SVT Super Chiller#1: The Christmas Ghost
When they get home, Amy and Julie are waiting. They go up to Liz’s room to hold the Sixers meeting (minus Jess, obviously). There is a fundraiser going on for the local hospital’s children’s ward, and the Sixers are determined to raise over $100, and beat the High school kids. There is a, I dunno what the American word is, car boot sale taking place, and everyone is donating items such as toys, books and so on. Also, they are running a homemade cookie stall to raise money.
When Amy and Julie leave, Liz goes downstairs as it’s nearly dinnertime. She goes to walk into the kitchen, but stops when she overhears Jessica asking their mom for the carousel horse for Christmas. Alice, having a flash of insight no doubt, is doubtful as to whether it is Jessica’s type of thing; isn’t it more something Elizabeth would be into? Jessica tells their mom that Liz didn’t like the horse at all!! Lizzie is shocked and hurt, but she doesn’t go in there and shout, oh no, not our Liz. She thinks that Jess must really want the horse to lie like that. No, she is just a selfish cow! She goes in and offers to help Jess set the table for dinner. Oh, Elizabeth!
On the last day of term (yet another Christmas break), after school, Liz rushes home to make cookies for the bake sale - cum - car boot sale. Jess had promised she will help, but Liz didn’t see her waiting at the school gates. Alice is helping, and has got everything ready, so they start without Jess. In she rushes, and says she is going to Lila’s to help plan the Christmas PARTY she is throwing (yep, another party). Liz is disappointed, as Jess promised she would help, but she knows Jessica has a habit of forgetting promises when she wants to do something else! Chew her out Liz. Elizabeth’s niceness really bugs me in this book, and I’ve only ever read it once! So Jess fucks off to Lila’s, and Mrs. Wakefield and Elizabeth spend hours making Christmas cookies for the fundraiser. Steven comes in and tries to nick one, as does Mr. Wakefield, but Liz won’t let them as she wants to sell every single one so they can raise more money for the hospital. Bless! She finishes decorating them (sparkly stars and reindeers - I wanna make Christmas cookies now) and bags them all up, wraps them and ties bows. It takes her right up until dinner time, and she knows it would have been quicker if Jessica had kept her promise of helping and not gone to Lila’s.
The bake sale is the next day (this is separate to the actual fundraiser, that’s after Christmas, but all the proceeds are for the hospital children’s ward). The girls all arrive early and set up. By the end of the day, they have managed to sell all the cookies they made (Amy and Maria made some too), and they hurry back to Liz’s house to count their cash. Mrs. Wakefield bought some cookies, and she gives them to the girls to eat so they can taste their own cooking, whilst Elizabeth counts the money. The grand total is……$47! Meh! They are disappointed; as they set a target of $100, remember (though if you ask me, $47 is a good total for just selling cookies!) Elizabeth vows to come up with more ideas!!!
That evening, Liz is looking through the local paper when she sees an article announcing that a famous Hollywood star, Beau Dillon (nice name ~smirks~), is coming to Sweet Valley. Liz has a brainwave………….she will ask Beau if he will come and help at the fundraiser after Christmas. As he is famous, lots of people will come and buy something! She tells her mom, who is encouraging, and Steven, who is disparaging, but she writes a short and to the point letter and mails it off to the address in the paper. When she gets back, Jessica asks who she was sending letters to. She takes the piss when Liz tells her, saying a famous Hollywood star wouldn’t bother to even read the letter, let alone reply (and, in reality, she’s probably right). Liz sticks to her guns, and says she knows he will think it’s a good idea.
The following day, Liz is in her room. Her parents have gone late night shopping, probably for presents as they wouldn’t let Jessica go, and Steven is out. She is reading, when she hears a strange noise coming from her parent’s room. She thinks there are burglars in the house, and goes to investigate (I’ve said this before; this girl has no safety sense whatsoever). Upon peering into her parent’s room, she sees Jessica rifling through the wardrobe. When confronted, she says she was, umm, borrowing her mum’s necklace and shoes. Hmm, Liz smells a rat and accuses her of looking for presents. Jess admits it, and then shows Liz the bag she has found. Inside is the carousel horse that both the twins loved. Elizabeth wonders who it’s for, to which Jessica replies, “me of course, you said you didn’t want it”. Liz is upset, she didn’t say she didn’t want the horse at all, but again she doesn’t say anything!! Why, I’m not sure!
