Pearl in the Mist

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Summary: A gem of a story
Review: Pearl in the Mist was the first Landry series book I read (not reazling Ruby came first...smart huh?) Anyway, I was completely absorbed in it from the very first page. Until I finished that book, I could think of nothing else. Short and simple, I loved the story. I loved the connection between Ruby and Beau. Ok, true, I know they slept together just about every chance they got, and yeah that got to be annoying, but Ruby lived in such a depressing world. Her father just died, Daphne didn't care for her, school was miserable...and here's this great, handsome guy who loves her just as much as she loves him. It's natural, and it gave her some sunshine in an otherwise dreary life. The fact that she got pregnant...well it was kind of obvious that would happen. I felt so bad that Beau's parents sent him away (though I don't condone his not fighting to stay) but I still hold hope that they'll find each other again. She can't live with Paul - they're related! I don't care how much he loves her, it's gross. Get over it. I have a feeling in All That Glitters, a triangle forms....Anyway, this was a good read with great characters (especially the supporting cast) and melt-your-heart romance and neat twists. Enjoy! And read the next books too!

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Summary: Pauvre, pauvre Ruby...
Review: Poor, poor, Ruby. Her sister's a gerk, her kind father is dead, her stepmom is evil, and her boyfriend get her pregnant and left her. This book has characters straight out of Cinderella. It's the first V.C. Andrews book I read, and I must admit that it was somewhat trashy but fun. Sort of like Jackie Collins novels, only with younger characters. Amusing, nevertheless.

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Summary: 5 star book!!![.]
Review: Ruby is so talented Bue is so handsome but her sister is so discrimateing little BRAT!!![.]Rugy tries so hard but Gisselle tries to ruin it and i think shell end up all alone in the next Book! If you want to read a real book read this cause its great!!!

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Summary: The Best series of books i have ever read
Review: these books are a wonderful and magical tale of a girl in the louisiana bayou searching for herself. the plots are so mezmerizing and you really get caught up in the character's thoughts. i highly reccomend these books to anyone wanting an escape from their own troubles.

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Summary: What a sick author
Review: This author always has to have some sick twist of incest in every book she writes! The books come out good but the incest gotta go.

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Summary: Patience is a virtue
Review: This book is all about one who has to endure a lot over many changes that takes her away from the little that she had. Her love, her father, her uncle and her new home that she loved. With her sister being as cruel it didnt make it any easier. This book just says that you have to wait and be patient. Though it may be fustrating more then half the times you have to see it throught. Dont run away, face it! If you read this book you will see that there are many fights fought by us everyday. Its up to us to make tommorow better then yesterday and today. Read it and you'll see that patience is a virtue that everyone dosent want but in the end you'll see that you have gone far. Just like she did. It might not be what and how you wanted it. The main thing is to make the best of it and dont lose hope.

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Summary: This was a wonderful book
Review: this book was great, I have also read many other books by this author, she was very talented I recomend Flowers in the Attic, and the series that goes along with that and also the Melody series and the Cutler series.

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Summary: Shady Genre That Keeps Selling Though Andrews Died In 80s
Review: This is a sleazy series, ghostwritten (obviously, since Andrews died sometime during the 1980s), that recycles all the traumatic events in her early books into a new package with yet another sweet but hapless little girl on the cover. The writing is bad, the characters are thinly drawn, and the story is just a bastardized version of the real Andrews' novels. I thought the market for the "girl who is partially orphaned, then betrayed by adoptive parents, then falls in forbidden incestuous love with some relative, and then is raped by some other relative"-story was called the porn industry. I can't believe this is actually becoming like a genre unto itself. How totally shady!

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Summary: ugg.....
Review: this is the last v.c. andrews book i will ever read. i read the dollanganger, casteel, and dawn series and it just had to end right here. i can't take anymore of this trashiness. ruby was a decent gal in the first of the series but in this book, she is so stupid and naive. what a waste

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Summary: This book inspired me to read all the other VCA novels
Review: This is the VC Andrews book I read ever and at the time I didn't even know the woman or that she was dead. This was a very good book taking place in New Orleans during the early to mid 60s. The characters are unforgettable and adults can get into the VC Andrews earlier books as oppose to the later teeny bopper ones that just have her name on the book. Good for Ruby for having to put up with sister Giselle and stepmom Daphne after the father is dead. Kind of reminds you of Cinderella but with a sick twist. Ruby also runs away back to her hometown to have her baby and part of that has to do with the title of the book. That was wimpy of Beau to run off after Ruby gets pregnant by him but he makes up for it in the later books. The ghostwriter did a very good job with this novel with the help of VC Andrews touch.