Hey ya'll? Interested in reading some of the TS Books
It just so happens that someone may have purchased one or two or seven!
If you're interested in reading them well there should be a little link
Here
I've got all 3 released Super sisters books
2 choose your own adventure books
And 2 just of the newer series books that I guess are "unrelated" but fall pretty close to the mainline series!
Mainly because I got used to Colette being the only blue-eyed character
Probably a hotter take is that I'm also a brown-eyed Paulina AND Violet believer too! Although I've softened more to blue/purple-eyed Paulina and Violet recently
I’ve been getting dropkicked by animation school (hence the non-TS reblogs lately), but I’m on term break now so I get to have a breather from the dropkicking, and I have some goodies to show you :D
So context for this one: there’s an Italian book where the Mouseford Squad gets to participate together in a kite competition in town, and uh drama starts brewing since they’re like what, eleven people in one team making one kite for one competition, on top of each of them having miscellaneous responsibilities? Too many chefs in the kitchen, pretty much, and that’s guaranteed to be a breeding ground for drama :D
And Vanilla peeps this and decides to use the already simmering tensions to her advantage, by planting teeny tiny nuggets of gossip, like Vi is taking a call outside and is making a very deliberate effort to not be overheard, so Vanilla goes to Tanya and Dina saying “hey so uh I saw Vi outside taking a strange call” “oh it’s probably for the art gallery she’s in charge of” “well hmmm I dunno because I overheard something about her making a kite? A big one for the competition, sounds like she’s planning on ditching you guys for the competition but I dunno her words not mine, don’t shoot the messenger”, and with tensions already brewing in the team, she actually doesn’t have to do much to get them to implode, because by god do they IMPLODE :DDD
So Mouseford squad confronts the Thea Sisters about Violet, the girls aren’t buying it because Vi’s not like that and it’s prolly a misunderstanding (it is), but again, tensions are running high throughout the team and Vi is strangely not at the art gallery like she’s supposed to be when they call her, and they hit a point where they challenge the girls to find Violet so she can explain herself
So the girls try to call Vi, she’s not responding so they drive out in Pam’s SUV and they find Violet at the beach
Working on a kite that none of them have seen before ‘:}
And the thing you have to know about Vi here is that she is helping a friend make a kite, but she promised to keep it secret, and uh never ask Vi to make a promise she can keep, because she will keep it to the letter until she dies, further aggravating this horrible, horrible betrayal trolley situation she’s in :D
This is one of the few times that the gang acts like an actual friend group
Like everyone was very snappy at each other in this book, and it wasn't because they suddenly hated one another, but because at that point in the story, the gang had taken it upon themselves to organize just about EVERYTHING
I also love the perception that it paints of the Thea Sisters, because Vanilla does subtly imply that Vi and the Thea Sisters are doing it because they want to win and gain recognition, which -projection aside- is funny for the fact that it almost worked
And I totally understand it too! You have the girls naming themselves after one of the University's most famous students, who wrote their own book series. The same girls that seem to organize every event, win every trophy, and know their Dean on a personal level to the point where he emails them to go to his office.
I can't blame their friends for feeling just slightly inferior to them and falling for Vanilla's tricks. Her understanding of the human mouse psychology is devious here because a solid third of the book is spent from her POV as she sabotages the girls' relationships and the fact is: she gets away with it. Karma does bite her in the butt afterward when she destroys her own kite, but the fact that they never trace it back or get mad at Vanilla and Vi's plot resolves there is super interesting!
Despite the fun title and cute cover, The Kite Festival has a very cool plot and premise, and a unique POV segment!