The following morning, the post arrives, and inside is an envelope addressed to Miss Elizabeth Wakefield. Fuck me, that was quick, I wish the Royal Mail was as quick as that. Inside is a letter from Beau Dillon!!!!!!!! He says he would be delighted to come and raise money for the hospital (yeah, right), and would it be OK if he popped by the Wakefield house on Christmas Eve to discuss it? There is a number to ring to confirm this. Liz is excited, and goes to ring the number for the agency. Jess tells her it’s probably all a joke (great sisterly love, Jessica). However, no, it’s not a joke, and Liz sets the meeting up for Beau to come to the house on Christmas Eve at noon. Jessica is suddenly all very excited, and starts planning her outfit and how jealous the Unicorns will be.
Lila’s party is that night, and as soon as Liz gets there she rushes over to Amy & Maria to tell them about Beau. I’ve just realized that Amy is actually in this book for more than one scene, but still, she doesn’t play a major part of the story. Amy shouts out Beau’s name, and suddenly everyone gathers round to hear about it. Jessica forces her way into the group and makes it seem as if Beau is coming to see her, not Elizabeth. Liz is annoyed, but before she can say anything, Lila, who is pissed off because Liz is getting more attention than her, starts saying Liz is faking and there’s no proof. Obviously, Liz has the letter but, seen as she has lesbian tendencies and doesn’t really care about males, has left the letter at home. She looks at Jessica to back her up, but Jessica stays silent. Liz is upset, but tries not to show it.
That night, Liz is getting ready for bed when Jessica comes in, bubbling about the party. Elizabeth finally decides to say something, and asks her why she didn’t stick up for her at the party. Jessica admits it’s because she didn’t want to piss Lila off; she thinks Lila is getting her a good present and if she annoys her she might give it to Ellen instead (who would probably be more deserving). Elizabeth tells her that if she doesn’t stop being so selfish, she’ll end up with no friends. Jessica is fucked off, she tells Liz she has plenty of friends, and besides, she isn’t selfish so Liz can just “take that back”. Elizabeth is tired of arguing, and says, “Goodnight then, Miss Popular” and turns the light off, much to Jessica’s disgust!
The twins don’t really speak much over the next couple of days; Jessica is no doubt sulking and Liz probably can’t be bothered with her. Although this being Liz, she’s probably tried to apologise countless times and Jessica has ignored her, but there’s no record of that. On Christmas Eve, the day Beau is meant to be visiting, Liz tries to make amends with Jessica, who is very aloof with her but accepts the apology. Meh!!!! Slap her Liz, c’mon!! Anyway, noon approaches and the girls wait in the den for him to arrive. They have laid out cookies and drinks for him. Jessica is dressed in her best. Noon comes…and goes. No Beau. Every time a car pulls up, Jess rushes to the window, but he doesn’t show. Liz is really disappointed she was convinced Beau really wanted to help with her fundraiser. Jessica says she is no longer Beau’s biggest fan, and regrets watching all his films twice now. Lol, it’s good to see Jess is so concerned. As it gets to 2 o clock, Liz has to go to the hospital to hand toys around, and she leaves, still saying there must be a good explanation for Beau not arriving. Jessica is mad, as she thinks the Unicorns will take the mickey now! A car pulls up outside the house…it’s a silver limo. Wow, it’s gotta be Beau.
He knocks on the door, and when Jessica answers he comes in and tries a cookie. He says his limo broke down, and his car phone had packed up (these were the days before mobiles let’s not forget). He is very interested in helping, and to apologise for the mess up in plans today, can he take her for dinner on Boxing Day to apologise further? Jessica is star struck, and agrees. It’s only as he is leaving, and turns back and says, “it’s been a pleasure to meet you, Elizabeth”, does she realize he has mistaken her for her twin. She goes to tell him, but then Jessica’s selfish little brain kicks in and she realises she will miss out of lunch with a star. No matter it should be Elizabeth. So she goes along with it, and he leaves.
When Liz gets back, the first thing she does is ask if Beau has been. Jessica lies, and says no, as she doesn’t want anyone to find out that he mistook her for Liz (there are a lot of flaws in this plan, but who am I to criticise). Liz is really disappointed now, but smiles and says she knows Beau must have a reasonable explanation, and he won’t let her down. Jessica feels really uncomfortable, but keeps quiet. The Wakefields’ plan the rest of Christmas Eve out; apparently they have a few family traditions such as a Christmas concert at the Civic Center, and then they decorate the tree, sing hymns, listen to a Christmas story (how old are they again) and open a present each.
