Join the read-along!
Oct. 3rd, 2020 10:00 amThe ever lovely ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
luxken27 had the brilliant idea to do a read-along of the SVT Frightening Four miniseries to get in the spooky season. :D Here's her info post about it!
I don't think I've read these books since I picked them up at K-Mart back in the day. I'm 100% sure they were KMart buys because I'd kill time while Mums picked up stuff in the food or pharmacy section by wandering through the book section and I remember stopping dead in my tracks when I saw the cover for one of the first three and thought, "wait, what?" While I never fully escaped either SVH or BSC proper (obviously), I did check out of SVT around the time they spun off the Unicorns and even then I didn't keep up with that once it became clear that character development was going to get flushed down the toilet. But the moment I saw this mini series? I was suckered back in. I devoured them even though I could not tell you a damn thing beyond haunting the Kmart that season as I waited for the next one to appear. That was a fun summer.
So I look forward to rediscovering the weirdness from my past!
This morning I found out that the miniseries had a different name in the UK and the covers are both somehow better and infinitely worse and I have so many questions about UK coverart in general (basically- why are you like this?) but yeah. Bigger and better versions can be found at Sweet Valley Online but since that site always triggers my malware browser warning (legit or do they just not want me to see the UK cover oddities?), I'm using the ones yanked from Goodreads. Also, I am very carefully NOT reading any reviews prior to the great re-read.
If those don't terrify you into joining us, I don't know what will. Seriously though, I always forget that "If I Die Before I Wake" is a legitimate SV title every time I see it on a list and this cover is giving Evil Elizabeth a run for her creepy cover art throne.
luxken27 had the brilliant idea to do a read-along of the SVT Frightening Four miniseries to get in the spooky season. :D Here's her info post about it!I don't think I've read these books since I picked them up at K-Mart back in the day. I'm 100% sure they were KMart buys because I'd kill time while Mums picked up stuff in the food or pharmacy section by wandering through the book section and I remember stopping dead in my tracks when I saw the cover for one of the first three and thought, "wait, what?" While I never fully escaped either SVH or BSC proper (obviously), I did check out of SVT around the time they spun off the Unicorns and even then I didn't keep up with that once it became clear that character development was going to get flushed down the toilet. But the moment I saw this mini series? I was suckered back in. I devoured them even though I could not tell you a damn thing beyond haunting the Kmart that season as I waited for the next one to appear. That was a fun summer.
So I look forward to rediscovering the weirdness from my past!
This morning I found out that the miniseries had a different name in the UK and the covers are both somehow better and infinitely worse and I have so many questions about UK coverart in general (basically- why are you like this?) but yeah. Bigger and better versions can be found at Sweet Valley Online but since that site always triggers my malware browser warning (legit or do they just not want me to see the UK cover oddities?), I'm using the ones yanked from Goodreads. Also, I am very carefully NOT reading any reviews prior to the great re-read.
If those don't terrify you into joining us, I don't know what will. Seriously though, I always forget that "If I Die Before I Wake" is a legitimate SV title every time I see it on a list and this cover is giving Evil Elizabeth a run for her creepy cover art throne.