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Jade (Wildflowers)

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This book and the series is by far the worst I have read. Each time I finish a series of late I tell myself it is the last VC Andrews books I will ever read. I am sure VC Andrews is rolling over in her grave to have such elementary garbage written in her name.

Her stories were famous for the depth and character they portrayed. A reader would be swept up in all the drama. Now, they are just a boring fairy-tale. Time for the ghost writer to step aside while the damage is still slight.

Her parents are fighting over her whilst they divorce, each one wanting custody to hurt the other. In fact, the only one they are hurting is Jade. She runs away to the boy she met on the internet, who turns out to be a psychopath that keeps her locked in a bedroom, tied to a bed with computer cables. She escapes and eventually tells her parents, who realize they are hurting her. The warm family ending won't work out, but that's where her story stops. I couldn't help laughing at the scene where she is taken prisoner. It's not cool when you laugh at a scene like that. It should bother you.

I loved the book Jade! It rules! My friend gave me it for my birthday. One Saturday, I began to read it, and I didn't put it down. I loved the part about her escape from the "internet pal"! This book does a fantastic job at displaying what makes one wealthy, pampered girl not so shallow. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this book to ANYONE

Out of all four books in this series, Jade was easily the worst. It wasn't that she was a spoiled rich girl or anything like that. I actually liked her for a while. However, the cyber-relationship and her falling into "Sonny"'s trap was ludicrous. Yes, it happens in real life - girls falling prey for Internet predators - but this is hysterical. Jade is supposed to be a smart girl, she's on the honor roll, whatever.

But when she realized something was wrong, she didn't run. And what follows is just utterly ridiculous as a old man ties her to the bed and continues to feed her BS and is clearly insane. This story started out with promise but vastly deteriorated, and is the worst one in this series. It's not even good by a 'tween book' standard.

A Review by Amy

A familiar word, divorce, is the main part of Jade's life in this third of a series. Jade starts out with Jade talking with three other clients in a therapy office, all in which are girls. Jade is being swarmed by both her mom and dad about divorce issues; who will get custody? While her parents are pressuring Jade to feel that she loves one over the other, she meets someone online; Craig. He has similar family problems to her and Jade soon sets off for a journey of her life to meet him in San Francisco. Jade will never be the same again.

The plot of Jade was boring and dull, and nothing built up to the climax. This was defiantly a quite boring 3rd book. There were no exciting points that made you want to read more. I liked how V.C. Andrews wrote in this book, such as her use of words and characterization, but it still isn't one that I would read again. Andrews usually has a great twist in her story, but this was a little too strange for my liking. It had no relation to the story what so ever.

I would recommend this story to people who like to be bored as they read a story. V.C. Andrews definitely was not writing her normal here. I don't recommend reading this book at all.

The first two stories in the Wildflowers Series were great. I was really excited to read "Jade" - but I was very disappointed. Jade is a beautiful, rich girl with parents who absoultely hate each other. Her mom is favoring her and fillig her mind with horrible stories of her father, and her dad is doing the same. Jade is wrapped up in the viscious court battle, to see which parent will get custody, and it is driving her insane. Soon, she starts to go into chatrooms, and meets Craig - a teenager with problems like her's. One night, when the situation with her parents becomes absoultely unbearable, she hops on a plane to California to meet Craig. When she gets there - she finds herself in one of the most dangerous situations in her entire life.

I loved the first two books, but in my opinion, VC Andrews is slacking. This book was good for the last twenty-ish pages. The first hundered or so were very slow and boring, then it was interesting...then it was so utterly disturbing I had to stop reading it. It took me about two weeks to finish, because I really didn't want to read it because it's such a sick and disturbing story. I expect more from "Cat" the next in the series.

Oh we should all have such problems...more money than we know what to do with, and parents fighting over us. HA! What a pitiful book to put under beloved VC Andrews name. The books are getting worse and worse and I think it's time for ghost writer to give it up and let someone with a little talent take over. This book isn't a horror story-it's a teen-age joke to be read in about an hour.

So far I have read all of the other Wildflowers books,Misty,and Star, and I thought for the most part they were interesting but Jade has no "real" problems.She's an annoying whiner and I had to force myself to finsh the book.There really is no plot in the book.Let's just pray that Cat will be better.If Cat isn't any better(it can't be any worse) , forget about me buying Into the Garden.

If you ever need a sleep-aid read this book. It was terribly boring and monotonous. This has to be the worst VC Andrews yet, or should I say the worst ghostwriter story yet. He is definitley tarnishing VC's name. I never read one of her books I didn't loke but since she died they haven't been the same. This new series is abousolutely awful, it seems more made for teenagers than adult women. I don't even know if I will buy Cat, but then again I don't see how the books can get any worse than they already are.

I found this real boring, there were only some good lines, thats all. Probably the only reason Jade is in the theorpary is because her parents came afford it, it seems. She doesn't seem to have any REAL problems. I had to practically force myself to finish reading. the story and character did not seem to be that much developed.