"I'm assuming that what the Sweet Valley High empire is trying to do is put a new polish on that drama, because they have all the ingredients there already, they have all the Gossip Girl there already, they just need to update it." The new book, according to Pitre, already has a solid foundation on which to build. There's a lot of crazy stuff that happens in Sweet Valley, and either we forgot it as we got older, or it didn't seem like a big deal," said Sarah Pitre, a blogger with revisiting, re-reading, and disseminating Sweet Valley High novels. The original series created, as Pattee put it, "a fantasy of adolescent life in the 80s." But there were also doses of ugliness within the fantasy, including stories on eating disorders, drug overdoses, and date rape. By the end of chapter one, Elizabeth, a struggling writer, contemplates sleeping with her boss, reveals she cries after orgasms, and calls her twin "a heartless b-." In this new book, readers are immediately hurled into the present with references to Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Facebook. Throughout the 1980s, pre-teens consumed the twins' stories like so much addictive candy, following the girls and a consistent cast of characters through the trials and tribulations of high school and teenage drama. Popular, attention-seeking Jessica is back in her hometown, and engaged to her twin sister's high school sweetheart. Book-smart Elizabeth has fled heartache in fictional Sweet Valley, Calif., for the rough streets of New York City.
The twins are now 27, on their own, and bitterly estranged. With their silky blond hair, aqua blue eyes, and 5-foot-6, "perfect size six" figures, the Wakefield twins were the all-American sweethearts of the 1980s and 1990s.Īnd now they are all grown up in "Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later," released by St. March 31, 2011— - Before "Gossip Girl" and "Twilight," there was Sweet Valley High, the teenage romance novels that followed the sun-kissed lives of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield.
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