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Sweet Valley High #59
In Love Again
Elizabeth Wakefield's romance with her old boyfriend, Todd Wilkins, is back on, but their relationship is threatened by Todd's new snobby friends
150 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 23, 1990
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Francine Pascal
1,139 books1,843 followersFrancine Paula Pascal was an American author best known for her Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. Sweet Valley High, the backbone of the collection, was made into a television series, which led to several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. Although most of these books were published in the 1980s and 1990s, they remained so popular that several titles were re-released decades later.
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September 18, 2019
A whole book about Todd and Liz getting back together? Bleurghk. I even felt a tiny bit sorry for boring old Jeffery.
The sub-plot of Jess wanting to go to the posh school was kind of funny, it just shows how determined she is at times 😂
Courtney is a right cow, I would’ve loved to have seen a full on cat fight between her and Queen Lila!
The sub-plot of Jess wanting to go to the posh school was kind of funny, it just shows how determined she is at times 😂
Courtney is a right cow, I would’ve loved to have seen a full on cat fight between her and Queen Lila!
December 2, 2020
I downloaded this book via Kindle Unlimited.
In this book, Liz and Todd are so loved up they keep forgetting their previous commitments like team sports and writing for the school paper but they're finding going to different schools and keeping up with their commitments and one another more complicated than they originally thought. When one disagreement leads to another, and then another, Todd, weeks after winning back her heart, decides maybe this was all a mistake and breaks up with her again, she is obviously heartbroken. Honestly, this book seemed so dramatic following the last one, which also was incredibly dramatic. This whole Liz/Todd on, off, on again drama has honestly been one of the more interesting arcs but it still has been extremely dramatic.
In this book, Liz and Todd are so loved up they keep forgetting their previous commitments like team sports and writing for the school paper but they're finding going to different schools and keeping up with their commitments and one another more complicated than they originally thought. When one disagreement leads to another, and then another, Todd, weeks after winning back her heart, decides maybe this was all a mistake and breaks up with her again, she is obviously heartbroken. Honestly, this book seemed so dramatic following the last one, which also was incredibly dramatic. This whole Liz/Todd on, off, on again drama has honestly been one of the more interesting arcs but it still has been extremely dramatic.
January 16, 2019
Kicking off 2019 on a weird note!
Stressed about starting a new job, I got an aloe vera peeling mask on and some pjs and wandered around my bookshelf and saw I had two Sweet Valley High books.
Laughing to myself I started flipping through one and then ended up reading this whole book while on the couch.
I finished the book relaxed, less stressed out and taken to a bizarre 80s world of Sweet Valley with rich kids and mineral water and cheerleading practices and country clubs and a high school Olympics everyone is stoked to be part of.
It was blissed out returning to this weird world I liked back in 1988 and slept like a Valiumed baby.
#WakeField4Eva
Stressed about starting a new job, I got an aloe vera peeling mask on and some pjs and wandered around my bookshelf and saw I had two Sweet Valley High books.
Laughing to myself I started flipping through one and then ended up reading this whole book while on the couch.
I finished the book relaxed, less stressed out and taken to a bizarre 80s world of Sweet Valley with rich kids and mineral water and cheerleading practices and country clubs and a high school Olympics everyone is stoked to be part of.
It was blissed out returning to this weird world I liked back in 1988 and slept like a Valiumed baby.
#WakeField4Eva
June 13, 2020
Pretty cheesy, and frankly the Todd and Liz story was dull, but the subplot about Jessica deciding she wants to go to Lovett Academy is fun, and the hokey-ness of the Battle of the Schools contest is such a classic 1980s trope that I genuinely grinned while reading it- the Sweet Valley version of Battle of the Network Stars. 2 stars.
August 30, 2024
So yeah as seen on the cover, Liz is back with Todd…but it’s like, Todd 2.0. This new version of Todd drives at BMW, lives in a mansion, goes to fancy private school with fancy new friends who do fancy activities (polo, anyone? LOL). Since Lovett the private school is an hour away, both Todd and Liz are sacrificing their studying and school time to see each other and meanwhile Liz just feels like chopped liver next to his new hoity toity friends. OH and that hot rich bitch from the last book is back to cause mischief. So how the hell are Liz and Todd gonna work this out?
