Sweet Valley High #11: Too Good to be True

[irinaauthor]

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.

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[kiwiria]

Winston tells Liz he’d overheard her and Suzy in the coatroom, so he spilled the punch on purpose to get Suzy to show her true colors in front of the whole room.
I'm reminded of the Friends episode (the one with Ben Stiller) where Ross tries to do the same thing to Rachel's date, only there it doesn't work, because obviously the Ben-guy knows what Ross is up to, whereas Suzy is clueless... or something.

Cool! I must be sophisticated then! I've always called my boyfriends' parents by their first names (even the ones in NZ where people actually *use* Mr. and Mrs.).

What sixteen year olds give dinner parties?
My best friend and I in NZ. But I'll grant you - we weren't exactly ordinary teens ;-)

Great write-up! I don't think I've ever read this book, which just made it all the better :)

[irinaauthor]

I've always called my boyfriends' parents by their first names

I was never, ever allowed to call friends' parents anything but Mr. and Mrs. Lastname. It's giving me some trouble now, because I've known Steve's parents since I was fourteen. For eleven years I called them Mr. and Mrs. Lastname, and a year ago they asked me to call them by their first names. I Can Not Do It. I keep forgetting, and then Steve corrects me, and I'm all, "Crap! Oops, sorry." So I'm coping by not addressing them by name at all. Steve, however, slipped very easily into calling my mom by her first name. I think he's having a bit of trouble with my dad, though, who's always intimidated him a little.

[kiwiria]

LOL! I know the feeling. I still keep in touch with one of my teachers from NZ, and we visited her when we were there on our honeymoon. She immediately told me to call her Wendy instead of Mrs. Hunt, but I simply couldn't do it. She's *always* been Mrs. Hunt to me, and it just feels wrong to call her anything else.

The two boyfriends I had in NZ I was friends with before we started going out, and their parents told me to call them by their first names even before we started going out. One of them I'd known since the first time I was in NZ, so I'd constantly slip up and call them by their lastname, to which his mum would typically reply: "Mrs. Lastname? There's no Mrs. Lastname here! I'm Elin!" ;-)

Much easier in Denmark - everybody is called by their first name, no matter what :-D

[kiwiria]

A small suggestion: I was just thinking if we should link to http://www.dwanollah.com/blather/030102/ in the profile - that page is JUST PERFECT in its snarkiness :)

[dwanollah1]

Omigawd, I'm a hundred and thirty-seven kinds of excited and flattered!

[kiwiria]

teehee :-D

[versipellis]

If it’s ego she hates so much, she couldn’t hate lawyers or something and focus her weirdness on Mr. Wakefield?

That would be kind of cool. Mr Wakefield doesn't get enough drama and angst.

[irinaauthor]

I know! He has a cliched midlife crisis at some point - I don't remember which book - and he and Alice get a separation sometime too, but he doesn't really have any interesting storylines.

[versipellis]

He sends a guy to jail at one point and the guy then swears revenge and tries to kill all of them. That's the best plot he's had and it still wasn't really about him...

[njpl_yates_4579]

that was book 64 "Trouble at Home" where he and Alice separate. Read all three in the series.

[emeraldsword]

Liz thinks that her features “couldn’t have been more perfect if they’d been sculpted by Michelangelo,” which means poor Suzy looks like a really buff man, but are we surprised that the SVH ghostwriters didn’t bother to look it up?

Oh God, I laughed out loud. These write-ups make my day.

[irinaauthor]

Thank you so much!

[lilysaid]

A boy flirts with Jess, and Evelyn whispers to her, “Malcom’s okay. His family owns a big estate in Connecticut, and he drives a Maserati.” HAHAHAHA!

HAHAHA, OF COURSE. That is such Sweet Valley universe logic. This was one of my favorites, and you gave a killer recap. ♥

[irinaauthor]

Thanks! I laughed out loud when I read that part. A Maserati? Not quite Pete's Ferrari, but okay.

And, now that I'm thinking about it, Jess drives a Fiat, if you want to get technical about it, and they're owned by the same company. The rich kid party was just so awesome, and the fact that it ended with Jess passing out drunk in the bathroom in the middle of dinner and the kids stuffing her unconscious self into the back of a cab is just so incredibly awesome and seedy. I wonder what the cab driver would've done if she hadn't come around by the time he got to the Devlins'.

[ndpndntfilm]

“Daddy says real estate makes more sense,” said a nasal-voiced blonde with pinched good looks. “If I put Grandmother’s inheritance into the stock market, I could lose everything.”
“Diamonds,” piped a petite red-haired girl. “when I come into my money, I’m putting it all into diamonds.”
“With the family you come from, you might need a whole room for those rocks,” said a boy standing next to her.
“Oh, Simon,” the redhead retorted with annoyance. “Don’t be so crass.

This is just...Seriously? Oh, if only Blair and Serena existed in 1986. They would've made Francine clutch her pearls. You know, I think Blair and Lila would've been likethis.

[jedinic]

I have always imagined Blair as Lila in the 21st century.