Title: Double Love (Sweet Valley High #1)
Author: Francine Pascal
Genre: YA Fiction/ Teen Romance/ Teen Drama
Genre: YA Fiction/ Teen Romance/ Teen Drama
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Elizabeth
and Jessica Wakefield are blonde, blue-eyed, small-waisted, tanned twin sisters
who have their sights on the same guy, Todd Wilkins. Elizabeth is sensible and very fair. She is simply a nice girl who is the editor
of Sweet Valley High’s newspaper. She
writes the “Eyes and Ears” column which covers the rumors and gossip of
SVH. Her sister Jessica is the total
opposite of her personality-wise. She is
wild, outrageous, and goes out with just about all the jocks of SVH. She gets in trouble one night when she
accompanies bad boy Rick Andover to a bar where only grownups are allowed. She does not correct the police officer who
saves her that night from Andover when he calls her Elizabeth. The police officer only knows the twins’
father Ned Wakefield who is a lawyer and Elizabeth. The next day at school, all of Sweet Valley
High gossip about Elizabeth as the bad girl who went with Andover. When Elizabeth hears the rumors she is
devastated while Todd is furious and angry with her. He ends up asking Jessica to the upcoming
dance because he is touched when Jessica confesses to him that she was the
actual twin in the Andover event. He
finds Jessica heroic and noble for taking the blame. Little does he know that it’s Jessica who did
go to the adult bar with Rick Andover.
In the
end, Elizabeth is the winning twin and Jessica suffers (good naturedly) for the
Andover mix-up. Elizabeth and Todd go
out as a teenage couple at Sweet Valley High from then on. Also in this book,
the twins are accepted into the Pi Beta Alpha sorority which is only made up of
the coolest, snobbiest, outgoing girls of SVH.
Another subplot in this book is the twins’ mistaking their father of
having an affair with one of his junior lawyers at his law firm, Marianna
West. Finally, in this same book,
Steven, the twins’ older sibling comes home more often from college to spend
time with Tricia Martin, a girl from Sweet Valley’s notorious Martin family who
is made up of a drunkard for a father and a slut (Tricia’s younger sister
Betsy) for a daughter. Tricia herself is
a sweet, good girl and Steven likes her and does invite her over for dinner
with his family towards the end of the novel.
This book is
the 1st book in the Sweet Valley High franchise. It gets readers acquainted with Elizabeth and
Jessica, their big brother Steven and their parents Ned and Alice
Wakefield. It also includes their
friends Enid Rollins, Lila Fowler, Bruce Patman, Ken Matthews, and many others
that will make appearances in the upcoming books in this 80s and 90s YA
series. I was introduced to the whole
Sweet Valley world by an elementary school friend by the name of Sarah who lend
me her Sweet Valley Twins and Friends book, The Big Party Weekend. I instantly fell in love with the twins
because they were so adventurous and outgoing.
Sweet Valley Twins and Friends was a middle grade version of the high
school-y Sweet Valley High. I collect
Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley Twins (and Friends) because they take me
back to an era in my life that has gone on to antiquity. I miss the 80s and 90s so much and would do
anything to relive those decades all over again.
