Secrets in the Shadows (Secrets)

Author - V.C. Andrews ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Mass Market Paperback Book item from Pocket Star was reviewed on 19-Oct-2008.

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1) Mass Market Paperback Book Secrets in the Shadows (Secrets) by Pocket Star. This is for the family of VC Andrews: I am begging you please stop dragging Virginia´s name through the mud! Every book is the same, there´s really no need to read it because it has the same plot from the last one. I realize that you wanted to finish what Virginia started but now it has just become pathetic. Lay her to rest please and put her fans out of their misery!¤

2) Mass Market Paperback Book Secrets in the Shadows (Secrets) by Pocket Star. I haven´t read a "V. C. Andrews" book since I was a teenager, so I´m not sure what made me pick this one up. It has all the promise of those books I used to devour - a mysterious attic, religious zealotry, grandparents with questionable motives, an insane, murderous mother. But, after finishing the book I can´t help but think - what? That´s it? The grandparents are nice people. The religious zealot was just a ruse made up by a teenage boy. The attic was just another room in a gigantic house. The psychotic mother was benign and harmless. What? Is this what passes for a V. C. Andrews novel these days? Aside from the fact that this is a pretty dry story that doesn´t really lead anywhere, a lot of the dialog is awful, especially from Craig, the star of the baseball team and most popular guy in school, but who sounds like he´s in his 60s whenever he opens his mouth. And someone is always laughing - you can´t turn a page without someone saying something and getting a laugh in response, when nothing was funny to begin with. (These are just the minor nitpicks. I wouldn´t know where to begin if I was going to tear the story apart.)

I have no idea, and don´t really care, why they still publish books under the V. C. Andrews name, besides to make money. This book has a lot of classic V. C. Andrews ideas going on, but they lead absolutely nowhere.¤

3) Mass Market Paperback Book Secrets in the Shadows (Secrets) by Pocket Star. Like most of the reveiws suggest, this book was just okay. I find that as more and more books by this fake V.C. Andrews come out, the worse they are. While this book was okay, it was totally unrealistic. From the relationship with Craig to the meeting of her mother, Karen, it was all very aparent that not only was a man writing it, but that this man obviously didn´t know what he was talking about. The fact that he portrayed her nearly leaping into bed with every guy that said hi to her makes me sick. Not to mention, the reaction of meeting her mother for the very first time was not nearly substantial to what would be expecteed in the world of an emotional teenager, being one myself. After reading the review by Mr. Foxworth, I have to suggest that he was paid to do so.¤

4) Mass Market Paperback Book Secrets in the Shadows (Secrets) by Pocket Star. I have read the other reviews for Secrets in the Shadows and in some ways I agreed that the ghostwriter was becoming redundant. Even with Secrets in the Attic, I was sure. But now that I have read this latest, I find hope in him. This story started out being predictable, but towards the middle through the end, it was good. I felt as though for the first time in several years, a character in his books actually had character. I could feel her troubles, much like I did for the lead characters in VC´s books that she actually wrote. This one had an actual personal side to the story.
I have been a VC fan for a long time now and have all of her books. If others want her ghostwriter to hang it up, then perhaps it should be, but I feel that he should continue. After all, if you don´t like the VC books nowadays, don´t read them! But some of us do like them, so don´t take them away from us.¤

5) Mass Market Paperback Book Secrets in the Shadows (Secrets) by Pocket Star. [...] I remember starting with "Celeste" a couple of years ago and thinking, "wow, that´s actually quite a good, different idea he´s coming up with!" At least the first third of the book. From there the whole series went downhill again.

The Dollangangers were classic, the Casteels a milestone. The Cutlers, though copying awfully much from the Casteels, a very exciting reading experience. The Landrys started off well and unfortunately got sucked up into too implausible storylines but were overall good, so were the Logans, I particularly liked Melody´s extraordinary strong character and Olivia in the fifth book, a very extreme VCA anti-heroine fighting her way through every possible struggle. The downfall slowly came with the Hudsons (even though I liked the first book) and needless Miniseries. The DeBeers were the first slam in the face, followed by one inexcusable mistake after the other. The Secrets-series might hit Neiderman´s peak of madness. I always felt kind of sick imagining that an old man actually writes from a young girl´s perspective, but whatever. I figured with the Cutlers and Landrys he was carrying VCA´s ideas further - but hello, all this pervert-lesbianism in the Shadows-series? Written by a MAN? Sick!! And the Early Spring and Secrets novels weren´t better either. Lack of character, lack of story, lack of everything, just throw in some self-pity and teenage sex and everyone will like it. One lousy, contradicting plothole, what Neiderman did to VCA´s legacy is unforgivable.

[...] I used to love V.C. Andrews novels, now I hate them. Enough is enough. Stop dragging her in the mud.¤

6) Mass Market Paperback Book Secrets in the Shadows (Secrets) by Pocket Star.

Everyone Says
Her Mother Was Crazy.
Is She Doomed to Repeat the Past?

Up in the attic, that´s where Alice´s mother used to escape to...and it´s where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with her mother locked away for life, the attic is where Alice finds comfort in her aloneness, writing poetry and painting pictures. When Alice finally finds the courage to come out of her shell, exchanging her dowdy looks for flattering clothes and makeup, her life completely opens up -- she even attends the prom with a cute, popular boy. But it´s a night that turns quickly tragic -- sending her newfound happiness crashing down around her, and hurtling Alice into a shattering new life, one that leads her to a shocking reunion with the shadows she had fled.

From the imagination behind Flowers in the Attic comes a sensational new novel that spins a seductive web between fantasies and lies -- and uncovers the price for keeping secrets in the shadows.¤

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