Meanwhile poor Jeffrey French, Liz’s ex boyfriend whom she unceremoniously DUMPED to run back into Todd’s arms, is stuck being on the same relay team as her for a Battle of the Schools competition between rival schools. Well sh1t, that’s awkward, especially since Liz is uncharacteristically so cold and callous towards him?
Anyways. Todd and Liz fight, break up, get back together. Todd decides he wants to return to Sweet Valley High instead of continuing to go to snobby Lovett to appease his father. The end. This installment of SVH was a bit snoozy, honestly. And I’m still sad about poor Jeffrey who got PLAYED, I TELL YA.
Meanwhile poor Jeffrey French, Liz’s ex boyfriend whom she unceremoniously DUMPED to run back into Todd’s arms, is stuck being on the same relay team as her for a Battle of the Schools competition between rival schools. Well sh1t, that’s awkward, especially since Liz is uncharacteristically so cold and callous towards him?
Anyways. Todd and Liz fight, break up, get back together. Todd decides he wants to return to Sweet Valley High instead of continuing to go to snobby Lovett to appease his father. The end. This installment of SVH was a bit snoozy, honestly. And I’m still sad about poor Jeffrey who got PLAYED, I TELL YA.
March 18, 2025
In Love Again
The talk going around SVH is that Elizabeth broke up with Jeffery and started going back with Todd over the weekend. Todd now goes to Lovett Academy (where all the rich kids go). Jessica is determined all of a sudden that Lovett Academy is where she belongs (because she’s bound to meet cute, rich, Lovett guys). I guess she’s run through all the ones at SVH. She claims she’ll get a better education (snorts), but well know she just wants to study the better ways to prosper at being a gold digger. Cara, Amy, and Lila dismiss her interest so she goes over to Liz to try to get the scoop on Lovett.
Liz and Enid don’t take her seriously either (surprise surprise). Liz tries to tell her that Lovett is very conservative and they have a rigorous academic schedule, but this doesn’t faze Jessica. Besides when she’s some rich, guys, piece she can get his servants to do her homework while she lounges on his yatch in a bikini made of dollar bills and sip champagne. Because it’s every rich, guys, dream to have a leech.
Liz feels bad about what she did to Jeffry (who is now avoiding her at school) but she can’t keep her mind off Todd. Only she admits he seems a little different now that he’s come up. Liz drops Jessica off downtown at the library so she can look up stuff about Lovett Academy. Liz gives her another warning that not only is Lovett wrong for her, but she thinks it’s wrong for Todd too. Jessica tries to guilt her about Jeffery who she says she’s seen moping around and she doesn’t think he’ll ever forget her. But she seems to be in favor of Todd because she says he’s fantastic. (Since when? Continuity error Jessica was never crazy about Todd after he dropped her for Liz). But I guess it’s the money. (Not that she’ll be getting any of it. I guess just basking in his success by association is enough for her).
At dinner Jessica brings up her plans to enroll at Lovett and Ned is surprised because it says he offered them the chance to go to private school and Jess wasn’t in favor of it. Jess brings up Liz wanting to go to Switzerland and he tells her if that’s what she wants she can look more into it. At Todd’s mansion (in the screening room) Liz and Todd make plans to see each other the next day. Liz has an Oracle meeting but Todd guilts her into spending time with him instead at Secca Lake. She also doesn’t do her home-work that night.
The Oracle meeting is the next day. Liz has somehow forgotten Jeffrey will be there because he should have been wiped out the pages of the book as soon as she dumped him. Liz stays a little while but can’t be bothered to stay for the whole thing. There’s some talk at the meeting of getting rid of the Eyes and Ears column Liz writes. Penny later gets on Liz’s case because she didn’t proofread a article she submitted and she talks to Todd and he’s also gotten in trouble because he’s missed some practices. So they decide to dial it back a little bit. Jessica meanwhile decides to take the Lovett exams coming up in two weeks.
