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Sweet Valley University #10
No Means No
The perfect guy?
Jessica Wakefield's met the perfect guy. James Montgomery is gorgeous, intelligent and, best of all, he adores her. But James wants more from Jessica than she is willing to give. Can he take no for an answer?
Elizabeth Wakefield has learned something terrifying about Jessica's new boyfriend. Can she save her sister before it's too late?
Lila Fowler and Bruce Patman are stranded in the wilderness, driving each other insane. Is there a secret attraction behind their stormy arguments?
William White has returned to the SVU campus with one thing in mind - Elizabeth Wakefield. He's going to get her back any way he can.
Jessica Wakefield's met the perfect guy. James Montgomery is gorgeous, intelligent and, best of all, he adores her. But James wants more from Jessica than she is willing to give. Can he take no for an answer?
Elizabeth Wakefield has learned something terrifying about Jessica's new boyfriend. Can she save her sister before it's too late?
Lila Fowler and Bruce Patman are stranded in the wilderness, driving each other insane. Is there a secret attraction behind their stormy arguments?
William White has returned to the SVU campus with one thing in mind - Elizabeth Wakefield. He's going to get her back any way he can.
233 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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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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March 25, 2011
Jessica knew that James made her feel uneasy the one time she showed up in their shared chemistry class that fall, also the ink had barely dried on the annulment forms between her and Mike McAllery before she was chasing after James. She ignored Maia's requests to not see James, and they were served alcohol at the restaurant despite the both of them being underage. She also only got saved by luck at Elizabeth following her to the restaurant and then towards I believe it was Millers Point. Weak writing.
May 26, 2012
Welcome to "Lila and Enid/Alex Grow Some Balls" or SVU #10, "No Means No."
So I like this cover. Still with the "old" twins, before they put Cynthia & Brittany on everything. I've been wondering what college that actually is there on the front in the SVU letters? It actually looks pretty awesome. And I totally want to buy that SVU sweater Jessica is wearing on the front.
Quite a lot to report from this book, my dear friends.
Remember that tragedy that SVU claims happens with Lila and Bruce in the summary on the back of book #7? Yeah, that actually didn't happen then. But it's happening now. Bruce took Lila up in his plane... and then came crashing down. We find Lila facing off with a wolf as the book opens. We also find Bruce growing steadily more and more attracted to Lila romantically. Our girl Li is too busy saving her life, but she notices his attractiveness now and again when she's not busy being pissed at him for not loading the flare gun and missing their chance to be rescued from the wild. They both lie to each other about their survival skills (though since they both know how much they each have always relied on other people to do everything, I don't see how they could be surprised). Lila says that her days in a Bolivian jungle survival course taught her many a thing. Bruce says that he learned how to fish. In between the times while he was tripping over his own ego, I'll bet. While trying to prove this to Lila, he falls into the river and makes their situation worse. When Lila rescues him she realizes that he was already sick and now he might get pneumonia. For the rest of the book Bruce is pretty much out for the count while Lila become a fucking heroic badass. She catches a trout with her bare hands (!), skins it, forages for berries in a prickly bush and brings back to Bruce a bowl full of water. Then she strips off his damp clothes and lays down next to him in order to warm him up and keep him from getting worse. I am so proud of Lila right now, I could cry.
So Enid/Alex has become a hot, hot, hot fucking mess over the last few books. It is one thing to be an over-21 alcoholic. It is another thing entirely to be an 18-year-old alcoholic. But in this book that is what Alex has become. She is drinking and bemoaning her life, and she is acting exactly like she did in high school, only now at least she's not blaming Liz for her problems, and she's drinking to offset the bitching. She quickly realizes (duh!) that she is out of control (nearly passing out at a Zeta party was her first clue) and calls the campus hotline after much hesitation. What kind of loser needs a hotline, she thinks. But it really does help her, and soon she is out taking a stand for Jessica (or, as she calls it, "doing the right thing") and catching up on much-needed exercise. Oh god! Not lumps and bumps on her body! When she finally gets her act together Todd comes stumbling in and muses that he's sunk so low that "even Enid Rollins" doesn't want to be seen with him. Well, that's it. Enid feels like slapping him, but instead she stands up for herself for possibly the first time in her entire life. Todd is instantly sorry, but he still begs Alex to come out and drink with him. Then Alex gets even more awesome by standing her ground and telling him that they both need to get their acts together, so she gives him the boot. A girl with actual character in Sweet Valley? I never thought I'd see the day. She also talks about her druggie past in high school, and I am super intrigued. I never read those books. Is she talking about #2, Secrets? She says that she did pot and pills and I'm just like, holy shit! They actually knew what pot was in Sweet Valley? They hardly know what sex is. I must find out which book all this happens in.