Fast-forward to the evening. The Wakefields’ have decorated the tree, and are singing hymns. Jessica feels really uncomfortable, as she knows Elizabeth is upset about Beau not arriving. Liz is smiling so as to not ruin the family Christmas, but inside she is worried that the Sixers staff will think she is a failure. OK, I think the ghostwriters took a bit far - a failure for what? Anyway, so Liz is unhappy but pretending to be happy, and Jessica is feeling guilty because she knows her sister is disappointed, and she has lied to her. We on track? Good! Mr. Wakefield reads them the last chapter of ‘A Christmas Carol’, and then they open a present each. Elizabeth gets the new Amanda Howard novel from Amy, Steven gets a basketball, and Jessica opens Lila’s present, which turns out to be….a poster! Is that it? Sheesh, I thought she was rich! It’s a poster of a purple Unicorn, which Jessica is ecstatic over. However, she can’t feel completely happy because she knows that Liz is miserable. Good! She wants to go to bed so she doesn’t have to look at Liz, but her parents make her sing hymns. Eventually, the twins go to bed.
Jessica tacks the poster onto her wall, and gets into bed. It seems as if the Unicorn is staring at her, so she goes to quickly turn the lamp off. However, the lamp appears to have changed. When the twins were younger and shared a room, they had a lamp shaped like a clown. Liz loved it, but Jessica hated it, as she thought it looked like it was laughing at her. One day, she accidentally-on-purpose knocked it off the table, where it smashed. Liz was really upset, and Jessica pretended to be, but inside she was happy because it had gone, and she got to choose a lamp she liked. Bitch!! Well, her pink lamp appears to have changed into the old lamp. Jessica shuts her eyes, and opens them again. It’s the pink lamp again. Phew, that nasty old lamp be back to normal!! She thinks she must have eaten too much. Jessica turns the light off, and tries to go to sleep.
An hour passes, and she can’t sleep. She thinks she hears rain at the window, and remembers the last time it rained on Christmas Eve, the twins were only five, and Elizabeth was really upset and she thought Santa wouldn’t be able to come. However, in the morning, all their presents were there, and not even damp!! I wonder why! However, when she looks out the window, it’s not raining. She gets back into bed, and shuts her eyes, but the room seems lighter. She opens her eyes and sees a little girl standing at the bottom of the bed. She is shimmering, and blurry round the edges. Jessica is petrified, but the little girl tells her not to be afraid. Jessica realises the little girl is actually her at a younger age. She tells Jessica she is the ghost of Christmas past, and she has come to show Jessica a part of her that she has forgotten. Jessica doesn’t want to, but she is compelled to follow the girl.
She takes her hand and they are suddenly at the park. It is daytime. Jessica realises that the carousel is at the park - but how can that be, as it got torn down! She goes closer, and sees two little blond girls riding it. They are identical. With a shock, she realises that it is her and Elizabeth. Well done, Jessica! Mrs. Wakefield is waving at them, and the younger Elizabeth is really happy. When the ride comes to a stop, Liz wants to go on again, but Jessica wants to go on the slide. Mrs. Wakefield does what Liz wants (for a change). Older Jessica is really happy that younger Lizzie got to do what she wanted. Older Jessica is invisible to the ghosts of the past
They move again, and Jessica finds herself at the Elementary school. She is watching her old class go down the hall for lunch. She sees a younger Winston, Lila and Amy, and then she sees the younger twins. They are dressed identically, and Jessica remembers nostalgically how much she used to love dressing alike. Aww! Anyway, they are whispering to each other, and young Jess is telling young Liz how good she was in reading today. Young Lila calls to young Jess to come and walk with her in the lunch queue, but Jessica refuses as she is walking with her sister. Older Jessica realises that, if that was to happen today, she would most likely leave Liz to walk on her own so she could walk with Lila. She feels a pang of regret. Only one, mind you! The young twins go into the lunchroom, and sit down. Young Jess is upset because the dinner lady has forgotten to give her a chocolate-chip cookie (remember, they are only seven) and young Liz shares hers with young Jessica, giving her the bigger half. Older Jessica realises how many nice things Liz has done for her over the years without even thinking about it. She is upset because she realises that, over the years, the twins have drifted apart; they are not close like they used to be. In Jessica’s vision of the lunchroom, young Bruce Patman calls the twins second grade babies because Jessica hugs Liz. Young Liz is upset, and young Jess gets up and yells at him, saying “Bruce Patman, Bruce Fat-Man”. Haha do I sense the ghostwriters thought of this when they thought of scenes for Bruce later on in the series. Bruce shuts up, and Liz tells Jess that was great, to which Jessica replies, “I’m not going to let anyone talk to my sister like that!” Older Jessica is upset, as at Lila’s party she didn’t stick up for Liz, and again she understands that she and Liz have drifted apart.
