Falling Stars (Shooting Stars) [Hardcover]

V.C. Andrews (Author)

Book Description

Series: Shooting Stars | Publication Date: December 1, 2001

All The World's A Stage -- but What If The Play Doesn't Go As Planned?

Four talented girls from vastly different pasts share a dream of stardom: Cinnamon, the edgy actress; Ice, the phenomenal vocalist; Rose, the beautiful dancer; and Honey, the first-rate violinist. The four meet at the prestigious Senetsky School of the Performing Arts -- housed in an ornate New York City mansion -- and become instant friends as they take off on a dazzling whirlwind of intense classes, theater outings, and celebrity-studded parties. And together they bend the strict house rules of Madame Senetsky, a famous actress who guarantees success for students under her tutelage.

But they soon realize this is no ordinary school. Madame Senetsky pushes the girls' studies beyond reason. She controls their social lives. And they get the strange feeling someone is watching them.

But who...and why?

Cinnamon, Ice, Rose, and Honey set out to untangle a shadowy web of Senetsky family secrets. As they explore dark corners and hidden rooms, every creak and moan of the old mansion tells a story too frightening to repeat. A devastating story that can destroy their dreams...

Editorial Reviews

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 thrilling 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 forty novels in V.C. Andrews' bestselling series. Shooting Stars, the newest V.C. Andrews series, features Cinnamon, Ice, Rose, Honey, and Falling Stars. V.C. Andrews' novels have sold more than ninety million copies and been translated into sixteen foreign languages.

From AudioFile

In the fifth of Andrews's Shooting Stars series, two actors, two musicians, a dancer, and a singer meet as new students at Senetsky's School of the Performing Arts, located in a gothic mansion in New York City. Former stage star Madame S. is a wizard at turning the merely gifted into the fabulously famous, using iron discipline. But when Honey Forman, a violinist who serves as the story's narrator, sees what she thinks is a Peeping Tom outside her window and investigates, she uncovers glamorous deceit. Laurel Lefkow's range of accents adds color to the story and raises the listener's anticipation as the voices of young innocence clash shatteringly with those of adult arrogance and ambition. E.V. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Atria (December 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671039865
• ISBN-13: 978-0671039868
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,478,942 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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars terrible, December 11, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Falling Stars (Shooting Stars) (Mass Market Paperback)

I really love the old series, but the newer ones have been disappointments, with the 'stars' series being the biggest disappointment. The story was predictable, uninteresting and shallow. It was written like a scooby-doo episode.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hooray For Cheese!, June 29, 2004

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S. Weeks "Kate" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Falling Stars (Shooting Stars) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is very cheesy. If you don't like cheesy books, I'd avoid this one if I were you. Like many Virginia Andrews books (the originals and the new ones), it is pure cheddar.
Personally, I don't mind cheese as long as it's well-plotted cheese with interesting characters, and this book definitely doesn't let me down here (on the character front, Cinnamon has become a goth, which is funny). It has a plot that, generally speaking, isn't lifted from one of the other books (they do that sometimes when they think you aren't looking), and although the narrator can be a bit of a whinger at times, the other characters more than make up for that.
If you've read the other mini-series, you will know that it might be best to skip the first four books (which are mainly about introducing characters rather than having a plot) and go onto the main book. For all three miniseries, I bought all five books. Learn from my mistakes.
This isn't exactly as good as the main books from "Orphans" and "Wildflowers," but it's nearly there. The ending is a bit anti-climactic, which is annoying, but since the rest of the story is brilliant I won't nit-pick. Read this book and bask in the glory of cheese.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I didn't think it was that bad until the end..., December 9, 2001

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mickey71 "mickey71" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Falling Stars (Shooting Stars) (Mass Market Paperback)

It ended too suddenly; there's not even a "what happened to everyone" epilogue as in the other miniseries finalies. And what's with the GW and the artist? Can they not decide what these girls look like? Cinnamon now has coal-black hair? Most of the girls' characters are pretty blah, with the exception of Cinnamon. There's the gratuitous near-rape scene, and an almost-incest scene (the GW usually finds a way to make sure the participants aren't blood-related). It did keep me reading until the end, and then it was just...over. All in all, another disappointing effort. When will I learn?