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Ruby

Ruby

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: 8=My faviote VCA series!
Review: I have been reading V.C.Andrews since I was 12. I've read many of her books,but the series I like best was the Landry Series. When I read it I felt like I been to the places and known the charicters for a long time. I like the charicters in the series and felt like they were my friends. If you want to read a VCA book you can love I recomend this book

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great book!
Review: The whole Landry series is great. It's the best one V.C. Andrews wrote so far. Even though Ruby is the main character in the book, her twin sister , Gisselle, steals the show. Her character's back-stabbing and manipulations bring out the series. Her stepmother, Daphne, does so also. Ruby is too goody-goody. That's the reason the character Giselle outshines her with her sterotypical stuck-up rich girl act. You'll love this book. Even though Gisselle is manipulative, you'll love her, too.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It is definitely the best of all her series.
Review: I am a huge V.C. Andrews fan. I have read all of her books. I eagerly wait for each new book and series. However, I think this book is the first of the best of all of her series. Of course, I am biased because I am from Louisiana. The majority of the information is true about Louisiana, but some of it is over-exaggerated. None-the-less, she must have come to Louisiana and observed to be able to know some of the things mentioned in the book. I have read this book alon with all of the others numerous times and will continue to do so

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing
Review: I started reading V.C. Andrews' novels well over 5 years ago in my high school library. I was never a fan of novels but after reading "Heaven" I was amazed. Andrews' novels always have a way of wanting you to read more that you somehow can't put the book down. Personally, "Ruby" and its series are my faves. As in all of her novel series, it makes you feel like you're part of the story and you're the main character. Andrews paints the picture so well and describes the most trivial things perfectly in her stories. I've yet to collect ALL her series... I'm done with the Logan series and I'm working on the Landry series :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ruby
Review: After reading The Flowers in the Attic series I began the Ruby series. I am drawn into V.C. Andrews writing style because she incorporates twist and turns in fate with little detection, leaving the reader shocked and astonished when they learn the truth. I also enjoy how she weaves deceitful people into her plots. In the story of Ruby the deceit of numerous people led to the sequence of obstacles a young girl must overcome after her grand-mere passes on and she learns the scandalous circumstances of her conception and birth. Upon discovery, Ruby sets out on an adventure to discover a whole new world, with a whole new family. I admire her for her courage and heart to do as she promised her grand-mere on her death bed because the challenges she faced would have made many crumble to nothing but dirt on the bottom of ones' shoe. I cannot wait to continue reading the series to see where the path lain for Ruby will take her. Will she succeed in the "rich world" or will she retreat back to the bayou?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Must read
Review: This is the best book i have ever read among V.C. Andrews's books. Although it was quite boring at the begining, but it gets more and more exciting as u get further!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: So far VC Andrews best....but I've got many to go
Review: Having read the Dollanganger and Casteel family series, this (the Landry family series) was indeed my favorite. It's so different. Both the Dollanganger and Casteel family series took place (mostly) on the East Coast. To have Ruby set in the colorful Louisiana bayou was thrilling! AND, the evil twin sister twist was pretty exciting, too.

Ruby still has some of the maddening features that other Andrews characters have had, though. First, Ruby displays way too much tolerance. I would call her weak, but she triumphs over certain adversities -- she certainly has gumption and a stiff backbone to go from rags to riches (in true VC Andrews style) the way she did. However, the plethora of characters that walked all over her without her so much as raising an eyebrow makes you want to leap through the pages and smack her around a bit. I myself would have slipped a little arsenic in Giselle's tea and thrown Grandpere to the alligators in the swamps from day one - those characters were just too evil!!

The characters are a little flat and one-sided -- those who are evil are evil through and through. Those who are sweet and innocent and kind stay that way. Also, Paul fawns over Ruby juuuuu-uuuust a wee bit much. Come on....guys will do a lot for a girl, but he was cute and successful -- he wouldn't have stuck around through so much drama. (And it gets even worse in All That Glitters, book 3 of this series.)


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