Courtney Kane vows to get revenge on Todd for him dumping her for Elizabeth. At dinner her father tells her about an event coming up called “The Battle of the Schools”. The events are swimming, running, track and field. Tennis and a spelling bee and a College Bowl. Jessica immediately decides she can’t compete against her future school so she’s out. Liz isn’t sure about the competition because she really doesn’t like anyone at Lovett (other than Todd). She’s meet his friends and she’s not impressed. She goes over to Lovett to see Todd and when they’re on the campus they run into Courtney Kane who invites them (rather Todd) to a pool party. Todd says he won’t go if Liz can’t come. Courtney asks Liz if she plays Polo. So says no but she’d love to watch the rest of em. She invites Todd to a private golf game and he agrees.
That weekend, Liz gets ready for the party. She really doesn’t want to go! Jessica suggests doing a twin swap and going in her place. Liz says Todd might notice. In the car Todd is distracted he’s fussing around with the CD player in the car and Liz thinks about how he used to didn’t have those kinds of worries. But she doesn’t want to start anything with him so she lets it go. At the Country Club the first person they see is a guy named Campbell Rochester. He’s Courtney’s date but for some reason he keeps trying to talk to Liz. He follows her everywhere throughout the whole party. Todd leaves her alone for a lot of it. Finally, she sees someone she knows Ben Orson who’s a student at SVH and he’s the caddy. Immediately this puts her off to the Lovett crew because how dare she prefer the lower class to their company. Finally, she finds Todd and he says that he didn’t have a good time either. Liz is a little relieved. I’ll give Todd a half a point for leaving immediately. People don’t always do this when you want to leave.
Monday at school they tell the teams. Bruce and Kristen have been picked for the tennis competition. Aaron Dallas is picked for track. Bill is picked for swimming. Winston is picked for the College Bowl team. Olivia is on the Spelling Bee team. Liz, Robin, Ken Matthews and Jeffrey are on the relay team. It turns out Todd is also on the relay team so he’ll be competing against Elizabeth. They have a little disagreement about it (maybe when she first tells him it’s small then blows up later). But he goes with her to practice. Only Ken sends him away because he’s the competition and he can’t know their secrets. Todd later makes a remark about Liz should just quit and be his cheerleader. It says he jokingly says this but I don’t think he was joking. Liz gets mad and says why should she quit. I think at first he says he was wasn’t serious but then I think he says she really should quit the race.
They have a date planned the following day, but he’s half an hour late. When he gets there, he starts talking about his Lovett friends and how some of them have been name dropping the celebrities they’ve been hanging out with. Liz thinks how he never use to care about stuff like that. Todd and Liz argue. He tells her he’s tired of her getting on his case about Lovett and how he’s under pressure because this is what his Dad wants. He tells her that if she can’t get with that then maybe they need to break up. At this point, I would have been like BOY BYE (and gave Nicholas Morrow a call). But of course, Elizabeth is depressed and she talks to Enid about the breakup.
For the relay race (in case anyone was wondering) Jeffrey and Robin do the 3-legged race, Ken will do the sprint with the egg, and Liz will do the rope climb. Liz struggles with the rope climb and Jefferey offers to help her out. She finally makes it to the top with his help. Yet when he tries to find out what’s on her mind, she doesn’t go into it. Courtney approaches Todd at practice and invites him to a Laker’s game and he says “maybe” which makes her jump to conclusions that it’s on again with him and her. Courtney thinks (and has been hinting) that because her Dad is a judge Lovett has it in the bag, but he quickly sets her straight and tells her he won’t throw the competition because “it’s business”. So, Courtney plots with a friend of hers to win the competition by any means necessary. The competition goes on a couple of days.
Amy and Jessica go together to watch the events. Amy throws herself at Ken (which will come into play in the next book). Lovett takes lead when Todd beats Elizabeth at rope climbing. Liz is disappointed that afterwards Todd is waiting around to talk to her. Instead Courtney is there and she makes her feel worse by asking where he is and saying she thought he’d be there congratulating her on a job well done.
