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Last modified: August 18, 2009After receiving the first two Sweet Valley books from a friend for Christmas, I’ve become re-obsessed with the series. I loved them when I was a kid, so I got a bunch of them from ebay and started reading voraciously. I was saddened to find that the books don’t hold the same magic for my adult self that they did for my adolescent self. Turns out Jessica is a crazy person and Elizabeth is obnoxiously sweet. I decided to share my feelings with the world.
I just found your website today, and I absolutely love it! Yours is definitely one of the funniest SV snark sites. Can’t wait to read more!
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Shan….this is great. You honestly have such an amazing talent! I’m lucky to call you family! You’re awesome.
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I bought Sweet Valley 21 and 2 others, the Spring Break and Perfect Summer. I felt compelled to order some cool Sweet Valley Twins series…my tear jerkers was poor Mandy Miller, such a thing shouldn’t have had to happen, but I was glad she and Jessica were great friends, and ironic Mandy’s wish did come true for a while as she did become PResident of the Unicorns until Kimberly Haver of course wrecked things. I loved the one where Steven coached the Honeybees, now that was Physical with an F to say the least to coach girls into a unit team, more should’ve been written! The one of Jessica using voodoo on Steven was really funny! Course it didn’t really work, but it was funny to see Jessica getting even for a little while. I got to build my bank savings back up so I can order some more. I can’t detail the bargains for I don’t want them sold out. Book 21 of SVH was also great and passionate about the Wakefields learning not to ignore when problems arise in the family! That was too close of poor Jessica feeling unloved and going to San Francisco. Ironic how Nicky would never write back. Unless the Nick she met in SVU could’ve been Nicky, who knows?
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I love your Siskel and Ebert like version of Sweet Valley, keep up the good work. I myself have a lot of favorites and yeah, there were some clunkers too! Some of the ones like Sandra were OK. The one with Manuel was not half bad.
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Hey Shannon. I like reading about the Wakefields’ relatives from Mrs. Wakefield’s side of the family (Nancy, Alice, and Laura). My favorite is Robin and Stacey, Robin is so cool. I picture her as that girl from ‘The Nanny’, you know, Nicole Tom I believe, that played the eldest girl. That to me is Robin Robertson, sigh. I wish Kelly Bates didn’t have to go home and wasn’t heard from again in Sweet Valley High, that is just a suck ending for her!
I’m bringing the cousins all together in a new Sweet valley format. I got Robin living a mile from the Wakefields and Kelly and her mom are getting a house not that far either.
I’m rewriting ‘The Cousin War’ into a cool high school like battle as Robin again is not told Elizabeth and Todd have reunited, and Jessica is ‘getting even’ with her sister by setting Robin up with Todd. This time, Robin gets to check out the new Sweet Valley High school to see if she wants to transfer, which she will. The boy Robin is going to like is a Japanese boy named Don, little bit of 16 Candles. It should be pretty funny.
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Hmm SV doesn’t leave the same impression as it did when I was younger. I don’t remember any if these plots. I thought they were younger for some reason. I did get a slight kick remembering how corny the TV show was. I had completely forgotten all about that. This is a cute site. You really do have a knack for writing the recaps.
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Shannon Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 10:24 pm
If you remember the twins being younger, then you probably read the Sweet Valley Twins books. They were in sixth grade in that series.
Thanks for reading!
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Hi! I love your blogs about SVH. I read them when I was a kid until my college years. I consider them as my childhood friends. I had a lot of fun reading your comments. Though I love the Sweet Valley characters dearly, I share your sentiments regarding Elizabeth’s infinite meddling with other people’s lives and jessica’s numerous dead boyfriends. Personally, I think the Sweet Valley Twins series are more realistic and funnier.
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Shannon Reply:
November 25th, 2009 at 8:22 am
I actually liked Sweet Valley Twins better, too. I’m still not sure why I decided to start my blog with SVH.
Thanks for reading!
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I just discovered your blog through a link on EW.com about the forthcoming SVH book – I used to be a big SVH fan as a kid and I remember re-reading a few several years ago and wondering how I never noticed Jessica was total psycopath. Looking forwarding to reliving the books through your recaps!
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Shannon Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Welcome!
I know when I started reading these last year, I was totally shocked at how different they were from the way I remembered. I always thought Jessica was just wild and fun, but no. She’s definitely a psycho.
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I stumbled upon your site and I have been laughing at your commentary of the books. This is great. I too loved SV as a kid and I am lookig forward to reading about the twins in their twenties.
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Shannon Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Welcome! I’m looking forward to the new book, too!
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I cannot figure out why the comments are all out of order on this page and it’s driving me crazy.
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Thanks so much for reading! I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
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I’m so glad you like it! I knew you’d get a kick out of it, considering we read the crap out of this stuff when we were kids.
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