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Valerie (The Nightengale Legacy Of Sin And Betrayal) [Kindle Edition]

JUSTIN DWAYNE FOXWORTH
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"Stunning new talent!"...
Andrew Neiderman, author of The Devil's Advocate

BOOK ONE OF THE NIGHTENGALE LEGACY OF SIN AND BETRAYAL

Trapped a long time ago by the sins of the father, Valerie Nightengale is determined that someday she will no longer be a weak and helpless little girl. Someday, her fairy-tale prince will rescue her from the dreadful, nightmarish curse of her father, the pathetic Larry Nightengale.

So, indeed, Valerie does break the dreadful ties that bind her and she becomes the wealthy, powerful kind of woman she always wanted to be, the kind of woman she always deserved to be.

Yet wealth and power cannot break the Nightengale legacy of sin and betrayal, still the sins of the father linger, linger... Now, made both warped and hypocritical by them, Valerie is drawn towards a shocking climax that can do nothing but continue to haunt all of the Nightengales and the Prestons forever!

From Valerie...

When I was but a child, I was too weakened by circumstances to defend my rights, too intimidated by those around me to put a stop their insults and their abuses. Then I discovered my weakness was a sign of failure, a trait of something truly defective, so I lifted my head high and stopped being a martyr for everyone else. Their weaknesses only encouraged my own infirmities. It became necessary to learn how to be unfaltering lest I suffer, lest I wither away and die. Because the most diabolical of damages had been inflicted on me by cold and unfeeling, heartless and uncaring people, I taught myself how to ward off their daily, petty persecutions.

With cunning and craftiness, I armed myself to protect me from physical and emotional injury and abuse. Now, I am a strong willed woman - never demure, never willing to be hesitant, never lacking in the ability to make a snap decision and then stick to it. Commands and threats are issued with ease even though, once, I was lacking and deficient, woefully unwilling to say what had to be said and do what had to be done to protect myself. Finally, I put to use the knowledge suffering had taught me about how to excel, about how to exert control over those who previously thought that they ruled over me. Only when they were all defeated did people stop attempting to cross my path at opposing angles.

I possess a commanding presence because I took the time to learn how to be unwavering, how to ignore the lies and the pleas of the wicked who foolishly cried out to me to save them from themselves.

Before I turned thirteen, I did everything I could to win my family’s love, to win the love of an entire family who would never love me no matter what I did. When I discovered they would never do anything but slap me in the face time and time again because they enjoyed it so much, I decided they were no longer worthy of my efforts. Today, most people, most especially male people, are mesmerized by my bewitching charms, by my intelligence and my insight. And by my money. Oh, yes, by my money. But their devotions are unnecessary for in the end they are helpless to do anything but pay heed to what I say.

My very carriage is one of confidence, it dictates that other people pay rapt attention to me. All who encounter my unshakable countenance are at once mesmerized by it and compelled to listen to the authoritarian tone of my voice, a voice inflected with practice to command their respect and their obedience. It is with great pride and confidence that I carry myself.

I am Valerie Nightengale and I will not be bested!

In the best-selling tradition of the most famous gothic authors...

The Nightengale Legacy Of Sin And Betrayal
Valerie
Valerie’s Secrets
Valerie’s Sinners
Valerie’s Freaks
Valerie’s Family
Valerie’s Legacy
Dorothy's Prophecy
The Nightengale Legacy Sampler Edition

About the Author

Justin Dwayne Foxworth has written an entire series around the Nightengale Legacy Of Sin And Betrayal. Book One is Valerie. Book Two is Valerie's Secrets. Book Three is Valerie's Sinners. Book Four is Valerie's Freaks. Book Five (How It All Begins) is Valerie's Family. Book Six (How It All Ends) is Valerie's Legacy. The next book will be Millie's Melancholy. The surprise apoplectic finale novella is Dorothy's Prophecy. His stand alone novels are Black Swan Doppelganger and Black Swan Vampire! Thank you for buying them. He lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and loves to pimp out old Lincoln Town Cars. Justin Dwayne Foxworth has many more ideas now that the Nightengale Legacy of Sin and Betrayal is nearing completion. Watch for new stand-alone novels. Perhaps after that there will be a brand new series with some brand new despicable characters. And you gotta love those wacky, wacky characters despite their evil that often turns out to be deadly. And often turns out to be comedy as well!?

Product Details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 566 KB
  • Print Length: 402 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1442142928
  • Publisher: Createspace; 2 edition (April 11, 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00267SWFA
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,744 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars what, December 10, 2010
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M "CultOfStrawberry" (I wait behind the wall, gnawing away at your reality) - See all my reviews
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This is a first novel, so I generally give new authors a bit of wiggle room. Even with the wiggle room, the writing is painful to read. I normally enjoy novels that are 'shocking' (like Flowers in the Attic or the early Anne Rice vampire novels) so the synopsis for this book actually sounded really interesting. Some families are very dysfunctional and it's fun to read a story (so long as it's fiction, not a real-life abuse story like 'A Child Called It') but this goes beyond dysfunction and right into the realm of sheer nonsense.

