VC Andrews - April Shadows - Have you read this yet?

[grinningghost]

VC Andrews books just get weirder and weirder - yet I read them. They're total train wrecks and they suck you in.

If you're a "fan", and you haven't yet read this one, go get it. It really takes the cake as far as bizarre storylines go.

 

[LadyyRedd]

Is that one part of a series or a standalone book? I like the older stuff, but have read a good bit of the newer bizarre stuff that the ghostwriter has done.

Kimya

 

[grinningghost]

Is that one part of a series or a standalone book? I like the older stuff, but have read a good bit of the newer bizarre stuff that the ghostwriter has done.

Kimya

This is the first book in a new series by the ghostwriter. Right on the cover, it says something like "the new book that breaks all the rules" - not that those VC Andrews books were ever truly on the straight and narrow anyway.

 

[lbgraves]

I stopped reading with the Angel series but use to get sucked into them as well. There were so many discrepancies made by the ghostwriter after VC Andrew's death in the prequill to FITA that I guess I lost interest. Now I have the original books in the garage but am not sure if I want to give them to DD when she gets MUCH older. Double standard but I can't see DD5 reading that stuff yet!

 

[grinningghost]

I stopped reading with the Angel series but use to get sucked into them as well. There were so many discrepancies made by the ghostwriter after VC Andrew's death in the prequill to FITA that I guess I lost interest. Now I have the original books in the garage but am not sure if I want to give them to DD when she gets MUCH older. Double standard but I can't see DD5 reading that stuff yet!

Yeah, 5 is a little young for all that weirdness!

My DD read the FITA series when she was about 12 I think. She enjoyed it, but even she commented that the writer had a strange obsession with incest - and that was an understatement. Every series, just about, had a little of that going on.

Well, not to spoil your fun, but at LEAST this book has none of that - can't guarantee what will happen in the next book though.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I quit reading Andrews after the Melody series. The ghost writer was just losing my interest. The FITA and Heaven series are still my faves

 

[scarlett873]

My favorite was My Sweet Audrina...I used to read that one over and over again...

My Mom was a VC Andrews fan. She got sucked into FITA and Heaven. I read them...but man, was the author strange!!! I think it's time to re-read some of those as I've forgotten a lot of what happened in the books!

 

[Stitchfans]

I also stopped reading them after her death. Just not the same style of writing and not as good.

 

[grinningghost]

I also stopped reading them after her death. Just not the same style of writing and not as good.

That's weird, because I find the ghostwriter uses alot of the same phrases and wording that VCA used. Almost to the point of making me nauseous. It's like, I'm sure there have to be OTHER words you could use, even VCA herself probably would have eventually chose to word things differently sometimes.

But I must say, at least the ghostwriter finally got off the incest track - that was getting old - really old. However, I suspect in the next book, they'll drag it back in somehow, for old time's sake.

 

[LadyyRedd]

There were so many discrepancies made by the ghostwriter after VC Andrew's death in the prequill to FITA that I guess I lost interest.

Really?? Can you remember any of them? It's been YEARS since I read them, but I don't remember discrepancies...not that I was looking and probably wouldn't have noticed anyway (obviously, since I didn't, lol).

My favorite always seems to be the first in the series of whichever series it is. I liked FITA the best. I did like the Heaven series (that was the one with the Cutler family, right?). I REALLY liked My Sweet Audrina. I can't remember any of the newer ones that I've read other than the Orphan series (that WAS VCA, right??).

Kimya

 

[mushumadness]

can someone pm me a list of the ones after her death, as we cant get them easily in the uk and I would like to buy them in the usa when I am there

 

[grinningghost]

Cutler was the Dawn series.

Heaven was the Castille (sp?) series. I never got into that one. I got about halfway through the first book and gave up. Too much French.

 

[jennyL]

I'm just getting ready to get this book. I love VC Andrews. LOL they are almost the only books I read. I like that I can read and not have to think too much. My DH thinks I'm crazy for reading them but whatever gets me to pick up a book.

 

[LadyyRedd]

Cutler was the Dawn series.

Heaven was the Castille (sp?) series. I never got into that one. I got about halfway through the first book and gave up. Too much French.

Oh, that's right! I didn't think it sounded right, but I couldn't think of the last name from the Heaven series. I liked the Dawn series better, but Heaven wasn't bad.

Kimya

 

[grinningghost]

I'm just getting ready to get this book. I love VC Andrews. LOL they are almost the only books I read. I like that I can read and not have to think too much. My DH thinks I'm crazy for reading them but whatever gets me to pick up a book.

That's why I like to read them. I don't have to think or try hard to remember details - they're totally easy to read. But I always think "what stupid names the characters have". Everytime a new character is introduced, I think it.

 

[LadyyRedd]

can someone pm me a list of the ones after her death, as we cant get them easily in the uk and I would like to buy them in the usa when I am there

I found a website that has them listed. www.completevca.com. I hope the mods let that go through. VCA died in 1986 and according to the site, it's been a ghostwriter since early on in the Heaven series (Casteel family).

And as a side note, apparently some incidences in her books are autobiographical!


Kimya

 

[maryssasmom]

I have read April Shadows and the sequel to it Girl In The Shadows and both were good. Next one to come out is Broken Flower but not sure when....

 

[kidzmom3]

am I the only one who felt a little "perverted" for enjoying the FITA books? but I just loved the dancer, even if in the end she turns out to be like her mother.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

am I the only one who felt a little "perverted" for enjoying the FITA books? but I just loved the dancer, even if in the end she turns out to be like her mother.

Yes!!! It is definitely a guilty pleasure.

 

[LadyyRedd]

am I the only one who felt a little "perverted" for enjoying the FITA books? but I just loved the dancer, even if in the end she turns out to be like her mother.

Ever seen the movie? Completely different ending!

Kimya