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Sweet Valley High #105
A Date with a Werewolf
Beauty and the beast in London...
Is Jessica Wakefield in love with a werewolf? Her identical twin, Elizabeth, can't shake the feeling that Jessica's new boyfriend, Lord Robert Pembroke, is not what he seems. Could he be the vicious killer the twins have been pursuing on assignment for the London Journal? Luke, Elizabeth's English love, confirms her suspicions that Jessica is in terrible jeopardy.
Meanwhile Elizabeth's friend Lina Smith is in danger of losing the only boy she's ever loved. David knows that Lina is hiding something from him, and Lina's sure that when he discovers her secret, he'll never speak to her again. Desperate, Lina turns to Elizabeth. Can Elizabeth salvage Lina's relationship and save Jessica from a wolfman, too?
195 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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Francine Pascal
1,139 books1,844 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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November 14, 2024
Book two in the Horror in London trilogy definitely feels like a middle book. The plot progression slows down quite a lot, with the twins investigating the central murders but not really making much progress until near the end. We also get the advancing of Jessica’s romantic storyline and a lot of boy related angst for Elizabeth. A lot of the narrative grunt work goes into wrapping up (quite satisfyingly it must be said) the sub plots that were introduced in book one for the supporting characters. Hopefully this clears the deck for a more horror/mystery focussed finale.
Also worth noting is the way the author goes out of her way to correct errors in the first book in this one (“cookies, or no sorry I mean biscuits of course lol”). It’s weird but kind of amusing.
Also worth noting is the way the author goes out of her way to correct errors in the first book in this one (“cookies, or no sorry I mean biscuits of course lol”). It’s weird but kind of amusing.
March 26, 2018
My greatest joy in life is visiting Sweet Valley book pages on Good Reads and noticing all of the Elizabeth Wakefield hate. This is very, very important to me, and should be to us all. Elizabeth is probably the worst person on earth. She's by turns smug, supercilious, rude, judgmental and obnoxious. Making all of this even more maddening is the fact that she thinks she's just peachy keen. Like, don't even doubt that Liz is fully in love with Liz. She kisses the mirror when she wakes up. Her diary is full of fantasies about somehow cloning herself and marrying her own image.
True story.
So, A Date with a Werewolf is the second book in the wonderfully wacky trio about what happens when the twins go to London to be interns at the London Journal. This is all presented as quite realistic and feasible, even though Jessica can barely string a sentence together, and Elizabeth is a horrible person who shouldn't be around other human beings. But whatever, this is the Wakefield's world, we just live in it.
While in London, Liz and Jess meet a colourful cast of characters also staying at their hostel, and get involved with investigating a series of gruesome murders. Jessica falls in love with Lord Robert Pembroke, a member of the British nobility (naturally Elizabeth hates him on sight), and a suspect in the killings. Meanwhile, Liz is slutting it up all over town with Luke (even though she has faithful Todd waiting at home hahahaha), who is equally as suspicious of Robert, and believes he may even be a ... dun dun dun WEREWOLF.
Instead of having Luke committed, Elizabeth takes these concerns extremely seriously. She and Jessica fall out over it, and much drama ensues. The action culminates in a lonely country estate, with blood and horror and it's
Just
So
Good.
Reeeeead this book. Obviously it's not Shakespeare but it's so damn entertaining, my goodness.
True story.
So, A Date with a Werewolf is the second book in the wonderfully wacky trio about what happens when the twins go to London to be interns at the London Journal. This is all presented as quite realistic and feasible, even though Jessica can barely string a sentence together, and Elizabeth is a horrible person who shouldn't be around other human beings. But whatever, this is the Wakefield's world, we just live in it.
While in London, Liz and Jess meet a colourful cast of characters also staying at their hostel, and get involved with investigating a series of gruesome murders. Jessica falls in love with Lord Robert Pembroke, a member of the British nobility (naturally Elizabeth hates him on sight), and a suspect in the killings. Meanwhile, Liz is slutting it up all over town with Luke (even though she has faithful Todd waiting at home hahahaha), who is equally as suspicious of Robert, and believes he may even be a ... dun dun dun WEREWOLF.
