I just finished the first book in the Caitlin series and omgf, what a doozie. I haven’t had time yet to do a review but I HAD to post the back cover description. Make sure you have an empty stomach.
Caitlin. Beautiful. Dazzling. Charming. Outrageous. Rich. Unfrorgettable. And very, very clever.
To everyone at her exclusive boarding school, she seems to have it all. But there is a secret need that haunts her life.
A need for love.
And only one boy can make her forget her cold home life can fullfill her need for love: handsome, sensitive Jed Michaels. Jed, who has already given his heart to another girl.
Still, headstrong Caitlin is determined to win him for herself, one way or another. But then a tragedy occurs, a terrible event that has such far-reaching consequences that not even the incomparable Caitlin can deal with them….
Loving is the first in a series about the stubborn, raven-haired beauty, Caitlin. There’s never been a heroine like her.
Ihatewheat. Sick to her stomach. Repulsed. Rolling her eyes. And very, very ready to tear this book a new one.
Haha. That’s quite funny.
ooohhh. haven’t heard of this series but i can’t wait for your recaps
Oh man, Caitlin was so awesome with the badness! Can’t WAIT for the review!
I have this horrible repressed memory trying to surface that suggests I may have actually read this series. Is there a horse-back-riding accident involved? God, who knows.
Caitlin sucks monkey. The horrible stereotypes, awful characters and inconsistancies in these books is appalling. Which means I’ll be clicking here on an hourly basis waiting for recaps!
yes, there are horses involved!
Sorry to say I may not get around to it until next week.
If you loved me like Jed loves Caitlin, you’d recap quicker.
!!! I have been looking all over for those, they are so horrible and nasty and unspeakably awesome. I covet your Caitlins, yall.
Oooooo! I am ordering it off of amazon today!
Oh my God. I have a terrible feeling that I’ve read this book. Not the entire series, but at least the first book. I’d forgotten about it entirely.
Oh, my, does this sound awful. I do not recall ever reading the Caitlin books. And considering my little brother is also blessed with the name Jed (short for Jedediah and no, we are not even near being hicks) I think I would have remembered this awfulness!
I seem to remember reading these as well. Were’nt there like three trilogies??
I effing loved the Caitlin series. So much so that when I was like fourteen, I swore I was going to go to Sweetbriar College because they had horses there.
Then I remembered I hate horses.
Ok I read this and remembered reading atleast this first book probably around junior high and I LOVED it.. I came close to ordering all 9 ( 3 trilogies) them off of amazon just now after reading this but they didn’t have one of them. I might check other site but I think maybe i’ll just check my local used books store this weekend..
I just ordered this one a few days ago. Honestly? I CAN’T WAIT!
Aw, I used to get so sucked in as a kid by those descriptions of impossibly beautiful and clever and marvelous girls. Now – I’m with you – ugh! At least the baby sitters club tempered the gorgeousness (Claud, Stacey, occasionally Dawn) with Mallory.
Didn’t they advertise this series by saying something like “she’s Jessica Wakefield, only prettier and more devious” – can’t remember. I can’t believe they barfed all over +/- 100,000 readers with that.
I’m reading “Elizabeth Betrayed” right now… it make me so happy every time I see that title.
Oh noes! I’m going to have to go on hiatus or something. No Caitlin recaps for me until I’ve reread them! I’ve been meaning to hunt them down, but I don’t, you know, wanna PAY for them or anything…Man, Jed was a tool.
“On hiatus”? I mean “into hibernation.” Yeah, okay.
Jed was a fucking asshole rat bastard. But never forget, he and Caitlin were SOULMATES. *eye roll*
OMG… I’d forgotten their existence and inmediately ordered the first in the trilogy off Amazon. It sounds completely barf, which means it will come as a welcome distraction from my thesis. BTW miss Dairi Burger i LOVE your recaps. I live in Holland where no-one read these books in high school and it’s so cool to finally read about fellow addictees who like to temporarily turn their brains into disbelief-suspending mush! Keep up the good work!
I think that “stubborn, raven-haired beauty” on the back cover tells us all we need to know about the “quality” of this book…
I love how there’s only ONE BOY who can satisfy her need for luvin, and that the bitch will stop at nothing to steal someone else’s boyfriend away…
gag.
