The Story
From the cover flap of the book:
Sweet Valley is back…
Ten years after graduating from Sweet Valley High, the Wakefield twins have had a falling-out of epic proportions. When Jessica commits a complete and utter betrayal, Elizabeth flees to New York to escape the pain and immerse herself in her lifelong dream of becoming a journalist.
Jessica remains in California, dealing with the fallout of her heart-wrenching choices. She has a career she loves and lots of old friends, but she misses her sister, her oldest best friend. With Elizabeth as her enemy, Sweet Valle is no longer the idyllic town of their youth.
Jessica longs for forgiveness, but Elizabeth can’t forget her twin’s duplicity. She decides the only way to heal her broken heart is to get revenge. Always the “good” twin, the one getting her reckless sister out of trouble, Elizabeth is now about to turn the tables…
The Response
So… I loved all of the Sweet Valley books when I was a kid. Loved. And so obviously I wanted to know what happened to the Wakefield twins… But now I kind of wish I didn’t. Erm.
This was like reading something on fanfiction.net… Something weird in which the characters don’t seem to be anything like they ever have before. Weird out of character fanfic…that just happened to be written by the creator of the SVH books. Erm.
I couldn’t help but laugh over most of this because it just seemed so bizarre. ESPECIALLY the bit where Elizabeth falls in love with Bruce Patman. You know, the guy who tried to date rape her. Explain please someone. Do not understand.
It of course doesn’t help that I was reading this when doped up on extra strong cold medicine during my two week long super bad cold that wanted to make me die. So in truth I did find it hilarious… I’m just not sure if it was supposed to be as funny as I ended up finding it.
The Bottom Line
Skip it. I kind of wish I hadn’t read this…
I read this the day it came out for work and I am still totally BOGGLED by the Bruce thing. That said, I want to say it’s almost worth reading to see Alice throw down an f-bomb.
sassymonkey
February 20th, 2013 at 10:03 am
I read the Sweet Valley Twins series (when they’re twelve) back when I was a kid, and one day I decided to look for a summary of what became of them later…it seems like the jump from that series to the High School ones totally changed who everyone was…and evidently this book does too. All in all, not feeling a need to read more. I’ll just leave my childhood memories intact.
Cheryl @ Tales of the Marvelous
February 22nd, 2013 at 6:11 pm
While I have Sweet Valley books to this day I never got the attraction… I always found them a bit too ‘perfect’… That being said I was curious about this and yet never read it…
Kailana
February 25th, 2013 at 9:48 pm