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Summary: Very twisted story...
Review: I don't want to say i disliked this book..I didn't love it like the "Flowers" series...but it did reflect back to it in a way. Sarah has some big issues when she decides to turn Celeste into her brother Noble...and then keeps Celeste from being a mother to her own child. I can't wait to read Black Cat.
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Summary: Closer to VC Andrews Pen
Review: I enjoyed Celeste, much to my own surprise...Years ago, I was addicted to the books by V.C. Andrews -- specifically the Flowers in the Attic series and the Heaven series. Andrews could spin a story with mystery, secrets, love, incest -- and all of it would work together so beautifully. Honestly, there are no authors I have found that are comparable in style to V.C. Andrews. Consequently, I was disappointed with the books that were written "in her honor" after she had passed away. At first they were all right, as if she had outlined them to begin with. Gradually, they didn't hold my interest anymore. They were lacking...something... Celeste brought back the old feelings that so well reminded me of the author of the spellbinding My Sweet Audrina. As if someone had studied Andrews well enough to truly mimic that style that entrances you to turn page after page. The storyline promised much -- and made the book a quick read. What was missing in this book, however, was that ray of light. One bad thing after another befalls Celeste Atwell. I thought by the end that there would be some glimmer of hope for Celeste. I walked away feeling dismal about the entire experience. Will I read Black Cat, the upcoming sequel? Probably. But I wish there had been some small happiness for Celeste in this book - like Heaven's Logan or Cathy's brother Chris. Anyway, I found this book better than the past few novels in V.C. Andrews' name. The storyline carried the book for me. If you liked Flowers in the Attic, give this one a chance.
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Summary: Exceptable
Review: I have been reading V.C. Andrews books since I was in eighth grade. I am now a freshman in college and continue to purchase and read every single V.C. Andrews book that is published. This book was definitely a classic V.C. Andrews book chock full of death, rape and being housebound with odd family members. It was quite predictable but I was kept entertained. Unlike the other series, this book portrays quite a different family. Usually the heroine of the novel goes through highschool meeting the love of her life, however, in this book that does not happen.
Celeste is housebound and imprisoned by a mother who is obsessed with supernatural powers. She can't go to highschool because she has to stay at home, resembling her dead twin brother. Honestly, I can't wait until "Black Cat" comes out because I'm curious what is going to happen to the new arrival third member of the party.
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Summary: Dont read if you havnt read the book yet!!!!!!
Review: I have to say I'm a fan of V'C Andrews estate books, although I never really read her original work, on the exception of seeing Flowers in the Attic which was very good, I find her book family series to be good. All of the family series are always simalar, you know, the rich spoiled girl, falls in love with one of her family members, they run off together after something really bad happens, she loses her virginty to him, or she gets raped, etc. Its all so predictable, i just wish that the people who write these books can make them a different for once. I found Celste to be a little bit different, I liked the character Celeste but I just thought that her crazy mother just messed up Celeste childhood up to the point where Celeste grew up forcing herself to believe she's really a male when she isn't, and what I found the most annoying is that it actually seemed like Celste loved her mom after all that witch put her through, another thing I cannot stand is that her mom always gave Noble the most attention which was so wrong, parents who are actually like that should be ashamed of themsleves, I admit the begining was kind of slow and hard to get into, but got alot more interesting as Celeste got older and her next door male neighbor moved in. Another part that was so irritating was how when Celeste finally gave birth to her baby boy, she let her mom take control of the baby like it was her's. There are parts of the book when I actually wished that I can just be Celeste for a moment and just slap her insane mother and run a way, if that had happened this novel would have been more of a satisfied read.
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Summary: VC is BACK :)
Review: I LOVED this book!!! I am a huge VC fan. There for a time though it seemed the small series that were being put out were the same things over and over just different titles. With Celeste I was pulled back in as a HUGE fan and will anxiously await the sequel to this one! I do hope Celeste comes through this all and becomes who she was meant to be with her daughter by her side.
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Summary: Nice try! Too bad it flopped!
Review: I'll give an extra star to the ghostwriter for trying, but c'mon! These books are terrible! The Andrews family should have stopped these books once V.C. died instead of churning out these poorly-written, sappy, unrealistic novels. It's worse than watching an episode of Days, for crying out loud! Either get a new writer or stop this all together!
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Summary: Great Read!
Review: I've read all of the V.C Andrews books and this was another great one! I can't wait for the next title in the series to come out!
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Summary: Ghostwriter needs to give up the ghost
Review: It surprises me that so many people don't seem to know that VC Andrews passed away almost 20 years ago- that's why "her work" seems repetitive. The ghostwriter just continues to rework her themes in an attempt to stay "true" to her early works. Just a ploy for others to cash in on her name if you ask me. But I was desperate for a "beach read" and so picked this up. Celeste is a bit tired and slow, in my opinion. VC Andrews real work was gothic, which can often mean a bit overwrought as well as dark, and this was part of their charm. This is dark (maybe), but lacks the artistry, well drawn characters, and story development. I was a huge fan of the Dollanganger series and My Sweet Audrina. I've tried some of the ghost work, none seem interesting or compelling. Save your money, just reread the REAL VC Andrews!
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Summary: A really messed up book
Review: Sunday, October 24, 2004 5:20 PM
All I gotta share about Celeste is: It's a really messed up book. The mother in the book claimed that she saw and spoke to her ancestors, and after Celeste's brother (Nobel) dies in a tragic accident ... her mother has Celeste take Noble's identity. That's up until a new boy (Elliot) moves in to the old man's house next door, and finds that Nobel (AKA Celeste) is really a girl when she was found masturbating in the woods. Elliot soon rapes her in another order of 'black mailing her' to the public. Elliot dies drowning the same (maybe the same) way Noble had died. Celeste later realized that there is something growing in her tummy, and then her mother is told (by Celeste) about every thing that happened in the woods, and the mother then makes clear to her that there is a baby growing inside of her. Months later, Celeste (AKA Noble) gives birth to a baby girl with red hair. The mother dyes her baby girl's hair blonde, and forbids Celeste (AKA Nobel) not to go NEAR the baby in two weeks. She was forced to stay down in the living room, watching TV and eating meals. Once when her mother was knocked out with exhaustion, she snuck upstairs to find the baby screaming in her mother's locked bedroom. She slowly takes the keys from her mother's apron, and walks SLOWLY up stairs, in to her mother's room, and sees her daughter for the first time ever, noticing that her mother had dyed her hair blonde, because it wasn't red anymore. She picks her up, and let her suck on one of her boobs for her to feed. The mother finds them like that, and puts the baby back in the crib where the baby girl slept. Celeste asks for her name. "Baby Celeste", is the answer the mother gave her.
Give me a break, you guys. If there was such a thing that REALLY happened like this --- someone would take that insane mother of hers and put her in a mental institution! That's really f**ked up! I can't wait to read the second book to this: Black Cat.
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Summary: Different, yes, but still trash.
Review: The ghostwriter promised us that Celeste would be different from any Andrews novel he had written before - and it was. Worse than any other one, I might add. It's even more contrived and ridiculous than the Wildflowers or Broken Wings series. I found myself laughing the entire way through the book because it read like a third grader's story. The ghostwriter seemed so bent on stuffing every twisted cliche into his story that he lost touch with any sort of logic or reality in it. Celeste, is, of course, your standard spineless heroine - when you're not laughing, you'll be wondering why she can't ever stand up to her domineering and insane mother. Take her, throw in an obsession with peeing, some metaphors, crazy names, and a series of laughably unfortunate events, and you've got this latest drivel from our favorite ghostwriter. All that's missing is incest.
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