There are several story lines in which young women are striving for self-definition, and the author provides positive role models. When she deals with race, she posits a scenario that should give black readers hope. The author seems consciously to include characters from different ethnic and racial backgrounds, but she indicates that ethnic differences do not matter because people are basically alike. The series' picture of college life, although exaggerated, does give readers an idea of what college is like.
This study is an examination of the first 14 books in the series covering the time period from freshman-orientation week until roughly midterm of the spring semester. Furthermore, the author goes out of her way to show young women who are struggling to attain their own identities. While Cooney devotes much space to romantic entanglements, the young female protagonists with whom readers are expected to identify are not usually dependent in their relationships with young men, nor do they engage in the more traditional behavior of trying to trap young men through the use of feminine wiles.
These novels present a soap-opera view of life at a medium-sized state university located in the West.
Series in 1990, Linda Cooney (probably a pseudonym for several different authors) has given girl readers of teen romance series the chance to realize that there is life and love after high school. When innocent teen romances were re-introduced in the 1980s, all of them concentrated on girls who were between fourteen and seventeen years of age. Dreams, Guys, Lies, and Occasionally Books: The Young Women of the
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