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Summary: Awesome! Best Yet!!!
Review: Summer beloved by "Uncle Roy", Harley, Rain her mother and her father just turned 16. When she is away for the summer at music camp she gets in trouble, so she comes home. Aunt Glenda drowns in the lake at the back of thier house so Harley finds out who his father is. Something is up when Harley and Summer run away to see Harley really father. Throught the many twists and turns of the book ,Summer, grows in strenght and spirit. This books shows how strong the Hudson women are. I recommend this book to everybody who loves V.C. Andrews. This was the most suspenceful book yet. This book shows the troubles of that Rain and Roy face. Summer and Harley's happy ending proves love conquers all!!!!!
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Summary: Totally lacking any substance
Review: Summer is the very loved daughter of Rain and Austin. She is wise because she always takes time to listen to everybody around her. Summer even wants to help Harley get into college. Austin gives Summer wise counsel to help herself before she helps anybody else. I believe he means to say, "When oxygen masks drop put yours on first before you help anybody else with his or her mask." I heard that statement quoted by Eustace Cutler, the mom of Temple Grandin. Temple is the author of EMERGENCE: LABELED AUTISTIC and THINKING IN PICTURES.
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Summary: Summer's Story
Review: Summer is the very loved daughter of Rain and Austin. She is wise because she always takes time to listen to everybody around her. Summer even wants to help Harley get into college. Austin gives Summer wise counsel to help herself before she helps anybody else. I believe he means to say, "When oxygen masks drop put yours on first before you help anybody else with his or her mask." I heard that statement quoted by Eustace Cutler, the mom of Temple Grandin. Temple is the author of EMERGENCE: LABELED AUTISTIC and THINKING IN PICTURES.
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Summary: They Finally Did It!!!!!!!!!!
Review: THE Ghostwriter has finally done it, They have convinced me not to buy VC Andrews books again. THE BO0KS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Thank the Gods that this is the last one!!
Review: The Hudson series was nothing more then a rewrite of the Cutler Series. So if you want to know about the Hudson series, just read the Cutler series over again! THe GW just copied it all over again and only made very, very few changes. What could have been a groundbraking saga turned into a damp mess.The GW has offically made up my mind NOT to buy anymore VCA novels.
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Summary: money
Review: the pocket books publishers and VCA's ghost writer (Andrew Neiderman) have finally convinced me never to buy another V. C. ANdrews book again.
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Summary: Haven't read this book, just skimmed through it
Review: The real, original V.C. Andrews wrote dark, shocking break-the mold books. She created an almost new genre of fiction, the sort of gothic fairy tale. Her ideas were fresh and new and original. The ghost writer, no matter what he writes is not sharing some dark inner vision that he holds of the world with us, like she was. I get the impression that he is following a pattern because there is a lot of money involved in this type of fiction and in so doing these books have become more geared towards teenage girls. To be fair though, he does seem to understand a little about the way girls think and feel and his girls do teach survival against all odds, which is good. So his books were a sort of therapy for me when I was fifteen and sixteen. They were something for me to move onto when I got off of Sweet Valley High. Not that these girls should be role models because most of them are a little self absorbed and they usually always end up pregnant before they turn twenty. But they do help you relate when you are young. I get the impression now though, that he is just trying to give his fans what they want, and what a lot of die hard V.C. Andrews fans (Just look up any of her fan pages on the internet) is to read the same story over and over again. Just listen to them complaining about how "orphans" are veering away from the pattern. I personally don't agree with that because if I want to read the same story over and over again, I will read the same story over and over again. But some people read these books and expect certain themes from them and that is what the ghost writer is trying to give them. V.C. Andrews, though, the real one, if you read any of her past interviews said that she wanted to write historical fiction and science fiction, but her publishers didn't want her to leave her niche because there was too much money in that type of fiction. I think it would have been interesting to see what she would have written. She really was a good writer.
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Summary: Same old plot...
Review: This ghostwriter is unbelievely uncreative! ALL THE PLOTS ARE THE SAME! Always. Let's see, there's this beautiful, talented, smart, and perfect girl who loves her Mommy and Daddy a lot...(16-year-olds DON'T go around calling their parents Mommy and Daddy!) There always has to be some guy who is a relative...or somewhat related that's in love w/the girl. He is unable to like any other girl, since she's "special". I find it very disturbing how that plot is repeated over and over again... Summer and the people around her talk using vocabulary and metaphors that normal ppl would only use in writing. Normal teenagers don't talk like college professors! There also is always some person who flips out, or is extremely religious... This book is so unrealistic. Harley looks like Kevin Bacon?!! So what? Is that supposed to be good? Seriously...they should get a better ghostwriter who can come up with original and realistic stories!
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Summary: Sappy and predictable
Review: This is probably my least favorite book after the Melody series. Rain was my first V.C. Andrews book and after that I read the other books in that series. How is it that Rain, who was a fairly strong character, could give raise a daughter so immature, childish, weak, and naive? It's impossible to relate to Summer when she is so despicable. Even though she is 16 she acts like she is 6. What 16 year old calls her mother "Mommy"? I was disgusted by her constant whining and her complete helplessness. If you want a V.C. Andrews book with more substance, I suggest reading Heaven.
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Summary: Recommnded for little kids
Review: This really stupid if you like the original VCA books. I, for one, think the ghostwriter needs new material and better characters. Those who say Summer is a "strong" character need to read the Heaven series and FITA. Then see if she's stong. Oh, she was so deprived from good upbringing!! Her Mommy and Daddy tortured their little Princess when they gave her gifts and hugs and kisses. Such a horror story. I expected to find this in the children's section of the bookstore after reading it. Poor VCA, she must be so embarrased to have such kiddie stories written under her name!
I'm sorry, but Summer was a weakling. Why would she go out to the guy's car to, um, talk. Yeah, right. She odvously doesn't know much about guys.
So this book is good if you like children's books, the eleven-years-olds seem to like it... but if your a real VCA fan... it just a sad disappointment.
Hopefully Willow will be better.
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