Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about the Sweet Valley High of the East Coast so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read Sunset Island by Sherry Bennett.

Joining us to discuss this 90s knockoff YA series is Denise Houston,

former Sherry Bennett superfan, and freelance editor for the Gail Sohn series.

Hello.

Hi, Denise.

Thanks for joining us.

Oh, it's a blast and a half going back to the 90s.

I'm wearing my crop top right now.

I'm wearing seven shirts artfully layered.

And a leotard.

Yeah, well, the leotards the bottom shirt.

I'm so excited, by the way, that you identify as a Sherry Bennett super fan because these were books that I read when I was a kid, but when I've been mentioning to people like, oh, and we're doing the Sunset Island series, nobody knows what this is. That is a fact. I had friends.

I said, oh, yeah, I'm going to be on the podcast.

And they're like, well, what are you doing?

And I told them. And then they're like, should I read it? I said, oh, no, no. Yeah. I mean, this is, okay, first of all, this is a real book. My library had it. it's a fairly long-running series, not as long as Sweet Valley High, but there's like over 20 of them.

41, according to... it. There's, it's a fairly long-running series, not as long as Sweet Valley High, but there's like over 20 of them.

41, according to Wikipedia.

Oh my gosh.

Well, if you go by, if you go by Goodreads, it's actually only like 33, but I think

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