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Paul Joel pj_graphicart — A touching meditation on aging and personal choice. Science fiction is not well known for sensitive, nuanced portraits of women in middle age which made this a nice surprise.

Amber Huang amberhaha — It's true, you just can't go home again. That doesn' t mean you literally can't go home, of course you can. It's meant in the context of when you do, it's (home's) not what it once was. Sometimes it's because the place that changes, the people there change, and/or you change from your time away. Either way, it's never will again be seen by you as what it once was to you. That holds all too true for my experience with Sweet Valley and the characters who reside there. The book takes place 10 years later for the twins. We jump into it finding Elizabeth in NY and Jessica in CA, and they're not speaking to each other. Jessica finally went too far and committed the ultimate betrayal. Through present time stories, memories of the characters into the past, and jumping from perspective to perspective the reader is slowly allowed to know what happened and how it happened. Unfortunately as this timeline takes the twins from their Senior Year in highschool, through college, and into their late-twenties it means the reader is subjected to a lot of childish drama. Some readers have been away from Sweet Valley for more than 10 years and therefore are way more grown-up than the twins end up being. What once thrilled in Junior High, and maybe HS for some of you, now only comes across as childish, dramatic, soap opera-ish, and akin to bad reality TV. The twins, though they are supposedly 27, they and their friends seem to act as if they're still 17 and in HS. There was a moment when the world probably heard the loudest scream echoing from far away. That was the moment that the word "like" was like overused and had like just grown like completely like ridiculous. Okay, which is just another way of saying what's already been said. It was just a truly frustrating aspect of the story, especially since there was so much excitement about this book finally coming out. However, the last 1/4 of the book was definitely it's saving grace. It was great to catch up with all of the characters to see where they've been and to see what possibilities lie ahead for them in the future. Yet, I don't think SWC generated enough interest to warrant an eye being kept on the next release, if there is one. Now if you like soap operas though, then you're going to love this one. Ultimately, it was this last portion of the book that takes SWC from a 1 cup to a 2 cup.

Rogerio Manea rogeriomancfc8 — Mindblowingly simplistic obnoxious feel-good pap.