Instead of having Luke committed, Elizabeth takes these concerns extremely seriously. She and Jessica fall out over it, and much drama ensues. The action culminates in a lonely country estate, with blood and horror and it's
Just
So
Good.
Reeeeead this book. Obviously it's not Shakespeare but it's so damn entertaining, my goodness.
July 11, 2014
God this was terrible - I was really hoping for a trashy monster / teen queen mash up...instead, it was DULL. Now, I want EVERY one of the characters to have their throats ripped open 'as if by a wild beast.' Though I may have to read next in series to check if my suspicions about true identity of killer is correct **spoiler alert** it's not who everyone suspects!
October 12, 2023
"A werewolf? You kids think the murderer is a werewolf? What kind of cockamamie story is that?"
Book 2 of the Rereadalong is going quite well if the goal was to drive my co-conspirator absolutely bonkers. :P
I will leave my three star rating as is simply because younger!me had a soft spot for this ridiculousness and I get why even if I spent the second half of this book raging at a fairly big continuity error.
Book Two moves along nearly as quickly as book one, but at least has the decency to not spell out just how fast things are moving. I'm fairly certain we covered another week here, but we didn't have each day counted down... or if we did, I'd already become immune to it. That said, each twin and her respective beau going on about how in love they are after knowing each other less than two weeks is just... I'm old now but I think younger!me was likely also rolling her eyes heavenward.
I do wonder if this book had a different ghostwriter than the last book for a few reasons:
1) Sam is mentioned after all the tiptoeing around his name last time. Not only is Sam mentioned, and acknowledged as the love of Jessica's life, but Elizabeth's little matter of vehicular manslaughter gets a hand-waved mention as well. I'm gonna be honest here- if my new friend told me she'd had a hand in killing her sister's serious boyfriend but it was fine because it was someone else's fault, I'd be side-eying her pretty hard. Lina's a better friend than I am, I suppose.
2) Rene gets more than two seconds of screen time. He and Portia have a cute little exchange (though I wanted to edit it just a smidge) and due to having an excess of time on my hands, I'll now be 'shipping those two. Both had daddy issues that are miraculously solved this arc! And Rene's also one of the lone voices of reason because as soon as werewolf is mentioned, you can tell the crush has lessened considerably. That said, Rene? Since when the fuck are pentagram's known for their werewolf association? I did like Portia calling Rene on his bullshit where Liz is concerned though.
3) In the previous book, Jess and Robert meet when Jessica covers a story about Lady Pembroke's stolen mink coat. On page 119, Robert tells Jessica the mink has been recovered, and Jessica mentions how glad she is that the coat was returned when she is officially introduced to Robert's parents at the tail end of the book.
So imagine MY surprise when Liz is out here pretending the coat is still MIA and using that as an opportunity to grill Lady Pembroke about some mysterious thing that happened 20 years ago (again, with all the subtlety as an Acme anvil) and then when that goes about as poorly as one would expect, she uses it as a way to get herself invited back to the country manor. At least Lord Pembroke assumes she's using it as an excuse to scope out her new boyfriend's parents but JFC. I'm sure it was just forgotten but when you read them back to back, it's glaringly obvious and annoying as shit.
Adding to the list of things in this book to make me cackle, we have Liz being said to not be much for horror movies, but I swear she's forever watching them and then getting a little TOO into them when the story needs her to do so. But at least that's continuity, right?
I also thought Lina had short hair but that could just be because I always assumed that was Lina on the cover gasping in shock (is that supposed to be Jess in sweats running for her life? The hell?) so who knows.
"They think you're the werewolf. I know you're not, of course, but soon the situation will be out of my control."
This is how Robert's father breaks it to him that he needs to flee the area ASAP. Not you're the prime suspect in a string of homicides, but "they think you're the werewolf." Not even A werewolf. THE. So he's clearly spoken to Robert about this particular case. The fact that Robert just takes this in stride is mindblowing to me.
