“Don’t be silly.” She pulled her hand free and pressed a palm against my cheek. I know it can’t have been easy to organize.” “I wish this was a social call, but it’s not. I caught her hands and raised them to my lips. “Karl!” She rose to her feet and rounded the desk. Sometimes you can say all you need to with a bikini (promiscuity and California), a plaintive look (gambling addiction), or a perfectly placed, bushy mustache (creep).“Come in.” Shirley’s voice called out, and I opened the door and stepped into her office.
When you have characters like Elizabeth and Jessica, already weighty with the dichotomy of female teen-age-hood, less is more. "In a young-teenage romance novel, a symbolic cover is probably over the teenagers’ heads-if you know what I mean,” he told Tallahassee magazine. A Western needs browns and blacks and earth tones") he doesn't think a Sweet Valley book is the place for metaphor. A romance title works best with pastel, lavender and pink. Although Mathewuse embraces the use of color to evoke genre ("A murder mystery often calls for red and black. Or take the standout " Dangerous Love," in which a normally buttoned-up Elizabeth assumes the ultimate pose of teen-age rebellion: riding her boyfriend's motorcycle, her flaxen hair unfastened from its baby barrettes forming what looks to be almost a broken halo. All the clues to Elizabeth's vegetative state (and subsequent heavy petting scene with the rich playboy Bruce) are there: Jessica wears a forlorn expression and clutches a framed photo of her sister. The cover of "Dear Sister" is rich with symbolism. Mathewuse is also responsible for Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and something called "Old Tallahassee," but he seems to have spent the most time with the Wakefield twins, creating some classics. Mathewuse (pictured above with a full-size rendering of the nymphettes). And their escapades, all two hundred and fifty of them, were diligently illustrated in subtly backlit pastel drawings, evocative, if not of the plot then at least of the book's most important emotions (glee, longing, comas).Įach of these portraits-from "Elizabeth Betrayed" to "The New Elizabeth"-were drawn by one man, the Tallahassee-based artist James L. They live comfortable, but not flamboyant, lives in southern California, where they navigate the dangerous hills and sweet valleys of adolescence-boys and their motorcycles, boys and their demands on your time, comas-saved always by their mutual popularity. Jessica and Elisabeth Wakefield are blond twins, perfect size sixes, identical save for a mole on one of their shoulders, I can't remember which. This has nothing to do with nostalgia, but nevertheless, let's remember the way things used to be. And, even more tragically, Sweet Valley High has ditched its iconic covers for something a little more glamorous. bullies (one need only refer back to Stacey, a Manhattan transplant to Connecticut, to sense how Martin feels about the big city).
#Broken halo l ann series#
The Baby Sitters Club isn't the only series of its kind to undergo a redesign, and though the reasons are probably more nuanced and involve things like money, it does seem like some blame should go to Cecily Von Ziegesar and her gaggle of U.E.S.
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