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Three girls from different worlds with one thing in common: They were born to be wild.

Robin...With a mom who's more absorbed in her singing career than in her own daughter, Robin's left to her own devices when the two move to Nashville. That's where her mom hopes to strike gold -- and where Robin finds nothing but trouble.

Teal...This rich girl will do anything to get her parents' attention...even break the law. But after she takes things too far for the guy she adores, Teal loses their trust completely -- and is treated like a prisoner in her own home. Now there may be only one way out.

Phoebe...She's the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, trying to make it in a fast new crowd. She moved in with her aunt to make a fresh start. But now her biggest mistake may be to trust a charming rich boy who could ruin her life and destroy her reputation forever.

Meet Robin, Teal, and Phoebe again in the exciting sequel to Broken Wings -- look for Midnight Flight, coming soon from V.C. Andrews® and Pocket Star Books! ... Read more

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Yes and no...
This was actually one of the better 'VCA' books that Neiderman had published in a while. Unlike the last few books before this, I actually enjoyed Broken Wings. The stories of the girls were believable. It really is too bad that its sequel, Midnight Flight, was actually one of the WORST 'VCA' books that Neiderman ever published...

Great Seller
The product came on time and in a great condition.
Also a great price.

Broken Wings
I have finally found all of V.C. Andrews' books in Hardback!!! I'm very happy!

To be continued....
I haven't read a novel by V. C. Andrews since the series that began with "Flowers in the Attic", but that was a long time ago, and I should have expected something different. I was still somewhat disappointed that this one wasn't in the same genre, and more in Young Adult territory, but it was entertaining all the same.This is the story of three teenagers from different walks of life, but each firmly on the path to self-destruction.

Robin is from a broken home, doesn't know who her father is (neither does her mother) and has been forced to move to Nashville with her mother, who is pursuing a singing career.She constantly gets herself into trouble, until she meets a boy with even worse problems, when everything finally falls apart.

Teal has everything a girl could dream of, except the love of her parents.She was born after her parents had passed the point of wanting children, and never felt like a part of the family.To get the attention she craves, she keeps pulling wilder and more dangerous stunts, and when she meets a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, she stretches way too far on her already insecure limb.

Phoebe was born into problems, with an irresponsible mother and a weak-natured father, and when her mother takes off for parts unknown, her father leaves her in the care of her aunt and uncle, who are strict disciplinarians.Unable to stay out of trouble, she meets a wealthy young man who has selfish motives of his own.

This is where the story leaves us high and dry, and you need to get the sequel "Midnight Flight" to see what happens to the three in the end.The story of the troubled teenagers is a "to be continued"


Amanda Richards, January 21, 2006

COMPLETELY SPELL BINDING
This book almost put me to tears, especially Teal's story. i find that with every V.C Andrews book, i actually get a better perspectave on how and what i sometimes complain about and then compare myself to the charactors in these breathtaking books. Robin was a victim to a mother blinded by fame and fortune, Teal was subjected to a family more concerned with their appearance than helping their daughter. And Phoebe was under a roof, even though i don't agree with ther behavior, with a too strict and old fashioned way of life. The sequel is even just as good. ... Read more

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SHE WAS TOO GROWN-UP FOR CHILDISH GAMES.

BUT TOO YOUNG TO BECOME A WOMAN. . . .

Living with her parents and brother, Ian, in her Grandmother Emma's enormous mansion, Jordan March tries to be a good girl and follow her grandmother's strict rules. It's easy for Jordan to hide in the shadows -- between Ian's brilliant, all-consuming talents for science and the ever-more-frequent arguments among the grown-ups. But one day, without warning, Jordan's body begins to change -- and everyone notices her in a way that seems dark, dangerous, and threatening. Suddenly the March family secrets are unleashed, and Jordan is ashamed and afraid that her soft curves are unwelcome indeed. Shipped off to a lakeside hideaway, Jordan and Ian befriend a girl whose shocking revelations make for a summer of scandal and explosive emotion. Outraged, Grandmother Emma sets out to make Jordan pay for her family's past mistakes, sending her world spinning wildly out of control. . . . ... Read more

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Second verse same as the first for Andrews fans
I have been reading V.C Andrews for over 20 years. In fact, my first "adult" book I picked out when I was 11 years old was V.C Andrews' book Heaven, the first in the Casteel series. So, needless to say, my expectations were high, and my hopes were even higher.

Jordan March is your typical 6 year old girl, except she lives in a very large and beautiful mansion that is lorded over by her grandmother. Her mother, father, and brother, Ian, also live there along with her. Suddenly, Jordan's life turns upside down when at that young age she gets her first menstrual cycle. Her mother, in fear that her grandmother will think she is a freak, hides it from her while her father buries his head in a hole pretending it didn't happen. Her grandmother, however, soon finds out and takes over her medical treatment to help stunt the hormonal imbalance.

Shortly into the book, Jordan's mother finds out that her father has been having an affair with a woman and she calls for a divorce. Her grandmother, not having that in the slightest, goes to talk with her mother and she agrees after several veiled threats to end the divorce proceedings. During that time where her parents were supposedly patching things up, they are in a terrible car accident on their way home, finding out Jordan's brother, Ian, was molesting her.

No it doesn't get any happier.

After her parents are both taken to the hospital, her father paralyzed, her mother in a coma brain damaged, Jordan and Ian are sent back to the mansion with a nanny, who is a terrible and nasty woman further damaging poor Jordan in nightmarish ways that are reminiscent to old nun horror stories.

It still doesn't get any happier.

Ian, who I figured out to be a total sociopath, throws a hissy fit and poisons the nanny with strychnine while she sleeps therefore getting sent away to a home for the juvenile criminally insane.

That's about all I can say story wise without giving away where this book in the series ends. However, I'd like to add a few things before you think about reading this book; this book deals with child sexuality both with Jordan going through puberty and being molested by two different people, like with all of the V.C Andrews books there is no happy ending and probably never will be, and it's written by a ghost writer since the woman died, well, years ago.

I have read some critics getting in a tizzy over the child sexuality thing but a point to make here again is that all of her books have dealt with this before in some way or another. Maybe not so blatantly or so young, but it's been there. So, if you are a little faint of heart about this subject matter I don't recommend this author at all. Flowers in the Attic was a good example of this. Heads up, in the end of that particular series, Cathy marries her brother Chris and has children with him so I don't exactly see what the fuss is about here. If you can stomach that, you can stomach this.

