Twisted Roots

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Summary: Twisted Roots
Review: I thought this book was okay. The DeBeers series isnt my favorite series though. The 1st and second were rather boring. The 3rd was more adventurous but I didn't like Willow in this series. In the last 2 books she was so independent and actually had a personality. In this book she is bland and acts like a crazy person and a bad mom.

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Summary: Not very good
Review: I usually fly through VC Andrews books but this one was a chore to get through. I was very disappointed. At one point I just skipped pages to get through it. I've read so much better, but this one is just blah.

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Summary: Boring!!!!
Review: I usually fly through VC Andrews books but this one was a chore to get through. I was very disappointed. At one point I just skipped pages to get through it. I've read so much better, but this one is just blah.

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Summary: Save your money
Review: I've been reading V.C. Andrews since she first came on the scene in the early '80's (she lived in neighboring Portsmouth, VA), and this is without a doubt the LAMEST "V.C. Andrews" book ever written. It trots out all the old hackneyed cliches: insecure teenage girl with unhappy family situation and unstable mother who runs away with sensitive boy from wrong side of the tracks and finds danger in the form of mentally ill stranger before being reunited with family as evildoers are punished. It's a shame, too, because the DeBeers saga started off well, but the author got really lazy with this one. (For anyone who doesn't know, V.C. Andrews actually died in 1986; the subsequent books were written by horror writer Andrew Neiderman.) Hannah is so unbelievably whiny and childish it's impossible to root for her (what sixteen-year-old still calls her mother "Mommy"?), the characters are painted in broad strokes of black and white with almost no nuances (stepfather is good, mother is disturbed, father and twin half-brothers are BAD, and boyfriend is near saintly), and the plot is both obviously recycled and utterly ridiculous. I'd have rated it a 1/2 star if there was one, but since there isn't my advice is this: if you must read it, check it out at the library and save your money on this one. If you want to read V.C. at the top of her game, go back and read the first books (the Dollanganger saga or "My Sweet Audrina"). "Twisted Roots" is a waste of time.

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Summary: HORRIBLE!
Review: Lame, cliche, and boring. That's it. Hannah is spoiled, self-centered and you pray for her to get a beating! She whines and cries, feels "so unloved" and acts like a little baby. Stop calling her Mommy, you little brat! I could punch her! If I ever met someone like Hannah I would shake them and.... ugh. I won't even think about it. Hannah is NO protagonist! You don't care about her, in fact, you come to loath and dispise her, and not because she's "bad", but because she's boring and stupid! What a naive little fool!!!!!!

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Summary: Hannah cries when she's not the apple of parents eye
Review: Mommy? Mommy?? Mooommmy!!!
This book is a snore in IMO. I too think Hannah is a big baby for getting so bent out of shape about a baby. The change in Willow is most shocking. I thought she was stronger then that! She acted like a complete wimp. Granted she suffered a great loss but you think she would have learned something about coping in all those psychology classes she had taken. Sure Ruby suffered after the loss of her ***(might be considered a spoiler so I won't put it) and sure she retreated to fantasy land but she would have been proud of how her daughter (Pearl) had reacted. Hannah on the other hand is nothing to be proud of. By the end of the book I was skimming because Hannah was just too irritating.

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Summary: Good
Review: Ok, so things have been tough for V.C. Andrews' family since she died, but this book is actually pretty good.

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Summary: One star, because I had to give it something
Review: Okay the series has been seriously lacking for some time now, but please, I haven't even read this book and I don't think I want to. I read a few chapters online at simonsays and it didn't look too promising to me. Sorry GW, I miss Flowers in the Attic and Ruby, Gates of Paradise. Can we get some of that back? Things are going downhill, rapidly!

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Summary: Not very good
Review: This book just plain out bored me. What was the ghostwriter thinking when he wrote this? It made me wonder whether he was drugged out on narcotics or something. These books just keep getting worse and worse.

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Summary: Twists and turns
Review: This is a great additioin to the DeBeers series because it gives us insight into a younger character, but what I liked the most is the twists and turns in the plot, taking us to new territory and giving us another view of her uncle as well as that great family in the South. The characters are so distinct and yet so different, especially at the weird farm. Another great V.C. title.