The next day Jess has her interview and even though she tries to get into Liz’s character the Lovett teacher isn’t impressed by her. She’s starting to feel like maybe Lovett isn’t the place for her, but decides after all the talk she’s done she’ll go through with taking the exam any way. She runs into Tood who thinks she’s Liz and she goes back and tells Liz it’s clear to see that Todd misses her like crazy. She tells her she should call him, but Liz thinks he should be the one to make the first move. Jessica tells her this is dumb but when she tries to call him, she doesn’t get him. Courtney gets a friend of hers to help sabotage the competition with promises of a green sweater with a black border. (But if she’s a Lovett student she could probably buy this sweater herself or have one custom made like it. I think it’s more out of fear of Courtney).
At the College Bowl Courtney gives the Lovett team the win by tugging on the curtains once if the answer is false and twice if its true (her friend has the answer book). But Jessica notices whenever the team answers they look over toward the curtains and they move. Courtney also switches Elizabeth’s rope to an old frayed one (which causes her to lose her balance and fall). Todd rushes over to her, scoops her up in his arms, and all arguments are forgotten. They decide since Liz can’t race, they need another event to determine the winner and Bruce says they should have a tug of war. Jessica joins no longer interested in going to Lovett taking Liz’s place.
They’re losing at first but Todd yells out encouragement and his roar is what they need to give them a extra boost and they win. Courtney is outraged that Lovett should have been the winners. Courtney comes up to Jessica and tells her she’ll never get into Lovett and Jessica tells her she’s no longer interested if it means she’ll have to go to school with people like her. She tells her she knows about what she did with the curtains and the rope.
Later they all celebrate at the Dairi Burger and we go into the next book (Amy is being flirtatious with Ken) and decides he’s her next conquest.
My Thoughts:
I knew this book would annoy me. I just don’t have the patience for girls who act like the world is about to end if they’re not up under there boyfriends all the damn time. It’s called “having a life”.
When I was in high school (junior just like Liz) I was dating this guy who I was HEAD OVER HEELS in love with. Talk about the ideal guy. He was tall, slender, clean cut, had curly hair, and big brown puppy dog eyes (similar to Todd’s). He wasn’t a thing like Todd tho. He was a gentleman and a little on the shy side. Anyhow we went to different high schools. They weren’t an hour apart (maybe they were some minutes apart). But my point is I didn’t (that I recall) sit up in class and pine for him like my life was over.
I couldn’t *wait* till we talked later that night or went to his school’s basket ball games together because yeah there is something that’s just magical when you’re in love, but I think these books take it a little to the extreme. I don’t remember my grades slipping or my head being so gone that I skipped school stuff to be with him (probably cause I wasn’t in a lot of school stuff to begin with). SVH females (Liz and Jess) act like they can’t function if they’re apart from who they’re dating a hot minute. And to me its IRRATATING!
Todd irritates me in this 1. When he and Liz are in the screening room watching the movie instead of telling her to go to the Oracle meeting and that he’ll be there when it’s done instead tells her “Don’t tell me I won’t be able to see you till tomorrow night. I won’t be able to stand it. FAIL! Todd hasn’t even been back yet and already I wish he’d go back to Vermont.
Then 2) He tells her when he finds out she tried out for the relay race he tells her couldn’t she switch and do something else or bag it all together. Then he tries to make it seem like he’s teasing. I don’t buy it. So instead of supporting your girlfriend in the race you tell her you don’t like the fact that it means she’ll be competing against you because you both agreed not to compete with each other? This to me is some NONSENSE! A REAL man wouldn’t feel intimidated by this girl going after the same thing (and a simple thing like a race where just school pride is at stake). Does it *really* matter in the long run who wins a school competition that will be forgotten about in a week or so. And I think the prize was appearing in a shoe commercial. Just doesn’t seem that important to me.
