by Francine Pascal
Hoo boy! did teenage me have some bad taste in books. I saw this yesterday in a Free Little Library and couldn't resist finding out how it would read now. It's pretty awful; what was teenage me thinking?? The characters were so cardboard: Jessica is the vain, selfish, shallow, 'evil' twin; El...
Romance Bingo square - Twins Oh, Sweet Valley High, how I adored you back in the late 1980s and through the 1990s! The twins, their family and friends, the town of Sweet Valley, California was everything I had hoped my teen years would be. My favorite twin was Elizabeth; she was good and kind and ...
OK, I have read many of the Sweet Valley High books, but I'm too lazy to go through and mark all the ones I've read. Let's just say they are all quick reads without redeeming value except entertainment purposes. I read them throughout elementary school and middle school.
If I was younger, I would perhaps liked it better. P.S. Jessica is terrible!
Well, that was.. interesting.
From my first impression of Jessica, she seems so stereotypically shallow. I have met girls who think the world revolves around them or I wouldn't have found Jessica a believable character. Elizabeth must have gotten all the brains while Jessica got the manipulative power.
The great thing about this book is that it is the real, genuine first book in the series, and yet it reads like total self-parody.
The entire premise behind "Childhood Trauma" is to go back and re-read the books we grew up with. I, however, never actually read Sweet Valley High as a kid, which gave me the unique perspective of being able to read these for the first time as a(n) (almost completely) functioning adult.Oh. My. God....
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