Review of People's Reviews
Now i haven't actually gotten to read this book yet, but as somebody who has followed the work since the beginning and as somebody who hopes to one day publish my own writings I must say i find it appalling that people will sit here and comment about how disgusting a book is for issues such as sexuality of a seven year old. i Must say as someone who recently when i was 17 got molested by a 11 year old at a facility where this girl was my roommate i find it foolish that you all think a young person would be corrupted by a book when in fact maybe you should look at other things instead of being prude and thinking the younger generation is innocent (which is why the staff refused to do anything about it after all an 11 year old sexually molesting a 17 year old that would never happen cause the young are innocent and know not what sex is pardon my language but thats crap)now more and more the younger generation is being introduced to sex at very young ages this however is not something to be feared no if handled properly and explained could prevent a lot of issues for instance the fact that sex is such a forbidden fruit as shown in many cases becomes a weapon for revenge toward parents with dire consequences if sex wasn't treated as a taboo the attraction of doing it would die out especially to a child just as a child wants to stay up past their bed time or have caffeine or sugar but can't because their to young it spurs them to want to have it even more then is that after all what desire is all about anyways always wanting what you can't have i say kill it at the source take the word forbidden and shove it then the want and need for the taboo will die out just as quickly as it started as for this ghost writer he did nothing wrong and i find to be a great man due to the fact he tried to make that very point in a book by a famed author that he knew people would read

No continunity
The ghost writter seriously sucks at continuty.The book stands alone but when taken as part of a series, which it is, it sucks.In this book the girl is seven and had her period, in the next book she was older when her period started.I hate it when there is no continuty!

Nasty!
I stopped at the first chapter! When I read something along the lines of don't let Grandma see your pubes I couldn't continue.

I'm a HUGE VC Andrews Fan and I have read a lot of her books. Everyone one of her books I've read has gotten me hooked. This one made my skin crawl.

No...
This has to stop, seriously. When Neiderman first ghostwrote for VCA, he did a decent job. I liked the Cutler series, and he did a good job of finishing up the books that VCA had started but didn't finish for the Dollanganger and Casteel series. The Landry and Logan series, while not the best, were still very decent, and I enjoyed them. However, it all started to go downhill with Orphans. That was not what VCA would have written. I endured the Hudson and DeBeers series with disgust. The April Shadows and Broken Flower series are making VCA spin in her grave right now.

My problem is not the precocious puberty or what her brother is doing - this kind of stuff happens in real life, and worse happens in Flowers in the Attic, but the ghostwriter has handled this matter in a very sloppy and poorly-written and thought-out manner. Mr. Neriderman, please stop writing for VCA and go back to your own work. You're a old man, stop writing as if you were a young girl. Put the VCA name to rest, did you know there's a online petition circulating around demanding that you stop writing for VCA??? ... Read more

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SHE WASN'T A LITTLE GIRL ANYMORE -- BUT WHO WAS SHE REALLY?

After an odyssey of heartbreak and betrayal in the wake of losing both her parents, it was mere chance that led April Taylor to the secluded home of a kindly elderly woman and her deaf teenaged granddaughter. There, April found a shelter from her mixed-up life, and from the confusion that severed her relationship with her sister, Brenda, after an encounter with Brenda's girlfriend, Celia. But when a dangerous couple arrives with greedy intentions, April's survival depends on being true to the one person she's never fully accepted: herself. ... Read more

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good book
i really enjoy these books and this series was one of my favorites great book

No More
This has to stop, seriously. When Neiderman first ghostwrote for VCA, he did a decent job. I liked the Cutler series, and he did a good job of finishing up the books that VCA had started but didn't finish for the Dollanganger and Casteel series. The Landry and Logan series, while not the best, were still very decent, and I enjoyed them. However, it all started to go downhill with Orphans. That was not what VCA would have written. I endured the Hudson and DeBeers series with disgust. The April Shadows and Broken Flower series are making VCA spin in her grave right now. Mr. Neriderman, please stop writing for VCA and go back to your own work. You're a old man, stop writing as if you were a young girl. Put the VCA name to rest, did you know there's a online petition circulating around demanding that you stop writing for VCA???

Great Condition
The product came on time and in a great condition.
Also a great price.

People to relate to...
What a wonderful second in a new series GIRL IN THE SHADOWS turned out to be for me. It is daring and yet believable, not everyone grows up in a Leave it to Beaver type household, hard-to-deal-with-things happen and people have different ideas of how they want to live and who they want to be intimate with. This book encouraged me to feel uncomfortable at times and happy other times and worried about the characters most of the time, all signs of a good story ... because it made me think of these characters as "real" people.

Good, a little slow in places
Overall I've enjoyed this "Shadows" series-the two books are intriguing stories with lots of twists and turns, and an ultimately positive message of an adolescent girl finding self-esteem, strength, and resilience in the wake of successive tragedies.She also learns compassion and there's a lot of sensitivity in the character portraits in the book.I really grew to like April, and the plot was pretty exciting, but some parts of the book were just too repetitive and boring-I had to skip them.

And I must renew my original objection to the series, which is that there is no romance in it.That seems to actually be a pattern as of late with the ghostwriter; beginning with Willow, whose only really passionate love interest ends up being callously uninterested in her, I feel the VC Andrews franchise has begun to neglect to provide our heroines with a faithful, utterly devoted lover.What happened to Christopher from "Flowers in the Attic", Troy from "Heaven" etc. etc.?VC NEVER had a heroine who didn't have some man who was obsessed with her.April's relationship with Tyler is depressing and unfulfilling both for her and us.

The voyeurism Tyler seems to want to experience with Destiny, April's ventriloquist "dummy", follows with creepy VC tradition, but the plot is not really developed.I just think that if Tyler was going to be that dysfunctional, then a better lover should have shown up at the end.These later books don't have much real passion in them; just a lot of "hook-ups".

This isn't what VC readers want.And as intriguing as April was, and as much as I congratulate the author's willingness to create a character that went against VC "type" (i.e., chubby and of ambiguous sexual orientation), I just felt the series story could have had more emotional resonance if it had allowed April one more book to truly find herself, resolve her family issues, work out her relationship with Brenda and find meaningful intimacy with someone.Ultimately the book just didn't have the romantic magic outerworldly element that we need from VC books.

