Silly and Fun

The Big A.S.S. Party  by Susanne Valenti and CAroline Peckham 

This was a fun novella. Geraldine and Max are currently my favorite characters in this series so getting anything from their perspective is a treat. This book starts with the night of the Lunar Eclipse, when Max and Geraldine first hook up. The rest of the book basically takes place in the middle of book 5, since Diego is still alive. Geraldine plans a huge surprise party for the twins. She finds out that Darius is planning something for them as well and storms over to stop it and then invites the Heirs. Then, she finds out that Mildred knows and calls Max and makes him keep her away so they use Darius as bait and trap her so she can't get out and ruin it. The twins definitely think it's going to be a low key party and then have to pretend to be joking about not wanting anything big. Max and Geraldine are crazy about each other, but we find out at the end that Geraldine is engaged to Justin Masters. Max basically begs her to give him two years; they can be public or not but please let them be together. She agrees since she wants to be with him too. But, only until she has to marry Justin after she graduates. These two are going to destroy me. They desperately want to be together but can't for so many reasons, her engagement and their divided loyalties to the throne being the biggest.  This was a nice change from the horror that usually comes with a Zodiac Academy book.