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1.0 out of 5 stars
A vicious cycle...,
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This review is from: Broken Wings (Mass Market Paperback)
The ONLY good thing about it was that there were no annoying letters by other "VCA Heriones" to try to get you to buy "their" book. If someone like, say, Willow, were to write the girls saying, "I think we are truly sisters of the heart. It takes my breath away! Please read my books!" I would scream! Rip my hair out! Burn the books! As it is, I am very annoyed and refuse to read another VC ghostwriter book again. What "startling surprise" did we get here? What "new characters"? Every VC ghostwriter character is EXACTLY the same with different looks, though I find similarities from all the grls all the time The difference here is these girls whine as they're doing drugs and running away! 0 stars for me!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Getting Better -- Thank Goodness!,
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This review is from: Broken Wings (Mass Market Paperback)
Well, after reading quite a few of V.C. Andrews books, I am relieved to say that our ghostwritter has finally found the groove.Orphans and Shooting Stars and whatever the heck the other miniseries was, were alright, in some parts, and just plan reeked in others. This one, however, actually got me into the book, and the ending actually made me curious and want to go read the next book; what a book should actually do. The good: The bad: The ugly:
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night-This is For the Birds,
By A Customer
This review is from: Broken Wings (Mass Market Paperback)
These three birdbrains are for the birds.Robin, a bird's namesake who is taken from her salt-of-the-earth moralistic grandparents in Ohio to chase her mother's dream of performing in the Grand Ole Opry. Naturally Robin resents leaving the strict moralists; once in Tennessee she runs around with a questionable crowd; shoplifts and gets a stupid fat girl named Kathy to cover for her when she shoplifts. She also gets involved sexually with an older man and goes joyriding. Her antics finally land her in court and a judge remands her to a special school in an undisclosed location. A Dodge car picks her up and deposits her minus her belongings to this undisclosed place. Teal, another birdbrain who is named after a bird (teal duck) is the classic, stereotypical "poor little rich girl." Unwanted by her disinterested parents and ignored by her adult brother, Teal steals and runs with a wild crowd. She will do ANYTHING for affection and attention and when she steals a bracelet costing some $10,000.00 she is placed under house arrest. She has an affair as do most GW/VC Andrews girls and this Mary-Sue character has an affair with a boy on the other side of the economic tracks. He at least seems like a nice guy. They run away together with his younger sister and brother in tow, but reality forces them to return and Teal is placed on a plane to an undisclosed location. Phoebe, also an avian namesake lives in Georgia with her salesman father. Phoebe's mother, like Robin's (birds with singing mothers) cherishes a dream to sing in jazz bars. She deserts her family, leaving Phoebe to her overwhelmed father. Phoebe is barely literate and, like the other Mary-Sue characters in this book runs with a wild crowd. When her father is killed in an accident (so many of GW/V.C. Andrews' characters are killed off in car accidents - at least ONE car accident claims at least ONE casualty in just about every V.C. Andrews series), her aunt and uncle take her in. The aunt, a stern and moralistic sort grudgingly does her Christian duty and her uncle Buster, a dour soul lays down some more laws. Their two children do what they can to be thorns in Phoebe's side. Once in this affluent suburb of Atlanta, Phoebe is enrolled in a local school where she is placed in a self-contained class for children with learning disabilities. It is there she learns she has dyslexia. Like the other Mary-Sues V.C. Andrews books are INFAMOUS for, Phoebe has an affair with a rich boy named Ashley. They are caught in the school nurse's office. Phoebe STILL doesn't get the message and she runs away, this time to find her mother who is in a hospital. Once there, she is captured and brought back to her Uncle Buster who arranges to have her transported by ambulance under sedation to the mystery school. This ain't great, but it'll do for reading on a plane. It makes you wonder when the very last GW/V.C. Andrews will be written. The sex scenes are trite; the characters are almost always Mary-Sues and the same themes keep cropping up. Thank goodness there is no villian named Olivia or twins or a tired brother-sister union thrown into the mix. This book is for the birds (buzzards that is), if they'll have it.
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