Still, I recommend it as an entertaining few hours.Just don't expect to be swept away the way you were with early V.C...but then again you probably already knew that. ... Read more

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Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town....

But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe -- until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family's moorings.

She was still devastated by her father's death when she left West Virginia with Haille to follow her mother's dream of becoming a model or actress. But first they stopped in Cape Cod to visit her father's family at last.

Melody knew only that her grandparents had disowned their son when he married Haille -- just because she was an orphan, her mother said. Yet moments after Melody first laid eyes on dour, Bible-spouting Uncle Jacob, nervous Aunt Sara, and her cousins -- handsome Cary, whose twin, Laura, had been killed recently in a sailing accident, and sweet, deaf little May -- Haille announced that Melody was to live with them.

Sleeping in Laura's old room, Melody was awash in a sea of grief and confusion, with only her beloved fiddle to comfort her. Then Cary revealed the truth he'd gleaned about her parents -- a sad shocking story that only puzzled her more. Melody knew nothing of the dark deceptions that would soon surface...the devastating betrayals she would face before she glimpsed the faint, beckoning lights of a safe harbor.... ... Read more

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another totalitarian grandma!
I know this book is more than a decade old, but I've only recently looked into Amazon reviews. Now, many if not most V.C. Andrews fans know that the quality of the writing deteriorated as soon as the ghost writer took over, and that twisted incestuous family lines and belittled waifs are still going strong. I don't mind the latter at all, but am tired of lackluster characters and few expletives. Real people don't constantly speak using loads of metaphors, and some cussing and cultural references to the times would have made this a more realistic read. Ghost Writer needs to realize that not all V.C. Andrews fans are still in high school, and that the series are not marketed in the young adults section at the bookstore! 'Melody' had an interesting enough plot. The main character is kind of whiney, but she did a reasonable job adapting to new surroundings and another dysfunctional branch of family. The characters improve a bit by the third book; Melody develops some kind of backbone and there is some amusing and sarcastic dialogue between Melody and her Grandmother. But things in this first volume annoyed me a lot. Being the story's narrator, Melody would have sounded more realistic if she'd said things like 'my conceited witch of a grandmother' or simply 'Jacob' and 'Sara' instead of always preceding their names with 'Uncle' and 'Aunt'. I don't mean in conversation with others, of course, but when telling her story. If I had just met strange and difficult relatives in my teens, I wouldn't have given them titles right away. They'd be just ordinary people who happened to be relations, and ones that I didn't even want to be stuck with. Characters themselves: I liked Cary for family loyalty and little May for being loving and empathetic about loneliness. I didn't like Jacob's moral snobbery, but he didn't know outcast Haille's daughter and his life had been disrupted enough. Haille and her sleazy boyfriend were predictably unsympathetic and self-centered. Another wealthy totalitarian grandma is concerned with preserving the blueblood family's standing in the community at all costs. The most annoying character was Melody's aunt Sara. There is a difference between being respectful to your husband and letting him snuff out every trace of individuality and free will. And there is a difference between reminiscing about your beloved dead daughter and expecting a long-lost cousin's body to host her ghost! I wanted to slap her every time she said, 'Laura never did that' or 'you look just like Laura' or 'Laura used to be ecstatic about eating petit fours with her grandmother who by the way must be kowtowed to at all times'. (Not really, but I couldn't stand the aunt whom I consider to be an undesirable role model even for Christian V.C. Andrews fans.) But the series does improve; 'Unfinished Symphony' answers many questions and some characters show growth. If you can finish and enjoy 'Melody', you might like the rest of the Logan series.

Great book!
This book arrived promptly and in brand new condition. I currently have a copy of Melody but it's so old, the spine is about to break, and the inside flap is missing. I noticed that the girl's face is actually on the cover, not a seperate flap like my old copy was. That's the only difference I saw. This book will always remain a favorite.

The last of Mr. Neiderman's good work
While Melody wasn't as good as the Casteel, Cutler, and Dollanganger series, it was still a good read, and a decent series. Melody has a lot of enemies, and secrets to contend with, but she shows to be a fine young lady with a good backbone, and was overall a good heroine in face of what she had to deal with.

This is the last series that Mr. Neiderman, the ghostwriter for VCA, put any real effort into. If you're interested in reading V.C. Andrews, only buy the Logan series or any of the series that came before it.

A sense of place, but the time eludes me
Though Laura's story seems like it was set during the late 1950's and early 1960's (when America was more innocent, like Laura), "Melody" (and its subsequent sequels) seem to be set during the late 1960's, early 1970's, even though Melody's story begins only about a year after Laura's ends.

I had read this series years ago, then believing this series marked the beginning of the decline of V.C.'s legacy, though it wasn't until I re-read this, and then read "Willow" that I realized at least the Logan series mirrored some of V.C.'s (the real V.C.'s) earlier work, but devoid of characters I could either relate to or care about.

I didn't like Melody (the character).She was whiny (what fifteen-year-old girl still refers to her mother as Mommy?), and so incredibly stupid.She was almost raped three times, all three totally preventable if she had just used some common sense (I am including all three Melody books in this review because each book is simply a continuation and not worthy of a separate write-up).

The first almost-rape:Adam Jackson.Melody had already heard about what he was about, and she agrees to meet him on the beach...alone!

The second almost-rape:Melody runs away from Cape Cod (where, despite her Uncle Jacob's gruffness, she has it pretty good), manages to get her money stolen, so she has to hitchhike part of the way back to Sewell, West Virginia (where she was from), and gets in a van with this creepy hippie who, of course, tries to rape her.

The third almost-rape:Melody's selfish mother, Haille, ran off with this bottom-feeder named Archie/Richard Marlin, when Melody's father/stepfather, Chester, dies in a coal-mining accident.Knowing the kind of guy Archie is, Melody agrees to live with him and her mother (who, of course, aren't married), because Melody has deluded herself into believing her precious Mommy is under some kind of spell Archie has put her under.So, you have Perp (or should I save Perv) #3.

What never made sense to me was why didn't Haille just abandon her daughter and do her thing fifteen years ago?I never got the impression that she was ever in love with Chester (which would have explained why she stuck around being his wife and taking care of her kid), especially since she started screwing Archie practically right after Chester's wake.

