Sweet Valley Twins 28: April Fool by Jamie Suzanne
Title: April Fool!
Tagline: Is Elizabeth pretending to be Jessica – or is Elizabeth really Elizabeth?
Summary: It’s April Fools’ Day and the Wakefield twins are about to play their biggest and best trick ever. Usually Elizabeth and Jessica pretend to be each other. But this year they won’t switch identities, everybody will just think they did.
When April 1 comes, the twins’ trick works perfectly – too perfectly for Elizabeth. Everyone believes she is Jessica pretending to be Elizabeth. And being Jessica always means getting into trouble. By the end of the day, Elizabeth is beginning to wonder whether she is the biggest April Fool of all for agreeing to be part of this charade.
[Raven: Or are WE the fools for recapping this ridiculous series? You decide!]
[Wing: We are certainly the fools for having to read this book. I raced through it as fast as I could and still wish I could get that 15 minutes back. In order to get through this recap, I’ve embraced my inner Jessica and put on a face mask (mint and charcoal). It will be dried in 10 minutes. I will devote that much more time to this book, and then that’s it, straight to the final thoughts section, even though I normally love Raven’s recaps. This book is just that boring.]
Initial Thoughts:
Ah, a rare thing… a book title containing an exclamation mark / point. Although scouring the SVT series, it seems it has another eight such books to keep it company.
I quite like April Fools’ Day, but I appreciate that the mileage of others may vary on this issue. The day generally consists of half the people partaking and recounting hilarious pranks, while the other half sneer and condescend at the pranksters and pray for a swift resolution to the enforced jollity. Any form of awkward interaction gets the thumbs up from me.
Sweet Valley Twins #53: The Slime That Ate Sweet Valley
Sweet Valley Twins #53: The Slime That Ate Sweet Valley by Jamie Suzanne
Title: The Slime that Ate Sweet Valley
Tagline: Will Jessica get slimed?
Summary: Best actress Jessica Wakefield?
It’s green. It’s gooey. It gobbles up humans. It’s The Slime that Ate Sweet Valley coming soon to a cinema near you and starring Jessica Wakefield!
At first, Jessica is thrilled to win the leading role in the Sweet Valley Middle School’s sixth-grade movie. But soon she learns that being an actress is hard work. When she discovers that she’ll actually have to kiss Winston Egbert and Randy Mason on camera, she begs her twin sister, Elizabeth, to rewrite the script. But it’s too late. The show must go on.
To Jessica, the only thing worse than getting gobbled up by The Slime is having to kiss two boys in front of all her friends!
Initial Thoughts:
I like this book. I actually wish the movie was a Sweet Valley book. It sounds like a NaNo project – a schlocky b-movie about an ooze that covers an adorably perfect town.
I have suggested that Raven write the script for the movie, complete with director’s/writer’s notes in the margin, for NaNo this year. He wasn’t completely opposed to it. So if I mention it here, hopefully Rosey and Jessica T will bully him into it. [Raven: No pressure… *eyeroll*]
Note: If I refer to the Slime as the Smooze, I’m not even sorry. NOTHING CAN STOP THE SMOOZE.
[Wing: I’m already fond of this book because it sounds like a Goosebumps story.]
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Tags: Book-long soulmates, comments by Raven, comments by Wing, Jessica's New Fave Hobby, potential girlslash (denied), recaps by Dove, too many Peters
Elizabeth’s book-long soulmate: Leslie Forsythe
Characters: Aaron Dallas, Amy Sutton, Elizabeth Wakefield, Jerry McAllister, Jessica Wakefield, Leslie Forsythe, Lila Fowler, Mandy Miller, Maria Slater
Relationships: Leslie Forsythe/Randy Mason
Events: Movie: The Slime That Ate Sweet Valley