Good gravy, at least the series is done now. I don't know how she managed to use over 500 pages and still rush through everything, and then focus on the weirdest little things (a one-day temp job on a construction site, where all she does is wave traffic through? Meanwhile junior year of college is basically "I did stuff and my friend's roommate tried to get us into a pyramid scheme and then it was summer!"). 
 But the series is OVER, huzzah. Dunno why I stuck with it all the way through, especially given the dated language and the anachronistic plot details (Alice's kid uses Facebook 20+ years from now? We're really banking on that?).