The V Society: The True Story of Rebel Virgin-Girls

In Berry's memoir, she and her closest friends at the University of Pennsylvania are not unlike most college students. They go to class, are members of film and photography clubs, share late night conversations that "[spin] wildly... synthesizing all sorts of unrelated ideas," and zealously discuss the cutest boys on campus. However, when it comes to boys, they never go beyond talking: the five are creators and members of the V Society for "cool and funky [women] committed to abstinence." Aiming to wait for marriage to have sex, they spend their days praying, studying the Bible, and laughing at their own inside jokes, many of which are reprinted in their entirety. The story of women committed to virginity during the college years has the potential to be rich with inner conflict and challenged beliefs. But Berry's book falls flat. Most of its pages are simply a retelling of every mundane detail of the author's college years%E2%80%94one chapter is entitled "Random November Stuff%E2%80%94and, as a result, the book lacks a sense of plot or character development. The epilogue reveals that all members stayed true to their pledge and waited until marriage, and the reader is left wondering how rebellious these "rebel virgin-girls" really were.