Dear Sister

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Summary: Romancy and heart-wrenching.
Review: Dear Sister is the saddest book in the series so far. Elizabeth was in a motorcycle accident thanks to her boyfriend, Todd. Everyone is worried that she will die. Will she? Find out by reading this book. It made me cry.

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Summary: Where Dangerous Love left off
Review: Elizabeth Wakefield is in a coma after a motorcycle accident with Todd Wilkins,He had been in an the accident,too.He didn't get hurt.The Wakefield's cousin,Rexy,who isn't in any of the Wakefield Lagacy story's has been killed in a motorcycle accident.Everyone at SVH,including Enid Rollns goes for a ride on Todd's motorcycle. When Elizabeth comes out of it,She's just as wild and boy-crazy as Jessica.She kisses Bruce Patman.

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Summary: Really Good
Review: Good loved i

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Summary: Hey, if you think this was sad . . . .
Review: Hey, if you think this was sad, you should see the show! (Of course, it's gone now. I mean. Not on air anymore) But if you HAVE seen it, it is so cool! In the end, (in the show) Todd finds Liz KISSING BRUCE PATMAN IN HIS PORSHE. WHICH IS A CAR. Bruce and Todd get into a fight, and Todd is injured on his cheek. But then TODD PUNCHED BRUCE'S LIGHTS OUT!! Bruce actually FAINTS! (Good for him) Anyway, while those two were fighting, Jessica yells at Liz, asking WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO HER! And Liz gets so sassy and mad, she pushes Jessica out onto the street! This was outside of the Dairy Burger. Anyway, Liz pushes Jess right down in the street JUST AS A CAR COMES THROUGH THE STREET!!!!! The car stops just in time, and Liz pulls Jess up. Then Liz starts crying, and she seems to like come back, and start acting like the OLD Elizabeth. You really SHOULD have seen the show!

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Summary: Twin-reverse!
Review: I liked this book because it really showed the characters' emotions. At first, though, I really didn't buy the fact that Elizabeth had practically turned into Jessica. It's just not like Liz to run off with a boy and start drinking! I just assume that she got a bad blow on her head (that alienated her from schoolwork). People who like books with lots of different thoughts in them will love Dear Sister!

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Summary: IT WAS A GREAT BOOK!
Review: I LOVED IT!! ITS A GREAT BOOK AND YOU HAVE TO READ IT IT`S THE FIRST TIME THAT JESSICA IS SO WORRIED ABOUT HER SISTERS LIFE, BECAUSE SHE MAY DIE!! AND TOD IS VERRY WORRIED TOO IT`S A EMAZING STORY! READ IT.

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Summary: Dear Sister
Review: I loved this book because it's full of unexpected surprises. Jessica acts like Liz, and Liz acts like Jessica. I won't spoil the ending, but trust me--it's a great book! :)

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Summary: BEST OF THE SERIES
Review: I read this book so long ago and its still with me now. I think it was the first book to ever make me cry and I will always love it for that. Sweet Valley High gets an awful lot of rap for being unreal and out of date but I have to say that I think they are almost timeless-can any of us ever say that we wouldnt love to be almost anyone of the character portrayed. DEAR SISTER is a gorgeous gorgeously sweet book and certainly, to my opinion, the best of the ENTIRE series. I loved both Elizabeth and Jessica as a child and still love to have a flick through my ancient battered falling apart copy today- I;m twenty-one! I really think that this is a book perfectly designed for young girls. The pious social messages are tonic to a nasty nasty world. Lose your self in the lives of the twins for a while and i promise you you'll come out loving, laughing or at the very least smiling.

