Olivia

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Summary: Couldn't put it down.
Review: This book, Olivia, was OUTSTANDING! I could not put this book down. Even at my school during lunch I would sit and read it. It is wonderfully written and leaves many questions to ponder such as: How far will someone go to save their family? Not only does this book chill you to the bone but it makes you feel as if you are Olivia. I found myself saying things to the other characters in to book. This book has moments that make you want to cry, and moments that chill you to the bone. It is very confusing at first but if you keep an open mind you will understand it.My only mistake was I read this book first in the Logan's series.

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Summary: Megan's Olivia Review
Review: This was the Second V.C. Andrews book I ever read, and now I'm practically addicted to them! Olivia is such an awesome book with so many twists it's damn near impossible to put it down! Everyone should read this book! It's about a woman who has millions of problems fall on her shoulders, but always comes out triumphantly!

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Summary: SOS - SAME OLD STORY. ANOTHER TIRED OLIVIA
Review: Olivia is a bitter woman, fiercely jealous of her younger sister, who is favored. The sister is flighty, infantile and has no common sense. Olivia overcompensates by becoming a starched martinet with a lump of coal for a heart and iodine for blood. Like the Dollanganger brood, the Logan clan also has their cross to bear named Olivia. Questionable paternity, bitterness between sisters and the same old tired fare that readers have come to expect from V.C. Andrews. This is just more of the same tired formula.

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Summary: Good, surprising depth
Review: Olivia reflected simple pain. She loved someone who didn't love her back and would never love her. I find this refreshing after some of V.C. Andrews other innocent, perfect characters find true love, get married and have children and live happily ever after, until the daughter's story. She also wasn't a complete victim, she fought back and was justified in her fighting, even if she wasn't always completely fair. I also liked the fact that she stayed a virgin until she got married, unlike the rest of V.C.'s hormone controlled young girls. I think the Logan series was the last series that the "phantom writer" wrote that I really could relate to. I didn't like Rain very much at all.

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Summary: Prequel Power
Review: Give this book a break! No, it wasn't classic VCA, the heroine gorgeous, loving, vulnerable,wanted, but I think Olivia is to be admired. She was a strong woman and was expected to do a lot for the family which she did. This book was a huge step up from the pathetic Logan series, and I did connect with Olivia. I was surprised that I actually cheered her on to sleep with Nelson, although it was disappointing and unfulfilling. I love all the prequels, and I was glad that Olivia was her own person. She did want to be loved, and it was tragic that it was unrequited.

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Summary: DISAPPOINTED
Review: I started reading VC Andrews books when I was in high school. I was totally facinated with the style of writing that she used in her books, but the series that have come out after the Casteel series seem to be stuck in one pattern and are too predictable. If you look at the plots between the Heaven series, My Sweet Audrina, and the Flowers in the Attic Series, They are completely different, and the last book in the series always answered all the question you had plus a few you didn't think of! The ghostwriter needs to get some new ideas or stop writing all together!

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Summary: An overall good book
Review: First of all I did like the book. This was my 3rd V.C. series, and while this book was good, the entire series could have been better. I like the fact that you finally know a little bit more about why Olivia was so cruel to her family in the other books. This book showed the possible reasons why Olivia got to be so mentally deranged, that she would do what she did to Laura. This book left you thinking, "Okay Olivia couldn't be any more of a witch to her family". But as soon as she does something to one person she was already plotting something cruel for someone else. But in the early part of the book you see a little bit of Olivia's soft side. Though not much!

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Summary: A little odd
Review: I believe it's a little odd how this series was written. I've always loved the order in which the books were written. By writing it with the last book explaining the story, you make the reader think for themselves and want to go back and read the series all over again. We all sit there the first four books and condemn the evil grandmother and then we hear the grandmother's story and understand the rest. However, it's odd how the Logan series jumps to Laura's story. Ideally, we would expect to hear Haille's story. Olivia was a good book...but it's all a little out of the traditional order it usually is written in. Maybe the ghost-writer has a say in it?

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Summary: I loved it!
Review: This was the first book I'd ever read by VC Andrews and I don't care if it IS a ghost writer, I still like the books. I could definetly identify with Olivia, but I also think that she was too cold. I was embarrased for her in certain parts, and been frightened of her, too. She is such a three dimensional character, and I want to know more about her and her family. I've ordered the rest of the Logan family series, just to see what happened before and what will happen in the future! Definetly a good read!

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Summary: I wish V.C. Andrews was still alive!
Review: The author that took over for V.C. Andrews has totally lost the V.C. Andrews style and technique as far as her writing went. I found Olivia boring and hard to stay with. For the most part, I thought the series was too broken up, with the telling of Melody, Laura, and now Olivia... I hope the new author sees this and gets w/ the program! As far as the Runaway seriesand the new Misty book - get a life whats w/ the 149 page books? Plus you get to read the Prolog to the next book, which after your finished w/ that, you've about read half of the next book!!! I have read everything V.C. Andrews has ever written and since her death - the person taking over has done her wrong!!!!!!!! Thank you for listening - Sandi