I’m not sure what it is but this just wasn’t that interesting. I’m guessing it’s due to the lack of well known Sweet Valley characters. Like hello? Elizabeth was hardly in this one, she’s like, one of the main characters, no?
Also, this book contradicts the continuity of the Sweet Valley High series. In book #50 of the original series, Jade Wu very clearly has both parents in the picture. I get it, 20 years into a book series, you may forget some things. But a character as obscure and random from the original series like Jade Wu, surely you’d remember something like that...
Sweet Valley High in the 2000’s just seems off to me, I’m so used to the 80s and 90s version I guess. This was my first experience with the Senior Year spin off series and I’ll probably read the rest of them if I ever find them, but no way I’ll enjoy them as much as the classics.