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Summary: A bit confusing at first
Review: When I was first reading this book, it was a bit slow the first two chapters or so and it was really confusing. I had to read certain pages a few times to understand. Though there are a few glaring errors in the book (such as Audrina's age compared to the "first" Audrina's age) it's a really good read and I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: One of Andrews Best!
Review: This was one of my favourite books by V.C. Andrews. She gets inside the characters minds and pulls you into the story. Writing a review on the book is a little hard because I don't want to give away any of the plot. All I want to say is, about half way through the book you'll "know" whats gou=ing to happen, but you won't really. This book leads you down the wrong path and drops you off at a dramatic conclusion.
After reading this book, you'll never look at life the same.
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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: Audrina Adare is the young girl who lives at Whitefern with her mother (Lucietta), father (Damian), aunt (Ellsbeth), and bastard cousin (Vera). For as long as she can remember, Audrina has always lived in the shadow of her dead older sister, also named Audrina. In fact, Audrina was named after her sister so she might gain her "gifts". The pressure is so intense on the seven-year-old that she feels like she'll never be able to be as perfect as the First Audrina.Because Audrina is expected to be like her sister, she has no real memories of her own. Her sense of time is also out of whack; days, even weeks, can go by and she doesn't remember what's happened. She's also kept from school and from having any friends because her parents insist she's too fragile. The mystery of her older sister's death is also a nagging reminder of what happens to girls who disobey the rules and visit the woods anyway. (The First Audrina had been raped and killed there.) Nevertheless, Audrina decides to go one day, and she meets a boy her age named Arden Lowe who will eventually become her husband and her key to her own past. "My Sweet Audrina" is the only V. C. Andrews book that doesn't belong to a series and is quite successful on its own. I would have given it five stars, but the ending was much too disappointing. How could Audrina demean herself by staying with Arden after what he'd been involved in? (I can't elaborate without giving away the plot.) Besides that, this is one of V. C. Andrews' best books, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes psychological suspense or is already a V. C. Andrews fan.
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Summary: Hmmmm, who wrote this?
Review: I completely forgot reading this book until another Amazon reader wrote me with a question which jogged my memory. I read this book after finishing the complete dollanger collection. When I had previously read Garden of Shadows, I remember feeling as if the book had in no way been written by VC Andrews because of the wording and technique. Then when I started reading this book, the same feeling came over me again. I guessed the ending not too far into the book which is not usually the case when reading these books. I have to be honest. I found it boring and couldn't wait to finish it! Even my two teens who had both swiped the Flowers in the Attic series from me with delight, turned their backs on this book after a couple of chapters. I hope the rumor about a 'ghost writer' is not true. Read it yourself and see what you think!
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Summary: Incredible!
Review: The first time I read My Sweet Audrina, I was in high school and a very confused girl. Audrina's story brought me a safe-haven from the reality of my world, as I got sucked into the emotional whirlpool of hers. I have since read the story over and over - now being 8 years later! My Sweet Audrina is the story of a young girl who comes from the most disturbed family situation that I have ever read about. It goes to show that although people may appear to be 'normal' and 'happy', that something quite awful and horrible may be shadowing their lives. Sure, there are questionable parts of the story, parts which have only become questionable to me since I have 'matured' over the years, but this is truly an excellent story. Despite being a fictional piece of writing, the story challenges many insecurities and issues that we have to deal with, and often choose to ignore. I highly HIGHLY suggest reading this story - but when you start reading it, be prepared to have a good many free hours to finish it! Once you open the book, I know that you will find it impossible to put it down.
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Summary: Genuine V.C. Andrews all the way...
