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Sweet Valley High #64
The Ghost of Tricia Martin
Steven Wakefield is both stunned and elated when he meets Andrea, a girl who looks, sounds, and behaves just like Tricia Martin, his first love. Tricia died just after she and Steven fell in love, but now he can almost believe she has come back to him again.
Until Andrea appeared, Steven was happily involved with Cara Walker. He still cares about her, but every time he's with Andrea, he's reminded of how much he loved Tricia. So Steven refuses to choose between the two girls-until his indecision leads to a dangerous accident that may take all his choices away!
Until Andrea appeared, Steven was happily involved with Cara Walker. He still cares about her, but every time he's with Andrea, he's reminded of how much he loved Tricia. So Steven refuses to choose between the two girls-until his indecision leads to a dangerous accident that may take all his choices away!
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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Francine Pascal
1,140 books1,851 followersFrancine Paula Pascal was an American author best known for her Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. Sweet Valley High, the backbone of the collection, was made into a television series, which led to several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. Although most of these books were published in the 1980s and 1990s, they remained so popular that several titles were re-released decades later.
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September 26, 2019
This book shall henceforth be known as “the one where Steven is a prick!”
Good god, this is farcical. Steven sees a girl that looks like his dead ex and essentially tries to mould her into Tricia’s exact duplicate, making her wear her hair down (leave that barrette alone, personal space!) and being all disappointed when she orders the “wrong” flavour of ice cream.
All this is going on whilst he is being an absolute dick to poor sweet (gossipy) Cara! She’s done nothing wrong, he’s just a jerk.
Then there’s a terrible accident and a shocking revelation... and Steve sees the errors of his ways (ie Andrea tells him she’s not his bloody ex) and he wins Cara back. I lost all my sympathy for her then because she should’ve told him to sod right off, the prick.
I cannot wait to hear Double Loves take on this.
The funniest bits were Jess’s latest crush, eco-warrior Keith who would clearly be a vegan activist hipster nowadays. It was actually fairly insightful what he was saying, as if the ghost writer sought to impart a tiny bit of wisdom on the reader in amongst all the drama.
Good god, this is farcical. Steven sees a girl that looks like his dead ex and essentially tries to mould her into Tricia’s exact duplicate, making her wear her hair down (leave that barrette alone, personal space!) and being all disappointed when she orders the “wrong” flavour of ice cream.
All this is going on whilst he is being an absolute dick to poor sweet (gossipy) Cara! She’s done nothing wrong, he’s just a jerk.
Then there’s a terrible accident and a shocking revelation... and Steve sees the errors of his ways (ie Andrea tells him she’s not his bloody ex) and he wins Cara back. I lost all my sympathy for her then because she should’ve told him to sod right off, the prick.
I cannot wait to hear Double Loves take on this.
The funniest bits were Jess’s latest crush, eco-warrior Keith who would clearly be a vegan activist hipster nowadays. It was actually fairly insightful what he was saying, as if the ghost writer sought to impart a tiny bit of wisdom on the reader in amongst all the drama.
February 22, 2021
I read this book via Kindle Unlimited.
If you thought Jessica was the worst Wakefield kid, wait until we spend more time with Steven. Steven Wakefield, the golden boy of the Wakefield household, a college student who is very weirdly dating Jessica's 16-year-old friend and still actively mourning his ex-girlfriend Tricia who had died not even a year before this book takes place. Thinking back, he also started dating Cara very quickly after Tricia died, but alas. In this book, Steven meets a girl who looks like, acts like and sounds like Tricia and he can't stop himself from asking her out. While he falls more and more for Andrea, the Tricia ghost, he pushes Cara further and further away and when she asks questions he gets angry. After one date with Andrea, he's already so besotted he acts horribly to Cara, per example:
(Context: he planned a surprise date, Cara assumed he meant dinner but instead he took her hiking when she wasn't dressed for it without telling her) Andrea would have been ready for anything, he was sure. She wouldn't have needed to rest, and certainly wouldn't have whined and complained. He felt certain that Andrea was mature and self-reliant.
Well Steve, maybe if Cara wasn't a minor she would be more mature too.
