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Love, Peroxide, and Wood-Chopping in Montana (otherwise known as #123 Elizabeth’s Rival)

Apr 06, 2008 01:08

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miss lila fowler, summer break, sweet valley high, cheating cheaters, summer montana wood-chopping series, doppelgangland, recapper: perfectsize12

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asouthernthing April 6 2008, 05:57:05 UTC

LOLOLOL. Thank you so much for recapping this; this set of books, and the vampire trilogy (for the life of me I can't remember what they're called) were the first Sweet Valley books I ever read and they bring the most lulz for me.

perfectsize12 April 6 2008, 06:41:52 UTC

You're welcome! Speaking of ridiculous SVH books, I always enjoyed Special Christmas. That's the one where Suzanne Devlin is misdiagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, but it's really just a case of mono. The doctors in the SV universe are frighteningly incompetent. I'm surprised that Elizabeth wasn't misdiagnosed with an ear infection when she slipped into a coma after her motorcycle accident.

asouthernthing April 6 2008, 06:43:52 UTC

Jesus Christ. I don't think I've ever read that one... and uh, I've had mono multiple times (limited immune system, don't have the capacity to build immunity etc etc) and can't remember it being anything like MS symptoms. Maybe someone else has had a different experience... in Suzanne's case, I'd call that experience "malpractice."

ext_3591546 June 9 2016, 08:38:45 UTC

What exactly is mono for us Aussies? We don't use that term over here so I was blinded into believing that SVH may actually be plausible.

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scarlettfish April 6 2008, 07:53:28 UTC

I love that Elizabeth only needs to spend approximately 2 hours away from Todd before she falls for another guy. But she really loves Todd! They're practically engaged! She would never cheat on her one true love!

The amount of Liz humiliation in this book is making me want to read it.

Great recap :)

katranna April 6 2008, 09:17:19 UTC

God, Elizabeth is awful.

Amazingly, Jess never cheated on her boyfriends that I recall--she would often date multiple guys at once, but she was pretty fervently committed when she got into actual relationships.

And yet she's the "bad" twin.

Also, Lila's advice does not work. :-(

turtleisland April 6 2008, 14:46:05 UTC

Jessica has cheated on her boyfriends. Just in the two previous trilogies she cheated on Ken with Christian and with Zach in the college week books.

perfectsize12 April 6 2008, 16:10:50 UTC

Don't forget about A.J. Morgan. Jess cheats on him when he leaves town for three days in Two Boy Weekend. The guy she cheats with turns out to be a psycho, which is not unusual considering how many psychotic people seem to be running loose in the town of Sweet Valley. Liz nearly gets killed so that Jess won't miss being crowned queen of a ball. That one's a classic!

veracity April 6 2008, 09:26:11 UTC

Poor Diz. It must be difficult being that mentally slow and being the most talented writer SVtopia.

Begs the question though, what the hell does their town paper produce? Price sheets with every other word misspelled?

dwanollah1 April 6 2008, 18:24:30 UTC

I can't believe I never read this gem!

And now I want to change my screen name to Emo Werewolf....