Customer Reviews

The End of the Rainbow (Hudson Family, Book 4)

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(15)

 

 

This ghostwriter is unbelievely uncreative! ALL THE PLOTS ARE THE SAME! Always. Let's see, there's this beautiful, talented, smart, and perfect girl who loves her Mommy and Daddy a lot...(16-year-olds DON'T go around calling their parents Mommy and Daddy!) There always has to be some guy who is a relative...or somewhat related that's in love w/the girl. He is unable to like any other girl, since she's "special". I find it very disturbing how that plot is repeated over and over again...

Summer and the people around her talk using vocabulary and metaphors that normal ppl would only use in writing. Normal teenagers don't talk like college professors! There also is always some person who flips out, or is extremely religious... This book is so unrealistic. Harley looks like Kevin Bacon?!! So what? Is that supposed to be good? Seriously...they should get a better ghostwriter who can come up with original and realistic stories!

If you have trouble sleeping at night, you just might want to purchase this book. Trite, slow-moving, cliched, this book is just like the other V.C. Andrews book, only it is by far one of the most poorly-written published works of "art" I'd ever come across. Obviously, if V.C. Andrews's ghostwriter hadn't penned it and it had been some other schmuck, it never would have gotten published, much less touched an editor's desk.

In a nutshell, this book is just like all the other V.C. Andrews books. There's plenty of rape, a bad boy with a fiery temper who feels the need to protect his lover/relative, an incarceration ala FITA or Gabrielle Landry, and a bunch of cliched metaphors and similes that will make any reader cringe. And was it just me or was Summer not worthy of a narrator where this book was concerned. Seemed to me this book should have been told by Harley. It was more about him than her anyway.

Once again, if you can't sleep at night, pick up this book as a knockout pill. Otherwise, be smart and avoid it.

Cheers!

Okay, now anyone who reads V.C. Anndrews' novels knows that there are always 5 books! With 5 books you get the explanation of how the whole mess started in the first place. As far as I can tell there is no plan for the 5th book. But that is not the only reason I am giving this book a low rating. The other is that it was the worst one in the whole series, which was unimpressive to begin with. But the bad thing about a series is that once you begin them you just have to finish-if you know what I mean. The main character for End of the Rainbow, Summer is not one that you can fall into, and is very unbelievable and one dimensional. The plot is boring. This book is written in V.C. Andrews form but it has none of her style. I suggest if you want to read V.C. Andrews, read V.C. Andrews, and not a ghost writter who can't fill her shoes!

In the introduction, the writer describes Summer as having turquoise eyes, ebony hair and slightly dark complexion with freckles .... so who is the brown-eyed, medium-brown haired girl with creamy white blush skin on the cover and inner jacket of this book ??? I guess details don't matter to anyone associated with the production of this novel. Artwork doesn't have to match the text and the publisher doesn't care if they conflict. This book is intended to quickly separate $$$ from our wallets simply because it has the name 'V.C. Andrews' emblazed on the cover. (And I'm really surprised they did manage to spell the name correctly.) My collection of these books stops today. And frankly, I wish I was smart enough to have stopped much earlier.

This is one of the worst sequels that Neiderman has ever written. Instead of focusing on family secrets and twists or even the heroine herself, this book actually centered on Harvey, Summer's best friend and later boyfriend. No time is spent exploring past events or the repercussions of said past events (unlike Seeds of Yesterday, Gates of Paradise, or Midnight Whispers, which concentrated a lot on how the secrets of the past affected the heroines of these books) Harvey goes looking for his dad, and it unfolds into a plot that you see only in movies not even worthy of the 'B-movie' quality rating.

This book was disappointing overall, so don't let the pretty cover distract you.

I started reading the Andrews novels over 10 years ago and was totally hooked. Rain was the first Andrews novel I'd read since the Landry series.

I started reading the novels again because I wanted something fun to read while studying for the Bar Exam. The other books in this series were bad, but End of the Rainbow is one of the worst novels I've ever read. I kept reading the other novels because I kept expecting Rain to lose her inheritence or something unpredictable to happen.

I really don't think the ghostwriter planned this novel very well. It was as if he had one storyline going and decided near the end to have Summer and Harley trapped in the basement. Ridiculous.

If End of the Rainbow is any indication, the better days of the V.C. Andrews novels are over.

This really stupid if you like the original VCA books. I, for one, think the ghostwriter needs new material and better characters. Those who say Summer is a "strong" character need to read the Heaven series and FITA. Then see if she's stong. Oh, she was so deprived from good upbringing!! Her Mommy and Daddy tortured their little Princess when they gave her gifts and hugs and kisses. Such a horror story. I expected to find this in the children's section of the bookstore after reading it. Poor VCA, she must be so embarrased to have such kiddie stories written under her name!
I'm sorry, but Summer was a weakling. Why would she go out to the guy's car to, um, talk. Yeah, right. She odvously doesn't know much about guys.
So this book is good if you like children's books, the eleven-years-olds seem to like it... but if your a real VCA fan... it just a sad disappointment.
Hopefully Willow will be better.

Ive been an avid reader of V.C Andrews books for a long time. Her books were always so well written, that i would have never thought that they would be so lacking in all aspects. When i finished reading The End of The Rainbow i was really depressed. I was hoping that maybey the Rain series would live up to the rest, but it didnt. The whole story seemed rushed and undeveloped, it lacked the usual magic that made her books fantastic. Although i cant ever give up entirely on Neiderman because i love V.C Andrews so much, i'll just keep hoping that this book isnt the end of the rainbow.

OK, OK. VC Andrews books are a guilty pleasure but this was unbearable. I can't wait to sell it on Ebay or Amazon Auctions. Talk about boring - all you had to do was skim the pages and you got the story. And the story is another rehash of mean people, inner/inter family love, etc. The ending made no sense and hopefully the ghostwriter will realize that the next time he is writing a series to stay out of the present time for the time for all the books. This book could have been written by a 12 year old!

God what a horrible book! The ghostwriter should just stop now and quit disgracing the name of a very talented writer. If the name V.C. Andrews wasn't plastered across the front I guarentee you no one would give a second glance to these terrible books. Where are the secrets? The shocks and surprises? Couldn't ghostwriter have thrown a few jaw-droppers into the diary scene? I won't be buying anymore of these books. It's a waste of my money.