Jessica then finds herself back at the Wakefield’s house; however it looks a bit different. In the hallway is a vase that Jessica remembers Steven breaking with a basketball two years ago, so she assumes she is still in the past. Going into the den, she sees the young twins, Steven and their parents all round the Christmas tree. The twins get loads of presents, some identical and some not. Elizabeth gets a colouring set, and Jessica gets make-up. Hang on just a minute, she is seven!!!! Why are her parents encouraging her to wear make-up at seven! Also, in SVT#1 ‘Best Friends’, Jessica has to borrow her mom’s makeup so what happened to her set? Anyway, they both get a doll each, and Liz says she likes Jessica’s doll better than hers. Young Jessica swaps dolls with Liz without even thinking about it, saying it’s because Liz is her best friend in the whole world. Older Jessica knows that, these days, she wouldn’t do this.
Jessica suddenly ends up back in her bed. She thinks she is having crazy dreams! It is nearly 1 0 clock in the morning. She also notices her Unicorn poster has gone missing. Realising that she can hear noises and can see light coming from the hallway, she puts her slippers on, and walks out. The hallway looks endless, and she is drawn to walk down it. Eventually, she reaches a window, where, outside, is the Unicorn from the poster. What the fuck! It demands she gets on its back. Jessica is scared; it doesn’t look very safe. However, the Unicorn demands it (very scary, those horns), and tells her it is the ghost of Christmas present. On she gets and off they fly. You’d think she’d be thrilled, a real live Unicorn! But no, she is too worried she is going to fall off. One of her slippers falls off into the swirling mist, meh!!
They fly to a posh hotel just outside Sweet Valley. Beau is sitting outside. Jessica is delighted, as she gets to see him again, even though he can’t see her. He is talking about meeting who he thought was Elizabeth earlier, saying how refreshing it was to meet a young girl so interested in a good cause, and how much he enjoyed meeting her (we can only assume that Jessica was so star struck she had a momentary personality change). Jessica’s initial happiness at hearing how much he enjoyed meeting her is short-lived, as
she realises that he thinks it was Elizabeth he met, and she knows she only wanted to meet him for her own, dare I say it, selfish reasons.
Abruptly, the Unicorn tells Jessica to get back on. She does, with some trepidation, and they fly back to the Wakefield’s house. In the den, it is Christmas morning. The Unicorn tells Jessica she is seeing this scene through Elizabeth’s eyes, and feeling how Elizabeth would feel.
The other Jessica opens a present. It is a blue sweater. Elizabeth says how the sweater is a nice colour, almost the same as her blue slacks. Jessica snaps back, “You needn’t think you can borrow it. It is brand new, you know”. Oooh, handbags out! Jessica can feel how Elizabeth feels hurt by this, but still smiles, as she doesn’t want to row, especially on Christmas Day. As she can hear Elizabeth’s thoughts, she hears how Elizabeth is thinking how miserable she is about Beau and again how she will look like a failure. Elizabeth also thinks that Jessica is acting funny; she won’t look Liz in they eye and is being really hurtful towards her (nothing new there then)!
Real Jessica feels really saddened by how bad Elizabeth is feeling. She knows that Liz is upset by how distant they seem, as opposed to when they were younger. She turns to the Unicorn and says she knows now how Liz is feeling, and she will tell Liz about Beau in the morning. Jessica, being nice? No way! The Unicorn, in response, shows her another scene.
