SVH Senior Year #9: The One That Got Away

[_ocelott_]

So I went to the library to find some Sweet Valley goodness I could snark for y'all.  Sadly, there seemed to be a distinct lacking of any SVH books (either that, or everyone from this community has already filched the ones from my local library; I'm not counting that theory out).  They did, however, have plenty of Senior Year books, so I nabbed a

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[ultimate_cin]

I was just going to post and ask if anyone had read the Senior Year books. I've only ever read the SVH (original) and SVU books. I'm not sure if I want to get into these or not.

Also his dead girlfriend Olivia. Because she's dead. Dead, dead, dead. Can't get much deader than Olivia.

Until she comes back to life briefly in the SVU series.

Gotta love the continuity....;)

[_ocelott_]

She comes back to life? Wow. That's just... wow. Someone needs to tell Ken so he'll stop angsting so much.

[versipellis]

Until she comes back to life briefly in the SVU series.

Oooh, when? Do tell ^^

[myfavouritescar]

Book 8.

[esc_key]

Ooh another Senior Year recap. This is all so foreign to me. Everything is so much more angsty when you're a senior, I guess.

"It looks like my future depends completely on my academics. I might as well start learning to pump gas." And there, ladies and gentlemen, is the power of positive thinking for you!
Use The Secret, Ken!

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It is all very angsty. But after all, wasn't your senior year full of earthquakes, dead girlfriends, and gambling debts?

[esc_key]

I suppose. But junior year was filled with dead girlfriends, kidnappings and psycho evil twins and barely anyone was angsty. They all partied hearty and pushed people in pools. I think there must be something that happens in the summer between junior and senior year in which angst comes upon you. Like puberty.

[_ocelott_]

Hmm... that's a good point. We may have to conduct a study. "The Effects of Senior Year on Parties."

[versipellis]

Wow, gambling problems? That's a new one ^^

And poor old Ken. The SV guys spend a lot of time angsting about athletics scholarships. Is that normal? *genuinely curious, is English*

Nice recap!

[_ocelott_]

I dunno. It wasn't a big deal at my high school, but I'm Canadian, and things are run differently here than they are in the States. Then again, dead girlfriends weren't very common at my high school either, so what do I know?

[versipellis]

We probably shouldn't be trying to equate Sweet Valley to real life. It's unhealthy...

[ladyrevan]

Oh yeah. Athletic Scholarships are BIG here. I remember when I was in High School pretty much everyone was either getting them or worrying about not getting them. A lot of kids I knew didn't have the grade for college, but if they could throw and catch a ball, they got accepted. So many of them began focusing less on their grades and more on their ball-catching skills... which sounds perverted.

But I was a music and drama geek with two left feet, so I had to study for my tests.

[minilovely]

...So, like, is the title of the book actually really relevant to anything inside?

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Umm, not really. I think they're trying to say that for Will, Jessica is the one that got away? Maybe? But since he's still chasing after her, it seems less than appropriate, doesn't it?

[kakeochi_umai]

I can't be the only one who immediately thought of the end sequence of Summer Nights in Grease upon seeing that cover.

OK, I hate this whole Will plot at the best of times, but this kidnap thing is also extremely tenuous because TIA is the captain. Jessica wasn't even a runner-up - she got in the coach's major bad books when she missed all those practices and games at the beginning of the book.