I'm just going to hit a few high points, not go chapter by chapter.
Astra and Piper seem like a mismatched pair of friends and they're extremely different, but somehow they still get each other. I love their friendship more than any other in this series so far.
Both girls removed their spelled nail polish last book, so they're trying to get the others to see that they're all acting bizarrely. They finally use Vega's habit of constantly filming everything to show the girls how they've been acting, but they still don't know what's causing it, so for awhile, they're acting funny and it's driving them nuts because they can't stop it. Then Astra figures out it's the nail polish and they try everything to remove it, but realize only Earth nail polish remover will do it. Astra brings some back from her mission and at the end of the book, everyone is finally back to normal. I'm hoping this is the last personality-altering thing we deal with.
Then we've got the Ophelia mystery. Astra overhears Lady Stella talking to a hooded woman and after that woman leaves, she confronts Lady Stella about it. Lady Stella fakes an answer and Astra goes on to ask about Ophelia. Lady Cordial appears and says that the orphanage Ophelia came from found a family willing to adopt her, so she got pulled from school to handle the details. Neither adult can come up with the proper name for Ophelia's orphanage and Astra remembers both. After dealing with another power outage of sorts, Astra makes it to SD class, only to learn the class is cancelled because the prof is stuck in their version of an elevator. The girls discuss Ophelia, but get distracted handling the personality alteration thing, but later Astra tries calling one of the orphanages and they say they can only give info out in person. Field trip for Astra and Piper! They go to that orphanage and Ophelia is not a student there...or rather, she is, but it's not their Ophelia. They also meet a nice boy named Leebeau, who's a fan of Astra and Astra quite possibly ends up with a crush on him. I think this is the first mention of boys in the book series, unlike Libby's obsessive boy talk in the webisodes. Astra and Piper have to rush back to school, because it's time for the next wish mission.
Astra is chosen, of course, and Piper says she'll keep looking for Ophelia while Astra is gone. She's going to ask Leona for help, since Leona was so close to Ophelia. Astra's mission is pretty fun, although I prefer Piper's. Astra gets a bit too distracted by sports, but her take on things is fun and her power is teleporting, which is awesome. She identifies her wisher pretty quickly and almost gets the wish right, but it takes a visit from Libby to put her in the right direction. There's an interesting bit where the girls are being kept from opening the auditorium doors. A "strange sickly gray mist" is around the door handle and Libby gets the brilliant idea to use her power crystal. It dissolves the mist, Astra successfully completes her mission, gets her power crystal, and brings back nail polish remover for everyone.
Then Piper and Leona announce that they found Ophelia. She's a student at a school, not an orphanage, and she really wanted to go to Starling Academy, but she bombed everything. Then she received a holotext saying she could attend if she pretended to be someone else. Cassie asks who the holotexts came from and Ophelia responds, "Lady Stella, of course."
So now we've solved the current personality alteration problem and the mystery of Ophelia only to have Lady Stella fall under suspicion. The first chapter of Tessa's book, in which she's already annoying me with her easily distracted, stubborn, food is more important than actual important things ways, has the SD girls discussing Lady Stella. Scarlet is convinced she's behind it and she makes good points, because it has to be someone in power to have done the Scarlet/Ophelia flip. Tessa is convinced it's not her, so it will be interesting to see which girls fall on which side. Cassie seems to be with Scarlet and Sage with Tessa. Leona also seems to be with Cassie and Scarlet, which is a switch.
Things are getting good!
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