3 He breaks up with her because he’s sick of her judging him. At this point Liz to me has been tolerant. She’s gone to several of his friend’s events and then when she’s expressed her opinion about Todd and its school it hasn’t been to him. Mainly it’s been to Enid and Jessica. Todd is such a jerk! Jeffery may not have been all that exciting but at least he didn’t break up with her for dumb reasons. Jefferey AGAIN was the winner in the story. He helps Liz rope climb. Any other guy would have probably left her hanging and been like “Not my problem. Let your new man teach you how to climb ropes.” Then it’s yet another book where there’s some athletic competition going on and I’m totally zoned out to that part of it.
Rating: 5
The talk going around SVH is that Elizabeth broke up with Jeffery and started going back with Todd over the weekend. Todd now goes to Lovett Academy (where all the rich kids go). Jessica is determined all of a sudden that Lovett Academy is where she belongs (because she’s bound to meet cute, rich, Lovett guys). I guess she’s run through all the ones at SVH. She claims she’ll get a better education (snorts), but well know she just wants to study the better ways to prosper at being a gold digger. Cara, Amy, and Lila dismiss her interest so she goes over to Liz to try to get the scoop on Lovett.
Liz and Enid don’t take her seriously either (surprise surprise). Liz tries to tell her that Lovett is very conservative and they have a rigorous academic schedule, but this doesn’t faze Jessica. Besides when she’s some rich, guys, piece she can get his servants to do her homework while she lounges on his yatch in a bikini made of dollar bills and sip champagne. Because it’s every rich, guys, dream to have a leech.
Liz feels bad about what she did to Jeffry (who is now avoiding her at school) but she can’t keep her mind off Todd. Only she admits he seems a little different now that he’s come up. Liz drops Jessica off downtown at the library so she can look up stuff about Lovett Academy. Liz gives her another warning that not only is Lovett wrong for her, but she thinks it’s wrong for Todd too. Jessica tries to guilt her about Jeffery who she says she’s seen moping around and she doesn’t think he’ll ever forget her. But she seems to be in favor of Todd because she says he’s fantastic. (Since when? Continuity error Jessica was never crazy about Todd after he dropped her for Liz). But I guess it’s the money. (Not that she’ll be getting any of it. I guess just basking in his success by association is enough for her).
At dinner Jessica brings up her plans to enroll at Lovett and Ned is surprised because it says he offered them the chance to go to private school and Jess wasn’t in favor of it. Jess brings up Liz wanting to go to Switzerland and he tells her if that’s what she wants she can look more into it. At Todd’s mansion (in the screening room) Liz and Todd make plans to see each other the next day. Liz has an Oracle meeting but Todd guilts her into spending time with him instead at Secca Lake. She also doesn’t do her home-work that night.
The Oracle meeting is the next day. Liz has somehow forgotten Jeffrey will be there because he should have been wiped out the pages of the book as soon as she dumped him. Liz stays a little while but can’t be bothered to stay for the whole thing. There’s some talk at the meeting of getting rid of the Eyes and Ears column Liz writes. Penny later gets on Liz’s case because she didn’t proofread a article she submitted and she talks to Todd and he’s also gotten in trouble because he’s missed some practices. So they decide to dial it back a little bit. Jessica meanwhile decides to take the Lovett exams coming up in two weeks.
Courtney Kane vows to get revenge on Todd for him dumping her for Elizabeth. At dinner her father tells her about an event coming up called “The Battle of the Schools”. The events are swimming, running, track and field. Tennis and a spelling bee and a College Bowl. Jessica immediately decides she can’t compete against her future school so she’s out. Liz isn’t sure about the competition because she really doesn’t like anyone at Lovett (other than Todd). She’s meet his friends and she’s not impressed. She goes over to Lovett to see Todd and when they’re on the campus they run into Courtney Kane who invites them (rather Todd) to a pool party. Todd says he won’t go if Liz can’t come. Courtney asks Liz if she plays Polo. So says no but she’d love to watch the rest of em. She invites Todd to a private golf game and he agrees.
