Alright, here it is. The detailled, in-depth recap of SVC we've been waiting for. It took me forever to finish this, because the book is really long and the tenses and POVs jump all over the freaking place. (I've put the flashback parts in a different colour, just to make things easier.) Because the book is long and hard to follow, the recap might ( Read more... )

NOTE: This recap is the greatest accomplishment in the history of my life. Why, you ask? See, nearly a year ago I recapped the first book in this series. As the second was already recapped, I wanted to finish off the trilogy with this book, so I purchased it on Amazon. Then I moved, and I promptly lost it. It was devastating. I blamed the movers. ( ( Read more... )

Sweet Valley University #39: Elizabeth ♥ New York (Summer Break ( Read more... )

Time for a personal favourite: Jessica Takes Manhattan. No, it's not the smutty crossover with Watchmen that you always longed for; rather, Jessica goes to New York ( again), although at no point can she be considered to "take it" in any sense of the phrase.


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 Well, after whining on in the comments the other week about North London charity shops being SVH-free zones, in my local one today I picked up not one, but two SVH books. What's more, they were 20p each, which makes me think that the dude who runs the shop read them and priced them according to their literary value. So, mystery donator of Highbury ( Read more... )

Oh Amy. Our resident bitch who is a victim of continuity problems galore... is apparently a younger sister!


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Here we go! The sequel to The Wakefields of Sweet Valley is sadly not as awesome as that book, and I spent much of my time reading this letting out gloomy sighs. I mean, I loved the last book. But this is like...you know when Rachel started dating Russ on Friends and everyone but her could see that Russ was just an even dorkier version of Ross, but ( Read more... )

Taking my cue from irinaauthor, who posted her magna edition recap in two parts, I'm going to do the same. So much awesome cannot be contained in one post alone, you guys ( Read more... )

Sweet Valley University #40 - Private JessicaSynopsis: Has Jessica met her match ( Read more... )

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... )