Plot: Stacey has been living in New York for awhile now and hasn't seen her friends yet. Her parents, along with all the parents in the building, are having a big meeting to solve the problem of homelessness in their neighborhood, and all those parents need baby-sitters. Stacey invites all her friends up for the weekend so they can take care of all the kids.
However, her friends are disasters. MaryAnne is an expert on New York and can't stop quoting facts and figures to everyone she sees. Dawn is terrified of the city and acts like a moron. Claudia is jealous of Stacey's New York best friend, Laine, and picks fights with her. Kristy isn't really any different than she normally is, but she gets on Stacey's nerves too. Everything comes to a head after a party that Stacey throws at her apartment so that her New York friends can get to know her Connecticut friends, and it's a fucking nightmare.
After that, Stacey calls a truce because they all have to babysit the next day. They take ten kids to a museum and to Central Park, and by the end of the day they are all best friends again. Then Laine calls and wants to make up, so she takes them all to dinner and a broadway play in a limo.
Then the next day the girls leave.
Takeaways:
Claudia takes a huge suitcase with her and everyone is all annoyed. But Stacey takes it a step further and freaks out because it has wheels. What the fuck, Stacey, Most suitcases have wheels, you mutt.
Stacey is a pretty huge bitch to her friends during the beginning of this book. She just gets super annoyed with them and thinks they are so immature. I wish this didn't make me hate Stacey this much. Like - when Laine comes to her apartment, she gets rammy and weird because Laine is dressed so grown up and looks at least 19. Claudia looks cool, but not grown up and could only pass for 15. Seriously. They are 13. They should look 13.
During the morning, Stacey is laying in bed thinking about how all of her friends are annoying and have problems, but none of them are HER problems so they all need to just deal with it. Why did AMM write her to be such a bitch?
Then, during the day, Stacey acts excited about seeing something and Claudia is like "wow, it's nice to see you actually get excited about something" and that's the first inkling Stacey has that maybe her friends are annoyed with her, too.
Best character:
I am going to give this award to the McGill's because they let four girls take over their apartment, allow Stacey to throw a party, and deal with their squabbling all weekend long. They just keep disappearing together (to go out to breakfast, to go on a walk), which is weird since (spoiler alert) they are divorced in ten books.
Worst character:
You probably think I'm going to give this one to Stacey....and you are right.
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