SVH #23 Say Goodbye

[rhitroadkill]

In honor of the coming National Singles Awareness Day, a story about loss and devastation. No, no one is dying in this book, Todd is leaving! What will Liz do? (well, cry looking at the cover)

Comments

[paperlibrarian]

Oh, the beginning of the end. With Jeffrey and then the reappearance of Todd, my twelve-year-old brain couldn't take it. It meant that Todd and Elizabeth were only together, what, MAYBE four months. (I always thought that before they made a zillion books, Jeffrey showed up in the spring--but it could be because he was in a spring super special?) In high school years, that's like seven years, I know, but then THAT meant she and Jeffrey were only together for like, a month or two before Todd comes rushing back.

As you can see, I quit somewhere in the 50s. TIME MADE NO SENSE.

[svhhorseluvr]

It's called a suspended timeline, dearies. Like in "The Simpsons" or "The Saddle Club"

WHY must so many Sweet Valley girls be SO DAMNED CLINGY? Don't they have self-esteem or lives WITHOUT men? God, Hillary Clinton would WALLOP THOSE girls.

[paperlibrarian]

Can't do it. I'm a slave to perfect continuity.

I think all teenage girls think the end of their first serious relationship is the end of the world, buuuuut I'm not sure if that's how we should be writing about it. Some aspects of SVH seem very...hm. I want to say "moral" but maybe "moralistic" is the better word. So it surprises me when it isn't--like when Jess gets away with EVERYTHING.

[svhhorseluvr]

Maybe Sweet Valley time is like in Narnia\real world, it takes several years for one year to pass in Sweet Valley, but our years pass in real time.