Customer Reviews

Wicked Forest (De Beers)

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(15)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Okay, let me start off by saying I've been a V.C. Andrews fan for almost 20 years. HER books were much better then, much better than the books the ghostwriter puts out now. Why? Because he uses a formula to write these books.

Now this book had a great story. A ritzy lifestyle, interesting people, fancy mansions. I liked Willow and wanted to know more after reading it and this book picked up the trail really well. However, it was VERY predicatble, even for fans who have only read a couple of the V.C. Andrews books. Yep, things are going to look rosy for Willow for a bit, but as a fan, I KNEW something bad would happen right before the ending and it did. Typical. But, all in all, this one has a great storyline and interesting characters and was a really quick read. Great for any V.C. Andrews fan.

And, as for those awful letters at the end of these books. Give me a break...

I really enjoyed Willow and was looking forward to this installment. Boy was I dissapointed! I want to know what happened to the Willow from the first book. She is painfully absent from the second installment and that absence really hurst this book. In Wicked Forest, Willow is replaced with a weak and incredibly stupid version of the girl from the first book. She spends the entire book looking at life through rose colored glasses. The Thachter situation really made me angry. Many times I had to put the book down because I was annoyed with the whole thing. Any girl with half a brain could see Thachter's infidelity coming and by making Willow so blind to the situation made a half way decent book barely tolertable. As with other reader I also felt the ending was rushed. There had to have been a better way of handling that, even if it meant having a 3rd book from Willows point of view.

One of my pet peeves about all V.C. Andrews is the fact that no matter how old the main character gets she still refers to her parents as "Mommy" & "Daddy." Come on, I stopped doing that when I was in elementary school. All this does is take away from character's intellegience & in some cases they don't have all that much to spare (i.e. this book)

I agree with everyone regarding those silly letters at the end of the books. Most of the people buying this book has read the ones being plugged in the back of the book, so give it up already.

I have to say at the beginning of this new series I was excited and hoped it would be the start of something better by the ghostwriter. However, I was disappointed with Wicked Forest. First off the whole thing with the letter from other characters from differents series was silly and a real stretch. The whole thing with Willow marrying the professor so quickly was a bit out of character (at least in my opinion) and we knew nothing about him!

I would have to say that Bunny and the rest of the "townies" were very colorful and kept the book going.

Overall I was pretty disappointed. I will probably read the next one for the sake of continuing the series.

First of all, I have to admit the Willow series is a lot better than some of the other VCA books. It is interesting and I actually have met some people that snobby and obsessed with their social world. I didn't realize how much I liked it until I got ticked about Thatcher cheating on Willow. Man, I was mad!!!!

Those letters are annoying, I agree. And every book has to have an incest thing going; I would love to see some ghosts from the past haunting people or some scary stuff. After all, you find this book in the Horror section of the bookstore.

After reading the first Debeers book, I was greatly disappointed. Back then when it first came out, I still had faith and hope in Mr. Neiderman's writing and hoped that he would go back to putting effort into the books he ghostwrote for the VCA name. But this book was plodding and shallow, and I found myself frustrated with the ending, along with Willow's sheer stupidity and refusal to confront the truth about her philandering husband, and how sloppily the book was put together.

I thought the first book was oalright, so I decided to try the second. I didn't like it as much.

I don't feel that this book was very well written. I found it to get quite boring and twisted.

This is making me sick! It seems every series the GW has written under VC's precious name is filled with blank, unintelligent and boring characters. Willow was alright in the first book. She wasn't too whiny and she would do things even if others didn't agree with her. But this book was horrible. Willow turned into a judgemental little brat! She thought she was so much better than everyone else. For a psychiatrist who is supposed to "understand" people, she sure doesn't do a good job here. She claims that everyone in Palm Beach is too shallow, blah, blah, blah. She also seemed very vapid and unintelligent. And Thatcher, who I was suspicious of from the beginning, turned out to be even worse than I imagined. His character changed as well. The Palm Beach ladies are all - of course - shallow and materialistic. Does the GW seem to think that his "heriones" live in a world where everyone else is walking around with no problems other than what to buy on their next shopping spree? Every character and plot of his seems to be the same recycled blah in every book he writes! Instead of following a "pattern" he should think of a new storyline and work off that instead of trying to copy old ideas. It's a good thing I didn't buy this book, for I'll never read it again.

this book was doing bueatifully... until that thatcher thing. i won't give it away, but that was totally out of charactor. it seemed like the author got bored and decided to cause some chaos. believe me, it shows.

Ok, the second book in a VC Andrews series are ususally pretty good (in Dark Angel's case-one of her top 3 best) It's usually the 3rd or 4th book where things go down hill think-If There Be Thorns, Gates Of Paradise and the all-time worst in my opinion Twilight's Child) Anyway, in this case, the writer seems determined to ruin the saga in only the 2nd book. After the promising Willow I expected much better from this one. It's mostly boring with a crazy (but recycled) twist at the end in which a charachter goes insane and holds Willow captive) the humorous bits w/ that Palm Beach ladies club were it's only saving grace and Willow's new relationship seemed awfully rushed

When I read "Willow" I was quite excited, I liked the story, Willow's father was a wonderful character, as was Amou, the step-mother was classic, but not overplayed, and they had an evil character who shared my name! Bunny! I might add, I didn't much fancy the Linden thing, but hey, I guess incest is a company trademark eh? (it only works if Virgina Cleo is the true writer, she made it so you couldn't help loving the Troy/Heaven, and being horrified, yet intrigued with Cathy/Chris.)
All in all I was pretty much in love with the book... really when you think about it, besides Music in the Night, the ghost writer has only done good on the miniseries (for some reason, I like those. They're diverse, I suppose.) ... so Willow was so refreshing ... well ... then I bought the sequel, expecting an equally satisfying read I was horrified to find that the new books quality was far below standard! The plot sucked, sure it started out okay, because I liked Willow, but then, all hell broke loose; they wrote "It took my breath away" AGH! It pained me so to read through the Logan series without hurling my lunch over Melody's "sudden" relationship with Cary and the way she described everything with that infamous quote... sure Cary sounded pretty hot, but no need for the extra goo...
Anyway, from there, the characters plopped, Bunny got predictably more "Jilian" making her a very stupid and nausiatingly copied villian, Thatcher sleezed around, and immediately I was aware of there half-baked copy of Phillip and Logan ... MIXED ... (the horror) the spinsterous sister? So incredibly "the aunt from Rain" (cannot remember that name) Linden was your average crazed little horny incestuous leach (aka.: Cary) and Grace didn't even have a personality to begin with... The only parts I found amusing were the little club of divorcees and Willow's rainy day moments.
Another thing I hated was that quick divorce, and marriage to that professor... ah ... another time
All in all, only buy the book if you are hardcore VCA and can't stand to wait more than a day to buy it after it comes out.