* Photo credit to The Closet *
LOL @ this cover. Who’s the twin in purple looking like she just ran up eighty flights of stairs? And the other one is like, trying to take a clandestine pee beneath his ball gown. And they’re shackled together! What a pair.
The twins are the prettiest au pairs this south of France has ever seen, so of course they found men to love them! Liz distracts herself from the pain of losing Todd Wilkins (pff) by falling in love with Prince Laurent, the big brother of the brats they’re babysitting, while Jess sneaks around with Jacques, the handsome stranger from the train who claims he’s a duke’s son. Jacques is sort of a weirdo: he shows up in Jess’s room unannounced, tells her she can’t tell anyone that he was there, rifles through her laundry, experiences sudden random coughing fits, and volunteers to clean her room while she waits in the hall. But Jess just laughs it off, because he’s sooo cute and obviously sooo in love with her to be acting like such a freak. In truth, he’s being such a spazamatazz because he needs to get back the “fake” pendant he gave Jess on the train because his father promised it to some client. That’s why he spends all day sleeping in closets at the chateau. Jess finally kicks him to the curb when she catches him going through her jewelry box for the hundredth time, but she never thinks suspiciously of him!
Meanwhile, Liz immerses herself in her horse-riding, prince-loving fairy tale, complete with secret passageways and legends of maidens turning into birds because they can’t be with their one true love, the prince. (Foreshadowing?) However, her joy is slightly tainted by the evil visiting countess and her equally nasty daughter Antonia, who both go out of their way to shun the twins for being American servants. To make matters worse, Laurent is betrothed to Antonia! Well, that just won’t do.
Anyway, it turns out that Jess’s pendant is not a hunk of junk after all when she wears it (on her head) during the Cinderella tableau that she, Liz, and the kids whipped up. The countess poops Frisbees because, as luck would have it, the pendant was the one stolen from her on the train! The countess then has both twins imprisoned in the dungeon for impudence and expensive trinket stealing, and it is in her cold, unforgiving cell that Jess finally realizes that Jacques is not a thief of hearts, he’s just a plain ol’ thief! That’s what happens when you’re in love for a week.
Other Notes:
- I like how the ghostwriter tried not to write the twins as complete morons about relationships in this story. In between the heaps of unfathomable “I love yous,” Liz still pines for Todd and says of the prince, “I love Laurent…at least, I think I love him….I really haven’t known him that long. Maybe it’s just that I want to be in love with him.” Is that my eyes playing tricks on me, or is someone in a Sweet Valley High book actually making some sense? And sometimes there is even what feel like narrator digs at the girls: “It seemed Jacques was already taking her for granted, even though their relationship was barely a week old.”
- In this story, you’ll learn how to make a fancy up-do hairstyle using an everyday, cardboard toilet paper cylinder!
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