While I do like these stories, I'm not sure how I feel about them being bundled into one book like this. I enjoyed most of the short stories in this book. But overall you can pretty much skip this entirely and lose nothing. If you're a big fan of the series and don't mind the writing style, then you might as well read it. The rest of the stories tend to reiterate things already covered in the main books with a small bit of new information. That could still have worked, but the short story format means there isn't much room to let the gag play out to extremes. But it lacks more than the single gag of Katarina being unable to remember who is trying to trap her since she's too busy at the buffet table. The first story, where a girl shows up who is what Katarina would have been if she'd been true to her game counterpart, was the most interesting for me. Even the short stories don't work all that well, as the author's tendency to retell things shows up even in the shortest pieces, so the amount of new information is buried inside a lot of recap. Honestly, unless you're a huge series fan, this book should be skipped. The girls have a sleepover and talk romance. How will Katarina react when she comes face-to-face with a true villainess? Nicol has decided it's time to search for a fiancee, but he's having trouble choosing. This is a volume of short stories and vignettes, exploring various small events.
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