The reissued books are soooo different that I felt the urge to compare the two. So, read along with me, if you want...

The very first sentences:
1983: "Oh, Lizzie, do you believe how absolutely horrendous I look today!" Jessica Wakefield groaned as she stepped in front of her sister, Elizabeth, and stared at herself in the bedroom mirror.
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Yes, I'm recapping a book. Not a TV episode, an actual book from a library with pages and words and shit. My reasons for bringing you this recap are not because I'm trying to prove to you that I can read (though I can, and how!) but because I need an excuse to tell you this God-awful story. Brace yourself.

Picture this: you walk into your local ( Read more... )

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Sweet Valley High Super Star: Todd's Story

Warning: This book contains punching. And also some attempted girlfriend stealing. And punching. Parental Guidance suggested.


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When we last left our heroes, Lila was having her therapist arrested for fake attempted rape (par for the course in Sweet Valley, you know). Bruce was coping with his rage over Heroically Deaf Dead From Coke Regina by getting himself kicked in the head during the riot between Sweet Valley High and Big Mesa, but not before he spots a girl in the ( Read more... )

Jessica’s Secret Diary, Volume II

I have to say that this book was kind of a rip off. I thought it would be all of the secret behind the scenes gossip but it was mostly chunks of books #40-55. Not only does this make the book boring but it gives it a weirdly disjointed feel because issues that would take up a whole book only have a few pages written ( Read more... )

Sweet Valley High Magna Edition: A Night to Remember Part 2

"Elizabeth wanted to have it all, even what doesn't belong to her!"

Continued from Part One.

That weekend, Jess makes Lila go to the track meet so she can keep busy and not have time to mope. Again, see what I mean? If nothing else, Jess obviously cares very much about Lila. If only she could ( Read more... )

Sweet Valley High Magna Edition: A Night to Remember Part 1

Okay. This is the first book in what might just be the most awesome eight-book arc in the history of YA lit. It contains death and car accidents and underaged drinking and manslaughter trials and a wedding and attempted murder and actual murder and riots and fake attempted rape and ( Read more... )

I'm so excited.  I just went through the SVH books in my closet, and I have all of the ones in the Dead Sam/Elizabeth on Trial/Bruce as Gangbanger/Lila Crying Fake Attempted Rape/Evil Twin/Evil Twin's Twin saga.  I'm going to start reading tonight, and these will be the next ones I recap.  Woo!

Sweet Valley High #11: Too Good to be True

Because it just wouldn’t be a Sweet Valley High novel without plenty of underage drinking and an attempted rape or two. This time with psychotic New Yorkers!

In a nutshell: beautiful Suzanne Devlin, the daughter of one of Mr. Wakefield’s college roommates, comes to visit Sweet Valley from New York City.  ( Read more... )