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'''''Sisters... No Way!''''' is a novel by Irish author Siobhan Parkinson. It's told uniquely in the form of two diaries kept by two teenage girls. Cindy is a fifteen-year-old only child whose mother has just died of an illness. She's actually adjusting pretty well to it until her father starts dating one of her teachers. The teacher in question has two daughters of her own, sixteen-year-old Aishling and fourteen-year-old Alva. We read the diaries of Cindy and Aishling and get their views on how their lives change as their parents eventually marry and the families are forced to move in together.
In case you didn't get the parallel with Cindy's name and the plot, it's sort of a modern take on ''Cinderella'', of course, without the poverty and toe-cutting.
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* [[Bitch Alert]]: Aishling and Alva have this reaction when they first meet Cindy.
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Alva, the bratty fourteen-year-old. Averted with Margaret and Aishling, who are also blondes.
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Cindy's best friend Lisa.▼
* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Alva, even though she's fourteen.
* [[By the Hair]]: During an argument at the breakfast table, Aishling grabs Cindy by the hair to calm her down. Cindy does something similar to Emma earlier in the book.
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* [[Dramatic Irony]]: If you read Aishling's diary first, then you'll immediately realise that {{spoiler|Robbie, the guy Cindy meets in a bar, is her ex}}. If you read Cindy's first, then you'll clue in when he phones the house.
* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: Aishling. She's pretty, popular, gets straight As and has a cute boyfriend.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Aishling finds a pregnancy test in the bathroom bin and immediately assumes that it belongs to Alva, her fourteen-year-old sister, as opposed to Margaret, who's in an actual relationship.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: All the teachers at Cindy's school have them. At first everyone calls Margaret "Milly-Molly-Mandy" and then Cindy starts calling her "The Bay Tree" after her hairstyle.
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