sweet valley confidential by francine pascal

Two days in, the “Sweet Valley Confidential” Facebook page has more than 33,600 “likes,” and fans, many of whom have yet to even lay their hands on a copy, already begging for “Confidential” to be turned into a series.Īlthough Pascal hasn’t ruled out a sequel, she prefers to see how this book fares before beginning the next edition. “Oh how I have missed Jessica and Elizabeth, I am so glad to have you girls back!” writes one Twitter fan, with an excitement echoed in thousands of tweets about “Sweet Valley Confidential” on Tuesday. It wasn’t explicit but it was always there, because that’s normal life.”

“But would they deny a 27-year-old woman the pleasure of sex? And ‘Sweet Valley High’ was not without sex. “People wrote to us saying they couldn’t believe that 27-year-old Elizabeth has orgasms,” says Pascal, a born and bred New Yorker with a thick accent to match.

And although I didn’t want the characters to grow up to be the people readers expected, the seeds of their lives today were sown in the beginning of the series and I didn’t want to deviate too far either.”īefore “Sweet Valley Confidential” was completed, it was already causing a stir on the Internet, where the first chapter - in which Elizabeth talked intimately about her sex life - was published. “I was amazed at how involved they still were with this series, and thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful to bring the characters up to where these women are now? I wanted this book to surprise people.

“In the last five or six years I have run into a number of women who are now executives, business people, journalists, adults in their 20s and 30s, and they have been so excited to talk to me about Sweet Valley High,” Pascal, 72, told. Even the cover still bears the instantly recognizable “Sweet Valley” lettering, but the trademark pastel has been swapped for a more adult, and provocative, hot pink. 'Confidential' is the first new installment since Pascal finished her 'Sweet Valley High' series in 2003, and it has already caused a buzz among 20- and 30-something women looking to relive adolescent memories, escaping to a world where the sun always shines and the nice girls usually win.

Sweet valley confidential by francine pascal