This is, I believe, the last book in the series about the girls of Spencer Academy, covering the final weeks of the girls’ Senior year and the festivities that surround graduation—as well as the romantic and other relationships these girls have formed. Lissa Mansfield is looking forward to graduation, but life still has more than a few surprises for her. For instance, her arch-nemesis, Vanessa, has a sudden (and startling) fall from her princess pedestal. When everyone rejects Vanessa, it's up to Lissa to show her a little grace. Lissa also has boyfriend troubles—namely that she doesn't have one, or does she?

Now, the thing I've always liked about this series is that the girls are both Christian and imperfect. They struggle with temptation and conflict—they are committed to their faith, but they aren't without problems. For the first time, in this last book, I didn't completely believe the behavior. One of Lissa's best friends from prayer group is so self-absorbed, she goes along with a cruel trick on her friend ON the most important day of her friend's life—and why would she do this? Because some boy asks her to. Plus, at one point, I warned the book that if one more Christian person said a girl "got herself pregnant," (a physiological impossibility) I was going to throw the book against a wall—it was a close call.

So I was a little less warmed by the girls’ basic kindness than I had been in the past. Still, this last installment wrapped up the series and let us know what each of these girls would be doing next. And it gave us the comforting answer for why mean girls are mean (mean moms, in case you wondered.). The books do offer a reasonable alternative to the Gossip Girls style of all sex and drugs for rich kids—and suggests that just because your family has money, doesn't mean no one bothered to try to raise you right. I do like seeing a young adult rich kid series that doesn't sell us that stereotype again.