Episode 214: Can't Stay Away (SVH Senior Year #1)

Can’t Stay Away (SVH Senior Year #1)

On Episode 214, Alli and her guest go back to Sweet Valley… but they find it grittier and sassier than you’ve seen it before. In the first book of the SVH Senior Year series Can’t Stay Away, the Wakefields and their classmates adapt to a new normal after their lives are shaken up by a major earthquake. But what happens when Sweet Valley is forced to merge with the student body from El Carro High? One word: drama. Tune in to this episode to hear Alli and Elissa Sussman unpack all of said drama and discuss weird gestures around diversity, bad boy stereotypes, the enemies to lovers trope, slut shaming, Jessica and Elizabeth’s questionable senior year resolutions, misogyny, and this new take on the classic series.

Elissa Sussman is the author of books for teens and adults, including Drawn That Way and Funny You Should Ask. Follow her on Instagram (@elissa_sussman) and Twitter (@ElissaSussman).

CHECK OUT PREVIOUS SWEET VALLEY EPISODES…

Episode 19: Sweet Valley High // The New Jessica (with Gabrielle Moss)

Episode 54: Sweet Valley High // Double Love (with Grace Atwood + Becca Freeman)

Episode 103: Who’s Who? (Sweet Valley High #62) (with Odd Job’s Jaimie + Abby)

Episode 150: Secrets (Sweet Valley High #2) (with Lacie Waldon)

Episode 170: Kidnapped By the Cult! (Sweet Valley High #82) (with Amanda Montell)

Episode 202: Tall, Dark, and Deadly (Sweet Valley High #126) (with Andie J. Christopher)

CHECK OUT ELISSA’S BOOKS:

Once More With Feeling (now available for pre-order!)

Funny You Should Ask

Drawn That Way

CHECK OUT ELISSA’S BOOK RECOMMENDATION:

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

MORE READING:

“Sweet Valley Senior Year” (Sweet Valley High Wiki)

“SVH Senior Year: Can’t Stay Away” (Elizabeth and Jessica are better than you, 2007)

“Sweet Valley Senior Year #1: Can’t Stay Away” (Young Adult Revisited, 2019)

This episode is brought to you by Kensington’s A Ghost In Shining Armor.

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