Young Adult Revisited

This is basically the book where Jessica gets to call another girl a whore and we learn that doctors in Sweet Valley should really get their license revoked. The book starts out with Jessica going over the list of girls trying out for the cheerleading squad. Oddly enough, 75 girls sign up and later on in the book, someone mentions that it’s half the female student body. So if we have 150 girls and roughly the same amount of guys…then Sweet Valley is the same size as my craptastic little high school! Suddenly everything makes sense! Anyway, only two spots are available and she’s already promised one spot to Cara Walker. Apparently Cara and Lila were once cheerleaders, but got put on probation/kicked off after turning on the sprinklers or doing something stupid like that to another squad. Funnily enough, when we get in the later books and Jess asks Lila to join her squad, everyone acts like Lila has never been a cheerleader before. Jessica discovers that Annie Whitman is trying out for t

I swear that half this book involves Isabella yelling at Danny. She doesn’t want him telling his buddy Jason that he saw the guy’s fiancée making out with Tom. Really? She says it was one kiss and means nothing, but that’s bull shit. He’s about to marry the girl and he should really know something like that. Danny agrees, but then turns it around so that he’s just trying to get Jason to call off the wedding. Like he tries to get him to check out other girls and he won’t. then he tries to convince him that marriage is expensive. Jason is kind of a dick though. He says they’ll save money because Nicole has a good job lined up and their friends will give them expensive gifts. Jessica goes all crazy. She found a button belonging to her mysterious stranger and keeps going through all these cabins, looking for a shirt with the same button. Apparently the keys to her suitcases are the right size to fit the locks. Yeah right. She hears Danny talking about the kiss, then sees Liz crying in bed,

I really want to punch Liz Wakefield in the face right now. She inherited what seems like a huge amount of money and gives it all away to charity because it isn’t really her money. The guy almost killed you and all your friends you dumb, stupid bitch. That money could pay for college, or hell she could buy her way onto a newspaper. She decides to buy everyone tickets for some random college cruise to make up for their near death. Liz then holds a party where everyone acts like she’s the greatest person in the world. Hmm, let’s see. You all almost died just because you were friends with her, then Liz inherits a quagillion dollars and buys you all freaking cruise tickets and you’re willing to forgive her. Oh wait, she also bought them pastries. My bad. Conveniently Lila and Bruce are also going on the cruise. Liz is supposed to go pick up the tickets, but can’t make it so Tom volunteers to take her place. He and Liz are having problems because they never have any time together since Jess

Tom’s starting to feel like his girlfriend doesn’t want him or need him and given that he’s dating Liz, this isn’t that much of a long shot. All she cares about is helping Jess get over what happened with James, even though we all know it will be forgotten by the next book. Tom gets a call from Bob Hemphill, a reporter that wants him to join the football team and do a story about how the team copes with a situation like James. He agrees and then Liz flips out on him because he joined the team without telling her. Winston is such a clown that Denise suggests he try out for the role of Braino, the school mascot that goes to all the games. He tries out, screws up and when Denise rescues him, they both get the job. Alex is now dating Noah, but he’s worrying about how he might be too boring for her. Todd has coffee with some random guy who lets him borrow his car to get to class. Todd accidentally crashes the car and finds out that it was stolen. The cops arrest him and Alex and Liz combine

Molly Hecht is a complete and total pariah and outcast at Sweet Valley High. Didn’t you know that she killed Regina Morrow? Of course Regina willingly took the coke and folded due to peer pressure faster than I fold towels, but that’s not the point. The point is that Molly is totally a killer. All the kids at school think so, including her ex Justin, who was getting a little too close with Regina, Nicholas Morrow thinks so and her parents definitely think so. Molly, to her credit, pretty much just sits back and takes it from everyone originally. She over hears people talking about her in the hallway, like Jess who calls her a druggie and a murderer. Jessica is, as we all know, just a harmless (usually) psychopath and that’s somehow a lot better. She decides that she’ll talk to Liz because Liz seems nice, but Liz completely blows her off. Then she goes to Regina’s grave and Nicholas goes off on her. I think it’s funny how in this book they (once again) try to establish Liz and Regina as