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Summary: My First V.C Andrews Book
Review: This was my first V.C Andrews book and I fell in love with her writings after I read this book. It was amazing! Its so intriguing and it will keep you hooked for life on her books. This book doesn't belong to a series but it's like its own series in one and its FANTASTIC really you'll love it. V.C Andrews life story is a very sad one but her writing is amazing she was a strong woman and a very generous one to give her books to the world to enjoy.
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Summary: Audrina lives again
Review: This is the only stand alone book written by V.C.Andrews. The rest come in a series. However, I hope that there is never a sequel to this book because it is perfect the way it is. Some things should rest in peace, like the dead Audrina.
This is a great story about seven-year-old Audrina Adele Adare who believes that her main purpose in life is to fill the shoes of her deceased older sister, Audrina the first, who was raped and killed by a group of young boys. Therefore, for much of the book, she thinks of herself as the second Audrina, not as loved and not as worthy as the original one. The ending is ironic in more than one way. She will find out that the reason for her own existence is because the exact opposite is true.
This is truly a wonderful story that pushes our suspension of disbelief as far as it will go, and it dares us to ask, how far would we go to get back what we once had and then lost? A story about before and after, only this family refuses to accept the after, and does whatever they can to go back to before.
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Summary: The First and Best V.C. Andrews
Review: This was such a beautiful story about seven-year-old Audrina Adare. She believes that her whole purpose in life is to live up to the standards her dead sister (also Audrina) set. She has what her father refers to as a swiss cheese memory, for her recollection of the past is limited to what others tell her. It has a great twist at the end, that only serves to show what people will do in the name of love, though some may consider it so extreme that they just can't suspend their disbelief. VC Andrews was a gifted writer whose name is being exploited. All the books that she has written have been haunting tales that really touch the reader, yet they are also filled with quirky and flawed characters, as well as unexpected humor. For example, I found the whole concept of the Tuesday Teatimes, where Audrina's mother and aunt would have tea with dead Aunt Mercy-Marie, and argue with her portrait, to be very amusing. Then there is Audrina's father, Damian, who turned out to be totally different than I expected. I'll tell you this, MSA is pretty much the only V.C.A. book that doesn't contain incest. The best part of this book though is the twist at the end. It was an interesting study of how far parents will go to do what they think is "best" for their children. And if anything proves the quote "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions", it's this book. No, I'm sorry. That would be the purpose of the Dollanganger series.
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Summary: What was special about VC Andrews books before?
Review: I happen to love VC Andrews books and think that she was a very special and unique writer that could spin a marvelous tale and keep the reader enthralled like no other.
This story is particularly gothic, dark and satisfying. Even after you have read through it once and understand what is going on it is still exciting to reread it because you are looking at it from a different angle.
So what did VC Andrews have before? She could make modern times into something from a fairy tale until you weren't sure which century the book took place in. A gingerbread victorian house lit only with gaslamps. (Because they were more flattering to Lucietta Adare's complection.) A house surrounded by woods. A strange and intriguing family. A dead older sister, an illegimate half sister, two feuding sisters, a charming and charismatic father, and a young girl that tiptoes through the house avoiding the colors cast on the floor from the stained glass windows, with smeary memories and no sense of time. Oh yeah, and a ghost that came every Tuesday for teatime.
This book is amazing and fascinating. VC Andrews takes people that are unordinary from the beginning, with strange medical disorders and secrets and puts them all together and let's the drama play itself out. It was her way of saying that maybe life itself is seldom ordinary.
No one in that story was normal. I have also noticed that that is a pattern she has. Blue blooded bones, a no legged woman, a weak hearted woman, a child who can't remember, an autistic child. Bart, in the Dollanganger series had a disorder where his nerves did not reach all the way to his skin and he couldn't feel any kind of pain. Physical and physiological disorders. Claustrophobia, insanity. In all the books that she originally wrote, no two characters were the same. They all had their own motivations, even if they turned out to be "bad seeds".
Everything that she wrote showed an incredible amount of imagination. She could look at the ordinary and turn it into something different. I think she was very gifted. I have to say that this book is amazing, and so was Heaven and Flowers.
VC Andrews also has a remarkable knack for portraying abject poverty. Heaven's reactions to movies, MCdonalds, eating out in a restaurant, you could almost understand it completely, and it was as strange to you as it was to her when you were reading it. She was excellent at showing you exactly how little Heaven had, and how close wealth and poverty can exist beside each other, even though they are like two different worlds.
Anyway, this book is amazing, and so was VC Andrews.
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Summary: A hauting secret
Review: I thought the book was good but I couldnt give it a five star cause i did'nt like the ending.The book is about a girl who lives in her dead sisters shadow and is always seeing memories of her sisters death. The main characters are Audrina a girl who constetly trying to live up to her perfect sister, Damien her father always trying to protect her from the truth, Her mother lucetta damiens slave she gave up the life she wanted for Damien, Audrina's Aunt My favorite character Ellsbeth she was mean and stuborn but had a soft spot for one man who constintly batred her I liked her because she was the only one trying to help Audrina, Vera Ellsbeth daughter out of wedlock shes evil and un loving, And Audrina's true love Arden wonderful man that loves his Audrina but his childhood mistake is the key to Audrina's frightful past. And in the end she makes a choice after learning a terrible secret.I think she makes a bad choice.
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Summary: My sweet Review
Review: MY SWEET AUDRINA is a huanting tale of a girl called Audrina who can't remember things that happened yesterday.
She lives with her Papa,Mother,anuty,and cousin Vera,who all have secerets and keep them from her,cause the truth is so shocking and horrible,that you wish you had never found out in the first place.
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Summary: original v.c. andrews
Review: Truly haunting and tragic. I really loved this book.
The plot was pretty predictable, but still I savored every page. The original v.c. andrews never disappoints.
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Summary: Wow, this book was terrible
Review: It's not that it's written terribly, it's just that it was incredibly predictable. And the ending was absolutely horrid! I mean, come on, it is SO sending the wrong message to people who may be trapped in an abusive relationship.
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Summary: Creepiest next to Flowers in the Attic
Review: ...Man, am I glad I read it. And at the same time I regret it. The book creeped me out. Next to Flowers in the Attic, this one deserves to be nominated for the Sick & Twisted Plots Awards. Although parts of it were predictable, I still found myself gawking at the treatment of poor Audrina throughout her life by her nasty sister Vera and the twists and turns as the story unfolded before me. By the time I finished it, I was angrily asking myself how idiotic can a man be as to brainwash his daughter ... it felt that real. I give this book 3 stars because of how much it freaked me out too much. And normally I go for those kinds of books. But I highly recommend it. :-)
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Summary: One to Keep you Guessing
Review: I just love the mystery of this book. As with all V. C. Andrews' books you always know something is not right. No one has the "perfect" life, these books always start out as. This one is more intriguing than all the rest of her books because it is the only solitary work. There is no "the rest of the story." The families in the Andrews' works are always so disfunctional that you feel better about your own when you put it down. This book really makes someone want to start snooping into family secrets. It makes you question reality. You wonder could something this low really be pulled of. It also makes child hood a little less precious because you realize everything a child knows someone has told them. Their whole entire view of reality could be one enormous lie.
It is one to make you wonder, for sure!
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