Readers, exciting news—chapter one of Sweet Valley Confidential is available online!
This novel takes place 10 years after the classic Sweet Valley High series ended. Per the description from St. Martin’s Press:
Iconic and beloved identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are back and all grown up, dealing with the complicated adult world of love, careers, betrayal, and sisterhood.
Judging from the excerpt of the novel, all is not well with the 27-year-old Wakefield twins. Elizabeth has moved to New York and doesn’t have any friends—and worse, she’s not on speaking terms with Jessica.
Daytime Confidential interviewed SVH creator Francine Pascal for any hints—will Lila, Todd and the rest of the Sweet Valley gang be back?—but all the author would say is: “Think March 29th. That’s when all will be revealed. All the main characters are back and waiting to be rediscovered as adults.” (Pascal also mentioned that she’s signed on as a consultant for Diablo Cody’s Sweet Valley movie adaptation.)
What do you hope will happen in Sweet Valley Confidential?
…I just hope it wouldn’t be a disappointment for the fans. Especially for those of us in the 80′s and 90′s who grew up on the Sweet Valley Twins series and had a sentimental attachment to the soap-opera-ish treatment of the narrative. Enjoyable while it lasted, and it will forever remain special in our hearts. (But anything by Francine Pascal hardly disappoints, so. Here’s to hoping!
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