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Pratt Twins #10
The Apple Pie Adventure
Now graduated from high school and living in New York City, twins Chris and Susan Pratt find themselves snared in an art-smuggling scheme after a shady character buys some of Susan's paintings
140 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 29, 1989
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April 27, 2025
The Apple Pie Adventure (Updated)
Susan walks in on Chris about to have an anxiety attack over what to pack to bring to New York. Chris will be starting college and going into pre-law and Susan will be going to art school. Chris will be going to the University of New York and Susan will be going to a school called Morgan. Every single piece of Chris’s wardrobe is all over the place and Susan tells her she’ll just have to go through it all and pick out what she wants to take, but Chris can’t bear the thought of leaving a single article of clothes behind. Susan says even tho they’ll both be starting classes they’ll have to make time to do a little shopping. Chris agrees with this. They’ll have their own apartment and needs thing for it as well as clothes.
Susan offers to help and then starts neatly packing the things Chris will need and putting back the other stuff in her closet and drawers. When their mother calls to them they’d better leave or they’ll be late catching their flight, Susan snaps the last suitcase shut and they’re all set. Chris gets a little emotional as she looks at her room and thinks about all the things they’ll be leaving behind (family, friends, Whittington), but Susan tells her they have each other (always) and to just look at this as a new adventure.
Chris and Susan settle in and hit up some shops to make the apartment feel more like home, but stick to basic furniture for now (so not to go over budget). Susan starts her art class and it’s everything she ever dreamed it would be. The “room” looks more like a studio. It has a wall with nothing but windows and easels on a platform. Instantly a boy named Alex introduces himself. Susan admits she can’t wait until it starts to feel a little bit more familiar. The teacher (Carl Green) comes in and gives them their supply list and then tells them there’s an exhibit coming up in a week. He tells them to select a couple of pieces and tells them when to bring them to his office. Since, the bookstores will be crowded, Alex invites Susan to have coffee with hi, and they talk about the upcoming exhibit. Susan says she doesn’t know what she’ll enter but she might take some paintings off her walls.
Chris is overwhelmed by all the students at her college. She meets a girl named Anne in her pre-law class. Her teach Mrs. Arnold says not only will they be learning from a text-book, they’ll also be taking lots of field trips. Starting tomorrow they’ll be visiting a local prison. She says she thinks it’s a good idea to start with seeing what happens when people *don’t* follow the law.
Susan and Chris tell each other about their day over dinner. Susan confesses to Chris that she doesn’t think she’ll be able to cut it, but Chris says that’s ridiculous. She says she’ll know after the exhibit. With Chris’s help she decides on the abstract paintings over her bed. One in red and oranges (with odd shapes over each other). The other in blues and purples. She tells her about a famous sculpture she learned about in art history also called “The Golden Empress”.
It’s covered with gold and decorated with rubies and pearls and emeralds. They were shown slides of it in class. Chris says maybe it’s on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Susan says that’s the sad part. It used to be owned by the Egyptian government and held in museum in Cairo but recently it just disappeared. She says apparently there are a lot of people who steal great works of art and priceless antiques and sell them on the black market.
Chris wants to know if she’s met any new people.. especially cute guys and she tells her about Alex and how they ended up having tea and shopping together for art supplies. Chris says she’s been too busy finding her way around campus to have meet anyone yet. Then she tells her about her trip the next day. Susan says she had no idea moving to NY would be so full of adventure.
The next day, Chris’s class is given a tour of the jail by Officer O Hara. During the tour they come face to face with a man with a sullen expression (almost cruel) and a large scar on his right cheek. He gives them all a sneer. The Officer says he doesn’t know who he is but it looks like he’s just gotten released. The Officer ends up offering to give Chris a personal tour. Instead, she invites him to an upcoming artists exhibit that just so happens to be her sister.