Another little thing: Jessica thinks to herself that she's no great writer, but we've been shown on more than one occasion that Jessica is actually a very good writer. Yes, she'd likely still need someone to point out that she has to call someone a suspected thief... actually, no. This isn't her first newspaper rodeo. So even with Bumpo getting a confession, she'd still know to err on the side of caution for the paper's sake. Especially considering she knows Robert's father owns the damn thing.
This arc continues to be batshit crazy and has little to no grounding in reality and yet I am forever amused that werewolves were where SV drew the line for the supernatural. Witches, fortune tellers, ghosts, and more than one vampire are all fair game. The twins themselves are a touch psychic. Werewolves though are just a smidge too far.
I leave you with my favorite quote that I will be using with absolutely no context given from now on:
The ostriches were a ruse.
Book 2 of the Rereadalong is going quite well if the goal was to drive my co-conspirator absolutely bonkers. :P
I will leave my three star rating as is simply because younger!me had a soft spot for this ridiculousness and I get why even if I spent the second half of this book raging at a fairly big continuity error.
Book Two moves along nearly as quickly as book one, but at least has the decency to not spell out just how fast things are moving. I'm fairly certain we covered another week here, but we didn't have each day counted down... or if we did, I'd already become immune to it. That said, each twin and her respective beau going on about how in love they are after knowing each other less than two weeks is just... I'm old now but I think younger!me was likely also rolling her eyes heavenward.
I do wonder if this book had a different ghostwriter than the last book for a few reasons:
1) Sam is mentioned after all the tiptoeing around his name last time. Not only is Sam mentioned, and acknowledged as the love of Jessica's life, but Elizabeth's little matter of vehicular manslaughter gets a hand-waved mention as well. I'm gonna be honest here- if my new friend told me she'd had a hand in killing her sister's serious boyfriend but it was fine because it was someone else's fault, I'd be side-eying her pretty hard. Lina's a better friend than I am, I suppose.
2) Rene gets more than two seconds of screen time. He and Portia have a cute little exchange (though I wanted to edit it just a smidge) and due to having an excess of time on my hands, I'll now be 'shipping those two. Both had daddy issues that are miraculously solved this arc! And Rene's also one of the lone voices of reason because as soon as werewolf is mentioned, you can tell the crush has lessened considerably. That said, Rene? Since when the fuck are pentagram's known for their werewolf association? I did like Portia calling Rene on his bullshit where Liz is concerned though.
3) In the previous book, Jess and Robert meet when Jessica covers a story about Lady Pembroke's stolen mink coat. On page 119, Robert tells Jessica the mink has been recovered, and Jessica mentions how glad she is that the coat was returned when she is officially introduced to Robert's parents at the tail end of the book.
So imagine MY surprise when Liz is out here pretending the coat is still MIA and using that as an opportunity to grill Lady Pembroke about some mysterious thing that happened 20 years ago (again, with all the subtlety as an Acme anvil) and then when that goes about as poorly as one would expect, she uses it as a way to get herself invited back to the country manor. At least Lord Pembroke assumes she's using it as an excuse to scope out her new boyfriend's parents but JFC. I'm sure it was just forgotten but when you read them back to back, it's glaringly obvious and annoying as shit.
Adding to the list of things in this book to make me cackle, we have Liz being said to not be much for horror movies, but I swear she's forever watching them and then getting a little TOO into them when the story needs her to do so. But at least that's continuity, right?
I also thought Lina had short hair but that could just be because I always assumed that was Lina on the cover gasping in shock (is that supposed to be Jess in sweats running for her life? The hell?) so who knows.
"They think you're the werewolf. I know you're not, of course, but soon the situation will be out of my control."
This is how Robert's father breaks it to him that he needs to flee the area ASAP. Not you're the prime suspect in a string of homicides, but "they think you're the werewolf." Not even A werewolf. THE. So he's clearly spoken to Robert about this particular case. The fact that Robert just takes this in stride is mindblowing to me.