Elizabeth walks into the kitchen. She is carrying her middle school textbooks, but they look new, so Jessica guesses it has to be the first week of Sixth Grade. Elizabeth looks like she has been crying. Alice asks what’s wrong, and Liz gets more upset, saying it’s Jessica, she wants to be a Unicorn, and keeps secrets from Liz, and they never do anything anymore. Yep, that’s right; it’s the scene from ‘Best Friends’, where Liz gets upset ‘cos Jess didn’t tell her about the Unicorn Club. Credit to the ghostwriters, they got it fairly accurate. Jessica never realized how upset Liz was over the whole Unicorn debacle, as Liz smiled and kept a brave face as usual. Jessica is distraught; she begs the Unicorn not to see anymore. She has seen the error of her ways and will try to be better! Have we heard this line before: here, here and here?
Unexpectedly, Jessica finds herself back in bed. She wonders if that’s it, has she seen enough now! Umm, nopes! Looking at the time, it’s nearly 2’ o clock. The Unicorn poster is back on the wall, incidentally. As the digital face switches to 2:00, Jessica sees a tall, white, cloaked figure by her bed. It is much scarier than the girl or the Unicorn. She timidly asks if it is the ghost of Christmas yet to come, to which is nods curtly and beckons her to come.
All of a sudden, Jessica finds herself in a forest. It is dark, and she wonders why she has to come on these adventures with no slippers on, lol! Anyhow, she sees the spirit standing nearby; as she walks towards it, it walks off, so she follows. The woods remind her of Secca Lake, but she thinks she has never been this far in. They carry on walking to the edge of the forest, where Jessica sees a fashionably dressed teenage girl surrounded by friends at some sort of barbecue. She realises that this girl is herself, and is pleased because she always dreamt she would grow up to be a pretty and fashionable teenager with lots of friends. Not in the least big headed, our Jess! One of the teenage girls tells her she is a really great friend. The teenage Jessica then asks if their sorority ‘initiate’ has come back yet, and when the other girls say no, she makes sure that they put the markers in the trees to make sure the ‘initiate’ could get back OK. The teenage Jessica walks away, and behind her back some of the boys ask how she can be such a great person, and have such a witch for a sister. They also say how they have placed the markers so high, the initiate, who is actually Jessica’s sister, has no chance of coming back to the camp within the time limit, and therefore won’t be able to join the sorority. Jessica is shocked; she wonders how why on earth Liz has no friends, and they are playing such a dirty trick on her. Well it is typical you, Jess!
Jessica then finds herself back in the woods. She heard sobbing, and thinks she can recognize Elizabeth’s voice. She runs through the woods, forgetting about the spirit, and finds her twin curled up under a tree. She is crying, and is scratched up and bruised from wandering the woods. Jessica leans over the girl, trying to talk to her, but obviously she can’t see her. Jessica feels awful, she says, “don’t worry, Liz, I’ll help you with the other kids”. Nice of you, Jess! The girl is muttering angrily, and Jessica hears her say, “How could you do this to me, Elizabeth. I tried and tried to find the markers, honestly I did. I know those others don’t like me, but I thought you were my sister, Elizabeth.” It takes Jessica a moment to realize that the girl has said Elizabeth, therefore, this friendless, disliked girl is actually herself, and the one at the campsite is Liz. Oh Noes!! Jessica is horrorstruck, this cannot be!!
The scene fades out, and Jessica finds herself at a basketball game at SVH. She looks wildly round the bleachers but she can’t see herself; however, she finds Liz in the crowds sitting with a group of friends. She sees a pretty cheerleader (Cara Walker) and feels jealous, as she has always wanted to be a cheerleader, and now it doesn’t look as it its going to be like that. Well, it is her own fault! Finally she finds herself, sitting alone at the bottom of the bleachers. She looks pretty and stylish, but no one wants to be her friend :-(! After three….1…2…3…aww!!