The exhibit is a success. Susan gets an offer to buy both of her paintings from a lady named Barbara Mason who wants to display them in her gallery. Only Susan thinks this is suspicious because all the things on display were good. Some of the students were third and fourth years. And then some artists struggle for years and can’t seel their work. Chris tells her maybe she just liked her work and she can’t wait to tell their parents. Alex tells her just enjoy it. If there’s something fishy about it, she’ll see it in time.
Chris convinces Susan that Barbara Mason just had good taste and if they go over to her gallery and see her paintings on isplay she’ll believe it’s real. Only when they get there they aren’t. A snooty man informs them that Barbara Mason isn’t there but she’ll be back soon, but they might not want to stick around (since they aren’t the gallery’s type). So, Susan and Chris go to a restaurant where they can look out the window and see when she arrives. Susan finally sees her getting out of a taxi, but then Chris freezes. Getting out of a taxi is “Scarface” and he’s following Barbara Mason.
Chris and Susan discuss whether they should get involved with it. Chris -who before didn’t see anything shady about Barbara purchasing the paintings- now is all for finding out why. Susan however wants to leave this one alone and gives Chris all the reasons they shouldn’t. (They’re new here and hardly know their way around. They have classes. It could be dangerous. “Scar Face” is a criminal). Chris shoots down each one. They know Johnny O Hara and what better time since their schedules are light now. She’s even given this adventure a name “The Apple Pie Adventure”.
Chris and Susan stake out the gallery from the same restaurant. They see Barabara go in and then come right back out. So, they hail a taxi and follow her. They wend up at a pier. They follow Barbara through a shady area and watches as she meets up with a man named Noel who asks does she has the money. She’s looking around like she’s afraid to be seen but says she does. He then leads her to a wear house.
Susan convinces Chris not to go any further for fear their luck will run out and they high tail it out of there back to their taxi and back to the safer part of the city. It looks like they can go no further unless (as Chris suggests) they ask Barbara herself to tell them what the gallery is involved in. Susan has figured out that Barbara is just posing and goes around just buying pieces to front like she’s really interested in art to cover up something else. Susan then gets the idea to have Chris play the part of a wealthy socialite that will go to the gallery in search of “something different”. Chris comes up with the name Christina Von Whittington.
They find the perfect clothes for her (a silk ivory dress and a purple silk designer dress-that they get at a store that sells real designer clothes at low prices) and accessories. It works! The man at the door who once before looked down on the twins now treats her with admiration and respect. She tells Barbara she’s looking for a present and that her daddy said money wasn’t an object. She said she heard the Mason Gallery might be the place to get something unique. Barbara says she has just the thing but it’ll take a few days. She asks for a number but Chris says it’s unlisted. She does tho (stupidly) give her her address.
After discussing it with Susan and determining that what they’re dealing with is international art thieves and they’ve been smuggling illegal antiquities and that there in over their hands and have no way to give the police proof, Susan and Chris decide to cancel the Apple Pie Adventure. One day while Susan is in class and Chris is there by herself she gets a telegram to meet with Barbara at 2 on the pier. When Chris gets there she finds out there’s a huge celebration. The U.S.S Americana is setting sail for South America and just returned from Egypt previously (confirming Chris’s suspicions).
Barbara and Noel show Chris “The Golden Empress”. Then they say they have something else to show her and then push her inside the box. Barbara says she wondered why she looked so familiar and then recognized her as Susan (who she bought the painting from). She then found out there were no Whittington’s and when checking up on her went to her apartment and saw on her mailbox that the last name was Pratt and then realized she was spying. So she plans to send her on a trip.
When Susan gets home, she has a bad feeling. She finds signs that Chris was there but left in a hurry. Then she finds the telegram and calls Johnny O Hara and tells her to meet him at the pier. When she get there she finds a maid’s uniform and in disguise finds Noel and Barbara’s state room. She finds out she has Chris in a crate in the basement and plans to ship her to South America. Susan is able to find Chris by getting one of the ships employees that works in the storage area by telling them she accidently packed her cat away and she’s new there and that her name is “Lucy”.