Another little thing: Jessica thinks to herself that she's no great writer, but we've been shown on more than one occasion that Jessica is actually a very good writer. Yes, she'd likely still need someone to point out that she has to call someone a suspected thief... actually, no. This isn't her first newspaper rodeo. So even with Bumpo getting a confession, she'd still know to err on the side of caution for the paper's sake. Especially considering she knows Robert's father owns the damn thing.
This arc continues to be batshit crazy and has little to no grounding in reality and yet I am forever amused that werewolves were where SV drew the line for the supernatural. Witches, fortune tellers, ghosts, and more than one vampire are all fair game. The twins themselves are a touch psychic. Werewolves though are just a smidge too far.
I leave you with my favorite quote that I will be using with absolutely no context given from now on:
The ostriches were a ruse.
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September 13, 2011Second part of a trilogy. Please, please, please let Elizabeth get mauled in the third installment.
October 21, 2023
As another reviewer says, this is Liz Wakefield's world, we're just visitors in it. Liz dominates most of the book, so let's get the two minor subplots out of the way:
(1) Portia Albert, one of the HIS peanut gallery, is struggling with the idea of inviting her famous actor father to see her in perform in her play, a part she attained with an alias. Eventually she does work up the guts to invite him to see her perform, and of course he loves it and immediately walks back all the horrid things he's ever said to her about being an actress. Happy ending!
(2) The rumors of the missing princess are getting out of control, up to and including 72-point headlines that she's been murdered. This is the final straw for a lot of people, including Eliana herself. David, her erstwhile Liverpool beau, discovers the truth about her by comparing her picture in the paper to the girl herself, and then declares that he doesn't care and loves her anyway, blah blah blah. They work out a whole big press conference to announce that he's "discovered" her and thus is eligible for the £1m reward, which he is going to use to set up a clinic for the London homeless and put himself through medical school, with full backing from the royal family. Happy ending!
(3) Elizabeth has fallen completely under the sway of Lord Byron manboy creep Luke and is convinced that the person who killed the doctor, nurse, and poodle in the previous novel - and Joy Singleton, the blond found in Jessica's bed at Pembroke Manor - is, in fact, a werewolf. She also suspects that the killer is Jessica's boyfriend Lord Robert Pembroke Jr, mostly because Luke convinces her that the only person who could've killed all of these people (and dog) is one of the Pembrokes. It's really obvious and really stupid how much sway Luke holds over Liz's "investigation," and of course she tells him everything because she is a smug asshole/blithering idiot.
Liz discovers that Lord Pembroke shares Luke's obsession with werewolves and werewolf hunting, but she considers Pembroke's obsession creepy while Luke's is somehow understandable? Yeah, okay. She also overhears Lord Pembroke considering the evidence that points in Robert Jr's direction, and that convinces her that Jessica is in mortal danger. She literally runs around London like a chicken with her head cut off, trying to find Jessica to warn her about Robert.
Jessica, meanwhile, is heartbroken that Robert has broken a date and left town (the country?) without telling her why, so she's maxing out her parents' emergency credit card at Herrod's on a retail therapy shopping spree. She's attacked in the subway, however, by something big and hairy and growling. When Liz hears this, she's more convinced than ever that Robert Jr is dangerous and the werewolf killer.
Liz and Jess have a big falling out at the beginning of the book when Liz accuses Robert of being the killer, based on her own irrational hatred of him. Jessica tells Liz that Robert is the first boy she's cared about since Sam's death and why can't Liz be happy for her? (JUSTICE FOR SAM!) Liz also references the Greatest Miniseries of All Time(TM) when she alludes to being on trial for manslaughter. Honestly, this was the high point of the novel.
The "evidence" against Robert is so obviously planted to frame him that it's hard to believe anyone takes it seriously. The police investigation that's described is more akin to a bad American farce than an English/Scotland Yard investigation, and the adults in the room - Lord Pembroke, Andrew Thatcher the "chief of police," Lucy Friday, Tony Frank, and others at the newspaper - act very blithely about the entire situation. Even as a teenager I would've been looking side eye at all of this because it makes not a damn bit of sense. If the ghostwriter has even touched a Golden Age detective novel, I'd be in shock. (The secret key to the "wolf lair" at Pembroke Manor is a copy of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which - WHAT??)
