It should be painfully obvious by now that I really enjoy reading old Sweet Valley High books. Unfortunately, the local public library doesn’t both keeping these dated teen books on the shelves anymore as updated books for teen girls have become popular lately. Though Dance of Death was enjoyable, it isn’t a stand alone book and ends in a cliffhanger. If the library had the next book in the series this wouldn’t be a problem. Jessica and Enid are competing for the love of the mysterious Jonathan who recently moved to Sweet Valley and lives by himself in a crumbling mansion (wtf?). Meanwhile, Elizabeth has problems of her own as her summer fling comes to California and attempts to win her from longtime boyfriend Todd Wilkins.
This story seems to be fairly typical of Sweet Valley because it includes Todd/Elizabeth relationship drama and Jessica falling for a somewhat dodgy character. Of course, the best Sweet Valley books also include supernatural elements and Dance of Death won’t disappoint readers in this respect either (spoiler alert: A Vampire, spooky!). On a side note, it amazes me that just about every Sweet Valley book includes Elizabeth cheating on Todd Wilkins, and Todd seems to be thickheaded enough to keep returning to her. But that seems to be just one of the many things that make Sweet Valley so good, no matter how many murders and betrayals take place, it will be mostly back to normal within a couple hundred pages.
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