Welcome to Litsy!

Ahh, another of the more memorable installments! Steven‘s girlfriend, Tricia Martin has the same kind of leukemia that killed her mother. To spare Steven pain, she pushes him away & Jessica leaps at the chance to fix Steven up with her bestie, Cara Walker. Jessica learns talk show host Jeremy Frank is in the hospital; she convinces Liz to join her in being candy stripers. Liz learns Tricia‘s secret & after much agonizing, tells Steven the truth.

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Oh, how I love these books. I have all of du Jardin's books. They're loaded with 1950s nostalgia from the point of view of young women. The Pam & Penny series is my favorite, and I usually revisit these every couple of years. 🧡💜💛

This is one of my favorites! Liz is in a coma! Jessica won‘t leave her side & when Liz wakes up, she starts acting more Jessica than Jessica— flirty, skipping out on chores & getting new sexier clothing & avoiding Todd. At Lila‘s party, she drinks with Bruce & then sticks Jess with babysitting the Percy twins while going to Bruce‘s beach house! A second head injury (after more wine with Bruce who is a real creeper here), restores her personality!

working on book #2 of the series for today‘s walk 🔥 🐉

taking a break from listening to the moonstone for a quick middle-grade reread on today‘s walk 🧊🐺✨

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3/5 ⭐️'s)

Fangirl was okay. It could've been better. I didn't care for the fan-fiction story the protagonist was working on—I wish she worked on her short story for school. I would have loved to see what she would have done with that. I wish she dated Levi sooner, and I didn't care for Raegan's ground rules at the end. If she wasn't comfortable with her roommate dating her ex, she should have said so at the start.

This is probably my fourth time reading this novel and it tore my heart to pieces as relentlessly as it did the first time. A beautiful story, every time I read it I am reminded that real growth as a human being always involves looking yourself in the eye, confronting your shortcomings and asking for forgiveness, and how incredibly difficult that is.

sun-kissed blonde beauties

breaking hearts and attracting

killers in sunny

sweet valley cali —

it only took them twenty

years to graduate! 👯

Been a huge Sweet Valley fan since I was 9 years old. Still love reading them for nostalgia‘s sake. 🥰

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I‘m in my Hilderband era apparently- as this is my 4th book of hers I‘ve read this summer. Although there wasn‘t character overlap like in her other books, I really enjoyed this read. I loved the character development.