This book is downright awful. Beyond so-bad-its-good, this has circled back into how in the hell did this get published?? territory. Even by mid-90s YA standards, this is absolute dross. It's thrown together in such a terrible, slapdash way that even the tenuous link with reality is gone. It's very obvious that the ghosties didn't bother to do the bare minimum of research into, well, anything. It actively made me angry to plow through this <200 page book. If it wasn't for the nostalgia re-readathon, I would've quit after about 15 pages.
(1) Portia Albert, one of the HIS peanut gallery, is struggling with the idea of inviting her famous actor father to see her in perform in her play, a part she attained with an alias. Eventually she does work up the guts to invite him to see her perform, and of course he loves it and immediately walks back all the horrid things he's ever said to her about being an actress. Happy ending!
(2) The rumors of the missing princess are getting out of control, up to and including 72-point headlines that she's been murdered. This is the final straw for a lot of people, including Eliana herself. David, her erstwhile Liverpool beau, discovers the truth about her by comparing her picture in the paper to the girl herself, and then declares that he doesn't care and loves her anyway, blah blah blah. They work out a whole big press conference to announce that he's "discovered" her and thus is eligible for the £1m reward, which he is going to use to set up a clinic for the London homeless and put himself through medical school, with full backing from the royal family. Happy ending!
(3) Elizabeth has fallen completely under the sway of Lord Byron manboy creep Luke and is convinced that the person who killed the doctor, nurse, and poodle in the previous novel - and Joy Singleton, the blond found in Jessica's bed at Pembroke Manor - is, in fact, a werewolf. She also suspects that the killer is Jessica's boyfriend Lord Robert Pembroke Jr, mostly because Luke convinces her that the only person who could've killed all of these people (and dog) is one of the Pembrokes. It's really obvious and really stupid how much sway Luke holds over Liz's "investigation," and of course she tells him everything because she is a smug asshole/blithering idiot.
Liz discovers that Lord Pembroke shares Luke's obsession with werewolves and werewolf hunting, but she considers Pembroke's obsession creepy while Luke's is somehow understandable? Yeah, okay. She also overhears Lord Pembroke considering the evidence that points in Robert Jr's direction, and that convinces her that Jessica is in mortal danger. She literally runs around London like a chicken with her head cut off, trying to find Jessica to warn her about Robert.
Jessica, meanwhile, is heartbroken that Robert has broken a date and left town (the country?) without telling her why, so she's maxing out her parents' emergency credit card at Herrod's on a retail therapy shopping spree. She's attacked in the subway, however, by something big and hairy and growling. When Liz hears this, she's more convinced than ever that Robert Jr is dangerous and the werewolf killer.
Liz and Jess have a big falling out at the beginning of the book when Liz accuses Robert of being the killer, based on her own irrational hatred of him. Jessica tells Liz that Robert is the first boy she's cared about since Sam's death and why can't Liz be happy for her? (JUSTICE FOR SAM!) Liz also references the Greatest Miniseries of All Time(TM) when she alludes to being on trial for manslaughter. Honestly, this was the high point of the novel.
The "evidence" against Robert is so obviously planted to frame him that it's hard to believe anyone takes it seriously. The police investigation that's described is more akin to a bad American farce than an English/Scotland Yard investigation, and the adults in the room - Lord Pembroke, Andrew Thatcher the "chief of police," Lucy Friday, Tony Frank, and others at the newspaper - act very blithely about the entire situation. Even as a teenager I would've been looking side eye at all of this because it makes not a damn bit of sense. If the ghostwriter has even touched a Golden Age detective novel, I'd be in shock. (The secret key to the "wolf lair" at Pembroke Manor is a copy of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which - WHAT??)
This book is downright awful. Beyond so-bad-its-good, this has circled back into how in the hell did this get published?? territory. Even by mid-90s YA standards, this is absolute dross. It's thrown together in such a terrible, slapdash way that even the tenuous link with reality is gone. It's very obvious that the ghosties didn't bother to do the bare minimum of research into, well, anything. It actively made me angry to plow through this <200 page book. If it wasn't for the nostalgia re-readathon, I would've quit after about 15 pages.
