It's senior year for these three friends, and everything is changing. Everyone's preparing to go to college - different colleges, at that. The realization hits home that they won't be "together forever". Will their friendship survive such an upheaval? Add typical boy troubles into the mix for added drama.
Some things never change though. Feuding with the monster who calls herself Jana is still going strong. Much of the story of this book has to do with all the warring going on between the friends and Jana. A valuable lesson can be pulled from this in this particular book of the series: revenge only begets more revenge, and it will never stop until someone makes an effort to put an end to it.
There's the typical topical internet things mentioned, although not nearly so much in this book as much as the first two did. It hardly goes any further than constantly mentioning the Big Bunny cartoons (which, dated though this book may be now, I was shocked to see this mentioned - I used to peruse that site all the time in its heyday before the days of Youtube). No Googlewhacks this time around, no internet quizzes - just Big Bunny.
Also, I give it a bonus point for a positive Beatles mention. Just about any book that mentions them in a positive light holds favor with me. ;)
This is probably the weakest of all three books (it really felt like it was grasping at straws just to drag the series out one more book), but at the same time, the most "real", should I say. One thing's for sure: after reading this trilogy, I don't think I miss high school anywhere near as badly as I thought I did before. As for this particular book though, I think I'm going to rate it a 3 out of 5 stars. Fairly neutral, which is more or less what I was left feeling after finishing it and realizing the series is over.
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