That Voodoo You Do, or Sweet Valley Twins #78: Steven the Zombie

Oct 31, 2008 13:43

In honor of Halloween, let me present my all-time favorite Sweet Valley Twins book:


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sweet valley twins, sociopathic jessica, recapper: umbrelafosforus, oh hi steven

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mocha_latta November 3 2008, 07:09:46 UTC
Wait a minute. Liz wanted to dress up as Sojourner Truth for a costume party? Does anyone think that that's highly inappropriate, and racially insensitive, in light f what Truth wrote about?
Also Jess' hair turned orange after using temporarily brown dye? Heck, even if she used permeant dye, there's no way that it would make her a carrot top. I'm beginning to suspect that the ghostwriters don't do nearly as much research as they should!

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umbrelafosforus November 3 2008, 07:29:12 UTC
I actually wrote a short paragraph about how her costume was a bizarre/slightly offensive choice on the part of the ghostwriters, but I couldn't get it to hang together right and I ended up cutting it. But yeah...racial insensitivity and Sweet Valley kinda go hand in hand, am I right?

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carolyn_keene November 3 2008, 17:46:22 UTC
Literally this book should be named Elizabeth the Jerk instead of Steven the Zombie.

Isn't that true for most the books?

Also, I recapped a SVT book that had a Valentine's Day plot and in it Jess had to sing Feelings in front of the entire cafeteria. I wonder if that was a favorite song for one of the ghosties.

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hotchpot November 17 2008, 00:56:45 UTC
I remember that book! I had to get my mom to explain what song "Feelings" was and even my old, old mom was like...."That song is LAME."

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kanna172003 September 7 2012, 02:27:55 UTC
You know, I don't see why Jessica felt the need to be so secretive about her "dress". I would think that the other Unicorns would have been impressed that Jessica decided to imitate Scarlett. I mean, she not only looked like her but acted like her too.

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ext_5013458 February 17 2019, 21:43:48 UTC
This was one of my favorites. I always loved Steven in SVT and felt he needed a bigger part. And he was... ok in SVH. Depending on the book.

How come there wasn’t a Steven secret diary? Definitely would have been interesting

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lizisafatvirgin May 10 2020, 07:58:16 UTC
I've been spending entirely too much time reading these recaps during quarantine. I found this comm years after it died and read my favorites/most of SVH. Now I'm filling in holes...

Because I've read so many now, I can point out that I refuse to believe that Lila would ever EVER want square-dancing at her party. Fail, ghostwriter. might actually be incorrect. As @isabelquinn noted Also, Lila has spent chapter two complaining about the new square dance unit in gym class, only to open chapter three by yelling “swing your partners, do-si-do!” and pulling Jessica across the gym against her will. I kind of love the idea that Lila secretly adores square dancing, it’s like Bender wanting to be a folk singer.

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