Meanwhile, Barbara is worried about the girl. She didn’t want to harm her just scare her. So, Noel suggests they go check on her. Susan and Chris get separated in the crowd on the ship and Noel spots Chris. She tries to hide inside the huge kitchen area but Noel finds her and puts her back in the stateroom where he and Barbara were. He stands guard outside the door. Susan figures out what happened, goes to the stateroom, and sees Noel. She gets him to chase after her knowing he’ll think she’s Chris so Chris can escape. Barbara and Noel catch up with them, but Johnny O Hara pretends to arrest the twins for trespassing. But outside, he tells Chris it was Susan’s plan to get them off the ship. He tells them INTERPOL will arrest the thieves in about five minutes. They’ve been looking for them for quite a while. They have art galleries all over. Their prize is ten thousand dollars. Now they can help their parents pay for school.
Johhny offers to take them out to celebrate and Chris and Susan say they have a taste for apple pie.
My Thoughts:
The setting was perfect! I've never even visited New York. Much less lived there. Still, I could imagine the images here vividly in my head of the famous landmarks, and the huge schools, the bustling streets, the many shops, and the cafes, and museums.
I could even imagine the smells of the apple pie, the breakfast the twins shared, and the coffee in the restaurant next to the gallery. Even the smells associated with Susan’s art school (I guess because I went to an art school) and the turpentine and the oil paints in the air in a studio room overlooking the city.
I could see in my mind the shops which Chris found the dresses for her alter ego. Also, the expansive museum and the abstract paintings of Susan's on display. I could feel the thrill of having a piece of your work featured in an Art Gallery. So just the ambiance of this book captivated me.
Also, the idea of living in your own little apartment in NY and having a built-in friend to share it with.
The plot tho at times while filled with danger and excitement felt convenient. For example, in every Pratt twin book (even though I admit it's easier when you are a young woman & in the year this book was written I'll take into an account) within a couple of chapters, it doesn't matter where they are the twins always manage to hook up with male counterparts.
It's convenient that on the first day of school an art exhibit is being held "that" weekend. I went to an art school and exhibits aren't just something you throw on a spur. I've even worked on displays and exhibits and no way can you do this in DAYS. (I think it said 3 days).
It's convenient for the very same man (Neal) Chris see's in the prison in this whole HUGE city to be the very same one that's working with the art dealer & their paths cross.
It's convenient that by the end of this book just like always it works out. They catch the bad guy and get rewarded when PROFESSIONALS haven't been able to catch the smuggler duo.
Chris and Susan, I feel sometimes don't know when to leave things alone. I give it to them. They're very brave and heroic. Sometimes I think they should just start their own detective agency since they obviously don't mind putting themselves in the heat of fire. But just like Christ got stuffed in a storage crate, I don't think they realize the stupidity of their actions on some of their "adventures". Neal is a PRISONER. They don't know what he did to get put there. He could have had a gun or a knife. They both take very foolish chances. Susan should have just let it go when she got her check. Did she ever get her check for her paintings? I would have been more upset about that if anything.
And speaking of foolish why did Chris give out her address? Another stupid risk that could have harmed her and Susan.
It also throws me a little (and yes I know these books are dated) how these girls use phrases like "Gee Chris I'm not so sure we should do this." Which just seems old-fashioned.
The story wasn't bad. Trouble just seems to follow these young women everywhere.
Rating: 7
Susan walks in on Chris about to have an anxiety attack over what to pack to bring to New York. Chris will be starting college and going into pre-law and Susan will be going to art school. Chris will be going to the University of New York and Susan will be going to a school called Morgan. Every single piece of Chris’s wardrobe is all over the place and Susan tells her she’ll just have to go through it all and pick out what she wants to take, but Chris can’t bear the thought of leaving a single article of clothes behind. Susan says even tho they’ll both be starting classes they’ll have to make time to do a little shopping. Chris agrees with this. They’ll have their own apartment and needs thing for it as well as clothes.