Nothing in here makes sense. One thing that really stuck out to me was that despite there being barely any money for food (mainly beans, lol wut) Mommy and Daddy are fat. This really bothered me because this made Larry and Laura even more flat and cardboard, since fatness has been used before to make villains seem more evil (Ursula from 'The Little Mermaid', Dr. Robotnik from 'Sonic the Hedgehog', Baron Harkonnen from 'Dune') Yes, being fat is not healthy, but being fat doesn't make someone evil! There is no real sense in making Mom and Dad fat, because the three villains previously mentioned had reasons - Robotnik had a robot army to do his bidding so he didn't have to lift a finger for himself, Harkonnen enjoyed indulging himself and didn't care what others thought, and Ursula's character design was inspired from the fabulous cross-dresser Divine (who had passed away the year before) It's as if the fatness was thrown in as an attempt to make Larry and Laura seem even more evil - but rest assured, that pair is already screwed up enough without making them pigs! There's also a really horrible racist/fat joke in here... 'more chins than a Chinese phone book' It's not the only one, sadly.

As if that's not horrible enough, Larry and Laura are brother and sister. Yup.

Valerie talks about her thirteenth birthday (something that is constantly referred to) because it is supposed to mean she will be a woman. So what happens? Her father actually forces himself on her! After this happens, Valerie tells us (this story is written in first-person perspective) that her "happy and fairy-tale existence had ended"

Wait, wait, WHAT? Valerie bemoans her parents mistreating her and hating her and making her dust and wash threadbare sheets, and she constantly whines about her mistreatment and how no one in her family ever loved her or showed her affection, and THIS was supposed to be a happy/fairytale existence???

Valerie's parents and sister talk like hillbillies despite the fact that they live in Michigan instead of Kentucky or Tennessee. What's weird is that in a later installment of the Nightengale saga, Larry is revealed to be a wonderful student in school with great grades and attendance and school awards and the like... so how the heck does he become an inarticulate swine?

Valerie's parents are not the only ones who commit incest. Valerie herself turns into a downright unlikeable person, and if you felt bad for her at first because of how she was treated, forget it. She becomes just as bad as her parents, if not worse. Traumatic events can affect characters, but it takes a skillful pen to capture that transformation and motivation. Sadly, none is given here. Characters change at will or make decisions that don't match their mindsets or outright contradict ones before.

Grammar and spelling mistakes are also rife, making this book funny in an unintentional way. 'Brazier' exists in this text where it should be 'brassiere' - ladies' undergarments are NOT lamp fixtures! And 'debase' where the right word is 'debased'. There's also a lot of punctuation mistakes including an overabundance of exclamation points which then cause these exclamations to lose their significance. English college professors - whether they teach language, literature, or creative writing, would tear this book apart, literally and figuratively. Having been part of both sides of the editing/proofreading process myself - giving AND receiving constructive criticism, all the mistakes in this book literally made me cringe.

The only nice thing I can really say about this book was that the synopsis sounded exciting. But when you do not have adequate writing skills to bring such a story (or any other story) to life and make it believable, it completely falls flat - just like this book.

If you're looking for a good first book by a newbie author, I recommend 'Eesoo' by Kathleen Bottecher, it's a first novel but shows a lot of effort, thought, and creativity.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars boo, April 22, 2011
i have been a big fan of vc andrews for a long time and found a link to this author on the vca site and he sounded pretty interesting and i love family sagas so i thought i would buy the first book and give it a try.

gosh theres so many things wrong i dont even know where to start! lots and lots of the stuff in here is ripped out of vca books, mostly the early ones like flowers in the attic or heaven! yeah vca was a good author and its great to be inspired by her, but in just about every chapter i saw something that was from a vca book, and there were also lots of editing errors, i dont know if this book was proofread or not, if it was the editor needs to find another job!

one thing that really bothered me was that this book shows people with big boobs as sluts. as a woman with a big chest, partially from having three kids, i find this really offensive, and it also seems the author really hates fat people because he makes fun of them a lot and even goes oink oink at them. usually i like what i read and im not too picky but this was just terrible! i will definitely not be buying any more books from this author, fortunately i was able to get a refund for this one from the seller. i also think i will reread my copy of flowers in the attic for old times sake.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning new talent, March 25, 2011
How many times do I hear people say, "I am going to write a book?" Most of the time, they don't and the literary world is grateful. Once in a while, you come across someone who had the energy and determination to see it through and you are happy he did. Such is the case with Justin Dwayne Foxworth in his breakout novel, Valerie. I highly recommend you give a new talent a chance and read his work. I'm sure you'll want more of his character development and plots developed into more novels to enjoy.
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Justin Dwayne Foxworth has written an entire series around The Nightengale Legacy Of Sin And Betrayal. Book One is Valerie. Book Two is Valerie's Secrets. Book Three is Valerie's Sinners. Book Four is Valerie's Freaks. Book Five is Valerie's Family (How It All Begins). Book Six is Valerie's Legacy (How It All Ends). Thank you for buying them. He lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and loves to pimp out old Lincoln Town Cars.

Justin Dwayne Foxworth has many more ideas now that the Nightengale Legacy of Sin and Betrayal is complete. Watch for new stand-alone novels. Perhaps after that there will be a brand new series with some brand new despicable characters. And you gotta love those wacky, wacky characters despite their evil that often turns out to be deadly. And often turns out to be comedy as well!


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