Published 1995
★★★★
This miniseries was (spoiler: still is) some of my favourite Sweet Valley reading back in the day. In Deadly Voyage, Elizabeth and Jessica are super excited to go on a field trip...until the boat pulls away with the chaperones still on shore. (Then only Jessica is excited, and Elizabeth is worried that Something's Not Right). As it turns out, of course, Something Is Not Right, and the twins discover that (dun dun dun) the boat has been hijacked!
Cue high drama, high seas, and an impending storm. The field trip is a mix of the Unicorns and the Goody-Two-Shoes Brigade, which means that they immediately start fighting over who should make decisions (Janet thinks she should make decisions, because she's an eighth grader; Bruce thinks he should make decisions, because his father is rich; Elizabeth thinks she should make decisions, because she has considerably more brain cells than Janet and Bruce combined) while the hijackers make plans to murder the admittedly very irritating tweenagers they have on board.
Drama! Violence! Brattiness! This one has it all. Jessica and her cohort can't quite decide which is more important—their survival, or whether they're sucking up to the right tweenagers. Elizabeth and her cohort are definitely more interested in survival, but also have a habit of pissing off the baddies. And as the book ends, it's Elizabeth who is left for the sharks...
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