Steve really showed his Jessica in this book, getting angry every time he asked for advice and didn't get the answer he wanted and two timing himself. Of course it takes a near death accident and being dumped twice in one day for him to come to his senses but at the end we see Cara and Steven getting back together, stupidly. But he clearly only got back with her because Andrea didn't want him. What an
If you thought Jessica was the worst Wakefield kid, wait until we spend more time with Steven. Steven Wakefield, the golden boy of the Wakefield household, a college student who is very weirdly dating Jessica's 16-year-old friend and still actively mourning his ex-girlfriend Tricia who had died not even a year before this book takes place. Thinking back, he also started dating Cara very quickly after Tricia died, but alas. In this book, Steven meets a girl who looks like, acts like and sounds like Tricia and he can't stop himself from asking her out. While he falls more and more for Andrea, the Tricia ghost, he pushes Cara further and further away and when she asks questions he gets angry. After one date with Andrea, he's already so besotted he acts horribly to Cara, per example:
(Context: he planned a surprise date, Cara assumed he meant dinner but instead he took her hiking when she wasn't dressed for it without telling her) Andrea would have been ready for anything, he was sure. She wouldn't have needed to rest, and certainly wouldn't have whined and complained. He felt certain that Andrea was mature and self-reliant.
Well Steve, maybe if Cara wasn't a minor she would be more mature too.
Steve really showed his Jessica in this book, getting angry every time he asked for advice and didn't get the answer he wanted and two timing himself. Of course it takes a near death accident and being dumped twice in one day for him to come to his senses but at the end we see Cara and Steven getting back together, stupidly. But he clearly only got back with her because Andrea didn't want him. What an
February 22, 2008
I remember originally buying this book based on the title alone, because I thought it was actually about a real ghost! I don't remember if I was disappointed to find out it wasn't the case though ;)
The A Plot: Steve is getting ready to go out on a date. Only, it isn't his steady girlfriend, Cara, he's going out with, but a girl he met who works in UB, who looks JUST LIKE his tragically dead ex-girlfriend, Tricia Martin. Steve knows that what he's doing is wrong and unfair to Cara, but he's certain that if he goes out with Andrea just once, he's figure out that she's nothing like Tricia and go back to loving Cara forever and ever.
Like it's been mentioned before, there's a LOT of 'looking just like' going on in SV. As well as a lot of cheating! If it's not the twins, it's their brother. My, my, aren't Mum and Dad Wakefield just proud of their offsprings? If they even notice, that is...
Of course Steve is obsessed by Andrea=Tricia that he calls her by the wrong name THREE TIMES on the very first date. If I were Andrea I wouldn't dream of going out with him a second time, but she seems impressed by his sincerity (read, obsession) and admits to really liking him. Steve is so set on Andrea being Just Like Tricia that he gets a shock and feels like complaining whenever she does or likes something that's different. No, that's not obsessive at all Steven. You're being perfectly normal, I'm sure.
... Well, normal for Sweet Valley anyway.
Steve ends their first date by promising Andrea to call as soon as he comes home, to which Andrea tells him to wait until tomorrow instead. Oooh, burn! Steve never thinks twice about it though.
Steve does have a twinge of conscience troubles though, so the next day he arranges a date with Cara - a hike towards a romantic destination. Unfortunate he wants it to be a surprise, and he doesn't tell Cara neither what they're doing nor where they're going, so she turns up in sandals totally unsuitable for hiking. Instead of realizing that she had no clue what he'd planned, so this couldn't possibly be her fault, he spends the entire walk fuming over the fact that she wasn't ready for it, and that he was certain Andrea would have been prepared for anything. He gets more and more quiet and more and more cold, snapping at Cara for the smallest things, and while he does apologize before dropping her off back home, it's definitely too little too late.
The next couple of days continue in this fashion - alternate wonderful dates with Andrea and disastrous dates with Cara. Steve tries to get Andrea out of his mind by taking up hang-gliding to both Cara's and his mother's dismay. How exactly this will get Andrea out of his mind when he continues to see her, I don't understand.
Elizabeth feels bad for Cara since she's the only one who knows what's going on. She tried to talk to Steve that he ought to tell Cara what's happening, anything else isn't fair to her, but Steve will hear nothing of it, and just gets mad at Elizabeth for butting into his business.
Finally it all comes to a head when Cara visits the store where Andrea works, and overhears Steve and Andrea talking on the phone together. She bursts into tears, and rushes home to call Steve and confront him with what she discovered. She notices the resemblance to Tricia, and wants to be supporting and understanding, while not letting Steve walk all over her. An honorable intention, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that. Steve gets mad and accuses her of snooping, rather than accepting that he's at fault, and they end up breaking up. I feel so sorry for Cara! She does not deserve to be treated this way.
In his next hang-gliding class, Steve is so upset by the mess he's caused for himself that he doesn't pay proper attention to what's happening, and looses control, crashing the glider. He's rushed to the hospital, where he lies, unconscious while the entire Wakefield family stand worried over his bedside, all four of them bonding for the first time in the book.
