Star (Wildflowers)

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Summary: 'Star' Gets 5 Stars
Review: 'Star' written by V.C. Andrews gets 5 stars because it was an excellent book for a teenage girl. The book shows teenage girls that they are not the only ones going through a rough time with adolescence. It made me realize that no matter how bad I think the problem is that I am going through, there is always some else out there going through something much worse. This book made me want to cry at times and I recommend it for any teenage girl who is having a hard time dealing with life right now. It will make you realize that what you are dealing with really isn't all that bad.

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Summary: All i can think of is what a sad way to make money.
Review: I'm a huge V.C. Andrews fan. That is, the REAL VC, and not the ghost writer of Andrew Neiderman. My one star rating is for all the mini series books out there. What a marketing ripoff. By the time you buy each individual little book in the mini series, plus the final book that reunites them all, you will have spent considerably more than the price for one normal sized VC book. Now that the hype of the series has died down, i find that they go and finally publish all the books together in one massive volume, like they should have done in the first place. The real VC would not have pulled such a horrible money-making stunt like the publishers are doing. The mini-series books have a hastily-written feel to them, as if the publishers needed to get some kind of VC book out on the shelves asap, with little thought to the content, or even if the faithful VC fans would even care about a mini-series like this. The VC magic was totally absent from any of the mini-series books, and i felt like i was reading a "young adult" teeny-bopper VC Andrews, instead of the old "adult" VC Andrews we all love. I think all of the books in the mini-series should be put in the Young Adult section instead of in the horror section of the bookstore. They feel like a cross between a weak version of R.L. Stine books and some other book aimed at 12-year-olds. There really is a juvenile feel to these mini-series books that i did not like. The ghost writer has gotten worse with each series, and it was obvious many series ago that he has adopted his own modern writing style, even though the story is told in the first person. I never liked this current "modernization" of the VC Andrews stories. The older books were the best ever, because they were written by the real V.C. Andrews, and had memorable characters. Tell me, does any true VC fan care much for the new crop of characters in these mini-series?? NO! Compare the new books to the books in the Flowers In The Attic series and Heaven series. It's like compairing junk to a treasure. It's so obvious that the Andrews family is in all this for a share of the money they are making off the ghost writer's books. I wish Andrew Neiderman would stop attaching V.C. Andrews' name to the stuff he writes. VC would not be proud. Her stores were ten million times better and more interesting than these damned mini-series books. The fact that the name V.C. Andrews is a copyright is a shame. Why doesn't Andrew Neiderman just write the books and put his name on them? We all know he's the one writing the books, so just stop with putting VC Andrews on the cover. It's become a joke now. We all know the writing and story ideas are nowhere near as good as the ones the real VC used to write. Please skip all the books in any of the mini-series. If you want to read the REAL V.C. Andrews, then stick with the first few series she wrote. For those who don't know, she died in 1986, shortly after Dark Angel, the second book in the Heaven series, was written.

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Summary: Eh....
Review: In the second story in the Wildflowers series we hear Star's story. Star likes to put up a tough bravado but the truth is her past is filled with pain. In Dr. Marlowe's therapy group she tells the story of parents that constantly fought, and a mother that never really wanted to have kids. As she continues to tell her story Misty, Jade, and Cat may realize that Star, under her wise cracks is just like them. I found this book to be a nice read, but not really up to par with the rest of the series. I liked reading this book. But compared to the other two in the series I've already read (Misty and Jade) it was just lacking something. Neverless I'm still reading the series (Cat is on my shelf right now and I'm going to buy the full-length novel Into the garden). I reccomend this book to fans of a series but try to get it from your library instead of spending your own money on it.

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Summary: These mini-series really suck
Review: Ok so once again it took me about an hour or two to read this book. All I can say is I'm not impressed. This book was 10 times more interesting than MISTY, which isn't saying much. These mini-series lack the shock and drama of a real Andrews book. I can't say enough how disappointed I am. I thought the Orphan series was bad but the Wildflowers are terrible! I have found nothing yet in either series that would make me gasp or swear to my husband that I'll put the book down when I read one more chapter. If not for the name V.C. Andrews on the cover I wouldn't look at it twice. I have better ideas than this ghostwriter! Maybe I should write a book..because I know what the readers want. As horrible as it may sound we want the rape and incest and anything that may make our hearts stop.

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Summary: Needy Girl is Rich in Experience
Review: Star acted more of a mom to her little brother Rodney while their own parents Aretha and Kenny were so busy squabbling with each other. Star and Rodney were lucky to move in with their grandma. I was glad she fell in love with Steve. I believe Star should have told her grandma about Steve's problems while he was alive. That way Steve's life would have been saved. Star took it very hard when Steve died. Yet her grandma didn't panic when she found out when her own granddaughter needed help.