callie stays with Jenny in their third floor room, while Brett and Tinsley are booted down to the first floor. Yup. Both warring pairs are stuck together. 

Czech cover

So where are we on characters? I'll won't mention everyone, just share new details. 

TINSLEY: Oh, Tinsley. Tinsley is my girl. Tinsley is tall and naturally tan with long, thick black hair, but her crowning feature is her eyes, which are so blue that they look violet. Her model mother is part Portuguese and part Danish, I think it was. Tinsley spent summer break making a documentary in South Africa with her dad, which got her reinstated at the school. Tinsley is a fun character because she is absolutely, unapologetically who she is and I like that. Tinsley is massively chaotic. She thrives on drama, attention, and having a good time. She manipulates but mostly for the sole purpose of entertaining  herself. She's definitely a bad girl, though she does have a sweet side, particularly with damaged Callie, and I love her for both those things. 

BRETT: Brett said she was 17 in the first book, but in this one Jeremiah describes her as 16. Not sure if she was aging herself up for Dalton because why lie when he has student records? I think it was a bad writing moment. There are a few of these little hiccups, like in this book, Benny's hair is in a French braid but a couple pages later, it's a ponytail. 

JEREMIAH: Speaking of Jeremiah, he has longish auburn hair and blue eyes. 

HEATH: Is a comic geek. This will be important soon. 

ALISON: Is an artist and she's Korean. 

ALAN: Had a short brown crew cut in the first book. Now he has "bushy" brown hair and is scruffy. 

TEAGUE: Is a guy. 

LON: Scholarship kid that's supposedly quite experienced. He was mentioned in the first book but had an appearance in this one. Dating Tricia, who I think I left out of the last list. 

VERENA: First appearing in this book. A senior from Buenos Aires with a short pixie cut. 

JULIAN: Freshman. Very tall, deep voice, dark blonde hair long enough to put into a ponytail. He'll get more screentime soon. 

Next book we get to meet Kara! My other favorite character besides Tinsley.