Customer Reviews

Star (Wildflowers)

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

In this book, Star tells the other girls in her therapy group (Misty, Jade, and Cat) about living with an alcoholic mother and being deserted by a deadbeat dad. Her story is heartbreaking and very real. Finally, she and her little brother Rodney are able to live with their elderly grandmother and have a chance for happiness and real love when tragedy strikes again. Some V.C. Andrews stories really capture my attention and others do not. This one got my attention. I can't wait to read the rest of the series.

Yes, these last two "mini" series are totally insulting to V. C. Andrews name and talent. She would not have written weak, empty-headed dramas about four teenaged girls feeling sorry for themselves. Where is the shock! Where is the horror! There was a time when V. C. Andrews was beating Stephen King in horror paperback sales, there is no horror here anymore. Very sad and depressing that the Ghostwriter has begun to ignore the die-hard ADULT fans of V. C. Andrews who read her because her novels were so gothic, so dark. I am so angry with these books I could spit nails, what would Stephen King's fans do if he started writing teeny-bopper romance melo-dramas? Ms. Andrews' was a HORROR novelist, and just because she was a woman, they are altering her style to a more sudsy, soapy variety. Dispicable!

In the second story in the Wildflowers series we hear Star's story. Star likes to put up a tough bravado but the truth is her past is filled with pain. In Dr. Marlowe's therapy group she tells the story of parents that constantly fought, and a mother that never really wanted to have kids. As she continues to tell her story Misty, Jade, and Cat may realize that Star, under her wise cracks is just like them. I found this book to be a nice read, but not really up to par with the rest of the series. I liked reading this book. But compared to the other two in the series I've already read (Misty and Jade) it was just lacking something. Neverless I'm still reading the series (Cat is on my shelf right now and I'm going to buy the full-length novel Into the garden). I reccomend this book to fans of a series but try to get it from your library instead of spending your own money on it.

My first V.C. Andrews book was "Misty" and I absolutely loved it! I was really excited to read Star, because she's my favorite of the four girls...and I was kind of disappointed. "Star" is really really good, but the first thirty five pages are kind of slow. It starts with Star being dropped off at Dr. Marlowe's office, today being her day to tell the other three girls (Cat, Jade, and Misty) her story. She starts with telling them how her mom's an alcoholic, and her dad left them when her and her brother (Rodney) were just little kids. Her mom soon meets someone, and they come home totally trashed, night after night, for quite some times. When this is happening, Star's little brother is getting hurt at home, and Star is having problems at school. Her grades are slipping. After a while, Star's mom dumps her and Rodney off to live with her grandma. When Star starts school, she meets Steve, and they quickly become boyfriend and girlfriend. Steve has the same problem as Star - his dad drinks and his mom is dead. But one night something horrible happens, and Star is changed forever.

This book is REALLY good, but the beginning is kind of slow, which is the only reason it's not getting 5 stars. Some people say that this book is geared towards 6th graders ~ I highly disagree, and thought this was suggestive. It is good though!

'Star' written by V.C. Andrews gets 5 stars because it was an excellent book for a teenage girl. The book shows teenage girls that they are not the only ones going through a rough time with adolescence. It made me realize that no matter how bad I think the problem is that I am going through, there is always some else out there going through something much worse. This book made me want to cry at times and I recommend it for any teenage girl who is having a hard time dealing with life right now. It will make you realize that what you are dealing with really isn't all that bad.

Star was so surprising to me. I never would have thought that V.C.Andrews would put a Black girl on the cover. As an avid fan,an African American and avid reader of V.C. Andrews, I was shocked. I thought the story was good. It's not as good as Heaven, or Flowers in the attic, but nonetheless, it was good.

This was better than Misty and poor Star goes through a lot. not as exciting as I thought it would be, but at least it's about a black girl, which is different.

Unfortunately I wasn't impressed with this read. Having read and owning copies of all the original V.C. Andrews books and having been a captured reader of HER books, I can only say that when her reads came out originaly, I believed this writer to be a PHENOMENON, and still do! However this book, as well as many of the other books, written by 'other hired writers' just don't seem to cut it for me. These writings done after her death don't seem to have the same appeal and have never been able to capture her forte. For me, this book was another disappointment. In my mind there will never be anyone who can write her books and I think most of the new books written by 'other writers' just shouldn't be using her name. But that's just my opinion.I keep buying them or getting them at local library, so it's something in them that keeps me coming back. I think though, that it is the hope of finding another one that can equal Victoria's writing herself. And that's just never going to happen. Sorry.

Star's not really better or worse than her predecessor, Misty. Her story isn't VCA caliber, but it's not a bad book for teens to read. It seems that Neiderman was relying on stereotypes for this book, but by itself it isn't a horrible read, just a lite teen book. Compared to the other books in this series, it's so-so.

I'm a huge V.C. Andrews fan. That is, the REAL VC, and not the ghost writer of Andrew Neiderman. My one star rating is for all the mini series books out there. What a marketing ripoff. By the time you buy each individual little book in the mini series, plus the final book that reunites them all, you will have spent considerably more than the price for one normal sized VC book. Now that the hype of the series has died down, i find that they go and finally publish all the books together in one massive volume, like they should have done in the first place. The real VC would not have pulled such a horrible money-making stunt like the publishers are doing. The mini-series books have a hastily-written feel to them, as if the publishers needed to get some kind of VC book out on the shelves asap, with little thought to the content, or even if the faithful VC fans would even care about a mini-series like this. The VC magic was totally absent from any of the mini-series books, and i felt like i was reading a "young adult" teeny-bopper VC Andrews, instead of the old "adult" VC Andrews we all love. I think all of the books in the mini-series should be put in the Young Adult section instead of in the horror section of the bookstore. They feel like a cross between a weak version of R.L. Stine books and some other book aimed at 12-year-olds. There really is a juvenile feel to these mini-series books that i did not like. The ghost writer has gotten worse with each series, and it was obvious many series ago that he has adopted his own modern writing style, even though the story is told in the first person. I never liked this current "modernization" of the VC Andrews stories. The older books were the best ever, because they were written by the real V.C. Andrews, and had memorable characters. Tell me, does any true VC fan care much for the new crop of characters in these mini-series?? NO! Compare the new books to the books in the Flowers In The Attic series and Heaven series. It's like compairing junk to a treasure. It's so obvious that the Andrews family is in all this for a share of the money they are making off the ghost writer's books. I wish Andrew Neiderman would stop attaching V.C. Andrews' name to the stuff he writes. VC would not be proud. Her stores were ten million times better and more interesting than these damned mini-series books. The fact that the name V.C. Andrews is a copyright is a shame. Why doesn't Andrew Neiderman just write the books and put his name on them? We all know he's the one writing the books, so just stop with putting VC Andrews on the cover. It's become a joke now. We all know the writing and story ideas are nowhere near as good as the ones the real VC used to write. Please skip all the books in any of the mini-series. If you want to read the REAL V.C. Andrews, then stick with the first few series she wrote. For those who don't know, she died in 1986, shortly after Dark Angel, the second book in the Heaven series, was written.