Aspen Brooks is back in all her designer glory and nose for
criminal mayhem. This time, the setting is glamorous Las
Vegas for a Spring Break trip with her boyfriend, Rand, and
friends, Angel and Lucas.
Aspen is immediately traumatized by the loss of her luggage
and spends much of the trip making do with Angel's clothes
or cheap purchased things. For someone who considers a
Dooney bag the must-have accessory -- and thank goodness she
didn't check that! -- it does not mean a great start to the
trip. Then, a beauty pageant is occupying their hotel and
it turns out that Lucas knows one of the contestants,
Emerson. Other than tweaking Angel's jealous bone, the
chance meeting doesn't mean much.
Until Emerson disappears. Her distraught mother swears
Emerson would never run off, because she's trying to win
the contest to help her family save their farm. Unable to
leave anything alone, Aspen noses into the situation and
ends up taking Emerson's place in the contest.
Like the previous Aspen Brooks novels, you start off
shocked at her shallowness (the drama over the lost luggage
almost equaled that of a lost child -- okay, maybe a lost
pet) and end up rooting for her all the way. While I do
struggle on a personal level with teen fiction that
emphasizes looks and high-dollar items like Dooney purses,
I know it is fun to read about, and Hale does an excellent
job of combining those light-hearted topics with more
serious issues.
Twisted Sisters’s Aspen Brooks can’t catch a
break—even during spring break…
Aspen Brooks
trades in sand between her toes for shopping on The Strip
when she agrees to go to Las Vegas for spring break with
her boyfriend, Rand, her bff, Angel, and Angel’s bf,
Lucas. Their hotel is hosting the Miss Teen Queen Pageant
and surgically enhanced beauty contestants are everywhere.
But when Miss Illinois goes AWOL, it’s up to Aspen to
represent her home state and find out what’s really going
on. Even if it means putting down the suntan lotion and
ignoring Angel’s meltdown over breaking up with Lucas…
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