William White is still poking around and plotting his escape from the loony bin (or I guess he has escaped, since he's at the SVU campus stalking Liz every other day). Unfortunately, he doesn't really do anything useful in this book other than mention Liz's bad taste in men for picking Tom Watts. I'm also pretty sure that William has narcissistic personality disorder, since he can't shut up about how awesome he is. Liz is also useless in this book, for she just saves the day! and runs to the rescue! and acts like a prude! But rape is the Issue of the Week for this book, and a random and bitter girl named Maia Stillwater pops up in this book. You can spot from a mile away that she is only there to function as "that other girl that James Montgomery raped." Only he attempts to rape Jessica, while he actually raped Maia. She becomes more crucial in the next book, I'm pretty certain.
So Jessica thinks things are all lovey-dovey and happy with James Montgomery because she is a naive twat. She hears some girl saying that James is great "unless he drinks," but Jessica is the queen of the Shrug-Off, so she doesn't think much of it. Not even when she sees him behaving like a drunk asshole at a frat party. Jessica does admit that it's too soon after Mike to be getting serious with anybody, but had James not been a rapist, she would have been serious about him in about a book and a half. She also thinks about how much damage Mike has done to her rep with the sorority, when SHE'S the one who has consistently bad taste in guys. It's pretty much all she's good for. It's funny that she's clawing her way back into the sorority and pretending like her emotions over a guy didn't get her kicked out in the first place. A long time ago I did read some of the later ones, and I know she's going to turn around and do the same thing with Nick Fox. Isn't that what "I'll Never Love Again" is about? She doesn't even care about the sorority. Once again, because of a guy. Surprise surprise! So, in a couple books before this one, "Sorority Scandal," the vice-president of the Thetas, Allison Quinn, dares Jessica to steal a priceless book from a professor in order to rejoin the sorority. When Jessica attempts it she is caught - but only because Allison set her up to be discovered. Enid/Alex hears this during one of her drunken nights at a party, and she decides to tell the girls so that they will not blackball Jessica out of the sorority. Oh, and I totally guffawed at the part where Jess told Allison that Elizabeth would NEVER frame her (Jessica) for a crime that she didn't commit. No, Jess, but you sure would. Like spiking Liz's punch with vodka and then letting her drive off into the night with your soon to be dead boyfriend and then keeping up the charade and actually BLAMING Liz for his death. Remember that? No? Me either.
So I like this cover. Still with the "old" twins, before they put Cynthia & Brittany on everything. I've been wondering what college that actually is there on the front in the SVU letters? It actually looks pretty awesome. And I totally want to buy that SVU sweater Jessica is wearing on the front.
Quite a lot to report from this book, my dear friends.
Remember that tragedy that SVU claims happens with Lila and Bruce in the summary on the back of book #7? Yeah, that actually didn't happen then. But it's happening now. Bruce took Lila up in his plane... and then came crashing down. We find Lila facing off with a wolf as the book opens. We also find Bruce growing steadily more and more attracted to Lila romantically. Our girl Li is too busy saving her life, but she notices his attractiveness now and again when she's not busy being pissed at him for not loading the flare gun and missing their chance to be rescued from the wild. They both lie to each other about their survival skills (though since they both know how much they each have always relied on other people to do everything, I don't see how they could be surprised). Lila says that her days in a Bolivian jungle survival course taught her many a thing. Bruce says that he learned how to fish. In between the times while he was tripping over his own ego, I'll bet. While trying to prove this to Lila, he falls into the river and makes their situation worse. When Lila rescues him she realizes that he was already sick and now he might get pneumonia. For the rest of the book Bruce is pretty much out for the count while Lila become a fucking heroic badass. She catches a trout with her bare hands (!), skins it, forages for berries in a prickly bush and brings back to Bruce a bowl full of water. Then she strips off his damp clothes and lays down next to him in order to warm him up and keep him from getting worse. I am so proud of Lila right now, I could cry.
So Enid/Alex has become a hot, hot, hot fucking mess over the last few books. It is one thing to be an over-21 alcoholic. It is another thing entirely to be an 18-year-old alcoholic. But in this book that is what Alex has become. She is drinking and bemoaning her life, and she is acting exactly like she did in high school, only now at least she's not blaming Liz for her problems, and she's drinking to offset the bitching. She quickly realizes (duh!) that she is out of control (nearly passing out at a Zeta party was her first clue) and calls the campus hotline after much hesitation. What kind of loser needs a hotline, she thinks. But it really does help her, and soon she is out taking a stand for Jessica (or, as she calls it, "doing the right thing") and catching up on much-needed exercise. Oh god! Not lumps and bumps on her body! When she finally gets her act together Todd comes stumbling in and muses that he's sunk so low that "even Enid Rollins" doesn't want to be seen with him. Well, that's it. Enid feels like slapping him, but instead she stands up for herself for possibly the first time in her entire life. Todd is instantly sorry, but he still begs Alex to come out and drink with him. Then Alex gets even more awesome by standing her ground and telling him that they both need to get their acts together, so she gives him the boot. A girl with actual character in Sweet Valley? I never thought I'd see the day. She also talks about her druggie past in high school, and I am super intrigued. I never read those books. Is she talking about #2, Secrets? She says that she did pot and pills and I'm just like, holy shit! They actually knew what pot was in Sweet Valley? They hardly know what sex is. I must find out which book all this happens in.
