AHHH! I can't believe I almost completely missed this book coming out. For the last one, I had been impatiently waiting for it. However, Girls in Pants seemed like a satisfying conclusion to the series. I knew there'd be one more, and from what I'd heard of the plot, I didn't think I was going to like what was gonna happen. And I was kind of right. There was a point where I just wanted to shout at all the characters and tell them to stop doing whatever they were doing. That being said, the different adaptations that each girl went through as they moved away from home and entered college are eerily familiar. Especially the observations on how hard it is to get together with old friends when the homes where we grew up are no longer our homes, whether family members remain or not. Carmen's predicament in her first year of college seem, while not familiar, they seem all too possible. I also totally knew what was going to happen in the end, and I knew it had to happen, but I still wasn't happy about it. 
 Oh, I remembered something else that I wanted to add about this book vs. the rest in the series. This was the only one that I didn't end up crying at the end...make of that what you will.