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Olivia (Logan Family 5)

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I believe it's a little odd how this series was written. I've always loved the order in which the books were written. By writing it with the last book explaining the story, you make the reader think for themselves and want to go back and read the series all over again. We all sit there the first four books and condemn the evil grandmother and then we hear the grandmother's story and understand the rest. However, it's odd how the Logan series jumps to Laura's story. Ideally, we would expect to hear Haille's story. Olivia was a good book...but it's all a little out of the traditional order it usually is written in. Maybe the ghost-writer has a say in it?

Give this book a break! No, it wasn't classic VCA, the heroine gorgeous, loving, vulnerable,wanted, but I think Olivia is to be admired. She was a strong woman and was expected to do a lot for the family which she did. This book was a huge step up from the pathetic Logan series, and I did connect with Olivia. I was surprised that I actually cheered her on to sleep with Nelson, although it was disappointing and unfulfilling. I love all the prequels, and I was glad that Olivia was her own person. She did want to be loved, and it was tragic that it was unrequited.

This was the first book I'd ever read by VC Andrews and I don't care if it IS a ghost writer, I still like the books. I could definetly identify with Olivia, but I also think that she was too cold. I was embarrased for her in certain parts, and been frightened of her, too. She is such a three dimensional character, and I want to know more about her and her family. I've ordered the rest of the Logan family series, just to see what happened before and what will happen in the future! Definetly a good read!

First of all I did like the book. This was my 3rd V.C. series, and while this book was good, the entire series could have been better. I like the fact that you finally know a little bit more about why Olivia was so cruel to her family in the other books. This book showed the possible reasons why Olivia got to be so mentally deranged, that she would do what she did to Laura. This book left you thinking, "Okay Olivia couldn't be any more of a witch to her family". But as soon as she does something to one person she was already plotting something cruel for someone else. But in the early part of the book you see a little bit of Olivia's soft side. Though not much!

Why wasn't this book called Muted Voices, or something else that matched the other four titles in this series?

Nonetheless, this was a decent read, and the last of Mr. Neiderman's books I would recommend to anyone. Olivia is a strong person who refuses to be pushed around, and knows she is not pretty so she has to rely on other qualities to get what she wants. She is by no means helpless for anything, and when something gets thrown her way, she only toughens and gets harder. overall, this was a decent prequel to the Melody books, though I would have also liked to see a prequel about Haille, and why she ran away from home and all that, as this book still left a good number of questions unanswered.

Nonetheless, this book was overall a nice read, and like I already said, the last of Neiderman's 'VCA' books anyone should read.

Olivia reflected simple pain. She loved someone who didn't love her back and would never love her. I find this refreshing after some of V.C. Andrews other innocent, perfect characters find true love, get married and have children and live happily ever after, until the daughter's story. She also wasn't a complete victim, she fought back and was justified in her fighting, even if she wasn't always completely fair. I also liked the fact that she stayed a virgin until she got married, unlike the rest of V.C.'s hormone controlled young girls. I think the Logan series was the last series that the "phantom writer" wrote that I really could relate to. I didn't like Rain very much at all.

I used to be a huge fan of VC Andrews, meaning, I enjoyed the dark bubble gum she wrote while she was actually alive. Like the faithful consumer they want me to be, I have bought each and every book and actually read it as the quality of each book declines and the price increases. VC Andrews must be turning over in her grave because of the garbage they are putting out in her name. Now, onto the actual BOOK. Because it's been over a year since they first came out with the last "books" in the Logan family series, it was hard for me to remember all the extremely complicated plot developments, etc.. I was confused at many points, and disgusted at the lack of fact checking (if Olivia was about 60 in the 1990's, when the Melody books seem to take place, then she would have been a teenager in the 1940's and would most likely not have owned a television set). It was just a smut novel, like the Starr report. All elements of characters, setting, or theme have been obliterated in order to promote SEX SEX SEX between any and all characters. The stern, loyal woman who was developed in the earlier books is now a girl who won't sleep with her own husband, but lusts after a judge? Give me a break. The sweet and demented old lady is now a conniving teenage slut? Please. I know the books will still be published as long as there are people like the others to put up their misspelled hailings of this garbage. If anything, VC Andrews was about showing how selfishness affects everyone, not how many books she could sell without writing any of them. If VC Andrews was truly the fervent writer she is supposed to be, then she would feel that the art of writing is not about money or cheap books after one's death. I've always felt that it is about the process of writing and seeing your thoughts shared to the world in rows of tiny, perfect letters. Please respect VC Andrews' name and stop this garbage. Thank you.

I enjoy all of of the mini series books that are out. One thing I don't understand is why are books written then the fourth book will tell how it all began. Why not do that first? Also in the Logan series Olivia is written last and it should be first then there should be a continuation book after Olivia then go to Melody, Heart Song, Unfinished Symphony, Music in The Night. I know Im not a book writer but I just don't understand why the books are written out of order like that. Can you explain it to me? Also is there another book coming out to complete the Logan Series after Olivia. I hope so because olivia kind of leaves you hanging because you know there's more to lead up to the book Melody. Like how Halle Married Olivia's son and had Melody etc. I know you're busy but Id appreciate it if you could respond to me.

Thank you

Im not a huge fan of the Logan series, and I wasnt a fan of Olivia until I started reading this book. Upon reading the other novels, I wondered why Olivia was so mean and heartless...I was expecting this book to be another "Garden of Shadows" inwhich the protagonist is put through TONS of horrific things and mentally abused and that is why they end up horribly evil. But that was not the case in this novel.

I respected Olivia through the first half of the novel, she was a business woman, who was intelligent and independant. However after her marriage to Samuel I began to see how her "obsession" with Nelson Childs would lead to her evil personality. Samuel was a good husband- he valued her and their children(although I dont condone they way he behaved when Olivia shut him out of her bedroom). But Olivia was "in love" with Nelson, and angry at Belinda because they had an affair. Olivia did NOT take in Hallie because she wanted what was best for the child or her family. She took in Hallie because she wanted to have some sort of CONTROL over Nelson, and fantize that she was the mother to his child. If any other guy had gotten Belinda pregnant, Olivia would have just kicked her out on the street.

I wish the book had not ended with Hallie's birth, but included parts of her childhood and shown how Olivia treated her. I believe Olivia always dissapproved of Hallie because she was jealous of her- just like she was jealous of Belinda. Yes, Belinda was immature, but Olivia had other options than to institutionalize her. Olivia loved CONTROL more than anything else- she could have had a good, loving, life with her HUSBAND rather than becoming hateful over a man that wanted only her sister. The reason I like this book is because while the reader can feel sorry for Olivia, its easy to see that she had other choices- yet she made the easy choice to become bitter and evil when she didnt get what she wanted; this makes for a more realistic character.

This novel is all about sweet Olivia and how she ended up a Madam of her Cape Cod house. Ooh she got what she wanted!!! That's what a REAL diva does!!!

This is by far the most shocking yet satisfying book of the series!