Wee. I'm so excited. I orders Taking Sides online and it came today. It's all pretty and new looking. All my old Sweet Valley novels have the spines broken and yellowed pages. This one looks like its never been opened. I'm gonna crack it though because that's how much I love you, 1bruce1.

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I am so excited! I was bemoaning the fact that I was all out of Sweet Valley books to recap, and then (miraculously) I remembered that I still had this one somewhere. It was (inexplicably) hidden under my bookcase. I had to look for it for a good two minutes; it was a trying time, but I persevered through all that hardship.


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SweetValley High #35: Out of Control

That’s Aaron Dallas, soccer player. The cover is interesting, and not just because Liz is wearing clown pants with a million pleats in them. Jeffrey’s floppy hair looks like Hermie the elf, and Aaron…well…to put it kindly, he doesn’t look like he could beat up a ten year old girl.


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Part six SVH #36 - Rumours

The Bridgwater Ball is coming up and Lila doesn’t have a date. This is a source of shame for her, as very few people from SVH will go. So it’s badder than usual, or something. Susan Stewart will be going with her boyfriend Gordon Stoddard, because his family are big mucky-mucks. Lila seems hugely offended by this - ( Read more... )

This volume covers the time from SVH #32, The New Jessica all the way to #40 On The Edge. In this thrilling instalment of Jessica’s life, she becomes slightly fixated on Elizabeth, making her actions ever more harsh and sociopathic, leading to a drastic makeover, numerous attempts at stealing Elizabeth’s boyfriend, one feigned terminal illness ( Read more... )

I think this Super Thriller is my favorite of all, at least out of the books where the twins were newspaper interns. There's a little bit of everything here -- mad bombers, Bruce & Liz... there's even a Wakefield doppelgänger! (Sort of.)


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Check it out: Sweet Valley Primary School! Would you be willing to move to South Africa in order to send your child there? Apparently the school's motto is "ad perfectum", and even though I know how it translates, I can't help but feel that it's the sort of motto that the Sweet Valley ghost-writers might have chosen, just for the way it looks.

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Sweet Valley High #58: Brokenhearted

I can't find the cover art, but it's got Jeffrey French and Liz on the cover and they look sad.

( Todd Wilkins is back from Vermont! Now Elizabeth must choose between lunk-headed, violent Todd and personality-challenged Jeffrey? Who will it be? )

I'm home sick from work, so I've had time to do another recap!  This one was a request from
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I thought I'd start off with this one, as although it wasn't the first SVH book I read (I think that honour belongs to #5), it was the first one I owned.


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