That said, Melody believes Kenneth Childs (the local artist on the Cape) is her father, but once she finds out he isn't, she starts to like him in a biblical way, and I thought that was totally weird.It was like Dawn and Jimmy growing up as brother and sister for years, and then hooking up once they found out they really weren't.What's more, Melody poses for Kenneth (the fact that she poses nude for him makes it creepy, considering they do turn out to be related--I won't say how), and pouts when Kenneth doesn't show any interest in being her lover just because he's seen her breasts.How immature!Not to mention she is sort of dating Cary (who really isn't her cousin after all).Their lovemaking was all sugar and no spice (in other words, boring), just as the sex (I won't call it lovemaking) between Haille and sleazeball Archie was primitive and gross.

Haille could have been a much more interesting character, but the GW demonized her so much, she became a caricature rather than a real person, so had there been a prequel written about her (but then there wasn't--rather we have another Olivia story), I would have had no interest because of what I knew she would become.Haille wasn't just a woman with faults, but a pretty piece of white trash.

Though I did enjoy these easy reads, I wasn't enthralled with dynamic characters (of which sweet, deaf little May was probably the best in a lackluster cast), and the characters resonate with me long after the story ends.These people did not.

A Loveable Melody
A year after first reading `Melody' she is still fresh in my mind as arguably VC Andrews' most likeable heroines. She is not obsessed with sex, money, or fame. Her only fault is being too caring for people.

Although the story is formulaic it is more "realistic" than any other Andrews' family saga. Some characters are evil but few are down right psychotic. No one gets locked in the attic or tortured. The focal conflict is the family tree being more twisted than ever. Even by VCA standards the Logan family tree is the most complicated yet! This provides for even more incest.

The VC Andrews formula is aliped to Melody Logan a gorgeous 15 year West Virginian with "flaxen blonde hair and cerulean blue eyes." Her family is poor but happy living in trailer park with her parents Haille and Chester until Chester dies in a coal mining accident.

The now snobby and neglectful Haille and her lover Richard travel to Cape Cod to reunite with the other Logans whom shunned them. Melody is shocked that she is simply abandoned to live with family members she has never met before as Haille and Richard take off for Hollywood.

The middle class Logan household is depressed due to the recent death of beloved daughter Laura whom recently drowned. She was Melody's exact double. There is mean and nasty Uncle Jacob, wimpy Aunt Sara, Laura's cold twin brother Cary, and young deaf May. Melody is set to fill Laura role occupying her room and possessions.

The Logan home is cold hearted but not down right psycho or abusive. At school Melody is also bullied. Weekends are spent at Grandmother Olivia's (we're running out of names for evil grandmothers) mansion where she is the nastiest Logan yet.

There, Melody learns of Haille's disgrace. She was the only daughter of Olivia's promiscuous sister Belinda whom Olivia raised as her own. Hence Haille and Chester were foster brother and sister and biological first cousins. But Chester was not her biological father. Haille was so promiscuous his identity is unknown but her former fiancé Kenneth Childs is a prime suspect.

Melody is also shocked to learn at school that Cary and Laura were rumored to have and incestuous relationship. They attended all social functions as dates.

In the misery of her new home Melody is eventually able to find some happiness as she investigates and befriends her suspected father, an eccentric artist. She is also able to be the big sister to May and daughter to Sara that Laura would have been and to Cary the... well I won't give anything away but I promise you more incest than any other VC Andrews series.

There are also more family secrets than any other series. Who is Melody's real father? What was Cary and Laura's true relationship? And what character come back from the dead. I promise these questions continue to haunt the reader throughout the series as they are not answered until the very end. It keeps you very intrigued.

The first three Logan books, `Melody' `Heart Song' and `Unfinished Symphony' really read all as one as they take place in a very short period of time and focus on the same 3 mysteries I just mentioned.

The Logan series remains one of my favorite as Melody is very likeable. She does not become focused on sex and money and she is eager to help those in need. The twisted family tree provides for more incest than I ever thought possible. And several of them are far more intense than typical VCA. Where as with many VCA books we wonder how or why the sibling fell in love the Logan series provides us with an explanation.

The fourth book `Music in the Night' is also heart stopping as it is told from Laura's point of view and many mysteries we've been dying to know from the beginning are finally answered.

The fifth book `Olivia' is a complete waste, no new secrets are revealed! It focuses solely on Olivia and Belinda and what evil witches they were. Unlike Olivia Foxworth she is not even an interesting villain. A better prequel would have been about Haille and her trials growing up hated.
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V.C. Andrews Orphans Series
I love all of the V.C. Andrews books. Have read every one of them, and look forward to all new releases.

Worthy of Reading for some key insight
My mother had read this book, so I wanted to read some stories that captured her.I learned a lot...there are four different stories here about four different orphans and how their lives were turned upside down.It's sentimental and there are some worthwhile lines that you'll find 'in between'.However, it's not classic literature by any means.I enjoyed it for the fun, knowing my mom related to the stories.I'm thankful that I made the time to read and find hidden messages for myself.

Help Me Iget no sleep cause its great BOOK!!
Meaning of my name is I stay up all night readin VC Andrews books Im impulsive with her books there so good! I really feel sorry for the orphans Butterfly so sweet but ruined by a ruthless women Grr she is a stupid mom and anyone who puts a child thou that deserves a good lawsuit believe me im on my way to be a lawyer!!

Can it get worse?
Can it get worse than being an orphan most of your life? And then a family adopting you and...what then?These four stories show that sometimes finding a family isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Families have issues, problems, arguments, tragedy...

I really enjoyed all four of these mini-books in one big collection. I don't think I would have enjoyed them if they were seperated.The stories kind of built off of each other.I really enjoyed watching these girls struggle to be themselves & to get through their own seperate tragedies & obstacles.I couldn't wait for some of the characters who were nasty to get what was coming to them.

The characters were developed pretty well & the stories flowed at a perfect pace, not dragged out or made to read too quick.

Flowers in the Attic series is still my fav. though!

Good VC Andrews book.
This book was pretty good. It is rather tame for a VC Andrews book, but the general theme that runs through all of them is still there. I liked the Janet (Butterfly) story the best. It was a quick read and 4 good stories. I am currently reading the next one Orphans. ... Read more

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All she wanted was to be someone's little girl....

