Into the Woods

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Summary: When did this take place
Review: I finished reading twisted roots and that was entertaining enough but then they throw this book in and I'm reading it and isn't Grace supposed to be Hannah's grandmother? Why do they have the internet in her story, and rufies and a Shania Twain song playing on the radio? Is Shania Twain supposed to have existed and been popular through all three generations? She must be about sixty now and singing around dentures and dying her hair. OR, Hannah lives years and years in the future where everything is just the same as now. I find this almost insulting to the intelligence of the readers. Former VC Andrews books with the exception of Olivia, which carried writing and attention to detail which was just as bad, attempted to portray the history of a place through various generations of it's inhabitants. The place was a large part of the aptmosphere, whether it is an old plantation "The Meadows" or the wartime bayou add a large part to the story for me, and both the Landry series and the Cutler series was careful to portray a specific time frame. The real VC Andrews of course, was never as careless. Her works were meticulous and original and utterly amazing.

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Summary: Okay, but when is this supposed to take place
Review: I finished reading twisted roots and that was entertaining enough for a Vc Andrews novel but then they throw this book in and I'm reading it and isn't Grace supposed to be Hannah's grandmother? Why do they have the internet in her story, and rufies and a Shania Twain song playing on the radio? Is Shania Twain supposed to have existed and been popular through all three generations? She must be about sixty now and singing around dentures and dying her hair. OR, Hannah lives years and years in the future where everything is just the same as now. I find this almost insulting to the intelligence of the readers. Former VC Andrews books with the exception of Olivia, which carried writing and attention to detail which was just as bad, attempted to portray the history of a place through various generations of it's inhabitants. The place was a large part of the aptmosphere, whether it is an old plantation "The Meadows" or the wartime bayou add a large part to the story for me, and both the Landry series and the Cutler series was careful to portray a specific time frame. The real VC Andrews of course, was never as careless. Her works were meticulous and original and utterly amazing.

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Summary: It's Justice
Review: I have been a V.C. Andrews fan for six years. I have read everybook ever written. I admit this series has not been the best but that would never stop me from reading any of her books. I will deffinately read all that are to come, I just hope they aren't as dissapointing as the DeBeers series has been. Out of the four books, this one is the best one. It's story plot is a classic V.C. Andrews story minus the romance, and the main character goes crazy which was a little different. Like I said this won't stop me from reading more books. I do hope they keep coming because as long as they are published I will purchase and read. I incredibly hope that they are better in the future.

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Summary: Superb
Review: I have been reading V.C. Andrews books for years. This was the kind of book that I could not wait to get back to. During the series, I have always wondered what was up with Grace and how she grew up. The tragedys in her life were amazing. I cried at one point then later thought to myself, "It's only a book!" This book sucks you in and makes you feel like you are Grace. When I am waiting for the new books to be published, I resume another series. V.C. Andrews is awesome!

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Summary: Into the Woods
Review: I have read every V.C. Andrews book and was so bothered by the incorrect timeline that I have not been able to finish the book. The time that Grace was a teenager would had to have been around 1965 at best. There weren't any DVD's CD's, legal abortions or date rape, as a matter of fact lasers were just becoming a reality. So when I began reading Into the Woods I was terribly disapointed. I really was looking forward to reading about Grace, but there were so many inconsistancies that the book now just sits in my bookself. I would only recommend this book if you've not read the series.

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Summary: I love VC but I think this Ghostwriter is NUTS
Review: I love all of VC's books I own everyone and even have bought the new one coming out the 29th pre-orderd of course but anyway I like her books and if you have noticed that since her passing her books have become more disorganized and kinda I dunno silly...but looking back on the subject of why this book was not written first..if you have read the flowers in the attic series you would see that Grandmother Cutlers story came at the end of the series why not at the beginning? Again writers are funny about things like that I just wish he (the ghostwriter) would go back to her original way of writing the suduction the insest the bayou everything like that....am I wrong?

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Summary: Time line?
Review: I thought it would be intersting to read Grace's story, but you almost already know everything about her through the other books. I prefer all the books in the series to stay focused on one main character like Willow and not about her mother or her daughter. I read a lot but this book bored me! I just finished reading, EVEN ANGELS FALL by Sherry A. Mauro whose writing style is a lot like the old Virginia Andrews. I highly recommend this author to any VCA fans. You won't be disappointed!

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Summary: its not that bad...
Review: I understand what all the others are saying about the book. How the time warp thing messes up the reader. But I thought maybe Grace lived in the present time, while Willow was supposed to be more into the future.
Anyways, apart from that little thing, the book was great! Twisty plot, some characters to stir things up a bit. I gave it a four because toward the end it started to drag, and I found myself just wanting to put it down because I already know whats going to happen to Grace.

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Summary: Time frame is totally out of kilter
Review: In the last deBeers novel, Grace was a grandmother with two grown children. In this "prequel" she seems to a contemporary of her own granddaughter while living in the same time period. Would someone old enough to be a grandmother be still high school/college age and know about the Internet and CDs? I don't think so. It would have been much more interesting if it had taken place during the late fifties/early sixties or thereabouts. The publishers/writer/editor should have been more careful. This time warp distracts from the plot.

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Summary: Great Characters
Review: Into the Woods carries on the wonderful characterazations and intricate plotting of past best selling V.C. Andrews novels. The people who are bothered by some of the historical errors are like people who really miss the forest for the trees. It's so minor and isn't important to the storyline and the characters developed here. And how about the depiction of Palm Beach? This is a terrific read.