Her reading experience took her back to her preteen years. Kay Lunes, 31, of Castro Valley, says she didn’t have high expectations for the new novel so she wasn’t totally disappointed in it. “The ones we’re supposed to hate are the ones being validated.” Winston, the class clown, is a dot-com millionaire who treats people terribly. Enid, Elizabeth’s former best friend, is a bitter, right-wing recovering alcoholic.
“It just seems like the characters that were set up to be good are really punished,” Hardwick says. Robin Hardwick, a 32-year-old Oakland blogger at, agrees that the kids have changed in ways that make Hardwick feel like writer Pascal didn’t really like any of her characters in the first place. “They made going to the bookstore a habit for me. “They were just very addictive,” she says. The original Sweet Valley high books are what got Union City mom and blogger Debbie Suzuki (31, into reading when she was a preteen. Writer Pascal has aged the twins (they’re now 27) and their friends by 10 years and sets the story in the current era, sprinkling with a bit of Facebook and Google ( GOOG) references here and there.Įarly reviews, however, suggest fans are mostly disappointed and critics are just ho-hum. An adult novel aimed at those readers from the 1980s, “Confidential” features sex scandals, cheating and plastic surgery. It was a launch hotly anticipated by fans of the original series, with some now thirtysomething readers eagerly wanting to know how popular Jessica and good girl Elizabeth fared after high school. 13 on the American literature bestsellers list.
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Martin’s Press released “Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later,” and during its first week in sales, the book has quickly marched up to be No. But if you thought the series was as dead as leg warmers and the Pet Rock, think again. The Wakefields lived the sweet life in the Sweet Valley High series that spanned over 181 books written by Francine Pascal and a legion of ghostwriters.
They had everything - looks, popularity, money. In the 1980s and early 1990s, every preteen girl wanted to be one of the hottest twins in teen literature, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield.
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