While unconscious he mutters two names - Andrea and Cara. Cara hears the former but not the latter and leaves the hospital, figuring there's nothing there for her any longer.
Once awake Steve ponders that it's ironic that it took a crash landing for him to figure out his own mind. He loved Tricia, he's in love with Andrea and he wants to stay together with her. He calls her and arranges for her to come visit him. Jessica and Elizabeth come visit him first though, and Jessica reveals that she's seen Andrea getting friendly with some guy at the movies yesterday. While I'm sure it could have been said in a kinder fashion, I'm on Jessica's side here. He deserved to know, and after the way he treated Cara, he deserved to be told bluntly. Steve tries to convince himself that it's just her brother, but sees him drop her off at the hospital and give her a decidedly un-brotherly kiss. Jess and Liz leave him so he'll be alone when Andrea comes up to the room, but in true scheming-Jessica-fashion, she immediately finds the nearest pay-phone and calls for Cara to come to the hospital.
Steve calls Andrea out on the guy she was with, and she rightly counters that they only had 5 dates, they never promised each other anything, and he only liked her because she looked like Tricia anyway. He never got to know HER. FINALLY! Why didn't she realize that after the first or second date?! They break up, figuring that they can't even be friends, and Steve is left desolate in his room, having lost both Cara and Tri... Andrea.
Cara picks just this moment to turn up and delivers a heartfelt speech about how he'll always be special to her, and how she'll always be grateful for what they had (I'm not sure I could be so generous to somebody who'd treated me like Steve treated her...). Steve realizes that he never stopped loving Cara, and since she never stopped loving him either, they get back together and live happily until the next time Steve meets somebody who looks like Tricia.
The B Plot: This time there actually is a proper B plot, and one that carries over into not just the next, but the next two books. I'll add a request for somebody to review #65 because I've never read that one, but have both #64 and #66.
Ned and Alice fight more and more. Even the smallest comments turn hurtful. I don't have much to snark over here, because I actually think that this aspect is quite realistically portrayed. I could feel Alice's constant attempts not to fight in front of the kids, and the children's concern and discomfort over the atmosphere. For once I have to say well written!
I don't know if it was deliberate or not, but I definitely got the impression that we're supposed to think Ned is the unreasonable one. Yes, Alice could have been a lot more thoughtful and not let her work push her around as she did, but she never seemed to be intentionally hurtful. I'd be interested in hearing if that carries over to #65 - Trouble At Home.
The A Plot: Steve is getting ready to go out on a date. Only, it isn't his steady girlfriend, Cara, he's going out with, but a girl he met who works in UB, who looks JUST LIKE his tragically dead ex-girlfriend, Tricia Martin. Steve knows that what he's doing is wrong and unfair to Cara, but he's certain that if he goes out with Andrea just once, he's figure out that she's nothing like Tricia and go back to loving Cara forever and ever.
Like it's been mentioned before, there's a LOT of 'looking just like' going on in SV. As well as a lot of cheating! If it's not the twins, it's their brother. My, my, aren't Mum and Dad Wakefield just proud of their offsprings? If they even notice, that is...
Of course Steve is obsessed by Andrea=Tricia that he calls her by the wrong name THREE TIMES on the very first date. If I were Andrea I wouldn't dream of going out with him a second time, but she seems impressed by his sincerity (read, obsession) and admits to really liking him. Steve is so set on Andrea being Just Like Tricia that he gets a shock and feels like complaining whenever she does or likes something that's different. No, that's not obsessive at all Steven. You're being perfectly normal, I'm sure.
... Well, normal for Sweet Valley anyway.
Steve ends their first date by promising Andrea to call as soon as he comes home, to which Andrea tells him to wait until tomorrow instead. Oooh, burn! Steve never thinks twice about it though.
Steve does have a twinge of conscience troubles though, so the next day he arranges a date with Cara - a hike towards a romantic destination. Unfortunate he wants it to be a surprise, and he doesn't tell Cara neither what they're doing nor where they're going, so she turns up in sandals totally unsuitable for hiking. Instead of realizing that she had no clue what he'd planned, so this couldn't possibly be her fault, he spends the entire walk fuming over the fact that she wasn't ready for it, and that he was certain Andrea would have been prepared for anything. He gets more and more quiet and more and more cold, snapping at Cara for the smallest things, and while he does apologize before dropping her off back home, it's definitely too little too late.
