Some weeks ago I stumbled across news of a most epic proportion. Sweet Valley High, that teen romance series I so loved so much as a kid may be made into a movie. Yup, Jessica and Elizabeth might just be coming to a big screen near you. YAY!!! Okay, so I am that much of a geek that I had to hunt down a copy of the first ever book in the series, Double Love, so I could re-read it and remember what all the fuss was about. And remember I did, but mostly just what a geek I was at the age of twelve. Sigh. I was first introduced to the Wakefield twins when my sister started buying the books. My sister, ten years older than me, was not much of a reader and I think she thought these short little books would peak her interest enough to actually get her reading. It wasn’t long though before I got my twelve-year-old hands on the books and fell in love with the series and the characters – who didn’t love Elizabeth? Okay she was just a little too goody two shoes, playing victim to her evil twin who I abhorred, but really, Jessica did have all the fun. And then there was Todd. Sigh. I always fell for those boy-next-door heartthrobs….
Rereading Double Love, I realized just how much of a geek I was back then as whole sentences read so familiarly it was like I’d just read the book … but then I had read and re-read the first dozen ad nauseum because sister dearest was such a slooowww reader, that I could read five books to her one, and she wouldn’t buy more until she read the ones already purchased, so I had no choice but to read them again and again and again (I actually remember reading one of the books out loud to her, as she was working on a quilt, thinking this would help her get through the books faster. I mean, really, who would quilt when they could read about Jessica’s latest shenanigans?)
Anyway, Double Love introduces us to the Wakefield twins and their classmates in fictional Sweet Valley, California, a land of perpetual sunshine and beautiful people. Head cheerleader Jessica likes Todd, captain of the basketball team and is desperate to get him to ask her to the upcoming dance, even though whenever Todd calls their house or runs into the girls in the halls of Sweet Valley High, it’s Elizabeth he wants to talk to. But Elizabeth doesn’t like Todd, so Jessica is free and clear to go after him … right? What follows is the usual teen heartache as Elizabeth and Todd navigate the rocky road to romance.
Considering there are about a couple hundred books written in the series and all its spin-offs, I won’t be continuing this trip down memory lane, but I will be looking forward to the movie, which I hear is being written by Diablo Cody who also penned the screenplay for Juno so I couldn’t be more excited!!
Till next time, happy reading.
L J
| TBR = 5 | WPL = 13 |
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