Fate made her a lonely orphan, yearning for the embrace of a real family and a loving home. But a golden chance at a new life may not be enough to escape the dark secrets of her past.... ... Read more

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Hmm.
On its own - as a novel geared for an younger audience and having an interesting story - this book isn't a bad read. However, as part of the VCA collection, it is unacceptable. Mr. Neiderman should have written this series under his own name, or under a different nom de plume to attract a younger crowd. This does not even begin to compare to the Dollanganger or Casteel series, and is a far cry from even the recently-published-before-this Logan series.

The story of Janet is mildly interesting and provides a light read for teenagers, and is a nice quick read, but had no real depth. I don't know why Neiderman decided to go in this direction. For a diehard VCA fan, this book (and the rest of the books written after the Logan series) simply aren't good reads and are barely reminiscent of VCA's writings.

A very tragic but also very good book.
I love all Virginia Andrews books, she writes so good so I can feel the sadness and happines inside me when I read a book from her and this one is tragic but also has some good moments to I really recommend this book for all Virgina Andrews fans, and I can not wait until I will get the second book about theese poor orphan girls.

Just lame
Butterfly is the first novel in "VC Andrews's" Orphans miniseries. I would strongly advice any one against buy this dull, silly litte book. The heroine is pathetic, annoying and not worth reading about. I am also sick of "Rich people are evil" which happens in every book of the Orphans series. Very tiresome of Andrew Neidermann to have such tired old stock villains.

Life Changes
Janet is an orphan girl who has regular ups and downs in life but has a life changing one when she is adopted. Her new foster parents, Celine and Sanford have a beautiful home and life. Sanford owns a glass factory and Celine was a ballerina with her own personal studio in her house. Celine pushes Janet to be a ballerina just like she was before Sanford got in an accident and put Celine in a wheelchair. Celine gets Janet a dance instructor and she gets all the stuff she needs for school and all the stuff she needs to be a ballerina. Celine makes Janet go on a diet and puts Janet being a ballerina first. Janet has no social life except school and Celine even thinks that Janet should get a tutor. Read the book and you can find out the sad ending.

I liked this book because the character's lives told so much about them. Their characteristics gave me a visual picture that was great. The scenery and characters just came to life in my head and it made me feel like I was watching a movie in my mind. Another thing I liked about this book is the deep feelings and that made me feel excited and sad and lonely like the girl in my book.

I would recommend Butterfly to people who like stories that start with happy beginnings and sad endings. The book Butterfly is great and the whole series is too. The rest of the books in the series are: Raven, Brooke, Crystal, and the conclusion, runaways.

not the best but good
As a high school student at Butler Tech I like books that keep my attention I found this in the book Butterfly by V.C. Andrews. There is everything in this book from a little girl getting adapted to her learning to be the best dancer ever- at least that's what her new mother wants her to be. She faces complications like exhaustion and sexual harassment.

This Book begins with a young girl who wants to be part of a family so bad she can taste it. She meets with a lot of potential parents and none of them were interested, but one day two odd very nice people had a meeting with her and chose to make her there daughter.They treat her like there own they buy her all new clothes, dance shoes, and a tutu.She had everything she ever wanted and new mommy and daddy and new stuff to go with it, she even had one of the top dance teachers in the world.All the nice things she got also went along with exhaustion and heart ache.

Some things that I liked in this book are the Spence if Janet would fail her new mother by not being the best dancer she could be.I didn't like how crazy her new mother was she was obsessed with dance and being the best.I thought that her new father would stand up for her against his wife but he never would.I liked the relationship that Janet and her new father developed I think that he truly cared about Janet and didn't just want her because her new mother wanted her to finish what she had started.

I recommend this book to a teen age girl it really has nothing in it the book would attract to guys. I think that young teen girls would like this book because it shows some struggles that not everyone faces when they are teenager.
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Jade had listened to Misty and Star tell their stories. Now it is her time to speak. But she can't. For while the others in Dr. Marlowe's therapy group had exposed their hidden pains and secret pasts, they are nothing like Jade. They don't know what it is like to be a pawn in a courtroom battle too hateful to ever forgive.

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Sad
Out of all four books in this series, Jade was easily the worst. It wasn't that she was a spoiled rich girl or anything like that. I actually liked her for a while. However, the cyber-relationship and her falling into "Sonny"'s trap was ludicrous. Yes, it happened, but this is hysterical. Jade is supposed to be a smart girl, she's on the honor roll, whatever.

But when she realized something was wrong, she didn't run. And what follows is just utterly ridiculous as a old man ties her to the bed and continues to feed her BS. This story started out with promise but vastly deteriorated, and is the worst one in this series. It's not even good by a 'tween book' standard.

The plots are getting darker
Following the theme of divorce and it's impact on children, "Jade" spins another story of a rich girl caught in between her Mother and her Father's civil divorce procedure.
I have found that this series has gotten better with each book, just inching a little darker with each new story it introduces, and edging closer to a traditional Virginia Andrews style story.
Again 3 stars from me, an entertaining read.

Jade, the Cyber Princess of Beverly Hills
Her parents are fighting over her whilst they divorce, each one wanting custody to hurt the other.In fact, the only one they are hurting is Jade.She runs away to the boy she met on the internet, who turns out to be a psychopath that keeps her locked in a bedroom, tied to a bed with computer cables.She escapes and eventually tells her parents, who realize they are hurting her.The warm family ending won't work out, but that's where her story stops.I couldn't help laughing at the scene where she is taken prisoner.It's not cool when you laugh at a scene like that.It should bother you.

Third Time Isn't the Charm in this Case
A Review by Amy

A familiar word, divorce, is the main part of Jade's life in this third of a series. Jade starts out with Jade talking with three other clients in a therapy office, all in which are girls. Jade is being swarmed by both her mom and dad about divorce issues; who will get custody? While her parents are pressuring Jade to feel that she loves one over the other, she meets someone online; Craig. He has similar family problems to her and Jade soon sets off for a journey of her life to meet him in San Francisco. Jade will never be the same again.

The plot of Jade was boring and dull, and nothing built up to the climax. This was defiantly a quite boring 3rd book. There were no exciting points that made you want to read more. I liked how V.C. Andrews wrote in this book, such as her use of words and characterization, but it still isn't one that I would read again. Andrews usually has a great twist in her story, but this was a little too strange for my liking. It had no relation to the story what so ever.