The next couple of days continue in this fashion - alternate wonderful dates with Andrea and disastrous dates with Cara. Steve tries to get Andrea out of his mind by taking up hang-gliding to both Cara's and his mother's dismay. How exactly this will get Andrea out of his mind when he continues to see her, I don't understand.
Elizabeth feels bad for Cara since she's the only one who knows what's going on. She tried to talk to Steve that he ought to tell Cara what's happening, anything else isn't fair to her, but Steve will hear nothing of it, and just gets mad at Elizabeth for butting into his business.
Finally it all comes to a head when Cara visits the store where Andrea works, and overhears Steve and Andrea talking on the phone together. She bursts into tears, and rushes home to call Steve and confront him with what she discovered. She notices the resemblance to Tricia, and wants to be supporting and understanding, while not letting Steve walk all over her. An honorable intention, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that. Steve gets mad and accuses her of snooping, rather than accepting that he's at fault, and they end up breaking up. I feel so sorry for Cara! She does not deserve to be treated this way.
In his next hang-gliding class, Steve is so upset by the mess he's caused for himself that he doesn't pay proper attention to what's happening, and looses control, crashing the glider. He's rushed to the hospital, where he lies, unconscious while the entire Wakefield family stand worried over his bedside, all four of them bonding for the first time in the book.
While unconscious he mutters two names - Andrea and Cara. Cara hears the former but not the latter and leaves the hospital, figuring there's nothing there for her any longer.
Once awake Steve ponders that it's ironic that it took a crash landing for him to figure out his own mind. He loved Tricia, he's in love with Andrea and he wants to stay together with her. He calls her and arranges for her to come visit him. Jessica and Elizabeth come visit him first though, and Jessica reveals that she's seen Andrea getting friendly with some guy at the movies yesterday. While I'm sure it could have been said in a kinder fashion, I'm on Jessica's side here. He deserved to know, and after the way he treated Cara, he deserved to be told bluntly. Steve tries to convince himself that it's just her brother, but sees him drop her off at the hospital and give her a decidedly un-brotherly kiss. Jess and Liz leave him so he'll be alone when Andrea comes up to the room, but in true scheming-Jessica-fashion, she immediately finds the nearest pay-phone and calls for Cara to come to the hospital.
Steve calls Andrea out on the guy she was with, and she rightly counters that they only had 5 dates, they never promised each other anything, and he only liked her because she looked like Tricia anyway. He never got to know HER. FINALLY! Why didn't she realize that after the first or second date?! They break up, figuring that they can't even be friends, and Steve is left desolate in his room, having lost both Cara and Tri... Andrea.
Cara picks just this moment to turn up and delivers a heartfelt speech about how he'll always be special to her, and how she'll always be grateful for what they had (I'm not sure I could be so generous to somebody who'd treated me like Steve treated her...). Steve realizes that he never stopped loving Cara, and since she never stopped loving him either, they get back together and live happily until the next time Steve meets somebody who looks like Tricia.
The B Plot: This time there actually is a proper B plot, and one that carries over into not just the next, but the next two books. I'll add a request for somebody to review #65 because I've never read that one, but have both #64 and #66.
Ned and Alice fight more and more. Even the smallest comments turn hurtful. I don't have much to snark over here, because I actually think that this aspect is quite realistically portrayed. I could feel Alice's constant attempts not to fight in front of the kids, and the children's concern and discomfort over the atmosphere. For once I have to say well written!
I don't know if it was deliberate or not, but I definitely got the impression that we're supposed to think Ned is the unreasonable one. Yes, Alice could have been a lot more thoughtful and not let her work push her around as she did, but she never seemed to be intentionally hurtful. I'd be interested in hearing if that carries over to #65 - Trouble At Home.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 12, 2021
I found this recently at a used bookstore and was overcome with nostalgia. And hey, what book lover passes up a 50cent paperback?! Before YA was the huge genre it is today, young readers "back in my day" had SVH. What fun to revisit these characters! It's impossible to give it a fair review because I can't read it as 14yr old me would have. I gave it 3 stars just because Steven never was my favorite- the dude's in law school, quit dating high school girls already.
October 28, 2022
The Ghost of Tricia Martin
P Steve is planning to go out on a date, but not with Cara. It’s a girl that eerily looks like his dead girlfriend. Her name is Andrea.
He feels guilty about it, but he tells himself it’s just one date to prove that she’s nothing like Tricia.
