Sweet Valley Confidential: Chapter 16 Today in Sweet Valley Confidential, Elizabeth flies back to New York. This chapter’s roughly one page long. I figured Ariel might be a little annoyed if I dragged that out to a full post, so now you get Elizabeth’s whole journey back to New York. Which is split up over two chapters, for […]
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Travis shows up at Liis and Thomas’ room after receiving a note from the front desk to meet them early in the morning. This won’t raise Abby’s suspicions at all, because it’s very normal for your husband to disappear at 6 a.m. after your wedding re-do. Liis leads into the whole FBI thing in a […]
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Beautiful Redemption: Chapter 21 Back at the office, Liis is hard at work trying to crack the case of why we’re supposed to care about the subplot with the double agent working for the Yakuza. “[He’s] getting brazen, almost sloppy. He’s falsely identifying locations. I feel like something is getting ready to go down.” “I’m working […]
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The chapter opens with Elizabeth returning home after hooking up with Will. It’s the perfect opportunity to discuss the logistics of travelling in New York! Elizabeth was back at her apartment in less than ten minutes. That can happen in the city in those rare times between breaths when there is no traffic. Nothing is […]
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Another two chapters today, y’all! We… we want this book to be over. Sweet Valley Confidential: Chapter 19 Jessica and Elizabeth are so totally cool right now! So cool that Jessica is already overstepping her boundaries like old times. As promised, Jessica left at the first light of dawn, kissing her sister and borrowing her […]
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Liis heads back to her apartment, but first she looks outside the window to the spot where Thomas beat the shit out of those guys from the last chapter: The corner across the street was smeared with blood, but no one seemed to notice. The people who walked by had no idea about the violence […]
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Beautiful Redemption: Chapter 23 Liis runs into Agent Grove on her way into the office. Grove is the mole with Yakuza connections who’s been botching translations for the FBI, in case you totally forgot. It’s ok, the book’s got you covered: any one of his maybe five lines of dialogue in the book makes it […]
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Elizabeth heads back to Sweet Valley for Jessica and Todd’s wedding. Bruce picks her up from the airport and she asks him what’s been going on. “I know most of what’s happened in the last two weeks, but maybe, being on site, you know more. So, tell me,” she said. “Do you want Caroline Pearce’s […]
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So we’re done, right? Elizabeth and Jessica wound up with Bruce and Todd, respectively, which is totally crazy go nuts because it’s the opposite of who was paired up with whom in high school! Madness. Even new character Will had an off-Broadway play performed once that is already more successful than Hamilton, apparently. So we’re all good […]
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Counting down the five worst jobs I’ve had. You’re wholeheartedly encouraged to join in and share your own terrible jobs below. – – – I’ve had some dreadful jobs in my time, ranging from the bizarre to the tedious, to the pretty-much pointless. Almost everyone’s been there (and shame on those who haven’t) – they’re […]
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Beautiful Redemption Chapter 24: Liis calls her mother while she makes dinner. I guess so McGuire can try to demonstrate she has one character with a decent-ish familial relationship: “At least you’re cooking for yourself and not eating that processed poison every night. Have you gained any weight?” “I’ve lost a few pounds actually,” I […]
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Yeah, that’s right! We’re wrapping up both books these week! We’re taking off next week, but we’ll be back with two new books. Speculate wildly on what they might be! Beautiful Redemption: Epilogue The epilogue picks up years later, with Liis unpacking from moving after landing her dream job as an Intelligence Analyst at the NCAVC in […]
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I can’t believe this is the last book of this glorious series. Let’s absolutely savour it, you guys. If you need a refresher, here’s a link to the last chapter of Captivated by You. Basically nothing happened. There, now you’re all caught up! One With You Chapter 1: I’m pretty sure all the books in this series […]
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Not that “my least favorite series” means particularly much on a blog like this one (or is even particularly clear?), but good lord am I excited to be on the last Crossfire book. Especially since so little happened in the last two books that I have no idea what could possibly be left to be said in […]
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Hopefully everyone’s enjoying One With You, the final entry in the Crossfire series! I know I’m enjoying reading the final entry in the Crossfire series. As you might have noticed, we happened to finish both of our books last week, meaning this week is all new books. And the second that we’ll be reading on Thursdays and Fridays is Armada, the […]
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In the spirit of all the references in this book, I thought I’d give you guys a title from an obscure show I bet no one watched! Do you know what it is? Do you care? Probably not! But read on to the end of the post to find out! Armada Chapter 1: We open […]
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Armada: Chapter 2 The first chapter of Armada had our main character leave school in the middle of class after seeing a spaceship outside his classroom window. So what if the second chapter was about… none of that? [I peered] silently up at the attic window of our little ivy-colored brick house, thinking about the first time I’d […]
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One With You Chapter 3 Gideon takes Eva home and tries to go upstairs with her. Eva protests because if there’s a bed nearby, she won’t be able to resist temptation. After much whining about their circumstances of waiting until their fake wedding to sleep together again, Gideon agrees to go to his own place. […]
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I’m writing this blog post instead of running around Brooklyn playing Pokemon Go right now. I hope you all appreciate this. One With You: Chapter 4 Today’s chapter of One With You takes place at Eva’s family’s beach house. “Isn’t it pretty?” Eva asked […] “Stunning,” I replied, although I was referring to her. WE GET […]
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Zack heads to work, and it seems like he works with someone else who loves nerdy references! What are the chances? The sign mounted over the entrance of Starbase Ace was a bit fancier. Ray had designed it to look like a real Starbase was bursting out of the building’s brick façade. It had cost […]
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