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Summary: disappointing, and it is part a long line of cliches
Review: After reading the Dollanger(?) series, the Casteel, Cutler and even "My Sweet Audrina", I found the Landry series to be lacking in originality, plot, and the climaxes left something to be desired. I was an avid reader of V.C. Andrews for a very long time and collected all the books up to the 3rd Landry. It was all so depressing and unoriginal that I couldn't bring myself to read anymore. The author killed off so many key characters that it was really hard to finish the book. Also, I found myself actually disliking the heroine for all her weaknesses despite her hardships. I would like to say this though, all the books before this were well-written, had likeable characters that the reader could relate with, and were all around DAMN GOOD BOOKS!!!!!!!!
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Summary: the best one of the Ruby series
Review: This book made all my tears come out. I felt so bad for Ruby but then really bad for Giselle. I recommend everyone read this. I really loved this book
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Summary: Pretty Good!
Review: Although this was a good book, it wasn't as great as i expected. Ruby and Pearl in the Mist were much better. There were some great ideas and twists to the plot in this story, but it moves along a bit more slowly than the other two. If you've already read Ruby and Pearl in the Mist, you should deffinately check this book out, just to know where it all leads
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Summary: A very good book
Review: this is a very good book i have read it 2 times already and plan to read it again along with the rest of the serie
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Summary: It was okay
Review: It's not as good as the other books in the Landry series, but it's okay. The reason its not as good is because Ruby's twin sister, Gisselle was killed and so was her stepmother Daphne and the series just wasn't the same without these two characaters. I also think that Ruby mistreated Paul
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Summary: An entralling sequal!!!!!!!
Review: When I first started to read "Ruby", I didn't think I'd like it. But now I've read the whole Landry series. "All that Glitters" is an amazing sequal to such a beautiful character in every way possible. The descriptions of New Orleans and the Cajun lifestyle is captivating. The story of Ruby and her obsessed half brother, Paul, is a sad story of how their love can never be fulfilled due to his father's sin. Paul's continuous torment throughout the first three novels of this series is sympathetic. Ruby is a strong woman who strives to make a better world for her family and her daughter, Pearl. I recommend this book to anyone who has already read the first two Landry books and also recommend the following two books in the series. The atmosphere of these books plays a part almost as big as the characters themselves. I've read all of V.C. Andrews books and I wouldn't traid them for anything. It's a true work of genious.
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Summary: The Third Book in the Landry Series
Review: It's been years since I've read "All That Glitters," so I figured a "4" rating would be accurate enough. However, this book happens to be where I paused from reading Andrews' following books. Instead I went back to her old series, because I was getting a bit bored with the same plot lines. I had held out this long hoping something would change; it didn't. Stopping in the middle of this series is probably why I didn't particularly like the Landry books--or maybe it's vice versa; I don't know. But I did like the Louisiana setting. That's one thing I like about her books: the setting.In "All That Glitters," the main relationships between 18-year-old Ruby Dumas (the protagonist), her wealthy halfbrother/childhood sweetheart Paul Tate, her twin sister Gisselle, and her baby's father Beau Andreas come full circle to where they had begun initially in "Ruby." Ruby returns to the bayou and reluctantly marries Paul in order to provide some stability for her newborn daughter, Pearl. And Gisselle and Beau elope for their own twisted reasons--Gisselle's: to get even with Ruby; Beau's: to pretend he's still with Ruby. But then the men switch places yet again when Gisselle falls into a coma (thus explaining the Sleeping Beauty-like front cover), and Ruby's not-so-well hidden feelings for Beau are allowed to be played out when she pretends to be his wife/her own sister. This whole scheme was quite bizarre (why Paul agreed to this, I can't understand), though it was fun to read. Still, my opinion of Ruby certainly changed afterwards. Paul, like a lot of the lovers/relatives of the heroine, is the typical doting--more or less obsessed--male protagonist, and you almost feel sorry for him. That or you want to smack him in the head to wake some sense up in him. Though that's kind of a moot point by the end. During all this romantic drama, a few more characters die, such as Daphne (no big loss there--she's just the evil stepmother), as well as a few more important characters (their deaths are rather tragic). "All That Glitters" is the last book told from Ruby's point of view. The following book, "Hidden Jewel" (#4), is passed on to her daughter, and the series wraps up with the prequel, "Tarnished Gold" (#5). And if you started in the middle of this series, then don't forget the first two: "Ruby" (#1) and "Pearl in the Mist" (#2).
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Summary: Suspenseful
Review: All that Glitters, begins a year after Ruby returns to Houma, and gives birth to Pearl. The book is very suspense-filled, and has many dark chills in it. It is sort of like a soap opera. But it has the same senario as all of past V.C. Andrews books. What makes it fun, is that it takes place in the swamps of, Louisianna.
I found it suspenseful and faced-paced because, in the first half of the book, Ruby marries her half-brother, Paul. But they keep their distance from each other "in that sort of way". Still they both pretend Pearl is their child, and they reside, in the deep swamps of Houma.
All of a sudden that whole facade falls through, and Ruby is living with Beau in New Orleans, as her twin sister Giselle.
There is a chilling climax that will leave you reading the last three chapters without putting the book down. You will enjoy it!
Although you might think Ruby is a little self-ish to the people who love herr the most.
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