SVJH #27: She's Back...

[behindthechalet]

A new review! I’m excited simply because the text is so big. It’s nice to rest your eyes once in a while. Anyway, this one is called She’s Back… and is about Lila! This is the cover:

Comments

[lozbabie]

The girls they had for SVJH were the cutest ones they ever had. Just adorable.

I really hated SVJH and SVSY because it totally ruined it for me. I like to pretend that they don't exisit, because in both high school and university, they don't!

Bring on Sweet Valley Heights!

[wendiddy]

I have a theory that Francine wanted to start a new series about seniors and her publishers told her it wouldn't sell. Then she said, "How about I put Jessica, Liz and a few other SVH students in there?"

[lozbabie]

True, true. The books don't focus on the twins as much do they?

[wendiddy]

They don't really. They are also very different from the Junior books. No Super Editions, etc. I guess the readers didn't like them as much therefore they didn't sell very well and they ended the series.

[dirtywingsgirl]

Whoa! WHOA! I gotta say, I'm tripped out by this :D I just recently visited a second hand bookstore and they had a meagre SV collection, most books of which I already own. But this ("She's Back...") is one of the ones I bought. And after I finished the review I'm now doing of 'Escape From Terror Island" , I was gonna do this one. Creepy!
Anyway, I haven't read the review yet, just freaked out when I saw you were recapping "She's Back...". I'll write a proper comment soon :D

[dirtywingsgirl]

She’s in the cafeteria buying a salad, being trailed by girls named Courtnee, Maree, and Ashlee. I curse their parents.
:D You'll be pleased and horrified to know that Lila actually convinced the girls to spell their names with double E's like that.

I never got the impression that Lila bossed Jessica around but I’m not Elizabeth.
These new ghostwriters have really twisted the Sweet Valley Twins history to their liking, haven't they? Jessica would have NEVER allowed herself to be ruled by Lila...Sure, sometimes she was jealous that Lila got more clothes and allowance and vacations than her, but she wasn't Lila's lapdog!

She goes upstairs and finds Lila wearing flared jeans and a top that “[she] saw Britney Spears wearing in an interview on MTV the day before.” Oh my God, y’all!
Hahaha. Did it have cheetos stains on it mingled with the stench of life gone bad?

She’s about to get into the car when she spots Courtnee, Ashlee, and Maree in the sundae parlor, without Lila. This convinces her that something is definitely going on because

[kakeochi_umai]

In intermediate school I hated my alarm clock, had no real opinion of my clothes (but we had a uniform too - it was gross, but at least it kept the bitches at bay most days of the year) and for the most part hated the shit out of that festering hellhole.

Now I hate my alarm clock FAR more than I ever did then, love the junior high school I work at (or the cushiness of my job, anyway) but I kind of like my clothes?

Wait, though. The clothes I like are all imported from a country where decent clothes actually go higher than size six. I hate pretty much all my clothes that I bought here. It fits!

Awesome snark btw. I totally remember that book.

[redacted]

I've never read any SVJH, but now I really want to, just so I can experience the cheese firsthand. I'm amazed by all the name dropping of real celebrities - whatever happened to the days of Johnny Buck and Melody Power? And the internet and cell phones?? Gahh!