He calls her the wrong name 3 times on his date, but she amazingly doesn’t do a Whitney Houston and tell him her name is not Tricia. She actually admits that she likes him too. It’s so twisted in his head he actually gets upset when she likes completely different things than Tricia would. Steve tells her he’ll call her after the date. She tells him to wait until tomorrow. I guess one night of this crazy is enough for this girl.
Steve the next day remembers hey I have a girlfriend, and he makes a date with Cara (a hike which really doesn’t sound like a good date). It isn’t. First of all, he doesn’t tell Cara what the date is so she’s dressed wrong (she’s wearing sandals). Then he starts comparing her in unfair ways to what he THINKS Andrea’s reaction would have been. (Andrea would have been prepared for anything). Then he’s either snapping at Cara or completely silent.
It continues like this great dates with Andrea bad dates with Cara. So, he tries to distract himself from thoughts of Andrea by taking up hang-gliding.
Elizabeth feels guilty when seeing Cara because she knows what’s going on. She tries to talk to Steve about his being a jerk, but he just tells her to get out of his business.
Cara sees Andrea in her store and overhears her talking to Steve. All the pieces come together. She realizes what’s been going on when she notices the resemblance to Tricia. She confronts Steve and he accuses her of snooping. They call it off.
Steve is so upset that he ends up having an accident and crashing his glider at his next class. This winds him up in the hospital.
Even though he doesn’t care too much Cara still cares, so she goes to visit him. Only to have him call Andrea’s name. She leaves because obviously he’s made his choice. But he does call Cara’s name also. She just didn’t hear it.
When Steve regains consciousness, he concludes that he loved Tricia, but now he’s in love with Andrea. So he calls her and asks her to come visit him. The twins come and Jessica tells him she saw Andrea with some other guy at the movies. Steve tries to convince himself that it’s not like tha, but the same guy drops Andrea off at the hospital and he sees him give her a kiss that says differently.
The twins leave to give them privacy, but Jessica immediately calls Cara. Steve tries to call Andrea out on the guy, and she tells him they only had 5 dates. Plus, they never said they were going to be exclusive. Plus, this guy likes her for HER and not his dead ex-girlfriend's replacement.
Steve is devasted. He’s lost Cara and Tricia (Andrea) all over again. Cara arrives and she tells him he’ll always be special to her, and she’s grateful for what they had. Steve realizes that he never stopped loving Cara, and they get back together.
It also shows that Ned and Alice are arguing A LOT!
My Thoughts:
This plotline was INSANE! Why is Cara still with Steve? I’d be so over Steve’s drama with Tricia at this point. This girl must be a SAINT! Cause I’d be like “I’ll tell you what. Since you can never seem to move on from her.”
Cara deserves WAY better than Steve. I actually wonder how this would go if he would have just told her upfront. “Hey Cara. You know we been together a minute, and I care about you. You're special to me. You’ve put up with all my bs, but see there’s this girl I meet. She looks *just* like my old girlfriend Tricia. You know what Tricia meant to me. So I didn’t want to, but I asked her out to .. I don’t know. Maybe I just want closure. Maybe I just felt a connection. But I still wanna see you too. I just need to work this out. Say you understand Cara. I’m not trying to break up with *you*. I just wanna see where this goes with her.”
This MUST be SV! Cause I wish some guy would tell me something this off the wall.
Cara just cut your losses and dump Steve’s ass! Spoiler Alert: He turns gay later anyway!
Then Andrea wasn’t that bright either. She went on 5 whole dates with Steve before the light bulb went off in her head that HEY! You just want me because I’m your dead ex's girlfriend’s clone and you have a sick obsession. But let me just give it a few more dates to see if it was just the first one. Well, it’s date 2, let me just give it another date. Still doing it date 3.
But I actually did like how she laid it out for him in the hospital room. It was EXACTLY what he deserved.
I REALLY wished it would have ended with him alone tho for being STUPID!
And what is up with all these clones running around SVH?
I also find it interesting that Liz (who can't seem to stay OUT of people's business "aka giving her shoulder" picks this book *not* to interfere and tell Cara what an ass her brother is.
Rating 7
P Steve is planning to go out on a date, but not with Cara. It’s a girl that eerily looks like his dead girlfriend. Her name is Andrea.
He feels guilty about it, but he tells himself it’s just one date to prove that she’s nothing like Tricia.
He calls her the wrong name 3 times on his date, but she amazingly doesn’t do a Whitney Houston and tell him her name is not Tricia. She actually admits that she likes him too. It’s so twisted in his head he actually gets upset when she likes completely different things than Tricia would. Steve tells her he’ll call her after the date. She tells him to wait until tomorrow. I guess one night of this crazy is enough for this girl.