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Summary: A unique story
Review: If you're a die-hard fan of - or recent convert to - any of Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley series, it's easy to appreciate the escapist / fantasy reading involved. Much harder to appreciate is the driven formulaic writing approach adopted by Kate Williams; yet how else is it possible to churn out novels in such rapid succession without using a template of some sort? It's true that the later Sweet Valley High novels show much less imagination and originality in narrative style than the first 20 or so in this series. And it's also true that number 7 - Dear Sister - stands out as a story unique in its focus for a teenage romance series: the implications of deep and seemingly permanent psychological trauma for a young woman after a horrific motorcycle accident; the changed and almost surreal relationships in this young woman's life in the aftermath, especially that with her identical twin sister. Williams writes with a compassion, intensity and tenderness that seems lacking when the stories choose to focus on boys, dances and power-plays within the boundaries of the high school arena. Dear Sister explores death and disability, and the unpredictable power of the mind and subconscious, in a courageous stretch of the traditional boundaries of the teen romance genre - yet also with the inevitable understanding that not only will Elizabeth Wakefield not die, but that she will also recover.

Elizabeth and Jessica are identical twins, sharing not only incredible physical beauty but also a special bond that began in the womb. Throughout the Sweet Valley High series, readers are never allowed to forget how special Elizabeth and Jessica are - not just to their family and friends, but predominantly to each other. Selfish, cruel and manipulative, Jessica is nonetheless her sister's fiercest defender and most devoted friend. Likewise, it is only when she is being protective of Jessica that loving, generous and honest Elizabeth can surprise her readers by being unfair, unjust and even merciless. This special bond between the twins, however, is strained almost to breaking point in the aftermath of Elizabeth's accident in Dear Sister. She regains consciousness from a coma only to wake in a world in which she cannot remember who she used to be, and why she should still want to be that person.

Dear Sister is told primarily from Jessica's point of view, so readers never get too close to exploring the psychological depths of darkness lying dormant in Elizabeth's mind. We can only assume that her inner world is surreal and unstable because of her outward actions - actions that contradict who `Elizabeth Wakefield' is meant to be, and which frighten and sadden Jessica because they speak of another personality: her own! Jessica's identity crisis, and her struggle to cope with new responsibilities and expectations, is treated with great sympathy and tenderness by Williams, and though it's blatantly apparent that Jessica is the author's favourite character in the series, in this instance, Jessica truly does deserve what she gets. Not only is she threatened with the loss of her beloved twin - through the initial threat of death and then through psychological trauma - Jessica must also continue to protect Elizabeth from her own destructive behaviour, and the consequences these have upon both their lives - shielding Elizabeth's pathological change of character from their loving family. Elizabeth becomes a hard and almost gruesome caricature of Jessica at her worst: selfish, heartless, aggressive, rebellious, almost crazed. It's a very unlovely picture of the girl who is always used by the author as a foil to her popular, fun-loving (and by no means innocent) twin, and readers will be taken aback by her hateful behaviour towards Todd Wilkins, her adoring boyfriend whose motorcycle she rode and from which she was thrown. Jean and Joan Percy, identical twins who visit the Wakefield household in midst of all the turmoil, underscore the loss with which Jessica is threatened if Elizabeth is unable to get well. Like Elizabeth and Jessica, they also share a special bond unique to twins.

Bruce Patman, always the villain incarnate in the Sweet Valley High series, is justifiably malevolent in Dear Sister, though it must be owned that his status as `villain' is mostly due to his infamous relationship with Jessica - as opposed to a more complex or deeper study of the nature of his exploitative traits. Here, however, his attempted seduction of a vulnerable and mentally unhealthy Elizabeth gives readers a more specific reason to dislike and distrust his character. There is an almost tangible tension and expectation in the scenes in the Patman beach house - a reading experience you'd expect more from a thriller than from a teen romance. How Elizabeth finally regains her memory and identity in the dark is so simple, so rational and yet so wholly unexpected that it neatly merges with the escapist / fantasy tradition of this genre without losing its believability.


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Summary: You have to read this! It is da Bom!
Review: Man! This book is awesome! Elizabeth gets stranded at a party and her sister Jessica left her there like she always does. Elizabeth has no choice but to go with Todd on his new bike and while she is on the bike, BOOM!!, there is an accident. Todd is left with some cuts and bruises but Elizabeth was not wearing a helmet and ends up lying in a coma. Elizabeth recovers and her good old you-can-count-on-me personality has transformed into Jessica's party-till-you-drop personality. Elizabeth goes out with every boy in town and ends up with Bruce Patman! WHAT WILL HAPPEN?