In Love With The Enemy

Sweet Valley High #120

by Francine Pascal

Jessica Wakefield starts to fall for Christian Gorman, who is teaching her surfing, and even enjoys cheating on her boyfriend, but she does not realize that Christian is the leader of Palisades High's most violent gang.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Teen, Romance

199 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1995

About the author

Francine 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.

Reviews

[Cai · Rating 1 out of 5]

Seriously, how can you put everything that happens in the book in the synopsis? Who would want to read it through? How can you even start to like Christian when you know he's a gang leader and was meant to do terrible things later on?

Jessica, once AGAIN, kisses other guys while she had Ken. I don't know but I'm pretty sure doing it once is forgivable, but not a second time. That girl is too much.

Pointless male egoistic arguments while their hormones were in overdrive. Yup, that was what the story revolved around.

And come on! Can't the school admin do something about the propaganda posters? The teacher said they can't do anything because it's freedom of speech? What about counseling your student body how to use their freedom wisely and tearing down those things littering school property? I'm pretty sure this would not be tolerated in any school I've been in.

[Sarah Baines · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of those it's-so-far-fetched-it's-brilliant books. Jessica cheats on Ken again with someone she doesn't even really know - you'd have thought she'd have learnt her lesson after Jeremy Randall of a few books back but nooooo. Also Liz, Enid and a couple of girls from Palisades seem to think the answer to the violence escalating between the 2 schools is for SVH to write in their paper how great Palisades is and vice versa and oooh let's hold a combined SVH/Palisades dance! On what planet they honestly thought it was a good idea i don't know! Absolutely genius.

[Teresa Granado-Law]

Maria refers to French King Louis XVI as the "Sun King" but that was Louis the 14th, not the 16th.
(Side note, the Droids dress up as the Flintstones during a performance)

[Dr. Aditi Kapoor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the onset of this sequence of the series. The boys gang starts in formation from a simple club and match scruffle. Jessica start surfing and its nice to see her grit despite the reasons

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is part of a three part miniseries within the series Sweet Valley High. This miniseries is called The High School Wars. These three books are my favorites of the entire Sweet Valley High series and this book is my top favorite. I believe the older SVH books are way better as Jessica has matured and the story lines are developed more to include other characters.
In this book Jessica is dared by Lila to learn how to surf. While trying to prove Lila wrong, she meets an extremely handsome surfer named Christian. Jessica and Christian do not know much about each other but Jessica believes they are sole mates. However, Jessica is dating the star football player, Ken. Meanwhile, SVH is having a rivalry with Palisades High.
Kate William's writing improves in this book and the story is more suspenseful causing me to give it four stars.

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remember the cover but just not the story