William White is still poking around and plotting his escape from the loony bin (or I guess he has escaped, since he's at the SVU campus stalking Liz every other day). Unfortunately, he doesn't really do anything useful in this book other than mention Liz's bad taste in men for picking Tom Watts. I'm also pretty sure that William has narcissistic personality disorder, since he can't shut up about how awesome he is. Liz is also useless in this book, for she just saves the day! and runs to the rescue! and acts like a prude! But rape is the Issue of the Week for this book, and a random and bitter girl named Maia Stillwater pops up in this book. You can spot from a mile away that she is only there to function as "that other girl that James Montgomery raped." Only he attempts to rape Jessica, while he actually raped Maia. She becomes more crucial in the next book, I'm pretty certain.
So Jessica thinks things are all lovey-dovey and happy with James Montgomery because she is a naive twat. She hears some girl saying that James is great "unless he drinks," but Jessica is the queen of the Shrug-Off, so she doesn't think much of it. Not even when she sees him behaving like a drunk asshole at a frat party. Jessica does admit that it's too soon after Mike to be getting serious with anybody, but had James not been a rapist, she would have been serious about him in about a book and a half. She also thinks about how much damage Mike has done to her rep with the sorority, when SHE'S the one who has consistently bad taste in guys. It's pretty much all she's good for. It's funny that she's clawing her way back into the sorority and pretending like her emotions over a guy didn't get her kicked out in the first place. A long time ago I did read some of the later ones, and I know she's going to turn around and do the same thing with Nick Fox. Isn't that what "I'll Never Love Again" is about? She doesn't even care about the sorority. Once again, because of a guy. Surprise surprise! So, in a couple books before this one, "Sorority Scandal," the vice-president of the Thetas, Allison Quinn, dares Jessica to steal a priceless book from a professor in order to rejoin the sorority. When Jessica attempts it she is caught - but only because Allison set her up to be discovered. Enid/Alex hears this during one of her drunken nights at a party, and she decides to tell the girls so that they will not blackball Jessica out of the sorority. Oh, and I totally guffawed at the part where Jess told Allison that Elizabeth would NEVER frame her (Jessica) for a crime that she didn't commit. No, Jess, but you sure would. Like spiking Liz's punch with vodka and then letting her drive off into the night with your soon to be dead boyfriend and then keeping up the charade and actually BLAMING Liz for his death. Remember that? No? Me either.
August 29, 2025
good series
June 25, 2017
Anyone who doesn't guess what the title means probably deserves the spoiler. I'm just kidding. But still, it's pretty obvious what's going to happen in No Means No.
Without going into that plot line, there are a couple of other extremely interesting side-stories included in this volume of the SVU series. Lila and Bruce are back in circulation, and it's another very enjoyable read as they fight it out in the wilderness. I don't know why, especially since I'm not the outdoorsy type, but I just couldn't get enough of that part of the story! So entertaining and suspenseful, and what a great way to introduce two characters back into the series.
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Without going into that plot line, there are a couple of other extremely interesting side-stories included in this volume of the SVU series. Lila and Bruce are back in circulation, and it's another very enjoyable read as they fight it out in the wilderness. I don't know why, especially since I'm not the outdoorsy type, but I just couldn't get enough of that part of the story! So entertaining and suspenseful, and what a great way to introduce two characters back into the series.
http://hottoastyrag.weebly.com/svu-10...
August 5, 2008
these books are so terrible, and i'm so hooked!
"Lila Fowler let out a long, liquid scream of pure terror."
"Lila Fowler let out a long, liquid scream of pure terror."
April 24, 2010
I loved it when JM was proved to be an outright no-good liar
July 12, 2012
this one has a good message to young girls one of the many reason i loved reading the series
June 24, 2023
So much more intense then Sweet Valley High and while the main plot suggested a realistic and more mature Sweet Valley, the b-plot of Lila and Bruce dying in the wilderness suggested otherwise. That and the sheer awfulness of every single man in this book proved that SVU is no different then good old SVH.
December 19, 2024
A rather intense book for me at age 11, when I think about it now! Reading it as an adult, it's a bit in your face about the subject matter, i.e. what are the chances that everyone in the same group of friends would be dealing with the same issues of sex and rape all in the same week? But it definitely hammers home its point.
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June 18, 2020I loved the book It was weird but I could handle it thanks
February 11, 2025
This was likely progressive for it’s time, but the writing is too simple for its age bracket.
June 21, 2013
I remember the cover just not the story
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