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Love Times Three (River Heights #1)

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I read this book when it first came out. (We are talking 10 years ago, despite the pre-set age thing on this review). Young adult fiction then was a lot different than it is now. Sure it's more than a little shallow but that's what made it so great! It was cheesy and a little ditzy. These girls were all about what they wore, who they wanted to date, and how they were going to make it through the school year. I loved the characters of this book. They were easy, stereotypical and one-dimensional. I know I sound sick but that what was I liked, but it is what I liked BACK THEN. It reminds me of early SVH books and all the fun silliness it used to be. Sure there are probably a hell of lot more interesting and intelligent stories out there to tell, but once upon a time, all this shallowness was at one point the most important stuff in the world. Plus the scheming that Britany did was a trip!

There is not even a tiny speck of genuine emotion in this novel. It's all about a bunch of rich and beautiful spoiled teenaged girls competing for the affections of some guy they couldn't really care less about. It is vapid in the extreme and promotes extremely shallow values. Other people with less than supermodel bodies and millionaire bank accounts exist, too, and have much more interesting stories to be told. I find it creepy how the voice of regular people is supressed in favor of idealized cut-outs. I'm not surprised this comes from the creator of the Nancy Drew series, but at least Nancy Drew was doing something useful and interesting with that whole mystery-solving thing.

It is a book I like very much. For one reason, the auther tells a story about love between the young males and young females. The characters in the book are so vivid and familiar. It brought my memory to the years when I was a teenage. For the other, the language used in the book is so ggod, especially the teenage English. I like the book.