That weekend, Liz gets ready for the party. She really doesn’t want to go! Jessica suggests doing a twin swap and going in her place. Liz says Todd might notice. In the car Todd is distracted he’s fussing around with the CD player in the car and Liz thinks about how he used to didn’t have those kinds of worries. But she doesn’t want to start anything with him so she lets it go. At the Country Club the first person they see is a guy named Campbell Rochester. He’s Courtney’s date but for some reason he keeps trying to talk to Liz. He follows her everywhere throughout the whole party. Todd leaves her alone for a lot of it. Finally, she sees someone she knows Ben Orson who’s a student at SVH and he’s the caddy. Immediately this puts her off to the Lovett crew because how dare she prefer the lower class to their company. Finally, she finds Todd and he says that he didn’t have a good time either. Liz is a little relieved. I’ll give Todd a half a point for leaving immediately. People don’t always do this when you want to leave.
Monday at school they tell the teams. Bruce and Kristen have been picked for the tennis competition. Aaron Dallas is picked for track. Bill is picked for swimming. Winston is picked for the College Bowl team. Olivia is on the Spelling Bee team. Liz, Robin, Ken Matthews and Jeffrey are on the relay team. It turns out Todd is also on the relay team so he’ll be competing against Elizabeth. They have a little disagreement about it (maybe when she first tells him it’s small then blows up later). But he goes with her to practice. Only Ken sends him away because he’s the competition and he can’t know their secrets. Todd later makes a remark about Liz should just quit and be his cheerleader. It says he jokingly says this but I don’t think he was joking. Liz gets mad and says why should she quit. I think at first he says he was wasn’t serious but then I think he says she really should quit the race.
They have a date planned the following day, but he’s half an hour late. When he gets there, he starts talking about his Lovett friends and how some of them have been name dropping the celebrities they’ve been hanging out with. Liz thinks how he never use to care about stuff like that. Todd and Liz argue. He tells her he’s tired of her getting on his case about Lovett and how he’s under pressure because this is what his Dad wants. He tells her that if she can’t get with that then maybe they need to break up. At this point, I would have been like BOY BYE (and gave Nicholas Morrow a call). But of course, Elizabeth is depressed and she talks to Enid about the breakup.
For the relay race (in case anyone was wondering) Jeffrey and Robin do the 3-legged race, Ken will do the sprint with the egg, and Liz will do the rope climb. Liz struggles with the rope climb and Jefferey offers to help her out. She finally makes it to the top with his help. Yet when he tries to find out what’s on her mind, she doesn’t go into it. Courtney approaches Todd at practice and invites him to a Laker’s game and he says “maybe” which makes her jump to conclusions that it’s on again with him and her. Courtney thinks (and has been hinting) that because her Dad is a judge Lovett has it in the bag, but he quickly sets her straight and tells her he won’t throw the competition because “it’s business”. So, Courtney plots with a friend of hers to win the competition by any means necessary. The competition goes on a couple of days.
Amy and Jessica go together to watch the events. Amy throws herself at Ken (which will come into play in the next book). Lovett takes lead when Todd beats Elizabeth at rope climbing. Liz is disappointed that afterwards Todd is waiting around to talk to her. Instead Courtney is there and she makes her feel worse by asking where he is and saying she thought he’d be there congratulating her on a job well done.
The next day Jess has her interview and even though she tries to get into Liz’s character the Lovett teacher isn’t impressed by her. She’s starting to feel like maybe Lovett isn’t the place for her, but decides after all the talk she’s done she’ll go through with taking the exam any way. She runs into Tood who thinks she’s Liz and she goes back and tells Liz it’s clear to see that Todd misses her like crazy. She tells her she should call him, but Liz thinks he should be the one to make the first move. Jessica tells her this is dumb but when she tries to call him, she doesn’t get him. Courtney gets a friend of hers to help sabotage the competition with promises of a green sweater with a black border. (But if she’s a Lovett student she could probably buy this sweater herself or have one custom made like it. I think it’s more out of fear of Courtney).
