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Crystal (Thorndike Core)

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3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(7)
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I am curently reading the book but i just can't put it down. It is just such a great book. Almost anyone would love this book.

I am just writing to say what an excellent book it is for age groups 13 onwards worth reading

After reading the first two of this series, "Butterfly" and "Brooke" I felt I had to read on about the interesting lives of orphans. I really felt like I could read it because in some ways it was easy to relate to! They are around the same age as I am (14), they have trouble with their parents, go through tragedies and speak their mind just as a regular teen. (They even have boy trouble.) I would definately reccomend this book to teens who are not into reading, (speaking as one herself.) Take it on a trip with you... you will never put it down! Have fun!!

Crystl is the second book of 5 in the miniseries called THE ORPHANS.It is about a 15 year old girl who get adopted by a nice couple named Carl and Thelma.Carl is wprapped up in saving money and Thelma is wrapped up in soap operas.She is having a great life she has friends and a nice home.Her grandparents are wonderful.But soon her only grandmam would die and she would be left with two grandfathers.But that would all end very soon.About a month later Carl and Thelma had to go and sign some papers to put one of her grandfathers in a retiring home.Crystal was at her friends house.Her friends mother got a call and asked Crystal to go get her uncles number.Crystal had a bad feeling and her feelings were right Crystals parents had both died in a car accident.Crystal could not stay because her uncles didn't have enough money and her grandfather's were to disabled and soon Crystal would be back in the system and she would soon meet one of her three best friends named Janet(butterfly).

Like Butterfly, Crystal is a interesting read in itself for a teenager audience, but is barely reminiscent of a true VCA book. When this first came back out way in 1999, I was a teenager and enjoyed this series (but not as much as I enjoyed the older ones, even the ones penned by Neiderman) Like Butterfly, Crystal is a orphan but with a different background and different talents. Her adoptive parents seem to be more normal than butterfly's adopted mom, but soon Crystal discovers that her adoptive mom has problems with perceiving reality. Still, life is pretty good, but Crystal's good luck can't last, and her parents die. Oh well.

The Orphans miniseries is easily the worst series written by Andrew Neiderman, writing under VC Andrews. I gave this book two stars for giving the heroine genuine brains rather than the usual "artistic talents" that VC Andrews heroines usually have (Practically all of VC Andrews Heroines are painters, singers, musicians or dancers-bearable the first time irritating when it occurs OVER AND OVER AGAIN) . I like how the heroine is shown to be rational and hardworking. It was also good to see that the guardians were nice-if flawed-people (as mostly guardians are portrayed as being Count Olaf in VC Andrews) . Everything else about the "Crystal" was trite, silly, badly written and I do not recommend reading the book.

Intelligent Crystal has spent most of her life living in a not so nice orphanage. She watched others get adopted before her and tried to sever all ties off from people her age. But one day everything changes when she's adopted by two very nice people Thelma and Kurt. Kurt lives his life by a constant schedual and is very organized. Thelma lives her life through the soap operas she watches on TV and the Romance novels she reads. Crystal feels slighlty out of place in this world but finds a friend in the smart boy down the street, Bernie. But when one single act shatters all that she has. She finds herself back where she started.

Like Raven and Butterfly, Crystal is a good read though a bit unrealistic. I'm looking foreward to read Brooke (the 3rd short book in the series) and Runaways (the full length novel staring all four girls.)

I have really enjoyed this one but I wish that Crystal could've had one last kiss with Bernie before she left. It would've been neat if she could've lived with Ashley at the end. Out of all this was a very good book, good plot.

V.C. Andrews is the best author of all time! Crystal is one of the best stories in that series, though the Dollanganger series is the best. Crystal is the only orphan who actually likes her new parents. It's a sad book!

This is the first Orphans book I've read in the series, and it's cool! I see there's some romance in here. Thelma is weird, basing everything on soap operas. Well, whatever, it's a good story.