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Barnes's humorously narrated follow-up to Tattoo fuses a chick-lit chronicle of the friendship between four high school seniors with a fantasy adventure featuring elements of Greek and Irish mythology. The episodes set in the Otherworld are awkwardly plotted, but the girls' bantering relationship, worries about graduation, and schemes to romance the geekiest boys in school are warmly conveyed.