Seven Deadly Sins (Series)
Lust (2005)
Envy (2006)
Wrath (2006)
Wasserman, R.
New York: Simon Pulse
Age Range: 14+
Genre: Series
Rating: 3/5

Welcome to Melrose Place for teens. Only it's in back-water California where nothing exciting ever really happens. So the kids gotta make it for themselves!

Meet the cast:

• Harper: the bitch
• Kane: the slut
• Adam: the all-American boy
• Beth: Adam's goody-goody girlfriend
• Miranda: Harper's second in command
• Kaia: the new rich snot from New York

Okay. This plot line is going to take some brain power, so stay alert. Think Days of Our Lives meets Gossip Girls. But who can tell, really? Ready? Let's go! Harper wants Adam, who has been her best friend since diapers. Miranda wants Kane, but she's too average to get the hot guy. Kaia wants the new french teacher who just happens to be British and have a Jude Lawishness to him. Kane wants Beth because she's unattainable. Adam wants to be the all-American boy, but he gets sucked in by Kaia's willingness to jump him in shitty motels. Beth wants to get into a good college and keep her knees together. And no one ever gets what they want. Well.. almost. A plan is hatched to break up Adam and Beth so Harper and Kane can swoop in. This plan doesn't particularly account for Miranda's feelings, or anyone else's for that matter, and all hell breaks loose eventually, as it always does in these soap-opera situations.

And it lasts for SEVEN BOOKS.

Sweet honorable God.

Right. Well.. as bad as it all is, with the gratuitous sex and the coolness of smoking and the underage drinking and the HAVING SEX WITH A TEACHER, it ain't half bad. It's terrible, no doubt. But in the same way that Marlena being possessed by the devil was terrible. Or the clan of 90210 all being 35 while the show aired. In other words, the kind of terrible that makes you keep on getting suckered into it.

It's popular and brainless and not terribly written, so it's going to have to be on the shelves. And this is something we've alllllllllll got to deal with! So let's embrace the soul-less series for teenage girls and remember that sometimes, girls just a-wanna have fun, Etc., Etc..