Steve the next day remembers hey I have a girlfriend, and he makes a date with Cara (a hike which really doesn’t sound like a good date). It isn’t. First of all, he doesn’t tell Cara what the date is so she’s dressed wrong (she’s wearing sandals). Then he starts comparing her in unfair ways to what he THINKS Andrea’s reaction would have been. (Andrea would have been prepared for anything). Then he’s either snapping at Cara or completely silent.
It continues like this great dates with Andrea bad dates with Cara. So, he tries to distract himself from thoughts of Andrea by taking up hang-gliding.
Elizabeth feels guilty when seeing Cara because she knows what’s going on. She tries to talk to Steve about his being a jerk, but he just tells her to get out of his business.
Cara sees Andrea in her store and overhears her talking to Steve. All the pieces come together. She realizes what’s been going on when she notices the resemblance to Tricia. She confronts Steve and he accuses her of snooping. They call it off.
Steve is so upset that he ends up having an accident and crashing his glider at his next class. This winds him up in the hospital.
Even though he doesn’t care too much Cara still cares, so she goes to visit him. Only to have him call Andrea’s name. She leaves because obviously he’s made his choice. But he does call Cara’s name also. She just didn’t hear it.
When Steve regains consciousness, he concludes that he loved Tricia, but now he’s in love with Andrea. So he calls her and asks her to come visit him. The twins come and Jessica tells him she saw Andrea with some other guy at the movies. Steve tries to convince himself that it’s not like tha, but the same guy drops Andrea off at the hospital and he sees him give her a kiss that says differently.
The twins leave to give them privacy, but Jessica immediately calls Cara. Steve tries to call Andrea out on the guy, and she tells him they only had 5 dates. Plus, they never said they were going to be exclusive. Plus, this guy likes her for HER and not his dead ex-girlfriend's replacement.
Steve is devasted. He’s lost Cara and Tricia (Andrea) all over again. Cara arrives and she tells him he’ll always be special to her, and she’s grateful for what they had. Steve realizes that he never stopped loving Cara, and they get back together.
It also shows that Ned and Alice are arguing A LOT!
My Thoughts:
This plotline was INSANE! Why is Cara still with Steve? I’d be so over Steve’s drama with Tricia at this point. This girl must be a SAINT! Cause I’d be like “I’ll tell you what. Since you can never seem to move on from her.”
Cara deserves WAY better than Steve. I actually wonder how this would go if he would have just told her upfront. “Hey Cara. You know we been together a minute, and I care about you. You're special to me. You’ve put up with all my bs, but see there’s this girl I meet. She looks *just* like my old girlfriend Tricia. You know what Tricia meant to me. So I didn’t want to, but I asked her out to .. I don’t know. Maybe I just want closure. Maybe I just felt a connection. But I still wanna see you too. I just need to work this out. Say you understand Cara. I’m not trying to break up with *you*. I just wanna see where this goes with her.”
This MUST be SV! Cause I wish some guy would tell me something this off the wall.
Cara just cut your losses and dump Steve’s ass! Spoiler Alert: He turns gay later anyway!
Then Andrea wasn’t that bright either. She went on 5 whole dates with Steve before the light bulb went off in her head that HEY! You just want me because I’m your dead ex's girlfriend’s clone and you have a sick obsession. But let me just give it a few more dates to see if it was just the first one. Well, it’s date 2, let me just give it another date. Still doing it date 3.
But I actually did like how she laid it out for him in the hospital room. It was EXACTLY what he deserved.
I REALLY wished it would have ended with him alone tho for being STUPID!
And what is up with all these clones running around SVH?
I also find it interesting that Liz (who can't seem to stay OUT of people's business "aka giving her shoulder" picks this book *not* to interfere and tell Cara what an ass her brother is.
Rating 7
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May 1, 2012What were the twins doing?! Liz of course was shaking a finger at Steven trying to tell him what to do. Jessica was annoyed at Cara for being depressed about Steven because it took the attention of her and she was being a drag. Jessica ends up dumping him because he is JUST SO BORING. Seriously, with Jessica in this one, bewtween getting mad at Cara for being a “drag” and with Steven. hay medyo nakakalito ang daming ek ek . :D
April 7, 2020
Oh, Sweet Valley... where every resident has a (possibly evil) doppelgänger just waiting to be discovered.
I remember thinking Steven was so boring and/or creepy as a kid, and honestly that’s still my impression of him. I think I only start liking him in the later books when he begins dating Billie, but until then he’s awful.
