I loved SVH! The old ones, though, like the others here have said. I liked Elizabeth better than Jessica. Jessica was way too self-centered for me.

I also loved the old Archie series. Betty - more like Elizabeth. Veronica - Jessica, in my eyes, if I had to make that comparison. I hate today's "new" Archies.

I loved the first Parent Trap better, even though that was way before my time.

Does this mean I'm out of touch and can't understand the next generation?

Team Jessica all the way!

Who read the evil doppelgänger Margo books (I think they were around #100)?

Anonymous wrote:I was also obsessed. My mom used to let me go to the bookstore next to the grocery store while she shopped and I would sit in the back and read SVH. The owners were remarkably nice about it.

Awww, you sound like me! This is how I spent most of my childhood.

Loved this series! I remember my sister coming into my room and snatching up my jeans and looking at them and when I asked what she was doing she said quite seriously, "so this is what a 'perfect size 6' is, I wanted to know." For a long time I totally wanted a lavaliere without quite knowing what it was. And I was totally shocked in that one book where Bruce Patman untied Jessica's bikini top - so racy, haha.

Anonymous wrote:I read them as a 12 year old and thought that 16 was SO old and mature.

Ha, I felt this way about the baby sitters club and couldn’t wait to be a very mature, stylish 16 year old with a steady boyfriend.

Nowadays, I don’t know any moms who would hire a teenager to watch their kids!

I remember calling my friend from a payphone at the mall. I got just gotten the latest SVH from B Dalton, and I wanted to tell her that Regina was kidnapped!

This book was an interesting read, though the author's tone annoyed me after a while. I was amused when she called Jessic Wakefield a sociopath, though.

https://www.amazon.com/Paperback-Crush-Totally-Radical-History/dp/B07J9QPTYW

I was also obsessed. My mom used to let me go to the bookstore next to the grocery store while she shopped and I would sit in the back and read SVH. The owners were remarkably nice about it.

I read them as a 12 year old and thought that 16 was SO old and mature.

Me too!

I liked Jessica...Elizabeth was boring.

Thinking about them the memories are flossing back...I read them all but never got into the college series.

Anonymous wrote:

The question is which one did you want to be?

Elizabeth

The question is which one did you want to be?

YES! The old school ones. Amazing. I still have some

I wasn’t obsessed but I liked them! My daughter is reading the Sweet Valley Twins series.

I used to be OBSESSED with this series!

Anyone else?