Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Sweet Valley High: Spring Break by Francine Pascal
More dreck though the terror is more physical and less psychological than in Nightmare Hall: Guilty. The books could be written by the same person and in fact a coming review is of a book by Francine Pascal which has a remarkably similar plot to Nightmare Hall.
Spring Break features the American twins Jessica and Elizabeth arriving in France for a cross-cultural spring break. They are housed with a mother and son; the mother welcomes them but the son makes nasty remarks about Americans and makes trouble for the twins. What could possibly have caused his hatred and mistrust of Americans? Does it have anything to do with his missing father? Meanwhile Elizabeth crushes on the son and quietly meets wonderful people while Jessica searches for FUN and finds trouble...which she compounds by pretending to be ELizabeth. There is some unhealthy one-sided sibling rivalry here that leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.
In the end, Jessica gets a good scare and each girl gets her man. Meanwhile, back in America, the French exchange student has stirred up all sorts of drama by being the spitting image of a recently dead girl.
Spring Break features the American twins Jessica and Elizabeth arriving in France for a cross-cultural spring break. They are housed with a mother and son; the mother welcomes them but the son makes nasty remarks about Americans and makes trouble for the twins. What could possibly have caused his hatred and mistrust of Americans? Does it have anything to do with his missing father? Meanwhile Elizabeth crushes on the son and quietly meets wonderful people while Jessica searches for FUN and finds trouble...which she compounds by pretending to be ELizabeth. There is some unhealthy one-sided sibling rivalry here that leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.
In the end, Jessica gets a good scare and each girl gets her man. Meanwhile, back in America, the French exchange student has stirred up all sorts of drama by being the spitting image of a recently dead girl.
# posted by JJ @ 4:49 PM 