In this book, though, he’s the worse yet. Cara deserves so much better!
Also, why does Steven look like a robot on every single cover he appears on?!
I remember thinking Steven was so boring and/or creepy as a kid, and honestly that’s still my impression of him. I think I only start liking him in the later books when he begins dating Billie, but until then he’s awful.
In this book, though, he’s the worse yet. Cara deserves so much better!
Also, why does Steven look like a robot on every single cover he appears on?!
August 1, 2023
Steven was a jerk in this one. I had zero sympathy when he crashed too. He deserved it. And anyway what hanglider instructor lets a inexperienced student go on his own after two lessons? Which we never did see.
It was clear to me that Steven never got over Tricia. Otherwise no normal person would go chasing after her. He wouldn't think twice about it.
But these Sweet Valley girls are so clingy!!
It was clear to me that Steven never got over Tricia. Otherwise no normal person would go chasing after her. He wouldn't think twice about it.
But these Sweet Valley girls are so clingy!!
October 1, 2012
Steven gets obsessed with another woman who isn't his girlfriend. AGAIN
August 6, 2014
The one where Cara is a doormat...
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November 4, 2021Stephen meets a girl that looks just like dead girlfriend Tricia Martin (Andrea), and immediately starts acting all douchey to current girlfriend Cara who tried to be understanding about the whole thing. He gets confused when the new girl is NOTHING like Tricia, but he still dates her. When he has an accident, Andrea is the first person he looks for, but the twins point out that she actually has a boyfriend, and that he was in the wrong trying to force something that could never be. Cara forgives him for some reason
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September 1, 2020
A pretty sad story when you really think about it. However this plot was used in one of the SVH Super Editions. I don’t necessarily consider those canon though, and I believe that edition came before this book. Maybe the writer liked it so much she thought it would be good to reuse as a main plot point rather than a side plot.
December 19, 2024
I'm sooooo sick of the Tricia stuff. Steve is so boring and rude and unlikable. I don't think he's ever been a good character in all 64 books so far. This book barely had a plot and Ned's mid-life crisis is soooo poorly portrayed.
The environmentalist stuff / Jessica's attitude is such a slice of the uncaring times. Rather incredible to read today.
The environmentalist stuff / Jessica's attitude is such a slice of the uncaring times. Rather incredible to read today.
March 20, 2024
4.5 stars. Most endearingly stupid Steven Wakefield installment yet!
August 18, 2024
Steven's hang-gliding accident, you will always be... well, not famous, but. Stupid. You will always be stupid.
March 13, 2025
I think i might be done reading these for a while..
Absolutely nonsense to say the least, boyfriend practically cheats on her and she forgives him in less than 5 mins...yeah like that would happen
Absolutely nonsense to say the least, boyfriend practically cheats on her and she forgives him in less than 5 mins...yeah like that would happen
March 28, 2025
The story revolves around Steven and a girl who looks like Tricia
February 1, 2008
Good freakin' lord, how many clones does Tricia Martin have? There's Andrea in this book, Ferney the French idiot from one of the Spring Super Specials... Okay, so the answer is at least two.
Long story short, Steve meets Andrea who looks an awful lot like Trish. Steve acts like a jerk towards Cara because he's sure that Andrea is just like Tricia! Andrea isn't, but instead of calling Steve on his stupidity at the time, she waits until he's in the hospital [due to his own stupidity] and then calls the whole thing off because of his inabilty to tell Andrea from Tricia.
Meanwhile Cara finds out about Andrea and even with proof, doesn't get to be the one to dump a Wakefield. Steve calls it quits, by accident no less, and then when he can't have Andrea, he realizes what he's lost.
Only he doesn't. They've been through this already and Steve does a lousy job of groveling. And Cara still takes him back.
There's a subplot involving Jessica falling for some eco-idiot, but while she claims they're dating, he seems far more interested in activism than doing anything remotely date-like with her.
Bottom line, Steve is a jerk. Oh, and this is the book leading up to the mini-series [of sorts] where Ned & Alice have serious marital issues, as they spend 90% of the book fighting, stopping only to nurse Steve back to health while in the hospital. The moment he gets out, the claws come out again. Fantastic.
Long story short, Steve meets Andrea who looks an awful lot like Trish. Steve acts like a jerk towards Cara because he's sure that Andrea is just like Tricia! Andrea isn't, but instead of calling Steve on his stupidity at the time, she waits until he's in the hospital [due to his own stupidity] and then calls the whole thing off because of his inabilty to tell Andrea from Tricia.