I won’t be satisfied unless her eyes are the color of the sky during a storm. Actually…with her raven hair, are we certain that this isn’t Margo’s triplet? That’s the only person I can imagine being more devious than Jessica Wakefield
I loved these books! I loved the boarding school aspect … and the awful burden of being rich. Didn’t she despise visiting her cranky rich grandma? And then I remember grandma took her on a limo ride through Pennsylvania and Caitlin was shocked and appalled at seeing how her family’s mining company was wrecking the land.
OMG, I’m so happy that you’re recapping Caitlin! I read all nine books, and they were truly awful, in the best way. Yup, there’s “soul mates,” horse riding accidents, a toddler who almost dies due to Caitlin’s insensitivity, a long-lost father, a cold grandmother, boarding school, and probably some great clothing descriptions. It’s got SO many wonderful elements!
Ha, I am looking forward to this one. I’ve never read any of the Caitlin series but was always intrigued by the fact that she is supposedly worse than Jessica Wakefield.
These books are HORRENDOUS. And not even “so bad they’re good”–just flat-out, stupidest-thing-I’ve-ever-read BAD.
What always got me is Julian’s obsession with Caitlin. For those who don’t remember, long story short, Julian is a guy who grew up dirt-poor in a mining town. Caitlin’s grandmother, I believe, owned the mines there (?). Anyway, Caitlin, as a child, visited the town once with her grandmother and was “mean” to poor Julian. This sparks in Julian a lifelong fixation on Caitlin.
No, really.
He cuts out newspaper articles about her and plots to ruin her life and, once they meet again in college, pretends to be in love with her and…
Come now. This is William White- or Margo-level crazy. And stupid. People who IRL are this fixated on other people get medicated or institutionalized.
okay. as a kid, my parents let me read pretty much anything. but when my mom took one look at the side-of-a-70s-van script that said either ‘caitlin’ or ‘loving’- purty sure it was the latter- she put her foot down. direct quote: ‘what IS this? it looks like some gd harlequin romance for children.’
kinda the same reaction she had when she overheard the last guest to leave my 2nd or 3rd grade sleepover tell me that ‘you don’t have to be married to have babies’.
hah! that’s funny shit! dairi burger, thanks for the mems.
jms, but he magically and with Caitlin’s inspiration becomes this awesome, wonderful, altruistic person who is good and noble enough to marry Caitlin’s second-class best friend, Ginny. *eye roll*
Then there’s Jed, who plots to date-rape Caitlin as “revenge” for her lying. She sure attracts the winners, huh?
crap, there are NINE Caitlin books?
Hurts, don’t it, baby?
Also, I have to go through the second three Caitlin books for my PhD dissertation (long, long, long story, but… college girl fiction), so I was gonna tackle some ‘caps one of these days. I’ll take the bullet.
Unless, of course, like Caitlin, YOU must be the star of the show!
I just ordered these on eBay…. holy hell, I’m excited now!!! hehehe
I read the first one when I was younger and I absolutely loathed Caitlin more so than Jessica, which is a pretty tough barrier to crack. Can’t wait for the recap. It might inspire me to actually finish the series. ^_^
LOL okay i got the first 3 caitlin books for 50cents each when i was a kid. then recently i found out theres 2 other trilogies WTF?this shit never ends ! hope theyre as good at the first 3 books
Actually this sounds like a lot of romance novels I’ve read the backs of–the price you pay for working in a bookstore. But like the other commenters, I’d love to hear your recaps.
I saw the promotion on the back of one or two early SVH books. Sounds stupid. Need for love? Come on, that sounds so desperate. Just get a friggin dog.
I remember Caitlin. Ahh, I loved those books. Can’t wait to read your recap
I LURVED the Caitlin series. It’s so cracktastic that it makes SVH look like fine literature.
***Then there’s Jed, who plots to date-rape Caitlin as “revenge” for her lying. She sure attracts the winners, huh?***
I was STUNNED when I read this. Holy shit.
Caitlin. Beautiful. Dazzling. Unable to talk in complete sentences.
“But there is a secret need that haunts her life.
A need for love.”
I’m pretty sure Sharper Image can help you with that, Caitlin.