Customer Reviews

Ice (Shooting Stars)

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4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

After buying Cinnamon, I swore I would never buy another stupid minibook ever again. Well, one night I was in the grocery store and, for reasons unknown to even myself, I wound up tossing this little thing in my shopping cart. Thankfully, this was the book that cured me of ever buying another V.C. book again without reading some excerpts first. There aren't words to describe how horrendous this book was. I couldn't even finish it. I wound up skimming to the end to see what traumatizing event would afflict Ice. It's a shame, because Ice's story had promise. I bet the real V.C. Andrews would've made a wonderful full-length novel (for adults, no less) out of it. Sadly, that can never happen. Unless you are under the age of 13, I'd advise you to skip this tired mess.

Ice is the worst book I have read of VC Andrews. It's just a small book and It took me forever too finish, it's was so boring. Very cliché, beautiful, poor, talented girl, bully by other kids at school but she going to get out of her dump and show them all are great she is with her beautiful voice. Déja-vu!!!

I could not get into the book, it was so boring. It's took me a long time before finishing it and it's just a small book. Ice is kind of like Dawn but the serie of Dawn is much better then Ice. Ice is a poor beautiful girl who get bully at school, (Déjas vu) but she have a beautiful voice who will make her get out of her dump, she will be SOMEONE!!! So cliché, very boring, the GW writer start to get very boring, it's not like the read vc andrews book, who were very interesting.

After reading Cinnemon I was expecting more and was horribly dissapointed. The entire book is full of cliche's and not very interesting at all. Ice's mother is so stereotypical it's not even funny.

Ice is the same story as most of the ghostwriter books. Her father loves her, her mother's miserable and controlling, she has a boy who loves her uncondionally, everyone at school hates her, and she has a phenomenal talent in something artistic. it's just the same as almost every other miniseries novel.

Bo(...)rrrringgg!! This is the dullest, most pointless, most boring ghost writer book EVER, and that is saying alot. Ice starts out like an intriguing character (an amazing singer who has trouble speaking in anything but song), but she just turns out to be the same old GW character regurgitated and recycled throughout all the GW series'. We are constantly TOLD that Ice is a shy, quiet girl but there is little evidence of this in the story. Instead she reacts to situations the same way these characters always do. And the story!! The first HALF of this book is spent going over the excruciatingly boring details of Ice's forced makeover so she can go on some stuped date on which nothing happens anyway, and the last half is (finally) huriedly spent on some vocal lessons Ice takes with some boy. Her family is not horrifying or bazaarly secritive (unless you consider mediocrity horrifying), Ice's character is never developed and NOTHING EVER HAPPENS!! Why are these books still being pedalled as horror? Don't even bother reading this one.

I thought, even though these books are nothing like the older stuff, that this was a pretty good book. I wish they would go back to the old style and make the books longer and as captivating as they used to be. These new books seem like they are trying to reach a younger crowd. But other than that I thought Ice was very good and can hardly wait for the next book. I am a loyal V.C fan and will always be!

Ice was not as good as Cinnamon. Overall the quality of this series was pretty bad, but at least Ice wasn't as bad as Rose or Honey, in my opinion. This book was a bit interesting, but ultimately, like Cinnamon, it fell flat. This book feels nothing like a true VCA book with multigenerational family drama and secrets.

I'm not sure what Neiderman was thinking when he came up with this series. I doubt that this series was inspired from the notes that VCA left after her death. Even on it's own, I can't really recommend it as a book to read, it relies on stereotypes (much like Rain) and the characters felt rather flat.

This book was unique to me since, it features a person with the name of "Ice"!!! Her boyfriend was a cad in my opinion. I got the impression, that he didn't want his girlfriend Ice, to persue her time as a musician! Instead he wanted her to be a wife and homemaker-yawn!

It's relatively good! It failed! WORK!

First of all, I think this whole "let's give the heroine a silly name just because we can" business has got WAY out of hand. I've known plenty of people called Jade and Rose, and I've heard of people called Cinnamon, Honey and so on, but I think Ice is just a name they made up. (Please note- if you actually know someone called Ice please accept my apologies.)
Anyway, this Ice character. Well, as I've said before, these mini-books aren't really about having a story- they're more about establishing character and leading up to the main book. She's established as being very shy, and only really using her voice to sing, not talk (is this sounding like "Little Voice" to you? Anyway). She's very prudish and sensitive, but then that's not too unusual in a Virginia Andrews character. She's also a non-stereotypical black character. You know how a lot of her other black characters (Pheobe, Star and so on) have short tempers and are always trying to pick a fight? Well, not Ice. Which makes a nice change.
Throw in romance, a tarty mother, a wise father and a lot of jazz references and... Well, like I said, there isn't much of a story. But if the character sounds appealing to you, go read the book.
I think they should call the next heroine Apple. Just because.

i don't see that this book is a bad one , in fact i find it much nicer than cinnamon which was a little bit silly about the spirits thing...ice is a very touching story, the only drawback i think was that it's short.