Book Number Three was Sweet Valley Confidential. I looked all over Portland for this book, I couldn’t find it anywhere. Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield were pretty much my Harry Potter. Thankfully, I had two older high school aged sisters, so I knew most of what I read in those books was bullshit. Still, I READ AND HAD EVERY SINGLE ONE. The special editions, the weird ancestor spinoff, I EVEN tried to like Sweet Valley Jr. High. For the life of me, I can’t find my collection anywhere. I remember trying to sell it once in North Bend, and the bookstore owner basically scoffing at me, like, who would buy this shit?
This book was SHOCKING. I was so disappointed in Pascal’s treatment of Enid, and sort of grossed out and disappointed in who the twins ended up with. It all seemed too unrealistic they could all live happily ever after, ALMOST as unrealistic as the one I read years ago where Liz was SO hungry, she ate TWO WHOLE SLICES OF PIZZA.
