Sweet Valley High (on a diet)

There's been a lot of comment online about the rerelease of the ghostwritten-by-committee young adult novel series Sweet Valley High that was immensely popular in the 1980s and 1990s, specifically the modern updating of the twins from size 6 to size 4. I agree that it's stupid (why provide their sizes at all?) and unnecessary.

But why hasn't anyone really pointed out...

That the books aren't that good to begin with? Predictable, soapy, formulaic, they suffered due to the episodic nature of the series (Jessica, forget all the lessons you learned in the previous book!) and the writing was straightforward without being at all interesting. I wasn't obsessed with SVH like some of my classmates were in junior high; I just couldn't get on board with a series where you could see the ending by chapter three.