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cookie77 in 1bruce1

SVH #13: Kidnapped!

Jul 12, 2007 02:03

( Not much humor here. Liz gets kidnapped by a guy who'd been stalking her, and it's as true-to-life as it can be without going beyond the limits of the SV universe. No real violence, but not much sugarcoating either. )

sweet valley's finest, sweet valley high, recapper: cookie77, pool push, todd punch, saint elizabeth of sweet valley, nicholas sorrow

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versipellis July 12 2007, 18:33:08 UTC

Heee. I do like your mention of the clothes, actually - they're fun. Nice recap - I'm glad you didn't snark the bits you thought that worked! Although I totally didn't need the Steven/Jessica stuff in the first paragraph XD

ez_oz July 13 2007, 00:39:35 UTC

NOTE TO JESS: Knock, bitch. Where are your freakin' manners?

I wonder how Ned & Alice felt, knowing that their daughters were a bit (or more than just a bit) dim... Unfortunately, it's the risk that comes with procreation...

Thanks for the recap, and have a lovely day! :-)

nanamik622 July 13 2007, 03:05:08 UTC

I want to know why the ghostwriters decided that the only way to come up with good storylines in these books was to have something very traumatic happen. Didn't they realize that it would become absurd to have the twins get kidnapped, see friends die, nearly be raped and be threatened and menaced in various ways and not become emotionally devastated and unable to function? Wasn't there enough plotlines to be made out of school dances and boyfriends?

Very good recap.

cookie77 July 13 2007, 03:15:30 UTC

Thank you! And yes, this is the kind of thing that's worthwhile the first time, but when you have people repeatedly being stalked/abducted, multiple deaths, multiple sexual assaults, and so forth, you wonder how Sweet Valley can still be seen as idyllic! Except for what happened with Suzanne's boyfriend, Jessica was actually safer in New York!

nanamik622 July 13 2007, 04:08:12 UTC

Yeah it is just like those mystery novels that are set in sleepy little towns where nothing ever happens except for the horrific ritualistic mass murders that occur twice a month. And no one is ever traumatized. In some ways it is even lamer when they do mention past trauma because it reminds the reader of how many times these events happen. Like in R is for Revenge, Liz is sad for about two minutes about Sam dying. I guess the writers felt that they had to mention it since they were repeating the whole two people get in a character one dies the other feels guilty plot but it just points out the lameness of the whole thing. Liz should still be deeply traumatized by you know, killing her sister's boyfriend and all. And Jess should be traumatized about her boyfriend being dead. People just don't get over this stuff unless the writers are assuming that multiple trauma has turned Liz and Jess into emotionless socipaths. I've been thinking about this because I'm reading Aftershock, and that is just a clusterfuck of trauma that no one ( ... )

svhhorseluvr January 25 2008, 18:45:35 UTC

I believe the Earthquake books were written after SVU

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hanfastolfe October 4 2007, 04:57:21 UTC

Y'know, the whole Jessica-barges-in-on-Steven angle does seem quite odd. Makes me wonder if the ghostwriter wasn't trying to shock the audience a bit by hinting at an incest angle.

svhhorseluvr January 25 2008, 18:44:41 UTC

Whoa, slow it, Pervy McPervperv! :p

Jessica's eye-matching dress and the low-cut on it made me snerk. This actually wasn't too bad, far as realism. I want the death penalty to stand for rapists. YAH! We know Carl would've come to it.

biting_moopie May 9 2008, 07:16:31 UTC

I know this is an older post but I had to comment.

But back then, we sang “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and meant every word.

♥ We really did.

I remember finding this book quite scary and agree that it's one of the more well written books.

cookie77 May 9 2008, 09:11:09 UTC

Cool!