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This sucked., September 3, 2009
This review is from: Delia's Heart (Mass Market Paperback)
I am an "older" reviewer (in my early 30's) having become interested in VC Andrews books after the Flowers in the Attic movie came out (even though the movie sucked). I started reading VC Andrews in jr. high and pretty much spent those years and through high school and the beginning of college reading all the books through the Ruby series. I was done when I read Melody and decided that it wasn't anything new and different. The formula was the same and I was tired of it. However, I recently discovered that the Delia series was to take place in Southern California (where I live) and the heroine was Latina (which I am) so I decided to give it a shot. Unfortunately for me though, it was a big waste of time and money. I thought the author generalized Mexican culture. If the author had mentioned the exact area Delia came from it would have lent the story a bit of authenticity. I guess I could have stopped reading the books after the first one, but something compelled me to finish the series. Possibly, hoping that it would get better (it didn't), or maybe thinking that the character developments would somehow reveal a major plot twist... like maybe Delia would die and the story would pick up from her child (nope). Delia's character development was unevolving and her constant poor decision making made me feel like she deserved all that happened to her. I couldn't relate to her at all on ANY level, and I couldn't even root for her because she seemed like she never learned and was always going to be the damsel in distress, going around making stupid decisions left and right. To sum it up, the writing was bad, I didn't like the characters and the ending was lame.
btw-In my opinion, Heaven series was the best and will always be by far the most interesting of all the VC Andrews books.
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I'm shocked at some of these positive reviews., December 29, 2008
This review is from: Delia's Heart (Mass Market Paperback)
Delia's Heart was just a rehash of everything we've heard before, over and over again. Including the horrifically bad writing...characters "chant" and "recite," their "eyes grow small." (WHAT does that mean? They squint?)
These books are horrible. Even if these books are now geared toward teenagers, they deserve to read better than this.
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BRILLIANT AND STUNNING!, December 31, 2008
This review is from: Delia's Heart (Mass Market Paperback)
It honors me to review another book by V.C. ANDREWS aka Andrew Neiderman. I had hoped to beat the "Queen of Mean" to a review but alas she beat me. But here is a good review for you. I only wish some people would get over the fact that Ms. Andrews died 20 years ago and without Mr. Neiderman's brilliance, we would not have VCA novels anymore.
I never review the book or the plot. You have to read it and enjoy it. But this is not a tweener novel as the Queen of Mean suggests. Delia's Crossing pleased me very much, but simply put, I was blown away by Delia's Heart. This is an honest, heartfelt, gripping novel of a young woman pulled in so many directions I could hardly keep track of them. Yet she still manages to hold her head up high and come through it with the greatest gift of all... a child on the way.
Aunt Isabella is a villain as true as Olivia Foxworth. You want to like her, you want to feel for her and her circumstances, but you just can't. She turns off hot and cold like a water faucet! I said it before and I will say it again... Isabella Dallas deserves a novel of her own!
Beginning with the Willow series and continuing with this, the Delia series, there is a marked maturation of the characters and the plots. Young folks, "tweeners", and us old folks (ha ha) can enjoy the Willow and Delia works. I also liked very much that the book takes place over a matter of some years... not a short period of time. We get such a better insight into the characters. Will Delia's Gift blow me away even more? I sure hope so!
Later in the year we will be treated to the Heavenstone Secrets. Dare we hope for more brilliance? Bravo, Mr. Neiderman, bravo!
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