Jessica then finds herself in a booth at the Dairi Burger. Teenage Elizabeth is sitting with all her friends (but not Amy - good continuity) swapping Christmas presents. Jessica is sat on her own, once again dressed nicely but nobody wants to be near her. Lois Waller is there, still overweight, and also sitting on her own. Lois nervously asks Jessica if she wants to sit with her. Jessica replies, “I wouldn’t sit with a loser like you if you paid me”. Poor Lois! She’s one of those characters you know either went on to rule the world or disappeared out of it :-(! Younger Jessica calls, “don’t be so mean, she was only being nice”, but obviously teenage Jess can’t hear her. Lois is obviously upset. Elizabeth and her friends leave, and younger Jessica hears Lila and Bruce talking about the teenage Jessica. Lila is daring Bruce to go and do something, to pay Jessica back on how she treated Lila’s cousin last week. Bruce goes up to teenage Jessica and asks her if she wants to come to the dog show with him next week. I think we all know where this is going, don’t we, but Jessica is too thick to work it out. She acts as if she should be asked out by Bruce, and accepts. He asks her how she is going to pay for the booth, and when she is confused, he says the one she is going in, as she is a dog. Ha ha ha. Umm not, that’s a bit lame for a 17 year old! Anyways, teenage Jess is upset, and so is younger, ghostly Jess! She doesn’t want to see anymore, she has got the hint! Unless she changes her ways, and quick, her future is grim! She also remembers Liz telling her if she carries on the way she is, she will have no friends left.
The spirit disagrees; it doesn’t think she has seen enough. The last scene it shows her is in teenage Elizabeth’s bedroom. It is covered in framed awards, photos of friends and shows the person in there to be a busy and active person. Sitting at her desk is teenage Elizabeth. She is writing in her journal (and it’s not weepy mushy crap about TBT either). She is writing how unhappy she is because Jessica isn’t happy, and how upset she is that they are no longer close! She writes that it all started back in Sixth Grade, when Jessica played the trick on Lois Waller and pretended to be Liz (remember the shaving foam initiation incident) and went completely pear shaped at Christmas (which one?) when Jessica impersonated Elizabeth to get a free lunch out of Beau Dillon, even though she knew how much it meant to Elizabeth. She continues to write how, when Beau realized he had been fooled, as Jessica couldn’t care less about the hospital, he got angry and refused to take part in the fundraiser, therefore, they did not raise as much money as they had hoped and the children weren’t helped. OK, I think this is going a bit far with the guilt trip! Elizabeth writes how she can’t trust Jessica, and if you can’t trust a person, how can you love them? Jessica is beside herself; Liz should be happy and she isn’t, because Jessica isn’t happy. She tells the spirit she has learnt her lesson, and can she change the future? It doesn’t answer her, and she gets mad and rips off the cloak covering its face…except it has no face. She screams and screams and finds herself back in her bed.
It is Christmas morning. The clock says 8. She hears her parents asking where she is, as she usually gets up at 6 on Christmas to open presents. Liz comes to check on her, 12 year old Liz that is. Jessica tells Liz she loves her, she’s sorry she has been so selfish and it will probably happen again, but Liz should never forget how much Jessica loves her. Smiles :) Then she admits the truth about Beau. Liz, instead of being pissed off as she should be, is just really happy that he did turn up after all :-)! Bless!
They go downstairs to open presents. Alice asks Jessica why her ankles are scratched (from running through the forest), so obviously it was all true! Jessica fobs the question off (not that Alice would probably care if Jess had been running round Secca Lake in the night, after all, she buys her seven year olds makeup). Jessica gets a really nice sweater, and of course Liz says she likes it. Jessica says she can borrow it whenever she likes. Mrs. Wakefield pulls an express letter out, and tells Liz it arrived last night after they went to bed. It is from Beau - he has given Liz a bracelet and made reservations for her to have a meal with him, (and her parents allow this, too. She’s TWELVE!) Elizabeth is overcome with happiness; she says she won’t feel like a failure now. Jessica replies that she will never be a failure, she knows it. Hmm, Liz remarks Jess seems to know a lot this morning. Jessica then pulls out the carousel horse, and gives it to Elizabeth. Liz protests, but Jessica says she knows how much Liz wanted the horse, and she can have it. Mrs. W doesn’t protest but that’s her parenting skills for ya! All is happy and Jessica knows whatever happens, she will always be best friends with Elizabeth.
The End!
Hmm, what to say. I liked the scenes from the twins’ childhood, they were cute! I also thought how the ghostwriters portrayed teenage Elizabeth was quite accurate and in keeping with SVH. It’s a shame Jessica kinda forgot the lessons she supposedly learnt - i.e. be nice or you will have no friends, as the series progressed though! Then again, I suppose if she did we wouldn’t have any books to read and snark at. Lol.
This book comes about 5th of all the Super Chillers in my book, what lets it down most is the hurried way it is written!