It’s a Thanksgiving special! Though not as exciting as the Thanksgiving episode of Gossip Girl. But it was interesting to read about the girls somewhere other than Waverly.
Tinsley, Jenny and Callie are headed to the city for the holidays and instead of spending Thanksgiving with their families, they end up at a party being thrown by a fellow Waverly Owl. Classic. Though probably more interesting than actual Thanksgiving with the fam.
First off, Callie plans to stay in NYC because she finds this letter from Easy in her bag and he leaves her a promise ring and she’s so excited, she’s practically planning her wedding. Yawn. I was over this relationship since the first book. Thankfully for me though, Callie also seems over the relationship lol. By the time she is meant to meet Easy on the top of the Empire State building (hello Chuck and Blair vibes) she realises she isn’t ready to be in that serious of a relationship and so dumps his ass. Honestly, I’m glad.
I take it this means Easy is out of the picture for good considering he was shipped off to military school or whatever and snuck out to be with Callie. And now she doesn’t want him so. I think it’s over. He better not try winning her back again because we have been on this rollercoaster for too long and I don’t care for it lol.
Next we learn that Jenny and Tinsley can actually be good friends to each other? Who knew? I like this friendship though hopefully it keeps up. Tinsley gives Jenny some advice to not fall in love with every guy she meets after five minutes and to just have fun. Which, Jenny tries to but naturally she finds this cute guy at the party she hits it off with. Cue the eye rolls. I imagine he sticks around for the next book but can’t see him lasting longer than that.
Meanwhile, Tinsley comes face to face with an old rival at the Thanksgiving party – Sleigh Monroe-Hill. I know her name is literally slay. Apparently she was a bigger bitch than Tinsley when she was at Waverly, throwing all of Tinsley’s belongings out their 4th floor window and ruining it all. Yikes.
I was expecting major drama between Sleigh and Tinsley but it was so lack lustre. All that happened was Sleigh trying to convince Julian (the freshman Tinsley was in love with before he hooked up with Jenny and Tinsley set fire to that barn lol) that she is the better match for him than Tinsley. Yawn. And she doesn’t even have to try hard to be a nicer girl than Tinsley.
The only thing that made Julian realise Sleigh was a fake was him mentioning that he’d hooked up with Tinsley before and I guess Sleigh went a bit psycho? Nothing crazy though. I mean it sounded very tame. I was expecting way more for an ex-nemesis appearing. I needed more sneaky girl fighting and drama. But there was nothing. Just Tinsley pretending to be nice for five minutes and Sleigh just existing. Ugh.
While the girls are going through all of this in NYC, Brett is in Jersey with her family who are acting so normal and boring because her sister has brought the in-laws over for the holidays and is trying to make a good impression. In typical cliche fashion, Brett tries everything she can to expose to the in-laws the truth about who her family really is to scare them off. She succeeds but at what cost? She ends up apologising to her sister and making up. Nothing super crazy here either.
I suppose it was good to see Brett embrace her family and their nouveau-riche tackiness. And she has a new love interest – Seb, this Jersey boy who she would usually be repulsed by but she realises he’s actually not that bad. Again, not sure how long he will last as a love interest but we will go along with it for now.
And last but not least we had an adventure with the boys – Heath and Brandon. Basically, Brandon’s girlfriend Sage breaks up with him for not being masculine enough – yeah the early 2000s are wild. So Heath decides him and Brandon should stay on campus to try and hook up with one of the teachers’ twin daughters. It’s so random but I didn’t hate their side story. From the experience, Heath realises he still misses Kara and Brandon I think just is proud of himself for hooking up lol.
And so that is where we are at the end of Thanksgiving. Honestly, this one was fine. I mean the whole series has been fine lol. I guess I expected some more drama or something and I know I am so not the target demographic for these books, but even if I was reading this at fifteen I know I’d need more drama. But it’s fine. Three books left. Still not sure where we leave this unless somehow Jenny ends up being expelled or something but we’ll see. Here’s hoping something a little more interesting happens soon as well lol.
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