Andrea Slade is guarded because she’s been burned in the past for being a rock star’s girl (friend? daughter?) but she’s willing to let down her walls for Nicholas Morrow because there’s something about him that makes her think she can trust him with such sensitive information as her favorite food.

Nothing bad EVER happens in Sweet Valley.  The titular family secret may be that Elizabeth and Jessica’s nearly identical cousin’s father was once nearly/maybe physically abusive and that now their cousin is attracted to creeps like Kirk “The Jerk” Anderson instead of probably-still-in-love-with-Elizabeth-but-willing-to-settle-for-her-nearly-identical-cousin Nicholas Morrow but that doesn’t make it any less perfect a place to live NOW!

I’m going to miss Regina .  This one hurt.

Aaron Dallas is MAD!  But Elizabeth has a new boyfriend so... priorities. 

More than getting to witness Elizabeth falling in real, deep, true love (with the boy her best friend had a huge crush on very recently) the most amazing thing about this book is that (spoiler alert!) when Jessica goes back to the “old” Jessica, her black hair dye easily rinses out in one day and her hair is its exact sun-kissed golden blonde shade and in perfect shiny, silky condition.

That Jessica Wakefield, always keeping her eye on priorities even while gathering intelligence from the son of a criminal mastermind holding the Morrow family hostage at gunpoint to GET THAT MICROCHIP!

We learned how fancy parties work in #16 Rags to Riches, now we learn how successful-until-they-end relationships work.

We must consider the very real possibility that the only reason Regina Morrow falls for Bruce Patman is that she can't hear him speak.