I would recommend this story to people who like to be bored as they read a story. V.C. Andrews definitely was not writing her normal here. I don't recommend reading this book at all.

Disappointing
The first two stories in the Wildflowers Series were great. I was really excited to read "Jade" - but I was very disappointed. Jade is a beautiful, rich girl with parents who absoultely hate each other. Her mom is favoring her and fillig her mind with horrible stories of her father, and her dad is doing the same. Jade is wrapped up in the viscious court battle, to see which parent will get custody, and it is driving her insane. Soon, she starts to go into chatrooms, and meets Craig - ateenager with problems like her's. One night, when the situation with her parents becomes absoultely unbearable, she hops on a plane to California to meet Craig. When she gets there - she finds herself in one of the most dangerous situations in her entire life.

I loved the first two books, but in my opinion, VC Andrews is slacking. This book was good for the last twenty-ish pages. The first hundered or so were very slow and boring, then it was interesting...then it was so utterly disturbing I had to stop reading it. It took me about two weeks to finish, because I really didn't want to read it because it's such a sick and disturbing story. I expect more from "Cat" the next in the series. ... Read more

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She hid her true self.

Now the truth will be revealed.

Living a life of lies under the thumb of her widowed, spiritually-obsessed mother, Celeste has been forced to take on the identity of her dead twin brother, Noble. She's almost forgotten what it's like to be Celeste -- except for the one thing that keeps her sane: caring for her darling daughter, Baby Celeste. But when Celeste's mother marries a kindly neighbor, a new breed of poisonous secrets and vicious enemies will force Celeste to do what she must -- to survive the darkness.... ... Read more

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dont like this series
i have almost all the series and the worst one by far is the celeste ones.they are so boring. i constantly am skipping through parts of it. it just goes on and on about nothing all the time

Ugh
Celeste and Black Cat had a interesting premise, with what happened to the twins. But no reason is given for Mom's madness, or obsessive love for Noble. In the Flowers in the Attic, Casteel, and Cutler series, it is eventually revealed why the villains of these books did what they did - notnecessarily a excuse, but a explanation. There is none given here for why everyone is so f***ed up. I felt angry and frustrated at the end of Black Cat because Celeste HAS NO FREAKING BACKBONE. This was the last "VCA" book I ever actually bought, I just couldn't take it anymore.

A Little Predictable But A Good Story Continuence
When I started reading the Gemini series I was plesently suprised by the darkness in tone.It was a return to form for the author.But as usual the second book falls a little bit short.After Celeste gave birth to Baby Celeste her mother made her go back to being Noble.In this book, things pick up where they left off.Celeste is still Noble and her mother is still wacky.The story continues as Sarah marries the next door neighbor (who is the grandfather of Baby Celeste).This leads to an eventual confrontation with his daughter Betsy.The book concludes kind of abruptly and doesn't leave a great ending.

good but a little slow in parts
I have read every V.C. Andrew book & this one is like all the rest. It has a good plot and parts of it just grap you. The ending was wonderful. There was a few parts that were kind of slow but then it would pick back up. Now I need to read the next one in the set.

Good Fluff Reading
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that according to this book, Celeste was supposedly eleven when she gives birth to Baby Celeste.

I know kids start early these days, but that darn Elliot issuch a pedophile! He's old enough to drive and he still can't find enough desperate women to prevent him from going around and raping eleven year olds in the woods. He even thought she was a boy up until a couple minutes before he slept with her. Does that sound like a normal reaction to you?

The front cover on this novel and Celeste boasts "A mommy that is worse than the Flowers In the Attic." I disagree. Her mother was off the wall and eccentric and she buried her son in her daughter's clothing and made her daughter cross dress for years and called her Noble, but I didn't see her feeding anyone arsenic. Of course, there does seem to be some doubt about the way Dave Fletcher died, but this was never clarified.

As far as villians go, the Mother was by no means a sweetheart. She was perverse and cruel and she would give her daughter some kind of herbal tea that made her hallucinate whenever Celeste put on lipstick or tried to brush her hair. But she wasn't THAT bad.

If Celeste had any kind of a backbone she would have just up and left. For most of the book, I was under the impression that she was in her early twenties and just hanging around her house to help her mother and keep the spirits appeased. But at the end of this, I'm set straight. Celeste was only 17 and a half. Her daughter is six. She was a minor.

Everything is clear now. Thank you, ghostwriter!

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Four Girls With Dark Secrets To Share.
Four Extraordinary New York Times Bestesellers -- Together For The First Time.

MISTY...Trapped in the middle of her parents' bitter divorce, she hides an unspeakable secret deep inside: she hates them. Now, brought to Dr. Marlowe's therapy group, she's about to meet three other girls who just might understand.

STAR...She may never forgive her parents for the pain they have caused her. But in the safety of this new circle of friends, she will finally face the nightmares of her past.

JADE...Escaping the madness of a hateful courtroom battle, she was lured into an ordeal too traumatic to forget -- and much too terrible to share.

CAT...Like the other girls, Cat has a story of her own. But maybe she should lie -- just make something up. Because the truth is more horrifying than the others could possibly imagine.... ... Read more

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Wildflowers
Book was in great condition and I love VC Andrews over all very happy with the book!

The Wildflowers triligy
Highly recommended. Twisted yet so alluring. V.C. Andrews books are always very seductive in her words. I recommend you finish the full triligy.

readable books
So far the books that I have ordered, weather they were used or brand new have been in excellent condition. I will continue to order through Amazon

Orphans with parents
The wildflowers follows 4 teenage girls who reveal a secret during a therapy session. Each secret becomes darker as the book progresses as each girl reveals how they have been betryed by their parents.