Susan offers to help and then starts neatly packing the things Chris will need and putting back the other stuff in her closet and drawers. When their mother calls to them they’d better leave or they’ll be late catching their flight, Susan snaps the last suitcase shut and they’re all set. Chris gets a little emotional as she looks at her room and thinks about all the things they’ll be leaving behind (family, friends, Whittington), but Susan tells her they have each other (always) and to just look at this as a new adventure.
Chris and Susan settle in and hit up some shops to make the apartment feel more like home, but stick to basic furniture for now (so not to go over budget). Susan starts her art class and it’s everything she ever dreamed it would be. The “room” looks more like a studio. It has a wall with nothing but windows and easels on a platform. Instantly a boy named Alex introduces himself. Susan admits she can’t wait until it starts to feel a little bit more familiar. The teacher (Carl Green) comes in and gives them their supply list and then tells them there’s an exhibit coming up in a week. He tells them to select a couple of pieces and tells them when to bring them to his office. Since, the bookstores will be crowded, Alex invites Susan to have coffee with hi, and they talk about the upcoming exhibit. Susan says she doesn’t know what she’ll enter but she might take some paintings off her walls.
Chris is overwhelmed by all the students at her college. She meets a girl named Anne in her pre-law class. Her teach Mrs. Arnold says not only will they be learning from a text-book, they’ll also be taking lots of field trips. Starting tomorrow they’ll be visiting a local prison. She says she thinks it’s a good idea to start with seeing what happens when people *don’t* follow the law.
Susan and Chris tell each other about their day over dinner. Susan confesses to Chris that she doesn’t think she’ll be able to cut it, but Chris says that’s ridiculous. She says she’ll know after the exhibit. With Chris’s help she decides on the abstract paintings over her bed. One in red and oranges (with odd shapes over each other). The other in blues and purples. She tells her about a famous sculpture she learned about in art history also called “The Golden Empress”.
It’s covered with gold and decorated with rubies and pearls and emeralds. They were shown slides of it in class. Chris says maybe it’s on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Susan says that’s the sad part. It used to be owned by the Egyptian government and held in museum in Cairo but recently it just disappeared. She says apparently there are a lot of people who steal great works of art and priceless antiques and sell them on the black market.
Chris wants to know if she’s met any new people.. especially cute guys and she tells her about Alex and how they ended up having tea and shopping together for art supplies. Chris says she’s been too busy finding her way around campus to have meet anyone yet. Then she tells her about her trip the next day. Susan says she had no idea moving to NY would be so full of adventure.
The next day, Chris’s class is given a tour of the jail by Officer O Hara. During the tour they come face to face with a man with a sullen expression (almost cruel) and a large scar on his right cheek. He gives them all a sneer. The Officer says he doesn’t know who he is but it looks like he’s just gotten released. The Officer ends up offering to give Chris a personal tour. Instead, she invites him to an upcoming artists exhibit that just so happens to be her sister.
The exhibit is a success. Susan gets an offer to buy both of her paintings from a lady named Barbara Mason who wants to display them in her gallery. Only Susan thinks this is suspicious because all the things on display were good. Some of the students were third and fourth years. And then some artists struggle for years and can’t seel their work. Chris tells her maybe she just liked her work and she can’t wait to tell their parents. Alex tells her just enjoy it. If there’s something fishy about it, she’ll see it in time.
Chris convinces Susan that Barbara Mason just had good taste and if they go over to her gallery and see her paintings on isplay she’ll believe it’s real. Only when they get there they aren’t. A snooty man informs them that Barbara Mason isn’t there but she’ll be back soon, but they might not want to stick around (since they aren’t the gallery’s type). So, Susan and Chris go to a restaurant where they can look out the window and see when she arrives. Susan finally sees her getting out of a taxi, but then Chris freezes. Getting out of a taxi is “Scarface” and he’s following Barbara Mason.
