Giving the stories currency with their intended audience, there are loads of pop-culture references from Obama and iPods to McMansions, gay weddings in New York and Twitter. Also in trademark style, Pascal finishes the sixth book with a cliffhanger – expect to hear more from the Wakefield twins. In trademark Pascal style they are unashamedly ludicrous and beautifully melodramatic – expect all sorts of things from the abduction of Steven Wakefield and his partner Aaron’s baby (yes, despite high school sweethearts of the female variety, it turns out that Steven prefers men) to the discrediting of Elizabeth’s work colleague (who also happens to be making a play for Todd). The first installment of the Sweet Life series sets up all sorts of plot lines (but resolves none!) – Jessica’s marriage to Todd is on the rocks Lila is the star of a reality show, ‘True Housewives’ and Bruce Patman has been accused of sexual assault – an accusation that journalist and amateur sleuth Elizabeth wants to get to the bottom of.Īs well as the progression of the main storylines, there are a few subplots within each book. There are six books in the The Sweet Life series, each very short at approximately 120 pages – like sitting down to read a magazine but packed with all the characters you loved in the eighties. Just to bring you up to speed, Jessica married Todd (yes, Elizabeth’s Todd!) and Elizabeth ended up with Bruce Patman (yes, bad-boy Bruce!). The Sweet Lifeby Francine Pascal is an e-book serial picking up where Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later left off.
Sweet Dreams led to Sweet Valley High and like the others, I would save my pocket-money for the next installment of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield’s sunny Californian lives.
Turns out that we had all loved the Sweet Dreams series and we had a good reminisce about our favourite titles (for me it was Ten Boy Summer and P.S.
Somehow the conversation went from kinder fundraising to Sweet Dreams book (I’m fairly sure we had dealt with all the business on the agenda before discussing teen romances…). A few months ago I was at a kinder committee meeting.
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