At the College Bowl Courtney gives the Lovett team the win by tugging on the curtains once if the answer is false and twice if its true (her friend has the answer book). But Jessica notices whenever the team answers they look over toward the curtains and they move. Courtney also switches Elizabeth’s rope to an old frayed one (which causes her to lose her balance and fall). Todd rushes over to her, scoops her up in his arms, and all arguments are forgotten. They decide since Liz can’t race, they need another event to determine the winner and Bruce says they should have a tug of war. Jessica joins no longer interested in going to Lovett taking Liz’s place.
They’re losing at first but Todd yells out encouragement and his roar is what they need to give them a extra boost and they win. Courtney is outraged that Lovett should have been the winners. Courtney comes up to Jessica and tells her she’ll never get into Lovett and Jessica tells her she’s no longer interested if it means she’ll have to go to school with people like her. She tells her she knows about what she did with the curtains and the rope.
Later they all celebrate at the Dairi Burger and we go into the next book (Amy is being flirtatious with Ken) and decides he’s her next conquest.
My Thoughts:
I knew this book would annoy me. I just don’t have the patience for girls who act like the world is about to end if they’re not up under there boyfriends all the damn time. It’s called “having a life”.
When I was in high school (junior just like Liz) I was dating this guy who I was HEAD OVER HEELS in love with. Talk about the ideal guy. He was tall, slender, clean cut, had curly hair, and big brown puppy dog eyes (similar to Todd’s). He wasn’t a thing like Todd tho. He was a gentleman and a little on the shy side. Anyhow we went to different high schools. They weren’t an hour apart (maybe they were some minutes apart). But my point is I didn’t (that I recall) sit up in class and pine for him like my life was over.
I couldn’t *wait* till we talked later that night or went to his school’s basket ball games together because yeah there is something that’s just magical when you’re in love, but I think these books take it a little to the extreme. I don’t remember my grades slipping or my head being so gone that I skipped school stuff to be with him (probably cause I wasn’t in a lot of school stuff to begin with). SVH females (Liz and Jess) act like they can’t function if they’re apart from who they’re dating a hot minute. And to me its IRRATATING!
Todd irritates me in this 1. When he and Liz are in the screening room watching the movie instead of telling her to go to the Oracle meeting and that he’ll be there when it’s done instead tells her “Don’t tell me I won’t be able to see you till tomorrow night. I won’t be able to stand it. FAIL! Todd hasn’t even been back yet and already I wish he’d go back to Vermont.
Then 2) He tells her when he finds out she tried out for the relay race he tells her couldn’t she switch and do something else or bag it all together. Then he tries to make it seem like he’s teasing. I don’t buy it. So instead of supporting your girlfriend in the race you tell her you don’t like the fact that it means she’ll be competing against you because you both agreed not to compete with each other? This to me is some NONSENSE! A REAL man wouldn’t feel intimidated by this girl going after the same thing (and a simple thing like a race where just school pride is at stake). Does it *really* matter in the long run who wins a school competition that will be forgotten about in a week or so. And I think the prize was appearing in a shoe commercial. Just doesn’t seem that important to me.
3 He breaks up with her because he’s sick of her judging him. At this point Liz to me has been tolerant. She’s gone to several of his friend’s events and then when she’s expressed her opinion about Todd and its school it hasn’t been to him. Mainly it’s been to Enid and Jessica. Todd is such a jerk! Jeffery may not have been all that exciting but at least he didn’t break up with her for dumb reasons. Jefferey AGAIN was the winner in the story. He helps Liz rope climb. Any other guy would have probably left her hanging and been like “Not my problem. Let your new man teach you how to climb ropes.” Then it’s yet another book where there’s some athletic competition going on and I’m totally zoned out to that part of it.
Rating: 5
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 19, 2024
This might be the dumbest one they ever did. Todd moves back, dad is massively rich overnight, they move into one of these totally random mansions that exist alongside normal homes for some reason, and Todd gets a personality transplant along with it.
There's a battle of the schools that no one would care about in real life. Courtney Kane comes back, like anyone cares. She is so bitter over Todd not liking her that she...cheats to make her school win this thing that doesn't matter at all.