As a reader I was left thinking that Cat (the last girl to reveal her secret) has not only been betrayed by her parents but also by the councillor Dr Marlow, who has encouraged her to reveal a devastating secret to 3 other girls who have not experienced anything quite as bad as poor Cat.
It appears that Cat has been taken advantage of again, this time by Dr Marlow, who has used Cat as the ultimate "Well you think you got it bad?..." example that makes the other girls problems seem petty and insignificant.
Well, at least she seems to have made some friends out of it, but to this reader it did not seem credible that this girl would reveal such a secret to strangers unless they had shared stories more similar to her own. And shouldn't have Dr Marlow put Cat in a therapy session with others who could be more empathetic to her circumstances?
Ok, not great

Misty
Misty
A Review of the Book by V.C. Andrews
Laura Young

Misty, by V.C. Andrews, is about a young girl who is going to therapy to help ease the sting of her parents' divorce. Her therapist, Doctor Marlowe, suggests having a group therapy session with three other patients of hers. Misty reluctantly goes first and tells the small group of girls her life story. As she learns to open up to the girls and Dr. Marlowe, she learns the meaning of trust and emotion.
The reason I decided to read this book is because I read an excerpt on the author's website. I thought it sounded interesting and borrowed the book from the library, not fully knowing what to expect.
I believe teenage girls who have had emotional problems in their past could relate to Misty's struggles to find who she is. I know I understood a few of her problems. I know that I have been asked to take sides in fights before in my family, so I could kind of understand her emotions. She was confused with her life and I am too sometimes.
Misty was sounded like a normal teenager, which was good because the character came from a rich family and went to a fancier school than most, causing her to be a little smarter than a couple of the girls in the therapy circle. She relaxed a little bit once she started her story. I thought her character was going to be unlikable because she was a little snobby in the beginning of the book, but once she warmed up to the other girls she seemed less high maintenance than they thought she was.
The setting was beautifully described. It takes place at Dr. Marlowe's Beverly Hills home. It was described as a spacious home with a large office where the therapy group is in session. It sounded almost like a Barbie dream house, except better.
The main weakness of this story was that Misty would sometimes go into too much detail about one of her past relationships with a boy. It seemed unnecessary to her telling about her parents' divorce. I understand how it was related, I just did not think it was necessary.
Overall, I enjoyed this book. It felt relatable at points and real. It was a mystery of sorts, with Misty trying to figure out why she feels this way. I loved how it portrayed a young girl trying to find herself. There are too many stories out there about guys trying to find out who they are. It gets a little frustrating,
I recommend this book to anyone who likes stories where people tell each other how they really feel. Enjoy!!

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FOUR GIRLS TOUCHED BY SPECIAL GIFTS.
FOUR STUNNING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS-- -
TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME

Cinnamon...She escaped her family's turmoil by dreaming of imaginary worlds. But it's her talent for the theater that gives Cinnamon a chance...to truly escape.

Ice...To her mother's dismay, she was a silent wallflower, not a social butterfly. Now, her secret gift -- her solid-gold singing voice -- may become her saving grace.

Rose...When she danced, she could dream -- and when her father's secrets threatened to destroy her world, a most unlikely person gives Rose the courage to follow her heart.

Honey...Raised on her strict grandfather's farm, her natural-born talent for the violin gave her a new life -- and love with a handsome soul mate. Will a shocking revelation shatter her newfound happiness? ... Read more

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I LOVED it
Not VC Andrews', but this one was close. I wish more of the books that the ghost writter does were at least this good. He/She needs to go back and read more of her work and get back into the swing of things. Anyways, I really loved this book.

Four Talented Young Ladies
This book was about four young ladies who came out of their shells.Cinnamon did a beautiful job performing on stage.I think she deserved to get the last laugh on the girls who resented her for taking the lead role.Ice got what she wanted a chance to be herself.She made friends with a piano player.Rose was grieved when her dad died.She felt better about herself when she helped Evan get out and meet people.Honey liked to play the violin which her uncle Peter taught her to play.She enjoyed having a good relationship with Chandler.

What the ***?
Why take four godawful mini books and make them into one, horrendous novel? I suspect it's about the money. If you want to waste your money, go ahead and buy it. Otherwise, if you want to be smart and save, don't bother. As Simon Cowell would say - this is absolutely dreadful.

Fascinating
This book truly compliments the series.I do recommend that you read the other 4 books in the series. This book combines all four books, and tells of rise to fame.If you are a true VC Andrews lover then this book is for you. ... Read more

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The perfect family...and the perfect nightmare.

TWISTED ROOTS

From the outside, Hannah Eaton seems to live a charmed life in wealthy Palm Beach, Florida, with her mother, Willow, a renowned psychologist, and her stepfather. But deep inside, she is miserable and lonely. She's been abandoned by her father, a pretentious lawyer whose family wants nothing to do with her. Now, the arrival of a new baby brother has consumed her mother, who is obsessed with caring for the sickly infant. And so, Hannah slips further into the shadows....

With the help of her boyfriend and her uncle, Hannah sets out for New Orleans to follow her dreams of singing. But life on the road holds many dark surprises -- and shattering realities that Hannah herself may not be ready to face.... ... Read more

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Sigh
Tripe. That's all I can say about this book.

Where the Dollanganger, Casteel, Cutler, Landry, and Logan series paid a lot of attention to family secrets and twists and turns, the DeBeers series is severely lacking, and this book is a pale imitation of the good books that Neiderman started out with when he ghostwrote for VCA. The characters are flat and two-dimensional, and the storyline is predictable.

Very creep!
I was really sad in Willow for being so mean towards Hannah? What happened to the fighting spirit who fought her way out of the black room? I love Han, and could just imagine her boyfriend being a Creole!

He was handsome, and I found it so romantic for him to abandon his girlfriend! I'm glad the deranged Uncle Psychopath, finally found his "gal-pal"?! Huh... I would've LOVED for this to be my night out on the road, for the 2nd year around!

Love the book and the eroticism in this book is highly subliminal! Siblings?

Disappointed
The first two novels in the De Beers saga were wonderful. I highly anticipated the arrival of Twisted Roots from Amazon. The beginning was okay, gave a good insight to Linden and Willow and Miguel's relationship, as well as Hannah's relationship with her father. However, I was very disappointed in the end. This book did not have a single thrilling aspect to it. And to be honest, it was a bit of a snoozer. I was even more disappointed to find out that this is the end of Hannah. Her appearance in the De Beers saga was definitely short lived as Into the Woods features the beginning of Grace Montgomery's story. If you decide to read this saga, read the first two, skip the third and head straight into the fourth. You won't miss anything, believe me.

Twisted Roots
My sister warned me about this book. Told me it was stupid. But I read it anyways. And I have to say she was right. It was very boring and took me longer then expected to get through it.

Willow was an idiot for some of the things she said or did to Hannah concerning baby Claude. But Hannah was also a big crybaby. Having a younger brother and sister in the home is a big adjustment no matter what your age. It's only happend to billions of other people in this world. So what. Why does Hannah have to be any different? Deal with it. You aren't the only one.

