Book number (oh my God) 26 in the Alice series. Second half of senior year of high school. Alice finally graduates! after 26 freaking books, it was extremely anticlimactic that the actual graduation took only three pages. (While a nerf dart war the week before graduation took a whole chapter.) Alice and Patrick still have the hots for each other, and are still geographically separated by circumstances. Alice tries out a different boy, but decides there is no chemistry there. She gets a lead role in the drama club's play, which provides some new materiel. Alice decides she will go to the University of Maryland. Not her first choice, but she wasn't accepted at William and Mary. Jill and Justin (secondary characters) get married while still in high school, and Alice and her three best friends, Liz, Pamela and Gwen, all get jobs for the summer on a cruise ship, setting the stage for the next to last book in the series.
Like all the books in the series, it's pretty light fare. But after reading so many, it's not so much like reading a book as it is like catching up with old friends. ( )

I love Alice, but some books feel so much more out of date than others, which is strange when this one was published in 2011. At least it made sense for the earlier ones. Do girls still dye their shoes to match their dresses?? We certainly never did, and that was over ten years ago. Naylor was born in the 30s, so really I'm impressed that she's as progressive as she is, but you would think she'd have someone helping her bring things a little more up to date. It really interferes with the story sometimes.

I am a big fan of Alice books. I have read many of them. From The Agony of Alice until Including Alice. Thanks to Gramedia Pustaka Utama, the local publisher, who has published and translated the series. However they did not publish all books and skip some number but I still could keep the track. There was nothing missing. But when they finally decided to stop publish the next book, I was so sad. I still want to read all about her. So that was why I was so thrilled when I saw Incredibly Alice was available in March Grab Galley.

However, at first I was little bit afraid that I missed many part. Because the last book that I read, Alice was in her first semester of 10th grade. From Wikipedia, I found about six books between them. But when I jumped into the chapters, I could catch up. I did not miss many things. Some stuff were retold here. Although many things has happened to Alice and the other characters, I still recognized them. Let's say Elizabeth and Pamela - her best friend, Patrick-her boyfriend, Lester - her gorgeous brother, even Mr McKinley- her father and Silvia. There were still some characters that I did not mention.All characters were developed well. It was nice to see all of them appeared one by one. And all

In Incredible Alice, she was already in second semester of senior year. It was also her last year in high school. Many things happened in this semester. I liked all those various events. The plan to spend summer holiday, School's Drama,Graduation party till the college application announcement that almost drove her emotions. From all of them, my favorite was her story about his brother, Lester.There was not many changing in Lester. He was still sweet. I enjoyed all time that Alice spent with him. I could see Alice and Lester took care of each other. Something that surprised me was her relation with Patrick. They have moved to the next level.

When I was in the last page, all I wanted was reading the next book. Unfortunately this is the newest series so I have to wait till Ms. Phyllis write the next one.

For the one who have not read any book of Alice series, they might find it difficult to blend with the story.

Cover
I did not get used to with this kind of cover of Alice. Because all of her book that published in Indonesia was drawn. But I still like it. ( )