August 8, 2018
Not much to see here, folks. This one is mostly Elizabeth’s show. There are some side plots, but they aren’t as significant.
Liz is (naturally) still on the hunt for the “werewolf.” Although I don’t know why I’m using quotes, because clearly there really will be a werewolf since these books are insane. Jess is convinced of Pembroke Jr.’s innocence- mostly because she’s in love with him. But Liz and her “boyfriend” Luke grow more and more convinced of Robert’s guilt. So Liz cooks up a plan to get evidence.
She also wants to get to the bottom of why the murders around London are being forced to the back pages, while the story of the missing princess is in front. Liz does a few switcheroos in this one, pretending to be Jess to gain access to Pembroke Manor. She knows Pembroke Sr. doesn’t like Liz. Liz tells everyone back at the journal that she’s going to write about ostriches, and then she heads off to Pembroke Manor dressed as Jessica.
While there she discovers a secret room in the library. Naturally, it contains werewolf memorabilia. Liz reads something about an Annabelle and figures that his must be related to the long-ago scandal in the Pembroke household that Senior is trying to cover up and keep out of the papers. One day, Liz hears Thatcher and Senior heading to the library, so she hides under a desk. But she realizes the secret room is ajar. Thatcher tells Senior to quit protecting the killer and that he has one day to give him up. Senior has reviewed the evidence and is dismayed to find it points to his son- Jessica’s love. Liz hears him muttering about this when Thatcher leaves. He discovers the secret room ajar, but Liz is able to make it out undetected.
Senior tells his son to go on the run. He was going to take Jess to Stonehenge, but he cancels their plans and tells her to be careful. Soon after, Jess is nearly attacked in the subway by a hairy beast. She is now willing to admit it might be a werewolf, but she still refuses to say it’s Robert.
The side plot mostly involves Lina, aka Princess Eliana, or Lina, of the HIS house. She cannot reveal her true self to David. But the jig is up when he sees her face plastered on the front of a newspaper with Lina standing right in front of him. She believes he won’t love her now and runs away, but he assures her otherwise later on. Liz tells Lina not to turn herself in, because that way David will get the million pounds of prize money. He plans to do good work with it and open a hospital. Lina comes clean to everyone, and her story, at least, has a happy ending.
Jessica vows to clear Robert’s name. But you all know he’s not the killer, right? Okay, good.
Quotes:
“Now that [Jessica] was away from the bedroom and those bloody sheets, the murder hardly seemed real. She leaned against Robert’s shoulder and put the gory scene out of her mind, concentrating instead on the excitement of being in the middle of a real English murder mystery- just like in an Agatha Christie book.”
“[Elizabeth] hated [Robert’s] commanding tone and bossy manners.”
Hey Liz. Pot meet kettle!
Liz is (naturally) still on the hunt for the “werewolf.” Although I don’t know why I’m using quotes, because clearly there really will be a werewolf since these books are insane. Jess is convinced of Pembroke Jr.’s innocence- mostly because she’s in love with him. But Liz and her “boyfriend” Luke grow more and more convinced of Robert’s guilt. So Liz cooks up a plan to get evidence.
She also wants to get to the bottom of why the murders around London are being forced to the back pages, while the story of the missing princess is in front. Liz does a few switcheroos in this one, pretending to be Jess to gain access to Pembroke Manor. She knows Pembroke Sr. doesn’t like Liz. Liz tells everyone back at the journal that she’s going to write about ostriches, and then she heads off to Pembroke Manor dressed as Jessica.
While there she discovers a secret room in the library. Naturally, it contains werewolf memorabilia. Liz reads something about an Annabelle and figures that his must be related to the long-ago scandal in the Pembroke household that Senior is trying to cover up and keep out of the papers. One day, Liz hears Thatcher and Senior heading to the library, so she hides under a desk. But she realizes the secret room is ajar. Thatcher tells Senior to quit protecting the killer and that he has one day to give him up. Senior has reviewed the evidence and is dismayed to find it points to his son- Jessica’s love. Liz hears him muttering about this when Thatcher leaves. He discovers the secret room ajar, but Liz is able to make it out undetected.