Meanwhile Cara finds out about Andrea and even with proof, doesn't get to be the one to dump a Wakefield. Steve calls it quits, by accident no less, and then when he can't have Andrea, he realizes what he's lost.
Only he doesn't. They've been through this already and Steve does a lousy job of groveling. And Cara still takes him back.
There's a subplot involving Jessica falling for some eco-idiot, but while she claims they're dating, he seems far more interested in activism than doing anything remotely date-like with her.
Bottom line, Steve is a jerk. Oh, and this is the book leading up to the mini-series [of sorts] where Ned & Alice have serious marital issues, as they spend 90% of the book fighting, stopping only to nurse Steve back to health while in the hospital. The moment he gets out, the claws come out again. Fantastic.
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January 4, 2012
If you're thinking there's a supernatural plot twist to this then think again. I think that stopped with the "Sweet Valley Twins Thriller" series.
Remember Steven's tragically dead ex girlfriend Tricia Martin? Well, she's back but this time someone named Andrea. Or so Steven thinks. When Steven saw her he decided to ask her out (residual guilt, perhaps?) just to prove to himself that it couldn't be Tricia coming back to life. This went on for several dates with Steven confessing his motives to Andrea. The weird thing was that Andrea didn't felt creeped out, instead she thought it was sweet! Go figure.
Cara all this time couldn't seem to do anything right, what with Steven continuously comparing her to Andrea (or rightly, to the memory of Tricia). Okay, I'm sorry but nobody could ever live up to the expectations if this is the set up. And here I thought Steven would get what's coming to him for two-timing Cara but instead it was Cara who felt that it's her fault! Must be that when you're a Wakefield, you really can't be blamed much for anything.
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Book Details:
Title: The Ghost of Tricia Martin (Sweet Valley High #64)
Author: Francine Pascal (Creator)
Reviewed By: Purplycookie
Remember Steven's tragically dead ex girlfriend Tricia Martin? Well, she's back but this time someone named Andrea. Or so Steven thinks. When Steven saw her he decided to ask her out (residual guilt, perhaps?) just to prove to himself that it couldn't be Tricia coming back to life. This went on for several dates with Steven confessing his motives to Andrea. The weird thing was that Andrea didn't felt creeped out, instead she thought it was sweet! Go figure.
Cara all this time couldn't seem to do anything right, what with Steven continuously comparing her to Andrea (or rightly, to the memory of Tricia). Okay, I'm sorry but nobody could ever live up to the expectations if this is the set up. And here I thought Steven would get what's coming to him for two-timing Cara but instead it was Cara who felt that it's her fault! Must be that when you're a Wakefield, you really can't be blamed much for anything.
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Book Details:
Title: The Ghost of Tricia Martin (Sweet Valley High #64)
Author: Francine Pascal (Creator)
Reviewed By: Purplycookie
July 18, 2020
This has to be one of the very worst SVH books written. Not only does it REUSE an entire plot (Steven meets a girl who looks just like his dead girlfriend Tricia Martin- you know, exactly what happened in the Spring Break Super Edition except with a French girl- and justifies cheating on Cara with her), but it shows just how much of a personality-less douchebag he is, and how kind of lame Cara is for giving him the time of day-- I mean, what, other than being a Wakefield is actually even remotely cool about Steven Wakefield? Nothing. He's the 1960s defintion of square. Oh, but he takes up hang-gliding. Badly. Just because. In the side plot, Jessica tries and fails to romance a social-justice-warrior type boy from a different school, who cares about things other than parties and shopping and is therefore portrayed as horrifically dull, versus maybe a character who cares about the world outside of Sweet Valley. And the Wakefield parents are grouching at each other a lot- that's important because it sets up for the next book (or next few books if the books titles are any indication- generally they aren't subtle, so am going to go ahead and infer shit gets bad at home, since the next book is called "Trouble at Home"). One star. Steven sucks.
July 25, 2010
This is the only Sweet Valley High book that I have ever read and that is due to the fact that I got it as a gift for one of my birthdays because m name is Tricia Martin. I don't really remember much of it other than it is about a guy that starts dating a girl because she looks like his dead girlfriend, Tricia Martin.
February 3, 2011
What a great series of books to get through my pre-teen years.
July 8, 2013
I have read so many of these books I can't remember all of them.
June 28, 2015
I read this with an open mouth and wide eyes, "Is it really Tricia?" "But Tricia died!" "But she looks so much like Tricia!" This book made me FEEL ALL THE FEELS.
December 30, 2023
Love this series! Brings me back to my childhood.
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