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Summary: Flight Cancelled!
Review: That's it. I stopped on pg 168 after I read some of these reviews. My time is more valuable than to spend it reading a worthless book that has no redeeming qualities. What segment of the reading public are these geared for?
Not me that is for sure.
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Summary: Very disappointing and sick...
Review: The first novel in this series was really good, but however this novel was disappointing and if I can get my money back I will! This book had some pretty sick stuff in it i.e. the girls in diapers, the coffins, etc. VCA books has always had some sick incestous type stuff, but this is beyond that! Also, this book just seems to drag on and on! I mean nothing really happens other than the Doctor and the three "buddies" torturing the girls until the end. I felt sorry for "Posy" , and also the book was never clear on what happens to Mindy in the end. Another problem I had with the ending of this book and the other miniseries with the exception of the Wildflowers series, is that most of the girls seem to have their pipe dreams come true at the end. I mean come on Robin suddenly becomes a singer, and Phobe suddenly gets to become a model and actress?? Get real! This is truly my last VCA's novel!
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Summary: GhostWriter: Andrew Niederman
Review: The GW Andrew Niederman is not worthy of the VC Andrews name. The family of VCA should re-think the writer and find a better one. This book bit the big one as did the former. I hope and pray that the new Gemini series is worthy of my time and money. As far as the Borken Wings series, I want my money back.
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Summary: Don't Venture Into the Desert cuz.....
Review: This book is in desperate need of excitement juice!The book for me was a flat, parched desert land missing the excitment you'd find in the early series! Basically I remember the book like this: They, our three 'heroines'(eye roll insert here) end up at the the 'prison'. The heroines meet the evil, cackling headmistress who of course, is out to get them! They whine and pout as the evil characters circle them like vultures. They get thrown some magazines and then shock! shock! realize that the evil prison person uses the stupid magazines as way of manipulating them. Some wise old guy appears on the scene and gives them cryptic wisdom like bread crumbs scattered about to lead them home and they oommm meditate and escape the prison of their minds, they twirl in crazy circles after being dumped out in the desert and left to fry and cry but despite snakes and a fire they come through renewed.........and I wake up and realize this book was a real bonker of a snoozer and hope and pray that the next book will be good though i realize I'm just like those girls in the desert circling around and around and just as stupid cuz I keep reading on though imo the books haven't been that great after the Melody Series though the DeBeers was actually pretty good and gave me renewed hope so I trudge through the desert of boring books till I get to the next great V.C. Andrews (hopefully......!).
I suggest all the early books-now those were the greats!
I Also suggest House in Thornton Wood by Anne Knoll for older readers it's about a young woman who discovers the mysteries of the past.
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Summary: A Bust For These Busted Girls
Review: This has to be one of the most stupid books I have ever read. Any book with the V.C. Andrews name and requisite attention-grabbing cover picture is sure to rack up sales. V. C. Andrews books are good for reading on a long plane trip. Still, I would not recommend them.Robin - an Ohio girl whose country-singing mother uproots her from her grandparents' farm and pursues her Grand Ole Opry dream. Robin falls in with a bad crowd, robs a store and is busted. Teal - a poor little rich girl in upstate New York who is neglected in her own home steals a piece of jewelry worth over $10,000.00 and runs away with a boy who lives in poverty with two younger siblings. She has a history of drinking in school. Phoebe - an Atlanta girl whose mother leaves home to pursue a singing career and whose salesman father can't be home to raise her. Turned over to a punitive maternal aunt and disinterested uncle, Phoebe becomes out of control. She is caught sleeping with a boy in the school nurse's office. She is busted when she attacks that same boy at a party where she was set up by a pair of vile, catty girls. Each of the girls is drugged and transported by plane to an undisclosed school after their guardians are convinced the girls need to be in a supervised setting. A Dodge car picks Robin up and transports her to a small plane where she will be flown to this mysterious school. Teal is taken by family limo to the plane. Phoebe is subdued by guards driving an ambulance where she was drugged after the guard says she is having a seizure to ward off curious onlookers. She is the only one to arrive by ambulance to the mystery plane. Each girl awakens to find herself the sole passenger on a plane bound for Arizona. Each girl awakens to find herself dressed in a rough burlap sack, diapers, work boots and her clothes gone. Harsh martinets gather the trio into a dark warehouse for their introduction to Dr. Foreman's "school." In order to leave the warehouse, the girls have to write about their lives in notebooks under the derision of the guards. From there, they are transported by bus to the "school" after being indoctrinated by the guards to declare their worthlessness and how they owe everything to Dr. Foreman. Sounds like a twisted version of the "Stockholm Syndrome" to me. The girls are forced to sleep in the barn; do long chores during the day and fight for what little dignities they are allowed. Progress is being allowed to wear underwear and overalls instead of diapers ("you are infants and must be treated as such," is the rationale for this twisted, degrading decision according to Dr. Foreman). Pillows and blankets have to be earned; food has to be earned; the girls have to make their own pottery or eat off the