I want to say that I dug this book out of a box in my closet or something, but it was actually sitting right on my bookshelf, along with the rest of the series. I am very grown-up.


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Folks, we’re not in Sweet Valley anymore. St. Elizabeth is no longer an A student, she drinks ALCOHOL of the non-wine-in-paper-cups variety, and sneaks out of the house despite the fact that she is grounded. Yes, you heard it here. GROUNDED. The Wakefields behave a little bit like real parents in this book. On a more frightening note, Jessica acts ( Read more... )

Woot, two recaps in a row from me! I can't believe nobody has recapped the famous Senior Year book where Elizabeth...waits for it...goes bad! She goes bad, bad I say! It took me a little while, but I've found my copy and am raring to snark whatever Elizabeth's idea of 'bad' is.


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( The best turkey 'ever'... )

I just bought this book at a library book sale for 25 cents. Bargain? Or rip off? You decide! Actually…I quite like the book, plot contrivances and all, and it may be my PMS talking, but the ending actually made me tear up a little. I’m a sucker for sappy animal stories, what can I say. I couldn't find a cover pic, but it shows Ken and Elizabeth ( Read more... )

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This is one of the worst Sweet Valley books I’ve read. It truly is a steaming pile of dung. Ned and Alice are over-parenting (which, surprisingly, is even worse than their lack of parenting skills in the other books…), and Jess and Liz are both really, really irritating.

On the flip side, we learn the truth about Todd.

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 Hey, remember when Ned was a terrible(r than usual father) and the SVPD was inept(er than usual) in the last book?   And then John Marin got locked up and everyone was like, "Ha ha ha, he's gone forever and we're going to be a-okay?"  Yeah, they're totally not.  This book is resplendent with a blatant disregard for protocol by virtually every ( Read more... )

  A Stranger in the House: Or "What My Family Doesn't Know Won't Hurt Them....Even Though it Might Kill Them."


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