Young Adult Revisited

Five kind of best friends are all in the race to become Prom Queen at Shadyside High. Dawn is the star of the tennis queen and the super competitive girl who assumes that she’ll win. Simone is the drama queen, star of all productions and jealous of everything her boyfriend Justin does or any girl he talks to. Rachel is fairly poor, which is her basic stereotype and Elana is super rich. Lizzy is the girl who holds them all together and she’s holding onto hope that her recently moved boyfriend Kevin can come back for prom. A few days after the nominations are announced, Simone goes missing. Conveniently, a serial killer praying on teenage girls is striking towns close to Shadyside. Lizzy stops by to see her, finds a big puddle of blood on the floor and sees a man in a maroon Shadyside baseball jacket running from the scene. She’s convinced that the killer is Larry Brown, a dorky guy from her class who’s also on the baseball team. Larry dated Simone until she dumped him for Justin and he ...

I apologize for the lack of posts and that my first post isn't SVU related. Unfortunately, my computer died a few weeks ago and I finally got the word that they had to wipe the hard drive. The 20 or so odd reviews for SVU books that I had save, but not posted, are now gone and I just can't face re-reading those books right now. Look for some Sweet Valley High reviews first, until I can get back in the SVU mindset. This is yet another one of those books where nothing seems to happen, even though the book is almost 200 pages long. Basically there are four girls living together at college. Lacey gets there first, only to learn that she has the boring Mouse for a roommate. The two girls share a bathroom with two other girls, but only Danni arrives. Danni wakes up in the middle of the night and finds Margot, her new roommate standing over her. She gets a little suspicious because Margot doesn’t have a lot of clothes, carries around a silver letter opener that looks like a knife and ...

Jenny is about to start a new job babysitting for the Hagen family. Apparently their little boy was trying to jump in the fountain at the mall, she saved him and they offered her a job. Because they live so far out in the boondocks, they’re willing to pay her $5 an hour. Trust me, in 1989 that was serious bank. I was lucky to make $3-4 an hour babysitting in 92. She feels all uncomfortable the first night because their house is in the middle of nowhere (not really) and needs a lot of work, so it looks like something from a horror movie. Mr. Hagen is super paranoid and keeps running over the rules until his wife forces him out the door. The little boy Donny is nice enough, though he seems too hyper. After he goes to bed, she wanders through the house and flips out when someone grabs her legs. Turns out that it’s only their cat. Then she reads all about how someone keeps attacking babysitters and hears footsteps in the house. Luckily it’s only Donny wanting something to drink. Somehow th...

Steven is still passes out on the floor and Mike is starting to wonder why he isn’t coming back. He somehow smells the gas and realizes what happened so he tries to walk into the kitchen. Of course he can’t walk, so he figures out a way to crawl into the kitchen. He keeps thinking about what Jess would say if they both died in the apartment. He throws a cast iron doorstop out the kitchen window, which alerts the neighbors and one calls 911. Liz is turning into Jessica. She blows off her schoolwork, spends all her time with Tom and can’t think about anything but him. She even makes a comment about how her obsessive love for him is scary and that she can’t believe this is what real love feels like. Um, it isn’t. I really love my live-in boyfriend, but if I was around him all the time, I’d lose my freaking mind. They literally start going crazy when they don’t see each other for 12 hours. Anyway Liz decides that the only way she can do any work is if they spend the entire exam week away f...

Lila Fowler hasn’t been mentioned a whole lot in this series, so I got excited when I realized she was *finally* coming back. After dealing with Jessica’s whiny, bratty side for too long, I’m ready for someone who can put her in her place. Lila was supposed to attend Sweet Valley University, but the summer before, she went to Italy and stayed with her aunt. She met Tisano, a count and fell head over heels in love, within a week of course. They got married, she became a countess and only occasionally wrote her best friend back home. Then he dies in a jet skiing accident and her parents come to Italy to get her. She’s now auditing classes at SVU until she can register the following semester. Jess gives Lila a tour of campus and shows her the Theta house. Bitchy Alison is there and makes a comment about how a “widow and divorcee” with really liven up and the house and I just had to laugh. I would like to know why Alison always has so much power when she’s vice-president and the president ...

Fair warning: I came dangerously close to throwing this book out the window by the time I got to the last 20 or so pages! Mike’s in the hospital and Steven is in jail, charged with attempted murder and felon assault. Jess stays with Billie until she realizes that Billie will be up all night just trying to find Steven a lawyer. Liz hears about the incident on the police scanner in Tom’s room when they’re talking about the secret society story and she rushes over to help. Everyone else in the book seems pretty happy. Danny and Isabella are all in love and Winston and Denise are in love, but he’s irritated because everyone assumes that they’re sleeping together. Todd learns that he has to sit out a season of basketball and move out of the athletic dorm, but he can play again next year and keep practicing with the team. His buddy Mark, Alex/Enid’s boyfriend doesn’t get off as easy because he got money and a new car. The school drops his scholarship, expels him and tells him that they’ll bl...

Jess still refuses to leave Mike, even though Liz spent the night with her just in case he came back, which he never did. She basically blows off the whole night before, saying that they just need to work on their marriage and invest more time if they want to make it work. She also quits her job because her boss won’t let her call in sick again (apparently she’s been doing that a lot so she can spend time with Mike). He shows up after Liz leaves, ask for forgiveness and they make up yet again. Denise poses as Winston’s girlfriend for his dad and she does such a good job of it that Winston starts to believe that it’s true. Danny and Isabella are now dating and Tom feels like a third wheel every time he’s around them. Alex and Mark are having problems because he’s looking forward to seeing how his life will turn out away from SVU and he has no intention of bringing her with him when he goes to the pros. Liz comes up with a “brilliant” idea and discovers that Mike is actually the leader o...