Senior tells his son to go on the run. He was going to take Jess to Stonehenge, but he cancels their plans and tells her to be careful. Soon after, Jess is nearly attacked in the subway by a hairy beast. She is now willing to admit it might be a werewolf, but she still refuses to say it’s Robert.
The side plot mostly involves Lina, aka Princess Eliana, or Lina, of the HIS house. She cannot reveal her true self to David. But the jig is up when he sees her face plastered on the front of a newspaper with Lina standing right in front of him. She believes he won’t love her now and runs away, but he assures her otherwise later on. Liz tells Lina not to turn herself in, because that way David will get the million pounds of prize money. He plans to do good work with it and open a hospital. Lina comes clean to everyone, and her story, at least, has a happy ending.
Jessica vows to clear Robert’s name. But you all know he’s not the killer, right? Okay, good.
Quotes:
“Now that [Jessica] was away from the bedroom and those bloody sheets, the murder hardly seemed real. She leaned against Robert’s shoulder and put the gory scene out of her mind, concentrating instead on the excitement of being in the middle of a real English murder mystery- just like in an Agatha Christie book.”
“[Elizabeth] hated [Robert’s] commanding tone and bossy manners.”
Hey Liz. Pot meet kettle!
January 23, 2022
This werewolf/London plotline is killing the fun of reading this series. It's soooo bad. The twins are both ridiculous. A dog was named Poopoo? Like crap? Soup kitchen princesses and secret passage studies and dating more reality and effing werewolf murders? I finished it and am just trying to plow through till the Wakefields get back to Sweet Valley. Blech.
July 8, 2013
I have read so many of these books I can't remember all of them.
February 24, 2019
3.5 Stars
I have a strong suspicion that this mini series was written by someone who had never set foot in The UK and that they knew nothing about it - that aside (before I go on a rant!!) This was a campy fun read taking more inspiration from An American Werewolf In London! The Princess Eliana sub plot was just daft as a brush and quite frankly, this book could have done without it, Elizabeth is plain insufferable and a hypocrite to boot. This makes me sound like I didn't like it but I did for the most part.
I have a strong suspicion that this mini series was written by someone who had never set foot in The UK and that they knew nothing about it - that aside (before I go on a rant!!) This was a campy fun read taking more inspiration from An American Werewolf In London! The Princess Eliana sub plot was just daft as a brush and quite frankly, this book could have done without it, Elizabeth is plain insufferable and a hypocrite to boot. This makes me sound like I didn't like it but I did for the most part.
October 23, 2019
Another enjoyable, unrealistic read from the Wakefield twins. To be expected though really and taken with a massive pinch of salt as always.
Not sure the author, in this case Kate James, did her full research into "Brit" language as one of the British characters talks about putting stuff in the 'trash' but there you go.
Not sure the author, in this case Kate James, did her full research into "Brit" language as one of the British characters talks about putting stuff in the 'trash' but there you go.
November 15, 2024
The second book of a three part mini series, felt exactly like a middle book. Multiple storylines happening at a breakneck speed. Honestly it was bit of a slog at times and needed a bit more werewolf, but some subplot storylines were able to wrap up with a bow. This book was still a grand distraction from life and I have high hopes going into the third book. 🐺
November 16, 2021
The death count rises as Liz becomes more convinced that werewolves DO exist, and that one is responsible for the recent gory deaths happening in London. Jess is beside herself when her Lordly boyfriend is accused of the crimes and goes into hiding
March 2, 2025
I continue to be thoroughly entertained by reading old Sweet Valley High books. I don't remember all of the Elizabeth hate back in the day with these, but I *totally* get it now. She's fucking obnoxious. Frankly, I'm hoping that Jessica grew up, married her English nobleman, and left her dumbass sister behind in Sweet Valley.
July 24, 2017
i want to read the whole book on internet!
September 25, 2019
A little more action than the prior book.
