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Dangerous Love (1984)

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0553239384 (ISBN13: 9780553239386)
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Dangerous Love (1984) - Plot & Excerpts

HOT CLAM SPECIAL!To me, Dangerous Love is the quintessential SVH book. It has our first real cliffhanger and enough Liz angst to float a boat. It is yet another book where Jessica expresses remorse for being Jessica and vows to change (and never does). I probably read this one and "Dear Sister" a dozen times or more when I was a kid, and enjoyed every minute of re-reading it again today.And what did we learn in our re-read? Motorcycles = Death Machine (don't ride 'em kids -- you'll end up in a coma!) Liz should have broken up with Todd the second he called her his favorite "motorcycle mama." Jess and Liz had a cousin named Rexy, which is a stupid name. Jessica wears a black-and-white satin jumpsuit with spaghetti straps and matching dangling earrings. The '80s just exploded. Todd lets Liz get on his bike with no helmet and wearing a party dress, and doesn't even offer her his jacket. Todd is a jerk. Did anyone *not* think a guy named "Crunch" who drove a purple van would be bad news? I knew he was trouble back when I first read this book in middle school! If boring old Enid has her sweet sixteen here, that means that two years ago when she was doing drugs and running with a "wild crowd" (from "Secrets") she was 13 or 14 years old. And she's been a 15-year-old dating a college freshman since book 2 and everyone thought it was hunky dory. But most of all, we learned about the hot clam special at Dairi Burger. Cara Walker shares one with John Pfiefer in front of all their friends (kinky), the owner of the DB slips a free one to Todd, Elizabeth and Mandy, Liz doesn't like the taste of it but gets seconds ... it kept being mentioned over and over, and I giggled every time. I think some ghostwriter was having fun.

An angst-ridden time is had when Todd gets a motorcycle. Liz had a cousin who was killed in a bike accident and her parents have forbidden the twins to ride motorcycles.Everybody oohs-and-ahhhs over the bike and Liz is stricken with jealousy, especially of all the girls getting a ride to the Dairi Burger on Todd's motorcycle, with their arms flung around him. Todd is ready to sell his bike and Elizabeth changes her mind and decides to take one ride. This culminates in Liz needing a ride due to Jessica's selfishness--wait, I have a rhetorical question: when was Jessica ever not selfish?Elizabeth ends up in a coma with Jessica vowing to no longer take advantage of Liz and think of other people besides herself. Hmmm, like that's ever going to happen.More of Purplycookie’s Reviews @: http://www.goodreads.com/purplycookieBook Details: Title: Dangerous Love (Sweet Valley High, #6) Author: Francine PascalReviewed By: Purplycookie

What do You think about Dangerous Love (1984)?

Source: I own this book. Title: Dangerous Love Series: Sweet Valley High #6 Author: Kate William & Francine Pascal Overall Rating: 4 starsWell, smack me in the face and call me hot clam special. Basically, Todd gets a motorbike. Liz and Jess' cousin Rexy died on a motorbike. They don't get on them. But other girls gets on Todd's. Liz gets jealous. She gets on. She ends up in a coma. The morals of this story stood as:*Listen to your parents*Don't be a jealous girlfriend*Your english teacher will always be around for a DMC (deep meaningful chat)This is definitely the second best book in the whole series, 138 was always my personal favourite.
—Connie

Alice and Ned Wakefield let their daughters get away with almost anything, but they have one firm household rule: no motorcycles. Apparently the twins' cousin died young in a motorbike accident, and their parents would prefer that they didn't follow in his footsteps. It's one of the few rules that Jess is happy to keep, so obviously it's up to Liz to break it. And, of course it's Todd's fault. Todd's wanted a motorbike forever, and finally he manages to trade in his car for a magnificent new hog. Instead of telling Todd before he does this that she's never going to be able to ride with him, Liz chooses to keep her cousin's tragic, untimely death a secret, instead lying about coming down with a cold and getting super jealous about other girls riding with Todd instead. Wearing her pink helmet, damnit! Eventually she decides to tell the truth, and the two of them exchange jealousies until everything comes to a climax, (view spoiler)[Todd sells his bike, and Liz decides that it won't matter if she rides with Todd JUST THIS ONCE, given that he's selling the bike and that's a bigger safety feature than wearing a helmet. Who needs helmets anyway? Liz, apparently, going by the coma she ends up in following their inevitable crash. (hide spoiler)]
—Tara Calaby

Sometimes you just need to re-read some classic Sweet Valley. Short of the first book and book #7, it's hard to find anything more classic than The Time Todd Nearly Killed Liz.Upon re-reading it for the four-billionth time, I am once more struck by the incredibly stupid logic paraded around when the Wakefields throw Todd Wilkins out of the waiting area and Mr. Collins tries to assure Todd it wasn't his fault.I know the 80's were a different time, but yeah. Yeah it was. Saturday night, after midnight, and dude not only lets his girlfriend who isn't allowed on said bike to ride, but does so without giving up his helmet. Stubborn or not, dude, sometimes you just say no and you go in and take the taxi offered by the adult on premises. Really.Sooooooo... no. I don't think the knowledge that he was selling his bike negates the accident.That aside, good lord do I love crazy jealous Liz and Todd.
—Marian

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