Chick-lit danger gets me all hot and bothered

I don't typically like to gush, but today I must. But it's only to bring good literature to you, my pretties! I'm a huge fan of Diana Peterfreund's Secret Society Girl book series and just recently completed the third installment Rites of Spring (Break). The series follows Amy Haskel, an Ivy League student at a fictitious college who is among the first group of women to be inducted into the school's most exclusive and elusive secret society Rose & Grave.

The books can best be described as equal parts Harry Potter and Gossip Girl. A high level of suspense is created equally from the dangerous and mysterious society happenings as well as Amy's personal encounters with the opposite sex. Though the sexual descriptions stay mostly at a PG13 level, Peterfreund's powerful emotional connection between character and reader and ability to place the characters in the right scenario at the right time make for an almost porn-like level of enjoyment. Combined with dramatic plots of society misdoings which, all sex aside, would still create a highly intriguing and suspenseful novel, Peterfreund creates the perfect blend of chick-lit with a dark edge. Minus the ditz factor...after all we are in the Ivies dahlings.

So it probably won't come as a surprise when I rave about the extreme level of hotness of the scenes between Amy and Poe in Rights of Spring (Break). For those who aren't familiar with the books (b-t-dubs, rectify that), Amy and Poe have basically hated each other for the first two installments of this series. Which makes it all the more heated when they end up secretly making out in the lagoon, and in the shower, and...well you get the picture. Hate sex is way hot. I totes approve of this relationship in the way that I approve of Carrie and Big being together: being with the guy who's "easy" never leaves you fully satisfied and there will never be that same level of passion. After seeing so many crappy chick-lit books actually being made into movies I INSIST that the Secret Society Girl series follows suit, if for no other reason than to watch these scenes acted out, and to see who they'd even be able to cast in the difficult role of Poe (I vote Ed Westwick).

I know this book isn't exactly a new release and I'm a little behind on my Secret Society Girl reading, which thus makes me a terrible person. Don't hate me though, I've already made sure to put Peterfreund's conclusion to the series (Tap & Gown, released May 19) on pre-order so I can be the first to know what happens to my favorite chick-lit heroine...because I NEED to know right now dammit! Consider it my literary redemption.