I will continue to read these books. No matter how bad of reviews they get. This book was one of the of worst.

I Enjoyed This Book!
Hanna Eaton looks like she has it made living with her wealthy parents, (mother and stepfather), and a crowd of great friends. But what no one from the outside realizes is that Hanna feels very left out and unloved. Her mother is expecting her second child so many years later, and it seems that she has no time at all to even think about Hanna. Especially when the baby Claude is born, and is a sickly child. Her mother is totally devoted to the baby, and Hanna might as well not exist.

But there is a new boyfriend in Hanna's life, Heyden. And when he gets involved in the picture, they discover that they have quite a talent for music singing together and playing guitar. So they form a plan with the help of Hanna's disabled uncle, to get to New Orleans where the jobs are. So they rent a mobile home, and off they go to New Orleans as soon as Hanna sneaks away from home. But what they discover once on the road, is not what they had thought at all. In fact, life takes on a whole different meaning for all of them. ... Read more

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My eyes bleed.
How could Neiderman ever have published anything like this??? The plot was convoluted, and is something that VCAndrews would NEVER have written, or even crapped out.

The whole thing with Posy was never explained, and why didn't the other two girls (Mandy and Gia) have their own M'Ladies to supervise them? That always struck me as odd. Also, Dr. Forman liked to brag about how well her program worked, and how some of her former students went on to work in law enforcement, yada yada. Yet her M'Ladies were smoking pot and doing other things that Phoebe caught them in doing. And she didn't even tell Dr. Forman! What a wasted opportunity.

The whole diapers thing was disgusting and repugnant, and the therapy sessions didn't seem to be helping. This sounds more like some twisted fantasy that Neiderman cooked up than any real effort to write like VCA. This sort of shoddy workmanship from an author is unacceptable, and I stopped buying VCA a long time ago. I wish I had never bought this book, Broken Wings was a decent read and I had been expecting this book to be the same, only to be confronted with this travesty of a book that is completely and utterly insulting to the VCA name. I wasted a couple of hours reading this that I will never get back. Thanks a lot, Neiderman.

A Must Read
This book was VERY good! I could not put this book down, and when I had to, I'd be right back to reading it ASAP. Dr. Foreman gives you chills down your spine whenever you see her name mentioned in the story. The punishments that the girls are put through are indeed ruthless and you think to yourself, "oh my God, I hope that nevers happens to me!" Very good reading material. I enjoyed it! It would make for a good movie.

Great Seller
The product came on time and in a great condition.
Also a great price.

Girls adventure in school
Excelent story.These 3 tough girls meet in a tough school. Phoebe and Robin want to leave and Teal just wants to survive.Do they fight each other or do they join forces?

A great V.C, Andrews novel
this really is a great novel by V.C. Andrews or the ghost writer. Like many other of V.C. Andrews, these girls went through many things...actually they got in trouble. So, they got sent to this place in the middle of nowhere. Then, the girls are treated as if they are criminals.

The headmistress of the place won't allow the girls to do anything except talk to her. Then more continues. It left me hanging for more and the ending was a surprise in my opinion. ... Read more

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Ice wishes she could just become invisible....

Ice hides from the world behind a shield of silence. And that is what her mother hates about her. All she wants is a normal daughter who wears makeup and sexy clothes to attract boys. But Ice gets her chance to shine when she reveals her beautiful singing voice. And her extraordinary gift may become her saving grace when tragedy and deception almost destroy her dreams... ... Read more

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Ice-cold
Ice was not as good as Cinnamon. Overall the quality of this series was pretty bad, but at least Ice wasn't as bad as Rose or Honey, in my opinion. This book was a bit interesting, but ultimately, like Cinnamon, it fell flat. This book feels nothing like a true VCA book with multigenerational family drama and secrets.

I'm not sure what Neiderman was thinking when he came up with this series. I doubt that this series was inspired from the notes that VCA left after her death. Even on it's own, I can't really recommend it as a book to read, it relies on stereotypes (much like Rain) and the characters felt rather flat.

*HOTT*
This book was unique to me since, it features a person with the name of "Ice"!!! Her boyfriend was a cad in my opinion. I got the impression, that he didn't want his girlfriend Ice, to persue her time as a musician! Instead he wanted her to be a wife and homemaker-yawn!

It's relatively good! It failed! WORK!

Daft Names R Us
First of all, I think this whole "let's give the heroine a silly name just because we can" business has got WAY out of hand.I've known plenty of people called Jade and Rose, and I've heard of people called Cinnamon, Honey and so on, but I think Ice is just a name they made up.(Please note- if you actually know someone called Ice please accept my apologies.)
Anyway, this Ice character.Well, as I've said before, these mini-books aren't really about having a story- they're more about establishing character and leading up to the main book.She's established as being very shy, and only really using her voice to sing, not talk (is this sounding like "Little Voice" to you?Anyway).She's very prudish and sensitive, but then that's not too unusual in a Virginia Andrews character.She's also a non-stereotypical black character.You know how a lot of her other black characters (Pheobe, Star and so on) have short tempers and are always trying to pick a fight?Well, not Ice.Which makes a nice change.
Throw in romance, a tarty mother, a wise father and a lot of jazz references and...Well, like I said, there isn't much of a story.But if the character sounds appealing to you, go read the book.
I think they should call the next heroine Apple.Just because.

a fine book
i don't see that this book is a bad one , in fact i find it much nicer than cinnamon which was a little bit silly about the spirits thing...ice is a very touching story, the only drawback i think was that it's short.

I'd give it ZERO stars if I could
After buying Cinnamon, I swore I would never buy another stupid minibook ever again. Well, one night I was in the grocery store and, for reasons unknown to even myself, I wound up tossing this little thing in my shopping cart. Thankfully, this was the book that cured me of ever buying another V.C. book again without reading some excerpts first. There aren't words to describe how horrendous this book was. I couldn't even finish it. I wound up skimming to the end to see what traumatizing event would afflict Ice. It's a shame, because Ice's story had promise. I bet the real V.C. Andrews would've made a wonderful full-length novel (for adults, no less) out of it. Sadly, that can never happen. Unless you are under the age of 13, I'd advise you to skip this tired mess. ... Read more