Comments on: Sweet Valley Saga: The Wakefields of Sweet Valley

By: Lelandria

Lelandria — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:46:06 +0000

Yeah I always wanted to see that too.

By: Lelandria

Lelandria — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:15:53 +0000

The whole Theodore and Alice made me think of The Great Gatsby.

By: Lelandria

Lelandria — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:13:27 +0000

I think Tom is an ancestor of Todd since they have the same last name. Geoff and Bruce are just representations.

By: Lelandria

Lelandria — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:11:52 +0000

I thought they were cool back then too. Except Jessamyn, I always thought that was a strange name.

By: Lelandria

Lelandria — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:10:35 +0000

Not to mention that most twins do not have twins but that it usually skips a generation.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:47:45 +0000

The Fowlers of Sweet Valley is the best by far. I haven’t read this one, just the Ned Wakefield one, which is similar and has a lot of the same characters. I love how the eventual birth of the twins (or Lila or Bruce) is portrayed as “destiny.” The twins’ paternal great-etc-grandfather suffers from unrequited love for the twins’ maternal great-etc-grandmother…and so does their children…and their children…so on and so forth. Fowler’s saga was pretty much the same. Contrived, much?

Has anyone noticed that the individual stories for each ancestor tends to draw a heavy influence from some other work of literature or film? My memory is a little rusty, but James and Sarah Wakefield had a kind of East of Eden feel to them. Lila’s great-great-grandmother Celeste had a Jane Eyre thing going on. Perhaps there are better interpretations of that, but I’d have to re-read them all and see what I come up with. Did anyone else see that? Or was it just me?

By: Margarita

Margarita — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:12:55 +0000

I always thought the 4 girls going down the side were Jessamyn, Elisabeth, Elizabeth, and Jessica. The original twins and the recent twins.

By: Kylie90210

Kylie90210 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:41:19 +0000

I love the saga’s! So crappy, yet so good! The Fowlers was the best, and the Patman’s was awesome too. Love it!

I love this one too, even though it’s so stupid and unrealistic. Three sets of twins? That’s why I love it! Lol. It’s almost like, what if Liz and Jess lived in this time, or this time?

By: barbs

barbs — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:43:07 +0000

On the four ladies lined up, I always thought that was Jessamyn (all spruced up for the turn of the century), Alice Larson (given the description of her hat), Marjorie (looking all fierce in war) and Alice Robertson (looking all lost in the sixties)

I guess the pic of Sam seducing Ted was big enough for the Watson twins to be left out

By: anon.

anon. — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:10:44 +0000

this isnt the wakefields of sweet valley though.. this talks about alice’s side of the family.. so it would be [her maiden name]‘s of sweet valley…