Young Adult Revisited

This is easily one of the best/worst Sweet Valley High books in the entire series. Alice won an all expense paid trip to some fancy day spa and decided to make a mother-daughter weekend of it. Enid’s mom decided not to go at the last minute, leaving her alone with Alice, the twins, Lila and her mom Grace. This doesn’t sit well with Enid because she’s already feeling crappy. Hugh recently dumped her and…oh my god, how many times did he dump her? One of the other books I recapped like two months ago was way before this one, and she was pissed off in that one because he dumped her. Anyway, Liz tries to make her feel better. Then Enid makes a comment about how if she was prettier, he’d stick around and Liz doesn’t answer because she’s right. I fucking hate you Liz. Of course because it’s a Sweet Valley book, Jessica immediately starts thinking about guys that aren’t Ken. She’s drawn to Chris, the guy who picks them up from the train station. He teaches golf and Jess signs up for a les...

I never read any of the Abby books because she joined the club after I stopped reading the series. I’ve read a few lately where she popped up, but it wasn’t a major story. I’m still not sure how I feel about the character, but I do look forward to seeing an updated version where she and Kristy embark on a love affair. It’s almost Valentine’s Day in Stoneybrook and Abby is hating it. She does point out that she likes Logan and Mary Anne’s relationship because the two are actually friends, but she doesn’t really care about anyone else. She’s also sick of seeing red and pink everywhere. Even her English teacher is going over love poems in class. There’s also a huge dance coming up and it’s all anyone wants to talk about. Claudia and Mary Anne have dates, Stacey’s new boyfriend Ethan is coming down from NYC and even Jessi is planning on going with a group of friends. Wait, she has friends away from the BSC? At the same time, this guy Ross wants to date Abby and he keeps coming aroun...

Bobbi and Corky Cochran have just moved to Shadyside and both want to be cheerleaders. Their old squad won a bunch of competitions, but the squad was already picked and they aren’t sure they can get on it. The girls leave a fake rat in front of their little brother Sean’s room and giggle when it freaks him out. Bobbi then lays down on the railing and makes Corky think she died. Hilarious. They meet the other cheerleaders, including the captain Jen and the assistant captain Kimmy, who hates them on sight. They do a routine, which is apparently awesome. They also do some double cartwheel thing, which I don’t understand. Apparently they hold each other’s ankles and then roll. Is that even possible? Of course everyone loves then and Miss Green, the advisor, decides to put them on the squad. The only problem is that they really only have room for one new girl, so one old girl has to go. She picks Ronnie because she’s a freshman and has time to cheer later. Ronnie pitches a fit and runs...

I’m a little confused by this book because I know that I read the series after Stacey met/started dating Robert, but I don’t remember this one. I also scrolled through some of the book titles that came later and none of them sound familiar. Plus I don’t remember Shannon being such a big member of the books, so maybe I stopped reading them earlier than I thought. Anyway, in this book Mallory is out of the club because she has mono and Dawn has moved back to California, so Shannon is an alternate member. Stacey and Claudia are walking to school, when someone hits her with a snowball and she falls in the snow. Apparently she was wearing plum colored corduroy pants too, which sounds gross. When she stands up, she sees the hottie RJ running after her. He apologizes and says that he was aiming for someone else and then walks her to her locker. RJ is on the basketball team and is a big deal at school because the team is undefeated. He asks her out in a really lame way and she agrees. Ser...

Oh my god! I was so excited when I saw this in a thrift store that I ripped it off the shelf and almost hit my boyfriend in the head. Thrift stores around here never have Sweet Valley High books. I occasionally see copies of the first five books, but seldom any of the others. I found this one and one I was missing, along with all the BSC books and Fear Street ones. Plus I never read this one before. Plus (confession time) I never knew this book existed until I started reading the recap blogs LOL. So we’re back to that fateful New Year’s Eve night, number 17 I believe, when Liz almost died. The ambulance carrying Margo whisks off into the night, only to swerve off the road, stops and then starts up again. Oh-uh. But of course no one notices it happening. Isn’t that what happened in the Halloween movies? Now it’s a brand new year and a few weeks away from New Year’s Eve, but the twins are still juniors in high school and the last year still happened. Jess is all annoyed because no o...