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Summary: BEST BOOK EVER MADE
Review: "Dawn" by V.C. Andrews is by far the best book that has ever been made. I couldnt put this book down
it was so good. I read the book all the way through with out putting it down. I HIGHY recommend this book
to everyone. I am absolutly sure Im reading the rest of the series.
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Summary: A Suspnesful Book For All Ages
Review: I read this book and I found it was the BEST book I had ever read. I am 14 and my friends have also read this book and thought it was the greatest book we had ever read. I couldn't put it down and neither could they. I would definetly read more of V.C Andrews books and I intend to read the rest of the books in this series and I would like to read the other books she has wrote
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Summary: It was great
Review: I have read most of V.C. Andrews books, I find them all very good.
I evnjoy the fact that they deal for the most part of real eveyday
issues in a strange way. I find when I pick up a book I can not put it
down until I am finished.
I can not pick a favorite one ex.Dawn, Flowers in the attic, Dark angel,
Heaven, ect. because they are all my favorites. I enjoy the way they are
writen, the content everything.
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Summary: The book may be dark, but my love for it is very bright.
Review: Once I read "Dawn" I thought this is the most amazing writer I have ever read from and when I realized the writer wrote the movie "Flowers in the Attic" that I loved for as long as I could remember I fell in love with anything else she wrote. Like Andrews' other books they usually dark sides them, but I think that's what drew me to them even more along with the mysteries, suspense, hoping that the main character survives whom ever is trying to destroy her, etc. Continuing on about "Dawn", I read the entire series and a year and a half later I am craving to read it again so after "Orphans" comes out I am going to finish that series and read "Dawn" again. I would also like to add for V.C Andrews if she reads this is that I am hoping for her series to be made into audio tapes and/or miniseries eventhough movies rarely do the book justice, it would still be neat to watch my most loved books on screen.
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Summary: Couldn't Put The Book Down
Review: I was instantly hooked on this book from the very start. I also like the way that VC Andrews portrays her characters. I think Dawn would have been better off staying with the Longchamps at first. I will like to see what happens to Dawn in future novels in the Cutler series. I hated the way that the Grandma treated Dawn using her as a slave basically. I also didn't like what Phillip did to her and also the way Clara Sue treated her. So now comes Secrets of the Morning to read and see what that is like.
Rating: 
Summary: Interesting, yet very messed up
Review: Having not read V.C. Andrew's books for over four years, I decided to pick up Dawn at a used books store--for the heck of it. I wanted to see why I liked it so much during middle school. I now know why I stopped reading her books. It's soo mind warping! Although the stories are interesting, they're disgusting and fake. Dawn makes incestuous thoughts, sex at 15, and perverted touching okay...that's just messed up. I think I liked it more during middle school because of my curiosity with the opposite sex and my naiveness of great novels. Since I'm more matured, the books now appall me. I was going to give Dawn 1 star, however the plot was interesting and I've read worse. Overall, I wouldn't highly recommend the book, unless you have nothing else to read, and if you do read it be prepared to have your morals and values questioned.
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Summary: Kind of different...
Review: I was a teenager when "Flowers in the Attic" was first released and I loved the book so much that I would have read anything that VC Andrews wrote. However, as I've gotten older, my appeal for the VCA books has greatly lessened. Maybe it's because of the "ghostwriter", maybe it's my own maturity and preference for a different style of writing. The only book from this series that I had previously read was "Darkest Hour", and I really did like that book - however not enough to pursue the rest of the series. I ran across "Dawn" at a rummage sale and bought it for 25 cents. Although I did read the entire book, I still wouldn't buy the rest of the series. I guess I just can't get past how someone could lust after their own brother - whether biologically related, or just raised together. It's very wierd. If I found out today that my brother wasn't blood related to me, there's still no way I could think of him as anything but a brother.
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Summary: Good, good...interesting characters...