Jess catches her and saves the day...but doesn't report what Courtney did, even though Courtney GAVE LIZ A FRAYED ROPE TO CLIMB AND IT COULD HAVE KILLED HER. We're not gonna stop this crazy girl before she really hurts someone?? Okay, just checking.
Then Todd has ANOTHER sudden personality transplant in a heartbeat and just switches schools...while we are told repeatedly that playing polo is equal to devil worship, basically. Oh, and salad? Not real food. Gotta go for burgers! I'm so glad I know this, now...especially as a vegetarian.
The one good thing is that, as it happens, they kept Todd's character consistent from here through the University series - he was ALWAYS an ass.
And Liz, let's face it, was always a moron.
There's a battle of the schools that no one would care about in real life. Courtney Kane comes back, like anyone cares. She is so bitter over Todd not liking her that she...cheats to make her school win this thing that doesn't matter at all.
Jess catches her and saves the day...but doesn't report what Courtney did, even though Courtney GAVE LIZ A FRAYED ROPE TO CLIMB AND IT COULD HAVE KILLED HER. We're not gonna stop this crazy girl before she really hurts someone?? Okay, just checking.
Then Todd has ANOTHER sudden personality transplant in a heartbeat and just switches schools...while we are told repeatedly that playing polo is equal to devil worship, basically. Oh, and salad? Not real food. Gotta go for burgers! I'm so glad I know this, now...especially as a vegetarian.
The one good thing is that, as it happens, they kept Todd's character consistent from here through the University series - he was ALWAYS an ass.
And Liz, let's face it, was always a moron.
June 4, 2021
In love again
Ok so in SVH senior year Liz is all “so glad I broke up with Todd cause he was controlling and possessive (true) and he always wanted to be together but with Connor it’s like we’re two people” except she didn’t break up with Todd in SVH for any of these reasons. She did it because of Devon whitelaw. But in this book, Liz’s entire work ethic slips because she can’t be with Todd during the day, which is distressing and they break up because Todd’s a twat and Elizabeth’s Elizabeth. Honestly, I wish Todd had died and not Sam. Todd’s a jerk.
Ok so in SVH senior year Liz is all “so glad I broke up with Todd cause he was controlling and possessive (true) and he always wanted to be together but with Connor it’s like we’re two people” except she didn’t break up with Todd in SVH for any of these reasons. She did it because of Devon whitelaw. But in this book, Liz’s entire work ethic slips because she can’t be with Todd during the day, which is distressing and they break up because Todd’s a twat and Elizabeth’s Elizabeth. Honestly, I wish Todd had died and not Sam. Todd’s a jerk.
November 4, 2021
In a shock move, Todd moves back to Sweet Valley and wants Liz back, however she's dating the (IMO) much better Jeffery French. She's conflicted. Todd's parents are loaded now, and he goes to a fancy school, to which Jess quickly scores an invite, hoping to meet cute rich boys. There's also competition in the form of Todd's new classmate Courtney, who wants Todd for herself.
Three guesses who Liz picks in the end🙄🙄
Three guesses who Liz picks in the end🙄🙄
February 2, 2021
I found myself eye rolling lots.. just wanted ro see if I enjoyed these as much as I did when I was younger. Easy read
March 6, 2017
Lol Liz: "If only there was some way to get ahold of Todd while he's driving!"
Also, Jeffrey French is way too good for these clowns.
Also, Jeffrey French is way too good for these clowns.
October 24, 2010
I love Sweet Valley and all of its residents. I can't imagine a world without either. I loved the tales of the town, the love stories, the heartaches, the normal everyday rights of passage.
December 21, 2010
I was more interested in the classism demonstrated in this book, as opposed to Liz & Todd's boring relationship
September 4, 2011
I needed to cleanse my palate after reading The Road. This was the only non-depressing book I could find in my house.
June 21, 2013
I remember the cover just not the story.
September 6, 2015
Oh man these are decent but they still make me laugh.
June 16, 2014
Read this one lazy Sunday afternoon at a friend's house! LOL!
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