Back Cover: The end of romance...
The Wakefield twins' older brother, Steven, is heartbroken. His girlfriend, Tricia Martin, no longer seems interested in him. She breaks their dates and doesn't return his calls. Steven can't understand why Tricia's feelings have changed so suddenly.
Jessica is thrilled that Steven isn't dating Tricia anymore. She sees it as the perfect opportunity to pair him with her best friend, Cara Walker. Elizabeth , Jessica's twin, thinks that scheming, gossipy Cara is all wrong for Steven. She's determined to find out the reason for Tricia's stranger behaviour - and horrified when she discovers the awful truth.Omg I hate Jessica so much!
So yeah, Tricia is dying of cancer, and she wants to spare Steven the pain of seeing her deteriorate. So she acts all distant and eventually they just break up. Steven is of course heartbroken, which is a foreign concept to Jess, so she tries hooking him up with Cara right away. Even if Steven was over Tricia, I hate Cara. She's so whiny and immature. She's actually worse than Jessica. Of course, Elizabeth figures out what's going on, and everything is fine in the end. Except that Tricia is still dying.
I hope we get to see her die in a book or two. I know she couldn't have possibly died in this book. She's near the end, but definitely has a few days, even weeks, left, especially if she's still going to school part-time. So unless she suddenly dies of cardiac arrest or something, she shouldn't have died yet.
The subplot in this one is that a TV host is in the hospital for a broken leg, so Jessica convinces Elizabeth that they should become candy stripers, so that Jessica has a chance to get close to him. Of course, it's Elizabeth who is assigned to his ward, and he loves her, because Elizabeth is all calm and mature and treats him like a human being, instead of a celebrity. Jessica eventually cons her way into his room, and is so starstruck that she acts like an idiot, is a total klutz, and just generally makes his life miserable. Of course in the end, everything comes up roses and Jessica gets to be interviewed and on TV.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth gets kidnapped by a creepy orderly. They rarely fully set-up plots in advance, so this was nice to see. Carl works at the hospital and is just generally weird and creepy. St Elizabeth, friends to all things, tries to be friendly, but even she admits to being creeped out by him. The last few pages has her getting kidnapped from the parking lot by Carl.
Hook: Will Elizabeth be saved?Of course she will! It's funny, because at this point, the books were being released once a month, but according to my copy, readers would have to wait AN ENTIRE EXTRA MONTH to find out! I can't help but wonder how it would've been to be a preteen in the 1980s, eating this shit up like candy, anticipating the next novel. I'm sure I would've known that yes, Elizabeth would be fine in the end, but I wonder if I'd still be anxious just see exactly how and what unfolded. As it is, I'm pretty excited to read the next novel now haha
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