February 5, 2023
Did Jessica just dare a werewolf?
May 23, 2017
This book might have been better hadn't it been for... Elizabeth. She is literally THE.WORST!
I feel like I was lied to when I read this as a kid and made to think that Elizabeth was the "good" twin. She's a bloody nightmare - selfish, smug, judgemental, mean to her sister, greedy and idiotic. I can't stress how dislikeable Elizabeth is.
I love how she judges Jessica for being a bad judge of character, meanwhile she is suddenly "in love" and dating a new guy, while also (supposedly) still in love with Todd and dating him as well. No conflict of interest for Lizzie, no no, I wonder how she would feel if Todd did it to her? It'd be the plot of a whole book I bet.
Not to mention that she is suddenly (the worst) Nancy Drew in the world. She wants to single-handedly catch a serial killer and thinks that she can. In the process of getting her great byline she hurts her sister, acts like an idiot and starts dating an even bigger idiot, proving just how lousy she herself is at judging people.
The only thing that could have improved this book is the bloody death of bloody Elizabeth.
An additional sin for the book is the mind-numbingly dull and idiotic subplots of Lina and Portia. Ugh. Why, WHY, did I like these books as a kid?
I feel like I was lied to when I read this as a kid and made to think that Elizabeth was the "good" twin. She's a bloody nightmare - selfish, smug, judgemental, mean to her sister, greedy and idiotic. I can't stress how dislikeable Elizabeth is.
I love how she judges Jessica for being a bad judge of character, meanwhile she is suddenly "in love" and dating a new guy, while also (supposedly) still in love with Todd and dating him as well. No conflict of interest for Lizzie, no no, I wonder how she would feel if Todd did it to her? It'd be the plot of a whole book I bet.
Not to mention that she is suddenly (the worst) Nancy Drew in the world. She wants to single-handedly catch a serial killer and thinks that she can. In the process of getting her great byline she hurts her sister, acts like an idiot and starts dating an even bigger idiot, proving just how lousy she herself is at judging people.
The only thing that could have improved this book is the bloody death of bloody Elizabeth.
An additional sin for the book is the mind-numbingly dull and idiotic subplots of Lina and Portia. Ugh. Why, WHY, did I like these books as a kid?
September 22, 2023
The trilogy continues with this truly unhinged second installment. Elizabeth, who we are constantly told is the kind and sensible twin, is cheating on her boyfriend with someone who has convinced her that werewolves exist. She is absolutely insufferable. A newspaper which sounds like the equivalent of The Times has permitted her, an idiotic 16 year old intern, to write a cover story on a huge scoop. And in the Sweet Valley universe, we already know that Princess Diana exists which suggests that the real royal family should be reigning, yet the queen has a 16 year old daughter. It's all laughable, but also just brilliant in its ridiculousness.
May 27, 2020
This werewolf story arc is so stupid, but so entertaining.
Liz is cheating on Todd for about the 900th time here with Luke, but instead of feeling guilty about hurting Todd, she’s worried about hurting another guy’s feelings (Rene) that I’m pretty sure she also cheated on Todd with like 70 books ago. And she’s the “good twin”. Ugh.
And seriously, Jessica? You think this guy you’ve known for a week and are somehow “in love with” is just as great as Sam was? Nope. Just nope.
Liz is cheating on Todd for about the 900th time here with Luke, but instead of feeling guilty about hurting Todd, she’s worried about hurting another guy’s feelings (Rene) that I’m pretty sure she also cheated on Todd with like 70 books ago. And she’s the “good twin”. Ugh.
And seriously, Jessica? You think this guy you’ve known for a week and are somehow “in love with” is just as great as Sam was? Nope. Just nope.
November 4, 2011
This book was supposed to be a horror but it really wasn't that scary unfortunately. But I guess I am just used to scary stories. But it was very romantic and very heartwarming at some points. It was a pretty good book.
December 17, 2023
This trilogy is bonkers. Princess ELIANA? What kind of British aristocratic name? Little Lord Pembroke?? Werewolves in London?? Elizabeth being the drama twin??
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