Getting There

Sweet Sixteen #4

by Eliza Willard

Twins Mary-Kate and Ashley meet new friends while on filming a movie on location in Utah and Nevada, and one friendship leads to romance while the other leads to trouble.

Genres: Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction

144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 2, 2002

Reviews

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Used to read these books when I was younger so when I saw this for 10p I bought it. Purely for the nostalgia.
But wow, I didn't realise how CHEESY it was. Hahahahaha.
But kinda fun for a very light read.

Official rating: 2.5

[Rebecca Wright · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the film getting there, so was loving it that this books is set about the behind the senses. mary-Kate is to trusting, there was to many red flags with the girl Christina, the being a thief more than once, walking out on a bill just because, and the getting into trouble. She is not a nice person. Ashley falls for the wrong guy when there is a lovely normal man that is wanting you. Glad it worked out in the end.

[Day · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the movie too

[Duo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read. Okay story.

[Amber · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was nice reading this book, I saw the movie and it brought me back to when I saw it.

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five stars mainly because I read this when I was in high school and I was obsessed with Mary-Kate and Ashley back then (well... maybe up until now lol).

[Ashley Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love all of their books. Love them.

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was not a fan of the (very lame sounding) movie excerpts in this one.

[Abby Rose · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good Lord were these Sweet 16 books the childhood literary equivalent of pure junk food! And not even GOOD junk food, like brownies or whatever, but sugar-from-a-can pixie stix and baby bottle pop.

The one good thing about having read this as a child is it gives me opportunity to show a little more humility when mocking low-brow YA books of today and the kids "dumb enough" to read them. I can remind my pretentious brain that while I didn't get suckered into the Twilight fad, not every book on my teen and preteen shelf was Neverending Story or Ella Enchanted; I had some unadulterated nonsense in the mix too.

The plot of this book as I recall it is so dumb, I don't think I have to make any jokes here, just literally explaining the plot from memory will be enough.

Mary-kate and Ashley are filming a movie; Ashley is in luv with this actor on set, Noah, because she thinks he's hot... And Mary-kate has her boyfriend's favorite cousin Christina coming to stay with her at the hotel during filming. Christina and Noah are both terrible people, who resolve the conflict they cause between our twin protagonists by randomly making out with each other and removing all doubts that one or both of them may be a good person deep deep down. Sister power wins the day, the end.

I'm not kidding. Literally nothing else happens, unless you count the Elvis impressions which I don't, because I think my brain tried to repress all memory of that level of pure stupid.

I will mark this review as a spoiler, in case someone cares but I mean, it's a blooming Mary-kate and Ashley book... so...yeah...

[Alisha Brook · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was a huge fan of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and was on an endeavour to collect all their movies and books.

The SWEET 16 series provided (fictional) stories of the twins teenage lifestyle. I actually preferred this series better than the TWO OF A KIND series or even the later, SO LITTLE TIME series.

[Alyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

cool movie and book!
ive seen the movie a million times!
i used to love mary kate and ashley when i was young!

[Nahla Lambkin]

I think that mary kate and Ashely are going on a mission.