Review: Intriguing, intriguing and part of it are heartbreaking. The poverty of the Longchamp family is poignantly and well described and it's touching that Dawn and Jimmy have a close bond between them as siblings. Jimmy is rather sweet, despite his quick temper and difficulty dealing with the rich, spoiled kids in their new private school that they are attending only due to their dad getting a maintenence job with the school.
Everything changes for the worse when Ormand is arrested and it's revealed that Dawn actually is biologically part of another family...the rich, snobby Cutlers with priggish, spiteful, jealous Clara Sue and phony Philip who tried to charm his way with Dawn and mocked poor Jimmy behind his back while smiling to his face. The couple who all themselves Dawn's "parents" are really not parents at all in the way Sally Jean and Ormand Longchamp were...Laura Sue is another phony who spends her time upstairs pretending to be sick whenever anyone brings up anything she doesn't want to hear (I laughed and mentally imagined the "medicines" she was claiming to be on were actually jelly beans or milk duds) and irresponsible dependent Randolph Cutler who repeatedly makes excuses for the others' shabby treatment of Dawn. Randolph especially makes excuses for his lousy mother, Lillian Cutler, the biggest snob of all. Lillian, who calls herself Dawn's grandmother, treats Dawn with open contempt and gives Dawn one of the worst jobs in "her" hotel as chambermaid while she gives Clara Sue and Philip cleaner jobs.
Jimmy, who has his load of problems in the foster home he's sent to, runs away and finds where Dawn is and offers his shoulder to lean on, despite the fact that he was abused in the foster home and is dealing with his own trauma from that as well as still grieving for his lost mother, whom he loved very much.
I really liked Jimmy because even though he tried to hide his vulnerability under a mask of fiery bravado and his fiesty temper, he really was soft and sensitive inside and it's clearly seen when he weeps over Sally Jean's tragic death, then cries over being seperated from Dawn. I was sooo glad when I read that later on, Jimmy gets in a better foster home.
Dawn later finds out why the grandmother is such a heel and why she seems to resent Dawn from an unexpected source. Dawn confronts her grandmother with it; that part was great since then her grandmother was confronted with her wrongdoings and had no choice but to send Dawn to the school of her dreams...learning about music, Dawn's lifelong passion.
Dawn finds out more about Laura Sue and Randolph in this spellbinding story and also finds out what the entire story is behind the terrible accusations against Ormand and Sally Jean Longchamp. It's a story of heartbreak, cheers, and many revelations and surprises.
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Summary: Juicy Story
Review: I used to read VC Andrews back when I was in my teens. I have never forgotten the magic of Flowers in the Attic. The Cutler series has been on my book shelf for years needless to say, and finally I've decided to pick it up. And so far I'm pleased that I did!
Dawn is the first in the 5 book series and a decent start. The story is a little slow at first, but picks up quickly towards the middle and end with many shocking secrets revealed. As we meet Dawn she's a 14 year old from a poor family who due to a new job her dad received now has the opportunity to go to a private school. This foreshadows what her life is about to turn into down the road and is kind of a transitional phase between her poor life full of struggles to her new life full of opportunity and the unknown. You won't be able to guess where her life takes her...
I would of course recommend this book more to teens than to adults, even though I am an adult who did enjoy this guilty pleasure and easy read. VC Andrews is famous for writing detailed stories that pull you into her web and this series appears it's no different, I'm already half way through the next book Secrets of the Morning.
Rating:
Summary: Great
Review: The beginning of the Cutler series was great all the way up to Midnight Whispers, however, they start getting repetitive. Like everybody's behavior is the same (drunks, incest, people talking to themselves, someone has a baby with a relative who isn't really a relative).The rest of the Cutler series become predictable. Incidentally, though, V.C. Andrews created masterpieces. Even though I could tell what might happen next, or was perturbed by the behavior of a character, I enjoyed reading the stories. I'm an avid V.C. Andrews reader. I'm glad her relatives have kept up with the style of writing that V.C. Andrews started.
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