I skimmed it in B&N this eve (mainly out of curiousity but I have no desire to see the author earn $$ for this piece of fiction) I will admit I did not read it word for word but it seems to be more on the genre of a romance novel than a serious academic book. Then again they had "Sex and the City" filed in the same section so maybe this store has a strange sense of humor.
The "secrets" that she reports are mostly 'closed' mottos, or grips. I was looking specifically since a previous poster had stated that some Pi Phi secrets were revealed... but it was not as bad as I'd imagined (i.e, inaccurate). The chapter that discusses 'secrets' clearly shows her bias that she has no respect for ritual or secrecy but since someone obviously told her the snippets she's included (yes, she could have gotten the Chi O material from that website but that doesn't explain where she got the other things), they most likely didn't respect it either.
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