This is book #4, in the Briar U series.  This can be read as a standalone novel.  For reader understanding, and to avoid spoiler, I recommend reading this series in order.

Conor was a typical party guy who loved being a player.  Lately he has found himself being played.  Girls just want to get with him to brag that they caught a hockey player.  He is doubting a lot of things lately.

Taylor is being dared yet again by the Sorority Sister who still hates her.  She has just one plan - be honest with Conor on what is going on and hope for the best.  What does she have to lose?  

The attraction between the lead characters is obvious right from the start.  I was eagerly reading each page, and not even wanting to stop to eat.  This series has been sexy and fun from the first book! In my opinion, this is the best book yet.  I loved the banter, so edgy and clever.  I wish my college years had these two in it.  I give this read a 5/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

***This ARC copy was given in exchange for an honest review only.

Sorority is more a collection of short stories than a full-length novel. The story starts with an introduction of sorts to each girl, or sister, in the the sorority, and from there we get a story from each of them. From the blurb, I expected a bit of suspense surrounding Margot's death and I suppose there is some question about whether or not it's suicide, but primarily, the book covers some part of each young lady's life, either right before, during, or after college. Having never been in a sorority, I would hope that this representation would be the extreme as every one of the sisters has some issue - some worse than others and some evoking more sympathy than others. I do have to say that I didn't find any of the characters particularly likable, which played a large part in the book being a middle of the road read for me. I did keep reading, thinking that maybe there would be some big revelation in the end, but this really isn't one of those books that gives the reader that type of closure. The author is talented and I would check out more of her work, but this one left me straddling the fence, so to speak. 

Rush With Me: A Sorority Story - Ava Ste...

Annie and Shelby are on the bus headed to sorority row for rush week. Both plan to pledge the same sorority. The initiation begins. But who makes it by the end of the initiation?

I enjoyed Annie and Shelby. The story is only a teaser. I want so much more. I want to see Annie and Shelby move on from the initiation. I want to know what happens to them. They are good characters who are ready for a longer story or a series of short vignettes.

Ryan Revisited - Sam Davis

When you don’t have any idea who you are, how do you decide who you want to be? Who is Ryan Ester? The Southern-belle-in-training her estranged father wants her to be? The laid-back Montana girl she became after her parents’ divorce? Or someone she has to discover on her own? When Ryan’s only shot at going to college is on her father’s dime, Ryan leaves Bluffs, Montana to return to the antebellum South she once called home. As if the move wasn’t hard enough, Ryan’s first love, who recently left her a broken-hearted mess, has a scholarship to none other than Ryan’s destination, the University of the South. Ryan Ester may not know who she is, but she sure as heck knows who she doesn’t want to become. As she tries to navigate scandal, heartache, and the unbearable pressure to look and act perfect every waking second, she resents being pushed by everyone who wants to decide for her. For the sake of her own sanity and the hearts of those she cares most about, she will have to find a way to forge her own path. RYAN REVISITED is the story of a young woman’s search for identity. For serenity. For the perfect landing spot for her aching heart.

In theory, I felt like Ryan was going to be a character I'd relate to immensely--I, too, grew up in a place vastly different from where I attended high school and have had identity issues resultantly. However, this book was too dragged out and Ryan's motivations didn't often make sense.

In the prologue, Ryan breaks up with Manny, the guy she openly admits has held her together and been a vital part of her high school experience. This action isn't explained. Not once. Not at all. Not even when she's wishing he loved her still. I don't know if I just missed some vital part of the book, but I really don't get it. This frustrated me throughout the entire book as it simply did not make sense, and to me was a plot flaw the whole way through.

Ryan is also obsessed with pleasing her father, and again, this doesn't quite add up for me. She barely mentions her mother or pleasing her--it's only ever her father. She puts part of her motivation for joining a sorority on pleasing her father, but this seems a little extreme. When she was happy in Montana, I don't understand why she felt the need to go to U South.

She seems very naive and it disappointed me that when she turned to drinking to solve her problems, none of her friends said anything, and that she wasn't more concerned about her friend Savannah's cycle downwards.

The rest of the book was fine, but extremely lengthy--I felt like this was two books of its genre smushed together, and while I normally dislike such duos, this book just felt so long. I got sick of Ryan and I got sick of her sorority and I got sick of her flirting with guys and beginning to drink. The plot that was schemed by a fellow sorority girl was sickening, but did make the story intriguing and put Ryan in a fascinating moral dilemma.

The problems that I had with the premise bugged me while I was reading the book the whole way though and were distracting. There were some fun characters like Goody and Geoffrey, and some interesting insights into sorority life and how intense it can be at a big school, but I just felt like it was dragging on.

If this book had its premised explained a little better and was cut in half, it would be a very strong book. However, as it stands, it was simply too long to merit itself. While I think Davis has potential, I would recommend other similar books before this one.