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Title: Gates of Paradise (Isis Series) by Virginia Andrews, Lorelei King ISBN: 1-85695-731-4 Publisher: Isis Audio Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 12 List Price(USD): $94.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (23 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: This book was ok
Comment: Hello I would like to say first of all, V.C. is a girl named Virginia. Second, this book was pretty good. I agree with some of my fellow readers that Annie was whining a lot. Did it seem to any one else like more of a child of 13 or 14 then a child of 18? I had to double check and make sure that's what it said in the beginning. It did seem to go no forever. I think the series could have gone on without this book, but if your a hard core V.C. Andrews fan, I would definatly read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Too beautiful for this world
Comment: I've been reading V.C. Andrew's novels ever since I was nine. It is my favorite of all time. Of course I adore all of them, I am a HUGE fan! But there's something magical about this novel that touches me deeply each time I read it. And I've read it five times. Annie is exactly like me; wishing for her prince to sweep her away of to his castle, the eternal optimist. Even when they play their "fantasy game" it stirs something special inside. Luke is a perfect for Annie, they go together like two doves. When they're forced to be seperated by the car crash that takes Annie off to Farthingagle Manor, you feel them longing for eachother. It's so romantic! I don't know why I'm so affected by this book, but I am. If you haven't read it yet, go and read it now! It plays on your heartstrings, makes you fall in love with the characters. I LOVE it, and would read it another five times!
Rating: 1
Summary: The ghostwriter's laughable first attempt
Comment: I have two problems with this book. The first one is that the ghost writer did not use one single line of original dialogue throughout the entire story. He just rehashed the whole plot with Heaven again. If you read Fallen Hearts, you won't miss anything in this book. All the elements are there, and back again. Annie dies her hair blond, hmm....Somebody decides to go for a midnight walk and ends up in someone else's bed in the middle of the night. Sound familar? Tony completed deteoriated, the ghostwriter didn't even get the color of his hair right. And, he wasn't the strong, dangerous and intriguing character from the first book, he became a cookie cutter villian that spouted whole lines of dialogue from the previous books back at Annie when he was having a "moment". The ghostwriter blames this on senility. That sounds like an easy way out.
The second thing is, as numerous other reviewers have pointed out, Annie is the most moronic, whiny, little fool. I guess Heaven and Logan really messed up there. I personally didn't care about what happened to her, especially since the same things from every other book VC wrote were just transferred onto her simpering, crybaby little head. What a horrible end to a genuinely touching series. This is one of the few VC Andrews books I never reread back when I was really gung ho for all these books.
This is also the ghostwriter's ghastly debut. The good news is that he gets better. It would be hard to outdo this book with it's pure lack of everything. With this book, he could have just handed you a piece of paper directing you to the various pages numbers of previous VC Andrews books that he directly ripped off, instead of wasting more paper. A six year old with mad libs and a list of adjectives could have been more creative. But to give him credit, like I said, he does do better in some of his later series.
So anyway, you probably don't want to buy this book. Get it in the library, before you go on a long plane ride.
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Title: Twilight's Child by V.C. Andrews, Linda Marrow ISBN: 0671695142 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews ISBN: 067172942X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Seeds of Yesterday by V.C. Andrews ISBN: 0671729489 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Secrets of the Morning by V.C. Andrews, Linda Marrow ISBN: 0671695126 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Darkest Hour by V.C. Andrews, Linda Marrow ISBN: 0671759329 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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