Review: This book really was "a breath of fresh air" as another reviewer put it. It was very enchanting I think, one of the few books I've read in a while where I actually got lost in the book. It was very haunting the beginning of the book, and very very very well written. Sometimes ( as a writer myself ) its very hard to develope a good character when writing in first person tense, but V.C. Andrews does it very well in this book. I got lost, I actually did not know what time it was, how old Audrina was, etc. The beginning was VERY well written. As the book developed though...well I dunno...Whereas I was very glad and happy to see that Audrina was not some passive sad haunted girl, and was happy to see that Audrina would rebel against her father, I was very dissapointed with Vera. V.C. Andrew's antagonists are always soooooo similar. Vera reminded me of every single antagonist in the Orphan series, Helga, Meg, etc. Andrews tries to make us pity Vera, but at the same time the actions of Vera just get annoying and repititive, its to the point where we all go "ENOUGH!" because the actions are so predictible. I really did not like Audrina's boyfriend/husband in this book at all. Though he was well developed, very well described, and had great character, he was just as much a villian as Vera or the guys who raped Audrina. Andrews does a good job of making us see that no one is perfect, in fact she made it CLEAR in this book. Though I did enjoy the fact that this book wasn't so sexually oriented as the other V.C. Andrews books seem to be, I really did not see how the music teacher thing fit in, what the hell does it matter? And I think the younger sister was just as unnecesary. This book had A LOT of potential at the beginning, but through it all it sort of dragged...Audrina's mother is a big mystery too. How could the cruel mother who scrubbed Audrina's skin to a pulp be the same loving mother who later on died? The characters do NOT mix at all, and there is no explanation of how Audrina's mother switched over. When I got to the end of this book I thought: Oh god, THAT IS THE MOST STUPID THING IN THE WORLD, HOW STUPID IS SHE?????? Audrina's decision at the end could be seen as stupid as stupid can get or it can be seen as the true cross over into adulthood. Audrina's decision to keep trying at her marriage no matter what the heck comes in the way can be seen as something unimaginably possible. So many people these days do resort to divorces, they walk away from anything that doesn't work, they don't have the patience or forgiveness to keep working at it until it does work. What Audrina did took a lot of faith, a lot of hope, a lot of STRENTH, something a lot of adults lack today. In a way Audrina's decision was very fitting, and after a while I did understand it. I really wish that there was more of an explanation or something at the end. I really related to this book, because it expanded SO much on how much the love of a parent can hurt. I know how it feels to feel like you have to work up to certain expectations, and THAT is the power this book has. A l ot of teenagers these days feel like they have to meet certain expectations from their PARENTS, their friends, their enviroments and society itself - and this is Audrina's struggle to meet this expectations, only to find out that the only expectations she really needed to meet were her own. Audrina was GREAT realistic ( key word there REALISTIC ) character who had a lot of strength, and i admire that a lot. *nods* READ THIS BOOK! it's definately worth it!
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Summary: A Real Horror Story
Review: I actually like the novels that were written by V.C. Andrews herself a lot better than the ghostwriters later series because it's more gothic and horrific. MSA is a book that way more deeper and darker than the teenybopper books that are out now with her name on them. This book has so many twists and turns, one surprise after another and I like the fact that there's no incest involved being that VC Andrews was right in the middle of the Flowers series when she wrote My Sweet Audrina. Audrina's father fabricated her past after something tragic happens to her and he must've done a really good job because Audrina doesn't remember what happened to her in the woods. In the book you meet Audrina's friend Arden and his eccentric mother Billie. And her cousin Vera is a trip and you see a lot of people dying easily and in the weirdest way. This is a weird book and that why I like it so much. It reminds of a weird dream that you just have to tell someone. This book is for anyone who likes to talk a walk on the wildside of reading.
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Summary: This book is creepy, absolutely creepy
Review: I can't believe how some of the other reviews portrayed this book as good! I was totally creped out by this book! I have been reading VC Andrews for more then 6 years now, and this is by fare the worst one written! I mean, please. Confusing that poor girl about the year, and date and making her think she was crazy? You people call that love!? I wouldn't read this one unless you enjoy feeling creepy at the end.
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Summary: The best VC Andrews there is!
Review: Granted, I read My Sweet Audrina before I read any of the rest of her books, although I have subsequently read all of her works, up until the conclusion of her "Heaven" series (at which point, the "ghostwriter" had botched things up and smeared her legacy so much, I no longer cared). This book rules! I was totally lost in the way Andrews weaves the fantasy world in which her heroine unwittingly lives. The characters are somewhat archetypal, but that adds to the power of the book. Vera is a class A witch. One wants to make Audrina take her and shake her, but Audrina, archetypal herself, is almost depressingly willing to be run over again and again by Vera, by her true love Arden, by her parents' lies. Although I wished Audrina would develop more of a backbone, I still rooted for her throughout. This book definitely stays with you. Having read it already, I still had to buy myself a copy, which sits on my book shelf to this day...in case I need to lose myself once again in a wonderfully woven, horrific, yet fascinating tale.
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Summary: My twisted Audrina
Review: Okay, okay, it's the last Virginia Andrews I'm going to read, okay?! This particular VA story seemed a little far-fetched throughout, yet when you reach the end, all the loose ends tie up into a neat little package that leaves you going "Ohhhh." One part of the mystery was obvious towards the end but there is a lot more behind what you think you know about the Whitefern/Adare family. As tends to happen in VA's books, simply too many outlandish things happen, which really diminishes the shock value. The story could have been told a lot more effectively in fewer, fewer pages. It all just makes you wonder how many people can die and how many tragic and cruel things can happen to the one sweet, once innocent young girl in one whirlwind of a lifetime. No one is 'bad' or 'good' in this book - the one realistic thing about it is that it really delves into how the best of us can have our hateable sides and vice versa. You can evil feel sorry for the evil, evil Vera at times. It is a good thing that there are no sequels to this book - VA could've gone on on forever with this one, but to leave it where it ended was really a wise move. Very readable, but a little depressing if you're not in the mood for it. I wasn't. Yet you can't help but turn those crusty old pages. Oh well.
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