table. The punishments were inconsistent and implausible and made no sense. Teal and Robin are bound in blankets and forced to spend the night outdoors in coffins that are partially buried ("bury the bad part of you," as Dr. Foreman explained.) The girls' few assignments were random and haphazard; at no time did they attend classes. Cruel guards and a sinister Dr. Foreman make the place all the more heinous. Dr. Foreman's "therapy" consists of pitting the girls against each other so that enmity instead of amity will prevail and that she will maintain control over them. The hateful guards were former students of this bizarre excuse of a school. Only one person befriends the girls. Natani, a Native American healer lives on the grounds and he does what he can to help the girls. When the guards plan to leave the girls in the Arizona desert to die, it is Natani who tells them how to survive should they ever be in the desert. A fire and the end of the school mean liberation for the girls. Two other inmates, Gia and Mandy have become more or less resigned to the punitive, illogical environment they are in. Gia talks of a former inmate named Posy whom Dr. Foreman insists is a product of Gia's imagination. Whether or not there was a Posy in that Chamber of Horrors is never explained. Readers are never sure if Posy was somebody Gia made up or if she was an inmate there. The Ice Room is another Chamber of Horrors where the inmates endure virtual reality of the things they fear most. Mandy caves and is subsequently institutionalized and Gia plans a daring escape for them all. V.C. Andrews books are sore disappointments and I certainly cannot in good conscious recommend this one. I read it because I was curious to see what this undisclosed school was about, but believe me, it wasn't worth it. Natani was the only likable character in this atrocious book.
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Summary: Stop the abuse!
Review: This is shameful. Poor V.C., rolling around in her grave as I write this. Why does the G.W. insist on driving her good name through the mud? I never even finished Broken Wings, and this one just tops off the true V.C. genius abuse. I find this writing too predictable, following a "formula" that is now way overdone. The characters are sketchy, black-and-white, and I feel nothing but anger and frusteration towards them. These are just clones of previous characters already written, topped off with similar names and plots. The cliches are beginning to drive me mad, and I wonder time and time again why I keep coming back for more. Perhaps it's the G.W.'s promises of "something never seen before," but, honestly, when will I learn?
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Summary: VERY SADISTIC!!!!!!!
Review: This is the absolute worst book I have ever read!!! Who ever this ghost writer that is writing for V.C. Andrews is a total freak!! These books just keep getting worse and worse!! I will not waste my money on another book written under V.C. Andrews' name. I admit I did finish reading this book, only because I thought it would get better. I mean, how could it get worse!! The things that Dr. Foreman did to these girls were so freaky and off the wall. This story sort of resembled "Holes", but the girls were treated far worse than the boys in that book. I also admit, I cheered at the end!!!! Everyone got what they deserved, except for Posy!!
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Summary: Emotionally laden storyline
Review: Though from three dramatically different environments, the three girls share in common walking on the wildside (see BROKEN WINGS). In Nashville, Robin Lyn Taylor lives in trouble. In Albany, New York Teal Sommers breaks the law just to get her away from wealthy parents so they can remember she still breaths. In Atlanta Phoebe meets a boy Ashley who will shred her reputation if she acts as cool as she always does. The three female losers are sent to the Foreman's School for Girls in an isolated part of the Southwest. Dr. Foreman makes sure her three new students understand the rules starting with no radio or television and wearing diapers to enforce the beginning of a new life. These three difficult tough teens attend a school in which demerits lead to punishment under the abusive rehabilitative therapy employed by Dr. Freeman and associates. Will one or more learn humility leading to the healing of their BROKEN WINGS or will they fail to adapt and learn their life lessons? Though in many ways MIDNIGHT FLIGHT is the typical fast-paced V.C. Andrews drama involving abuse, fans of the author will appreciate this emotionally laden sequel. The story line is action-paced, but those not familiar with the author need to realize that Dr. Foreman is a no nonsense martinet who reacts harshly to broken rules. The cast is powerful as the three girls, the head mistress and a Native American teacher provide a deep, passionate character study. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Better than I expected
Review: Well, I agree that I want more mature books, but I was surprised with this one. I liked Phoebe a lot and did like it that it wasn't as cutsey... however, why can't he stop putting VCA as the author? It would make more sense now as I have more GW books on my shelf than VCA because she wrote so few on her own. Use your own name GW. It will be okay, and maybe better cause we can stop holding you up to VCA (The Queen).
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Summary: Boring!!!
Review: Well...I thought this book was boring. I read the first two chapters about Robin and Teal in the first book, and skipped Phoebe because the storyline was so repetitive for each girl. Well, this book wasn't repetitive, but I thought it was sick and boring. I don't like reading books about people getting "tortured" and the coffin part was really disturbing. So was the fact that they had to use diapers. I like V.C. Andrews, but I think she had, and this ghost writer has, a very sick mind. It's always incest, torture, girls locked up in attics, molestation, and other crap. I admire their talent, but I really thought that Midnight Flight was incredibly sick and boring.
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