There's still an energy crisis in Starland.
Lady Stella has left, with the cover being that she had a family emergency, although the SDs know the truth. She left after the girls confronted her.
Lady Cordial seems more incompetent than ever.
There's one amusing scene where Tessa's trying to taste everyone else's soup instead of ordering her own, which is pretty ridiculous, and the bot-bot delivering someone else's powers down just in time to dump it on her head.
Days go by and nothing happens. Finally, at an assembly new professor Honoria McHue brings up the energy crisis and asks what's being done. Lady Cordial begins to discuss it, only to have a convenient accident and need to be taken to the infirmary. That doesn't stop Professor McHue from sending out a mass email to encourage discussion and suggestions for what to do about the energy crisis.
The girls visit Lady Cordial in the infirmary and she sends them to another school the next day to look into how they're making an alternate fuel source. She does instruct them to bring their SD backpacks, which I find suspicious. The girls go all the way to the school only to find out that school doesn't have any alternate fuel source. Lady Cordial just got them out of the way for a day. Though no one's suspicious, because they're kind of a bunch of morons at this point.
That's three chapters in and it's just SO BORING.
They come back and Lady Cordial is no longer in the infirmary. Clover goes to look for her at her house and she's not there...or rather pretends not to be there. Honoria McHue is also conveniently gone, supposedly having taken a job in Gloom Flats. All too convenient. But again, no one suspects anything.
Clover has this ridiculous idea to have a circus to cheer everyone up, but it all falls apart. The SDs have a bit of fun anyway, but seriously, this whole book is boring time-killing blah so far.
There's a night star ball game and a power outage occurs. Starzaps won't work and a storm comes out of nowhere. Cassie and her glowfur, Itty, save the day by having her sing the "Song of Calmness," which brings wild glowfurs in to help sing and the panicking star ball audience calms down.
Clover wakes from a dream to be found by a sleepwalking Piper. Clover follows Piper to the Wish Cavern where a Wish Orb is waiting for her. The still-sleeping Piper says time is running out for Clover's Wish Mission. Clover is startled doesn't know what to do and thankfully a flutterfocus wakes Piper up. Clover has some rather snide thoughts about her, which were totally uncalled for, and Piper reiterates that Clover should go NOW. Piper gets Clover to haul her ass in gear FINALLY and together with Mojo the bot-bot's help, they wrangle her a star and get her down to Wishworld.
Clover's mission isn't especially interesting either, but at least it felt more focused and put together than the rest of the book. She's there on her own with no place to sleep, because she didn't get her backpack. Piper brought her Vega's (she couldn't find her own, because Piper's not very organized), but the tent wasn't in it. I loved her spelling the furniture store clerk to let her "test out" the bed in the store window of the mall overnight. That was my favorite part of this entire sad book. Clover's special power is stopping time briefly, except for her and possibly her Wisher, too, because that's how it worked this time, and she completes her mission in time and gets back safely.
Lady Cordial is far too concerned about the possibility that Clover didn't take her backpack, but calms when she learns Clover has Vega's. Might be because those star keychains are loaded with negative energy, which Cordial just happens to discover and then blame on Lady Stella. Clover's Wish Blossom opened early and Cordial misplaced her power crystal...or did she? They see it glowing in Cordial's pocket so Clover gets it, but who knows if it's been sabotaged or not?
The girls have a celebration picnic, but then there's another outage, so they go to Sage's room. There, Astra sees a photo of the woman who she saw plotting with Lady Stella.
Sage says they've made a big mistake and that Lady Stella can't possibly be evil. The woman...is Sage's mom.
Oh, that was painful. Even typing this brief summary was painful. This might be the worst book in the entire series. There were far worse incidents, like all my most hated Leona moments, but this felt like a rambling story told by your drunk friend. It meandered all over the place, several parts early on were just plain dull, and there were only a couple highlights.
I was going to try to read Gemma's tonight and get that review up, but I just can't. It can't be worse than this, because things finally get at least semi-resolved in the end, but I'm so drained from Clover's that I just cannot read more SD right now.
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