Piper is awesome. She and Scarlet are both my favorites and they're very different, yet I see myself in both (and Libby, too). Piper is slow-moving and often arrives late, which I am the opposite of, but she's dreamy, a writer, sometimes takes things to a dark place, doesn't care much what others think of her, and loves sleep. She believes in the power of dreams and were religion part of SD, I think she would be the most spiritual.
Piper's favorite holiday, Star Kindness Day, is here. It's a day when Starlings pay each other compliments and other positive messages. Piper has written individual poems for each SD and she's excited to send them. However, everyone gets insulting, mean messages. All the good messages sent have turned negative. Lady Stella tells everyone to ignore them, but the tension is high and everyone is snippy and unhappy. Libby suggests an SD sleepover in her and Gemma's room and that works for awhile, but then Piper has a nightmare and Sage comforts her. They go outside and Piper tries telling Sage her nightmare, but Sage can't stop laughing. Remember the nail polish? Yeah, it's still affecting the girls.
Piper has dreamt she's going to be the next one chosen for a mission and she is. I really like Piper's mission. I think it's the best one by far. But that might be because about half of it is set in the diner owned by her wisher's family and there's a lot of restaurant stuff going on that I totally get. Piper actually gets the wish wrong twice, although her first attempt at fixing is a spectacular success. It's just not what the wisher asked for. Astra comes down to help. The true wish is finally revealed at a sleepover that Piper helped plan, incorrectly thinking that was the wish. Piper's mission is different, because the wish itself is not something intuitive. She couldn't have figured it out on her own, because it was a secret amongst the wisher and her group of friends. However, Piper sabotages herself a few times when she's trying to get her wisher to open up and talk to her and says something her wisher finds too dark and creepy. It seems to be a combination of Piper's being spelled to constantly interrupt people and her own dark side that slips out and she can't help herself. But she finally gets her wisher to talk and everything is taken care of. Successful wish mission.
What's also successful is that the girls do mani-pedis and both Piper and Astra have to scrub extra hard to get their old polish off. Once it's off, both notice they feel different and once they're back on Starland, they vow to figure out what's going on. They haven't made the polish = problems connection, but both are fixed. I'm looking forward to this, because I'm hoping they free some of the lesser-used characters first, so it can be them, plus Adora, Tessa, Gemma, etc. solving the mystery this time, and not Cassie, Vega, etc.
I'm looking forward to getting to know Astra in the next book, because this one has me liking her a lot more.
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