Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield were the closest twin sisters you can imagine, and they love each other dearly. However, something shocking has happened which has caused such a rift between the sisters that they haven't spoken for over eight months, Elizabeth has moved across the country to live in New York, miles and miles away from the home she had in Sweet Valley with her sister Jessica, who is now convinced everybody hates her, and she pretty much hates herself too. Despite a successful career in journalism, it's not enough for Elizabeth but she doesn't know how to fix everything she left behind. And with another failed marriage behind her, Jessica just wants to be happy but she can't without her sister around her. Will the Wakefield twins ever heal the rift or this is the end of Elizabeth and Jessica as we know them?
I dare so most women my age, older and younger as well, have grown up reading some form of the numerous Sweet Valley novels with the Wakefield twins, or at least seen the TV show which was on a lot throughout the 1990's. I really loved those books, I read a lot of them, probably not all but a huge portion so when I read that the author Francine Pascal was bringing the characters back, but ten years on from when we first met them, I was both curious to read it and also somewhat dreading it at the same time - would they be as good as I remembered or would it be a cringing revisit to the past that perhaps should have been left there? My copy, with its somewhat dated looking pink cover dropped through my front door, and I sat down to devour it, hoping for the best.
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