Customer Reviews

Unfinished Symphony Hb

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4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This book did not get interesting until about the middle. The first half was just endless, boring descriptions of Melody's trip to L. A. and the search for her mother. Maybe Melody was in denial, but I thought she was way too naive. I kept thinking uh, Mel? Your ma ditched you. Even if she does want you back, she doesn't deserve you. I think it was readable, but V. C. Andrews would not have been impressed.

This was a great book. It really wraps up the story etc. The only problem was the ending was left really wide open. I have Music In The Night too, and when I noticed that it was about Laura and not Melody, I was dissapointed. Not that I mind. It's just that if they had continued on the Logan Series with what happens with Cary and May and Melody, or with one of Melody's kids, that would have been really neat. That's what I really liked about the Landry Series. This was a great book otherwise and if I were to grade it I'd give it an A++++ haha :)

I suggest this book to anybody whom doesn't mind wide open endings!

I read this book like a year or 2 ago and it is one of my fav books. i loved the logan series. but this book was so upseting you wanted to help her but all you could do was read.... the ending is sad but yet it is a happy-ever after. this is a wonderful book i think.I have read it twice. and you dont really have to read the first 3 books befor it, all though all are just as good.

I happened to read this book in Pittsburgh, where my flight was delayed. Someone had left a brand new copy, perhaps purchased from the airport gift store and left behind. Having not read a VC Andrews book since the first books of the Cutler series (I was in middle school then, now a freshman in college), I picked it up with some caution and read the whole book while waiting for my plane to arrive. When I finished, I remembered why I could never finish the Cutler family series. These books are a travesty to VC Andrews. They are cheap imitations, gathering events from the original VC Andrews novels and barely disguising them. Why her family lets this continue is beyond me! The woman died long ago; her legacy of storytelling should have gone with her to rest in dignity. No, her books are not classics or literary masterpieces, they are often dismissed as smut. But when I got home, I found my old dog-earred copies of "My Sweet Audrina"..."Heaven".."Dark Angel"..."Flowers in the Attic"..the originals...and reread them. Her books are not known for being classics but for the strange, compelling psychological aspects of the characters. All told in a language of Gothic horror and a tounge which truly knows the pain and suffering of incest, abandonment, poverty and shame. Rereading them, I remembered why I loved them as a child, because they gave these issues, with which I am familiar, a cloak of romanticism. The new series, with their banal dialogues and stolen plots, are cheapening VC Andrews' legacy and need to be stopped! -a concerned reader

Just when Melody believes that she's uncovered all the secrets in the Logan family, she discovers that there are still more skeletons left to shake out of the Logan closet! UNFINISHED SYMPHONY had many welcome changes, such as a heroine who (for once:)wasn't pregnant by the third novel in the series. The Logan family series is definitely a welcome change after the basic weakness of the Cutler series and the suprising blandness of the Landry series(although I still loved the aforementioned series; I'm just being honest). UNFINISHED SYMPHONY is a must read for the die hard Andrews readers and the "new initiates" alike.

Unfinished Symphony was an outstanding book.Of course I thought Melody and Heart Song were good,but this one was my faviorite because it answered those nagging questions that left you guessing after reading the first two novels.It was a complete shocker for me to find out how her mother would treat her,who her real father was,and what Olivia hid from the whole family involving Laura.This book was simply outstanding.

What I don't understand is ever since "Melody" came out there was a hype about who her real father was. Towards the end of this book there is absolutely no climax when she finds out who her father is. I found that to be dissapointing. And another thing...in "Music in the night" it was Judge Childs who signed the consent form to have Laura instiutionalized yet in "Unfinished symphony" he knew nothing about it. this new author needs to get the facts straight..

Okay, I have an issue with this book. The same issue I had with the Melody and Olivia books. No one else has mentioned this, so I will. In creative writing classes, they teach that it's important to create a setting for your story, then STICK TO IT. That includes TIME PERIODS. In the first book, Adam Jackson tells Melody that he's sick of all the other girls, everything is "groovy" to them. No one in the 1990s says "groovy", so it's implied that it's the 1960s. In Unfinished Symphony, Melody mentions how a 94 yr old passenger talks about how he remembers the Spanish-American War, which took place in 1898! Come on, folks, there's no way this guy could recall that war if he's 94 in the 1990s!
I would've been okay with it being the 1960s, only later on in this book, when Melody is in Hollywood, she talks about car alarms going off and seeing people with punk died hair.
Note to ghost writer Andrew: pick a time period and stick with it, please!
And get someone to proofread your books. I've seen too many spelling and punctuation errors.

I enjoyed this book a lot. I had read the first in the series and was anxious to read this one. It continues the saga of the family. The grandmother...Olivia continues to rule the entire family. Each book leaves you wanting to read the next to find out how the family endures the blows they have been dealt and Olivia. I had trouble putting it down until I finished it.

Heart Song was a bit plodding, but fortunately the action picks up in this book. Melody gets the answer to her long sought-after paternity after finding out that her mother isn't dead after all. This book isn't the best, but it's still pretty good at a solid 4/5 stars. Several deaths spot this book, but they feel rather convenient in the scheme of the plot, so this read is a bit light compared to previous series. Still, this book is a decent read.