* Photo credit to The Closet *
So, the twins are essentially in the same exact poses they were in on the cover of Malibu Summer, only in ski suits! Thus, I really have nothing more to say about them.
There’s all this noise about the SVH students going to a ski lodge for their Winter Carnival, during which they’ll ski, dry hump, and not drink beer. Why would a ski lodge want to have all these teenagers around? They’re running rampant! They’re running the town!
Everyone’s looking forward to it, but Liz’s joy is dampened because she’s suddenly realizing that her beloved twin sister is pretty much a total bitch. These are the reasons (in this book alone!) why Liz is pissed at life:
1. Jess blows off making dinner a billion times, sticking Liz with the work and making Liz miss out on a fancy date with Jeffrey French.
2. Jess steals Liz and Enid Rollins’s answers and winds up on a trivia game show with Amy Sutton—the trivia show Liz wanted to be on!
3. Liz wins honorable mention in a writing contest (WTF! A Wakefield not getting first place?!) while Jess and the cheerleaders are going to some All-State cheering competition!
4. Jess forgets to give Liz a message to pick up Mr. Collins’s kid.
5. Jess gets to wear a silver Lycra snowsuit, while Liz gets stuck with a navy one! Boo!
6. “It seemed a lot more fun to be Jessica than Elizabeth these days.” DUH. And by “these days,” the ghostwriter means “always.”
Furthermore, Todd Wilkins is returning to Sweet Valley for the Winter Carnival to go to some dinner function and wants Liz to be his platonic dinner date, and it’s so LAME how they act so over each other. I’m a purist—I don’t care about any of this Jeffrey French biznazz.
Speaking of Jeffrey, he gets super jealous that Todd is still talking to Liz and that Liz is his date to the dinner thing, and Liz acts like he’s got no right to be jealous. She takes some dating advice from Jess and treats Jeffrey like crap, and then blames it on her sister. This story is affecting my gag reflex. Come on now! Where is the winter? Where is the carnival?
Then Jeffrey begs Liz for forgiveness (scoff times a billion) and tells her to meet her on a canyon (of which he’ll hopefully fling her over the side) at a certain time or else it’s over, and of course Jess isn’t back in time with the car—yes, Liz actually depended on her sister again. If Liz hasn’t learned her lesson by now, she doesn’t deserve to have Jess come through for her. Then Jess tells Todd that he’s ruining Liz’s weekend by forcing her to go with him to the dinner thing instead of going straight to the Winter Carnival.
Blah blah, more whiny stuff happens so I’ll just skip to the end: Jessica DIES in a car crash trying to get to Liz after Liz drove away in a huffy fit when someone told her that Jess and Jeffrey were canoodling in the woods…. PSYCH! It was just Liz’s dream, you guys! Liz wakes up and everyone is alive and well, and she forgives her sister, and Jeffrey and Todd have a snowball fight of friendship, and all the winter festivities happened on the last three pages. Some winter carnival! I do not approve.
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