Dawn [Import] [Hardcover]

VIRGINIA ANDREWS (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD; Reprint edition (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671717324
• ISBN-13: 978-0671717322
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (106 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,571,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

One of the most popular authors of all time, V.C. Andrews has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of her spellbinding classic Flowers in the Attic. That blockbuster novel began her renowned Dollanganger family saga, which includes Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. Since then, readers have been captivated by more than fifty novels in V.C. Andrews' bestselling series. The thrilling new series featuring the March family continues with Scattered Leaves, forthcoming from Pocket Books. V.C. Andrews' novels have sold more than one hundred million copies and have been translated into sixteen foreign languages.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Juicy Story, August 5, 2004

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Theresa W (mi, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dawn (Cutler Family) (Mass Market Paperback)

I used to read VC Andrews back when I was in my teens. I have never forgotten the magic of Flowers in the Attic. The Cutler series has been on my book shelf for years needless to say, and finally I've decided to pick it up. And so far I'm pleased that I did!

Dawn is the first in the 5 book series and a decent start. The story is a little slow at first, but picks up quickly towards the middle and end with many shocking secrets revealed. As we meet Dawn she's a 14 year old from a poor family who due to a new job her dad received now has the opportunity to go to a private school. This foreshadows what her life is about to turn into down the road and is kind of a transitional phase between her poor life full of struggles to her new life full of opportunity and the unknown. You won't be able to guess where her life takes her...

I would of course recommend this book more to teens than to adults, even though I am an adult who did enjoy this guilty pleasure and easy read. VC Andrews is famous for writing detailed stories that pull you into her web and this series appears it's no different, I'm already half way through the next book Secrets of the Morning.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Obvious Rehash But A Good One, April 14, 2006

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C. Chow (Leesburg VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dawn (Cutler Family) (Mass Market Paperback)

To say that VC Andrews has become formulaic would be a major understatement. A ridiculously gorgeous 12-14 year old girl with "flaxen blond hair" and "cerulean blue eyes" has her life radically altered when she discovers she's a member of a wealthy socialite Virginian family. However the family is more psychotic than-well no other family in the history of literature is even on the same level of insanity that exists in VC Andrews. The psycho family delights in tormenting the heroine whom ends up sleeping with her older teenage brother.

`Dawn' is no exception. Here the formula is applied to Dawn Longchamp. The Longchamps are dirt poor Virginians. Poor, but pleasant and as happy as poor family can be. A series of unfortunate events tare the family apart and Dawn is sent to live with her "real" family she never knew existed, the Cutlers whom make Dawn's life a living hell. Though nothing as extreme as being tortured in an attic, Dawn mostly endures humiliations.

A very obvious rehash of `Flowers in the Attic'. In fact there's even a psycho grandmother and an attic. Dawn is also locked in one room of their giant mansion. Grandmother Cutler also wishes to erase the mere existence and memory of Dawn's previous family.

As for the only reason you read VC Andrews, the incest, there's plenty of it. Yes you won't be bored with `Dawn'. Her brothers aren't. The twist here is, who is Dawn's true soul mate? Jimmy, the brother she grew up with? Or her biological brother Philip?

I was able to forgive the fact that `Dawn' is VERY obviously a rehash of `Flowers in the Attic.' It doesn't even pretend to be anything else. With a heavy amount of incest it gives the audience what it wants. I can't blame VC Andrew's ghostwriter for using what works.

My only and big objection to `Dawn' is that it is VERY predictable. By page 150 I had accurately predicted the rest of the book. I was bored with waiting for the characters to catch up.

If we're not going to attempt a suspenseful plot then why slow down the book with one? A lot of time and space is wasted. Just cut to the chase. Or in this case the incest.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dawn wasn't original!!!, February 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dawn (Cutler Family) (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm was so dissappointed in Dawn. I knew what was going to happen to Dawn from the first chapter on to the last. It was so predictable, i.e long lost rich family, incest, a grandmother who hates her, and a weak mother and father. Before it was "revealed" I knew she was dating her brother. I also knew her brother was going to still want to carry on their relationship. And the sister hating her, now that was a stretch of the imagination, NOT! This story was so predictable, maybe because the Andrews family won't let the writers stray to far V.C. Andrews original Flowers in the Attic series.