Chris and Susan discuss whether they should get involved with it. Chris -who before didn’t see anything shady about Barbara purchasing the paintings- now is all for finding out why. Susan however wants to leave this one alone and gives Chris all the reasons they shouldn’t. (They’re new here and hardly know their way around. They have classes. It could be dangerous. “Scar Face” is a criminal). Chris shoots down each one. They know Johnny O Hara and what better time since their schedules are light now. She’s even given this adventure a name “The Apple Pie Adventure”.
Chris and Susan stake out the gallery from the same restaurant. They see Barabara go in and then come right back out. So, they hail a taxi and follow her. They wend up at a pier. They follow Barbara through a shady area and watches as she meets up with a man named Noel who asks does she has the money. She’s looking around like she’s afraid to be seen but says she does. He then leads her to a wear house.
Susan convinces Chris not to go any further for fear their luck will run out and they high tail it out of there back to their taxi and back to the safer part of the city. It looks like they can go no further unless (as Chris suggests) they ask Barbara herself to tell them what the gallery is involved in. Susan has figured out that Barbara is just posing and goes around just buying pieces to front like she’s really interested in art to cover up something else. Susan then gets the idea to have Chris play the part of a wealthy socialite that will go to the gallery in search of “something different”. Chris comes up with the name Christina Von Whittington.
They find the perfect clothes for her (a silk ivory dress and a purple silk designer dress-that they get at a store that sells real designer clothes at low prices) and accessories. It works! The man at the door who once before looked down on the twins now treats her with admiration and respect. She tells Barbara she’s looking for a present and that her daddy said money wasn’t an object. She said she heard the Mason Gallery might be the place to get something unique. Barbara says she has just the thing but it’ll take a few days. She asks for a number but Chris says it’s unlisted. She does tho (stupidly) give her her address.
After discussing it with Susan and determining that what they’re dealing with is international art thieves and they’ve been smuggling illegal antiquities and that there in over their hands and have no way to give the police proof, Susan and Chris decide to cancel the Apple Pie Adventure. One day while Susan is in class and Chris is there by herself she gets a telegram to meet with Barbara at 2 on the pier. When Chris gets there she finds out there’s a huge celebration. The U.S.S Americana is setting sail for South America and just returned from Egypt previously (confirming Chris’s suspicions).
Barbara and Noel show Chris “The Golden Empress”. Then they say they have something else to show her and then push her inside the box. Barbara says she wondered why she looked so familiar and then recognized her as Susan (who she bought the painting from). She then found out there were no Whittington’s and when checking up on her went to her apartment and saw on her mailbox that the last name was Pratt and then realized she was spying. So she plans to send her on a trip.
When Susan gets home, she has a bad feeling. She finds signs that Chris was there but left in a hurry. Then she finds the telegram and calls Johnny O Hara and tells her to meet him at the pier. When she get there she finds a maid’s uniform and in disguise finds Noel and Barbara’s state room. She finds out she has Chris in a crate in the basement and plans to ship her to South America. Susan is able to find Chris by getting one of the ships employees that works in the storage area by telling them she accidently packed her cat away and she’s new there and that her name is “Lucy”.
Meanwhile, Barbara is worried about the girl. She didn’t want to harm her just scare her. So, Noel suggests they go check on her. Susan and Chris get separated in the crowd on the ship and Noel spots Chris. She tries to hide inside the huge kitchen area but Noel finds her and puts her back in the stateroom where he and Barbara were. He stands guard outside the door. Susan figures out what happened, goes to the stateroom, and sees Noel. She gets him to chase after her knowing he’ll think she’s Chris so Chris can escape. Barbara and Noel catch up with them, but Johnny O Hara pretends to arrest the twins for trespassing. But outside, he tells Chris it was Susan’s plan to get them off the ship. He tells them INTERPOL will arrest the thieves in about five minutes. They’ve been looking for them for quite a while. They have art galleries all over. Their prize is ten thousand dollars. Now they can help their parents pay for school.
