Celeste

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Summary: Classic
Review: This book was great I could not put it down! And yes this kinda stuff still happens! And if you are a fan of this author and her ghost writer you would know that this seems to have took place long ago the girls ask "Noble" if he listens to tapes "he" says no. Great book the review on the cover says it all her mom is right up there with the mom in flowers in the attic. I can't wait for the sequel and I have been reading VC Andrews for almost 20 years. I hope in the sequel Noble/Celeste stands up to her mother and gets her baby away from that loon!

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Summary: Finally - VCA took over the GW's body!!!!
Review: This book was the best I have read byt he GW as VCA... It brings back all those things I loved about the original VCA - intrigue, horror, questions, and caring about the story.

Celeste is strong, not whiny, not wimpy, (...) as our beloved Cathy was prone to do in her younger, bolder, and most vengeful days.

Sarah is a Mom you love to hate in true VCA stuyle - she's a sicko with the power of her children to completely run and change her children's lives!

As a side note - did anybody notice that Elliott told Celeste the story of Dawn as a TV movie? Page 260-261.

Great job AN!!! Keep it up, you have won me back!

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Summary: Bizzare...
Review: This is by far one of the strangest VC andrews ever. Normaly, they are realistic fiction. ZThis one was SO fantasy. I mean really, seeing spirits? How stupid. And this one has too much detail. They should get straight to the point. I say Viriginias ghostwritter should be fired.

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Summary: what a sick mother
Review: this is the story of a loving family with twins, a boy and a girl. the mother hears the spirits of her dead relatives and refuses to let her children have any type of life outside of the home. no friends, they are homeschooled(double yuck here) and the silly father goes along with it.

but when the father dies, and a few years later her son dies, the mother really loses it. she forces her daughter celeste to take on the idenity of her brother and completely emerge herself as a boy.

now there are some interesting scenes on how a mother deals with a girl' puberty problems whens she is supposed to be a boy but this is just a sick book. the first 200 pages makes u think the mother really needs to be in a mental institution. hopefully all the parenets out there who refuse to let their children have normal lives and attend school will look at this story and think twice.

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Summary: Bomb Diggity
Review: This was a nice change from the previous senarios in the first few series. This book was a little to long, and could have been cut down. But it was still a thrilling story. I only hope that Celeste can get rid of her mother, and live happily with her daughter and a husband. We'll just have to read more and find out!

This is deffinately a good book to read!

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Summary: Iintriguing thriller
Review: Twins Noble and Celeste Atwell are part of a close knit family though their Mommy Sarah favors her son over her daughter. Mommy takes the children to purchase amulets to ward off evil over the concerns of her increasingly worried husband Arthur that Sarah is over the edge and their kids are suffering. Not long afterward, Arthur, a skeptic of mystic powers, dies from a cerebral aneurism. Mommy knows that the spirits took Arthur away because he failed to heed her advice about protection.

Mommy becomes displeased and concerned when Celeste displays mystical prowess before Noble. At a nearby stream, Celeste and Noble push and pull with his fishing rod. When she lets go, he falls, cracks his head on a rock, and dies in the accident. Mommy is stunned that her "daughter" died as from now on Celeste is to be Noble and she is so convincing that the authorities believe the female twin died. Though a bit confused, Celeste's personality wanes over the years as with Mommy's impetus Noble takes over until adolescence sets in encouraged by Elliot moving next door.

Though CELESTE is the author's usual theme of a dysfunctional family in which the suffering of the children from deranged adults surface in adolescence, C.V. Andrews provides an intriguing thriller. Still the initial reactions that Celeste could not pose as Noble and how did the authorities get fooled are overcome when one realizes how isolated the twins were and how Mommy believed that the girl died. Though Mommy seems out of the Bates Motel, Celeste as Noble and later as female yearnings surface makes for a fine tale that will excite fans of the author.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Not one of her better efforts...
Review: What do you get when you combine the best elements of the Dollanganger series, the Cutler series, and "My Sweet Audrina"? Amazingly, a very difficult read. While it is a switch from the "poor girl doesn't know she's rich" theme, it's very odd, and many of the ideas (other than Mommy trying to make her daughter over into a boy to replace her lost son) are not at all original. (In fact, one character describes a TV film that he watched some time before, and it sounds eerily like the plot of "Dawn".)

My advice? Get hold of Andrews' earlier work. This is only for her most dedicated fans.

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Summary: Mommy creates twisted sister...
Review: Why do abused people put up with the abuse? As brilliantly portrayed in the latest V.C. Andrews' first in a series "Celeste" they often believe they find the love they lack by enduring the inappropriate behaviors inflicted upon them.
Take the age old sibling rivalry for Mommy's attention together with New Age mindsets and add the isolation of homeschooling and the combination is just right for abuse and the tolerance of abuse.
V.C.Andrews'family did the right thing by continuing the legacy of works about rich people with tragic tales to tell;and certainly chose the right author to do the job. The story picture is filled in with well researched details and believable dialogue as well as enlightening the reader --without knowing it-- about great vocabulary words and interesting tidbits of trivia on a host of practical as well as engaging topics.
I could say that reading this latest offering reminded me of early VC books or was something like "Rosemary's Baby" and "Mommy Dearest" rolled into one but I think this brand of storytelling stands on its own without readers feeling the need to compare it to other works.
I look forward to the next dark soap opera installment in the Gemini series coming out in October. Can't wait!

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Summary: ~ Wow V.C. Andrews Would Be Very Proud Of This Book ~
Review: Wow just finish this book and let me tell you as I was reading every page it gave me the chills, this Mother is so crazy, you would think that the Mother from "Flowers In The Attic" had a twin herself. This was a pager turner for me, I kept wanting to find out what was going to happen in Celeste's life I felt so sorry for her she wanted her Mother to be so proud of her the way her Mother was proud of Noble, This book reminded me of My Sweet Audrina, which I also enjoyed. I cannot wait for "Black Cat I wonder what that book as in store for us? V. C. Andrews would be very proud of this book!

Happy Reading Lisa