Review: Sweet Valley Confidential - Ten Years Later - Francine Pascal

Think back about 10yrs ago , especially for those now in their 20's to early 30's - Were you in love with the hit teen series Sweet Valley High with identical twin sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield ?  This is the perfect book for all those fans of the Sweet Valley High as it will refresh those fun times of reading the books and much more if you were like me.

 

Review : Sweet Valley Confidential : Ten Years Later - Francine Pascal- April 2011

OMG , When I first heard that this book was being released , to be completely honest with my readers , I was one of those few that were overjoyed as there is nothing better in the world than being reunited with a series that was basically your life when you were a child. When I was 10 to about 13yrs old , Sweet Valley High was my escape - I loved it, I had read all the books from SVH Junior High all the way through to SVH University and then the books about the big families e.g The Patmans and The Wakefields, their geneology. I even watched the TV Show which had the twins played by Brittany and Cynthia Daniels and owned the Board Game. I had SVH Fever bigtime.  I always could relate with Elizabeth Wakefield and dreamed of being a newspaper reporter and journalist just like her. She was my literature Idol.

In SVC - Ten Years Later, we are presented with it being 10 years since the girls graduated from University , Jessica is still in Sweet Valley and Elizabeth has gone to New York to become a bigtime Journalist . The girls left on bad terms and have not spoken to each other since graduation night. Elizabeth, deeply hurt wants nothing to do with those from her past. However 10yrs later, she is invited to a wedding - her sister Jessica's and the groom - Todd Wilkins , who thought that Elizabeth's high school sweetheart would end up marrying Jessica. On the night of their graduation, Todd broke up with Elizabeth and declared his love for Jessica , tearing the twin sisters apart. Now back in Sweet Valley, Elizabeth is ready for her revenge. We also meet in the book , the former friends of the girls from their lives - Bruce Patman - who was Jessica's friend has changed sides and is Elizabeth's best friend, Lila Fowler and Enid who is now a Doctor , sadly though we read about Winston Egbert who had passed away , which was sad as I quite liked his goofiness.

Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later by Francine Pascal is the perfect read for all those former fans of Sweet Valley High and the twins , it even inspired when I was at a book sale to pick up a couple of the old SVH Books to read and reminiscence about. It's amazing what a book can do to a person .