Johhny offers to take them out to celebrate and Chris and Susan say they have a taste for apple pie.
My Thoughts:
The setting was perfect! I've never even visited New York. Much less lived there. Still, I could imagine the images here vividly in my head of the famous landmarks, and the huge schools, the bustling streets, the many shops, and the cafes, and museums.
I could even imagine the smells of the apple pie, the breakfast the twins shared, and the coffee in the restaurant next to the gallery. Even the smells associated with Susan’s art school (I guess because I went to an art school) and the turpentine and the oil paints in the air in a studio room overlooking the city.
I could see in my mind the shops which Chris found the dresses for her alter ego. Also, the expansive museum and the abstract paintings of Susan's on display. I could feel the thrill of having a piece of your work featured in an Art Gallery. So just the ambiance of this book captivated me.
Also, the idea of living in your own little apartment in NY and having a built-in friend to share it with.
The plot tho at times while filled with danger and excitement felt convenient. For example, in every Pratt twin book (even though I admit it's easier when you are a young woman & in the year this book was written I'll take into an account) within a couple of chapters, it doesn't matter where they are the twins always manage to hook up with male counterparts.
It's convenient that on the first day of school an art exhibit is being held "that" weekend. I went to an art school and exhibits aren't just something you throw on a spur. I've even worked on displays and exhibits and no way can you do this in DAYS. (I think it said 3 days).
It's convenient for the very same man (Neal) Chris see's in the prison in this whole HUGE city to be the very same one that's working with the art dealer & their paths cross.
It's convenient that by the end of this book just like always it works out. They catch the bad guy and get rewarded when PROFESSIONALS haven't been able to catch the smuggler duo.
Chris and Susan, I feel sometimes don't know when to leave things alone. I give it to them. They're very brave and heroic. Sometimes I think they should just start their own detective agency since they obviously don't mind putting themselves in the heat of fire. But just like Christ got stuffed in a storage crate, I don't think they realize the stupidity of their actions on some of their "adventures". Neal is a PRISONER. They don't know what he did to get put there. He could have had a gun or a knife. They both take very foolish chances. Susan should have just let it go when she got her check. Did she ever get her check for her paintings? I would have been more upset about that if anything.
And speaking of foolish why did Chris give out her address? Another stupid risk that could have harmed her and Susan.
It also throws me a little (and yes I know these books are dated) how these girls use phrases like "Gee Chris I'm not so sure we should do this." Which just seems old-fashioned.
The story wasn't bad. Trouble just seems to follow these young women everywhere.
Rating: 7
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January 1, 2022
Twin sisters Christine and Susan Pratt are heading off to start their higher education in New York City. Chris is attending college but Sooz is going to art school—a fact that leads to their investigation of an international art heist in The Apple Pie Adventure by author Cynthia Blair.
Well! This tenth Pratt Twins novel may be the last I'll read in this YA series (I preferred reading about the sisters when they were high-schoolers), but it's been a fun ride.
My nostalgic self gets such a kick out of the '80s-ness of these books, and their cozy corn—along with some of the implausibility wrapped up in the girls' capers—adds to their old-fashioned appeal for me. Not all of the sisters' adventures include mystery or danger, but here's one of 'em that does.
Now, this isn't the only book in the series to be repetitive at points and to have more pages to fill than important events to fill them, even for so short a novel. And I'll never get over the fact that the girls' love interests who were rather central to the plot in Book One are never heard of again as the continuing series tosses in a string of generic cute-'n'-nice guys for the girls to go on generic friendship dates with. (I mean, maybe Book One was originally going to be the only book? I didn't know at first that a whole series followed.)
But at least one of the guys this time actually has an affect on the outcome of Chris and Sooz's adventure. And hey! Gotta love seeing a pair of sisters fresh from high school helping to pull off what Interpol failed to do on its own. Heh heh.
