When we last left our heroes, Lila was having her therapist arrested for fake attempted rape (par for the course in Sweet Valley, you know). Bruce was coping with his rage over Heroically Deaf Dead From Coke Regina by getting himself kicked in the head during the riot between Sweet Valley High and Big Mesa, but not before he spots a girl in the
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I think the worst part of the book is when poor Lila is questioned by the school principle in front of her alleged attacker. The ghostwriters have really done a diservice to girls with the way they write about rape, no one experiences serious consquences, everyone questions you, people don't believe you. I don't think it would going to far to suggest that reading these books could cause girls to think that it is not worth reporting rapes.
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Are you planning to write this one up too? I know you mentioned before that you'd read it, and your recaps are hilarious.
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I don't think I'll write this one up, your recap covers everything I would have and was so funny. I am thinking of covering some of the SVU books I have, I need to read them.
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Yeah. I was twelve or something when I read this book and I recognized that right off. My friends (who also read these things like there was no tomorrow) were appalled that I had the nerve to feel a bit sorry for Margo. But I digress.
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does this mean Nicholas and Liv will be together?
Nope! She falls in luv with the crazy painting guy, and in #96 Nick finds a girlfriend on that dating game show. He dates two crazy people and then one normal girl. He's pretty mean to the weird girls, though, which makes me think that his singleness might - ever so slightly - be because he sucks.
Bruce is hilarious in this book! I'm so happy you liked that paragraph!
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(Of course, there's not much happiness inside of Sweet Valley either, but at least there everyone is tan and blonde.)
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So IMO you rock.
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