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Sweet Valley High by Katy Rex
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did not like it
bookshelves: arcs, graphic-novel, young-adult, published-2019, read-2019, netgalley, stars-1

I'll be honest, I hated this almost from page one. It was the "is butter a carb?" joke that made me go "Oh noooooo" slowly as I realized that this wasn't going to be anything outside of a superficial and kind of pointless comic. I am now questioning my nostalgic love of these twins. I know they aren't high literature, but they were fun fluff pieces that had some weight, right?

This comic didn't have that feel at all. It mostly feels vapid and predictable.

Seriously there are these horror Sweet Valley books that scared me so much as a kid and I'm just...I like fluff stuff. I've watched all of Degrassi since it started back up in the early aughts. I like my soap operas. This just...isnt even that. It is lazy tropes mostly. They did attempt to update it -- quite a bit of instagram usage here -- but everyone is so one note.

Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of the graphic novel in exchange for an honest review.
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Reading Progress

October 7, 2019 – Started Reading
October 7, 2019 – Shelved
October 7, 2019 – Shelved as: arcs
October 7, 2019 – Shelved as: graphic-novel
October 7, 2019 – Shelved as: young-adult
October 7, 2019 – Shelved as: published-2019
October 7, 2019 –
page 75
62.5% "This....isn't great"
October 7, 2019 – Shelved as: read-2019
October 7, 2019 – Finished Reading
October 8, 2019 – Shelved as: netgalley
October 11, 2019 – Shelved as: stars-1

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