Gee. Little did I know, when I found and loved The Banana Split Affair back in my preteens, that I'd discover more about the Pratt Twins and still be reading about them decades later. It's been great revisiting the kind of stuff that fueled my early imaginings about what teenhood must be like, and I'll likely return to a few of the novels for future comfort reading, especially Books One and Five.
Well! This tenth Pratt Twins novel may be the last I'll read in this YA series (I preferred reading about the sisters when they were high-schoolers), but it's been a fun ride.
My nostalgic self gets such a kick out of the '80s-ness of these books, and their cozy corn—along with some of the implausibility wrapped up in the girls' capers—adds to their old-fashioned appeal for me. Not all of the sisters' adventures include mystery or danger, but here's one of 'em that does.
Now, this isn't the only book in the series to be repetitive at points and to have more pages to fill than important events to fill them, even for so short a novel. And I'll never get over the fact that the girls' love interests who were rather central to the plot in Book One are never heard of again as the continuing series tosses in a string of generic cute-'n'-nice guys for the girls to go on generic friendship dates with. (I mean, maybe Book One was originally going to be the only book? I didn't know at first that a whole series followed.)
But at least one of the guys this time actually has an affect on the outcome of Chris and Sooz's adventure. And hey! Gotta love seeing a pair of sisters fresh from high school helping to pull off what Interpol failed to do on its own. Heh heh.
Gee. Little did I know, when I found and loved The Banana Split Affair back in my preteens, that I'd discover more about the Pratt Twins and still be reading about them decades later. It's been great revisiting the kind of stuff that fueled my early imaginings about what teenhood must be like, and I'll likely return to a few of the novels for future comfort reading, especially Books One and Five.
August 4, 2022
In which Chris gets hit *hard* with the TSTL stick. The girls are off to New York City for college—Sooz to art school & Chris to NYU. There’s some highly improbable hand-wave-y stuff to get the girls rooming in the same apartment but, trust me, that is the least batshit crazy thing about this book.
The girls promptly find insta-boyfriends—bland art student Alex for Susan (who serves zero purpose to this story) & cop Johnny O’Hara for Chris. And they just as promptly find themselves embroiled in a totally ridonkulous mystery featuring international art smugglers. The twins’ nutso scheme has Chris pretending to be bored heiress Christina von Whittington (OMG…srsly?!?) looking to buy “unique” artwork. And here, Chris’ brain stops functioning. She decides that giving dangerous criminals her home address is better than telling them her phone number (oh, gurl 🙄). She then decides it’s a brilliant idea to go meet said dangerous criminals without telling anyone where she’s going.
This book was so bad. Besides the OTT TSTL, the author clearly had some difficulty meeting their word count. There are lots of “as you know, Bob” type info dumps as well as detailed (and I do mean *detailed*) recaps of things that happened in the previous chapter. This was the last Pratt Twins book in my stash and I’m so sad it ended on such a terrible note.
The girls promptly find insta-boyfriends—bland art student Alex for Susan (who serves zero purpose to this story) & cop Johnny O’Hara for Chris. And they just as promptly find themselves embroiled in a totally ridonkulous mystery featuring international art smugglers. The twins’ nutso scheme has Chris pretending to be bored heiress Christina von Whittington (OMG…srsly?!?) looking to buy “unique” artwork. And here, Chris’ brain stops functioning. She decides that giving dangerous criminals her home address is better than telling them her phone number (oh, gurl 🙄). She then decides it’s a brilliant idea to go meet said dangerous criminals without telling anyone where she’s going.
This book was so bad. Besides the OTT TSTL, the author clearly had some difficulty meeting their word count. There are lots of “as you know, Bob” type info dumps as well as detailed (and I do mean *detailed*) recaps of things that happened in the previous chapter. This was the last Pratt Twins book in my stash and I’m so sad it ended on such a terrible note.
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