Sweet Valley High Magna Edition: Elizabeth’s Secret Diary, Volume 3
Synopsis:
Todd cancels a date on a Friday night and Liz thinks their relationship must be going down the tubes. She decides to read her diary:
#71: Starring Jessica – Liz feels all sad and jealous when Jessica gets chosen to be on television and also turns in a perfect article for The Oracle. She’s also bored with Todd.
#72: Rock Star’s Girl – Liz sees a really cute guy on the beach a few times checking her out and wants to meet him. They finally speak to each other. His name is Sam Woodruff and he saw Jessica on television and wanted to meet her, but then saw her at the Dairi Burger one day with Todd. Liz explains that Jessica was the one on television, and then she says she and Todd are just friends. She and Sam have a couple dates.
#73: Regina’s Legacy – Liz tries to forget about Sam as she uncovers a drug ring.
#74: The Perfect Girl – Liz tells herself she can’t see Sam anymore, and then goes and makes out with him anyway. Then she acts like she can’t believe she’s cheating on Todd. Seriously?
#75: Amy’s True Love – Tom McKay is gay and Liz wants to tell Sam about Todd. Sam tells Liz he loves her.
#76: Miss Teen Sweet Valley – Liz finally breaks things off with Sam, then gets all worked up about the beauty pageant. She wonders if she’s so upset about the pageant because she’s “taking the moral high road to compensate for cheating with Sam.”
#77: Cheating to Win – Todd is a whiny bitch and it makes Liz want to see Sam again. They get together at the beach and make out. Then Sam sees Liz kissing Todd one day at the Dairi Burger and he tells her to fuck off.
#78: The Dating Game – Liz is really upset when Sam ignores her at the Dairi Burger and the Beach Disco but starts checking out Jessica.
#79: The Long-Lost Brother – This book is skipped completely.
#80: The Girl They Both Loved – Sam starts dating Jessica. Liz thinks he’s just trying to get back at her for hurting him. He assures her he’s really just crazy about Jessica. Liz thinks she can never be totally happy with Todd as long as Sam and Jessica are together.
#81: Rosa’s Lie – Sam calls and Liz pretends to be Jessica on the phone.
#82: Kidnapped by the Cult! – Jessica joins a cult. Liz and Sam have to work together to save her, then they decide they’re happy to just be friends.
In the present, Liz closes her diary and cries about the car crash that killed Sam. Then Todd stops by and explains he had to postpone their date so he could drive a couple hours up the coast to pick up the locket he ordered in honor of the anniversary of the first time Liz told Todd she loved him.
The Cover: I hate these weird photo covers. Nothing here correlates to anything actually in the book.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Ugh this is the worst relationship ever starring the two worst people ever. Actually, now that I think about it, they deserve each other. lol
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Shannon Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I really always liked Sam until this book. Wtf is wrong with every guy in Sweet Valley? One twin just isn’t enough.
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Sacha Reply:
August 3rd, 2011 at 9:34 am
Whats so great about the twins anyway. I used to like Elizabeth until the miniseries crap. Now shes just like Jessica but, more goody goody.
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December 8th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Is that supposed to be Todd in that cover? ‘Cause that’s not the weird looking dude with the abnormally tiny head from the show.
Why do the twins double dip on boyfriends? It’s gross and weird and I can tell you with absolute certainty my sister and I have NEVER shared a boyfriend, nor have we ever found the same type of guy attractive. GAH, these books are so retarded. Why couldn’t I see them for what they were when I was an impressionable youth? Damn you, Francine and your legion of ghostwriters with obvious “don’t give a damn” attitudes.
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girltalkread Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Lindsay my sister and I never shared boyfriends or found the same kinds of dudes attractive either! yet these twins constantly double dip as u put it!
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Lindsay Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 6:39 am
It’s so disturbing, especially when you throw in the fact they’re freaking identical twins.
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Shannon Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 8:31 am
I just wanted to throw in there that my sister and I have never shared boyfriends, either. Who the hell would really do that?
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December 8th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Um…there were two Todds from the show, and that dude on the cover is neither of them. Also, that pic of the twins driving in the car is an SVU cover.
That’s how lame these books are — I have to comment on the covers.
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Lindsay Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 6:37 am
It’s sad, isn’t it? I hate these damn covers
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Shannon Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 8:30 am
These covers are terrible. They don’t even make sense.
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December 8th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Elizabeth is such the ho!
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Lindsay Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Truer words have never been spoken
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December 9th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Does Tom McKay ever get a boyfriend, you guys? Or does that not happen in Sweet Valley?
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Shannon Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 8:32 am
I’m thinking being gay in Sweet Valley means you have to live a life of loneliness since there are no other gay people in town unless Enid’s cousin comes for a visit.
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December 9th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
You can’t tell me that Sam, Todd, AND Ken didn’t all get together at the Dairi Burger (or in the locker room, or wherever) and brag about scoring both twins!! I mean, these guys are in high school, and these are (according to every SV book ever written) the most gorgeous identical twins ever to grace the planet..
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Shannon Reply:
December 11th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Oh, you know they totally did.
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December 11th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I cannot even deal with what they have done to my Sam and his memory.
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Shannon Reply:
December 11th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I know, it’s just not right!
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January 13th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
She’s also bored with Todd.
That makes two (million) of us, sister.
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