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Sweet Valley University #10: No Means No

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This book should be titled “How Elizabeth Wakefield Turned Psycho and Jessica Wakefield was Almost Date Raped”. Of course it doesn’t matter what happens to Jess because you know she’ll rebound. It’s almost a good thing that the books tackled the subject, but not the way they did. You just know that after one book, she’ll completely forget it ever happened and Liz will only mention it as part of her “my poor sister has had such a hard year”, along with her two-week mistake of a marriage, as it’s now described in the books. Basically Jess and James Montgomery are now a couple, kind of. They go out all the time, everyone thinks they’re a couple and for the last two books, Jess has made it out like they were a couple. Now though, she worries a little because she thinks that he’s more serious about her than she is about him. They go out and he’s all over her and not listening to what she says, which is red flag #1, but of course she doesn’t pick up on it. Red flag #2 is when her sorority si