In the eye of the storm . . .
Living on the streets with her destitute mother, selling knickknacks and trinkets just to survive, Sasha P...
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Nov 04, 2011
Amy
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This is the first book I have read by well known author V.C. Andrews. She is famous for her Flowers in the Attic series, but I never had a chance to check them out and read them. When I was offered this novel for review, I figured it would be a good place to start and work my way backwards through her books.
While I really enjoyed the first couple of chapters in this book, it really started to stall after that. It seemed to stretch on and on with no real progression in the plot. More...
While I really enjoyed the first couple of chapters in this book, it really started to stall after that. It seemed to stretch on and on with no real progression in the plot. More...
Nov 08, 2011
Lorri
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This is the first in this new series, which I think is geared more towards teens than any other age group. It tells the story of Sasha Porter, living a normal life with her mother and father, until one day her father leaves them without a word. Her mother tries to take care of them, but gets increasingly depressed and starts drinking. She ends up losing her job and apartment and they have to resort to living on the streets. Within three years, her mother is losing her mind and Sasha prays th
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Feb 16, 2011
Maria
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My sister and I grew up big VC Andrew fans and have read so many of her books. Family Storms is a 2 part series and I cannot wait to get book 2.
As man VC Andrew fans know, VC Andrews died in 1986 and her family works closely with a ghost writer who has taken synopsis' created by VC herself and created stories that will continue to excite long time fans of VC Andrews.
Family Storms, is about Sasha who after losing her mother when she is stru More...
My sister and I grew up big VC Andrew fans and have read so many of her books. Family Storms is a 2 part series and I cannot wait to get book 2.
As man VC Andrew fans know, VC Andrews died in 1986 and her family works closely with a ghost writer who has taken synopsis' created by VC herself and created stories that will continue to excite long time fans of VC Andrews.
Family Storms, is about Sasha who after losing her mother when she is stru More...
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Nov 17, 2011
Karen
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Mar 06, 2011
Linda
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Having not read a V.C. Andrews novel since the author's untimely death in the mid 1980's during I believe the Casteel series; this book was a pleasant surprise. This book offers a look into an age old arguement between my husband and me; are children a product of their environment or our they simply born bad?
By the time she has entered her teens, Sasha Porter has already lived a life of the damned; first deserted by her father, things slowly grow worse as her mother slips a bit deepe More...
By the time she has entered her teens, Sasha Porter has already lived a life of the damned; first deserted by her father, things slowly grow worse as her mother slips a bit deepe More...
Aug 20, 2011
Brie
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In the eye of the storm . . . Living on the streets with her destitute mother, selling knickknacks and trinkets just to survive, Sasha Porter dreams of someday having a normal life, with a real house and family. But she never dreamed a devastating tragedy would bring her those very things: on a stormy night by a rainspattered highway, a speeding car veers out of control, striking and killing her mother and badly injuring Sasha. . . . is anywhere truly safe? In the hospital, Sasha More...
In the eye of the storm . . . Living on the streets with her destitute mother, selling knickknacks and trinkets just to survive, Sasha Porter dreams of someday having a normal life, with a real house and family. But she never dreamed a devastating tragedy would bring her those very things: on a stormy night by a rainspattered highway, a speeding car veers out of control, striking and killing her mother and badly injuring Sasha. . . . is anywhere truly safe? In the hospital, Sasha More...
Mar 04, 2011
Kim
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I enjoy all VC Andrews books, (with the exception of the DeBeers series; that one was a complete waste of time). This first book in the 2 book series was pretty good. It's written in the predictable Andrews fashion.
Poor, homeless girl and alcoholic mother are living on the streets until an accident occurs, killing her mother and injuring poor Sasha. The mother of the girl who hit Sasha with her car feels bad and takes her in. Mrs. March does this more for herself, trying to emotional More...
Poor, homeless girl and alcoholic mother are living on the streets until an accident occurs, killing her mother and injuring poor Sasha. The mother of the girl who hit Sasha with her car feels bad and takes her in. Mrs. March does this more for herself, trying to emotional More...
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Nov 28, 2011
Ellie
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Family Storms, Storms #1, by V.C. Andrews
Grade: C-
“Well? What is she planning to buy you? What is she going to do for you now?”
“Have me take the place of her dead daughter.”
Sasha Porter has spent the last year living on the streets with her alcoholic mother in Southern California. Sasha is not yet fourteen when she and her mother are hit by a car while trying to cross the Pacific Coast Highway. When Sasha wakes up in the hospital her whole life is turned upside down More...
Grade: C-
“Well? What is she planning to buy you? What is she going to do for you now?”
“Have me take the place of her dead daughter.”
Sasha Porter has spent the last year living on the streets with her alcoholic mother in Southern California. Sasha is not yet fourteen when she and her mother are hit by a car while trying to cross the Pacific Coast Highway. When Sasha wakes up in the hospital her whole life is turned upside down More...
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Nov 26, 2011
Lori
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Note: This is a joint review of both "Family Storms" and "Cloudburst"
When I think back to my adolescence, V.C. Andrews always pops into my mind. She was my absolute favorite author, with her Dollanganger/Flowers in the Attic series being the first set of books I became absolutely obsessed with. I still remember the thrills and excitement of a new V.C. Andrews release and hurrying to the local B. Dalton (pre-Barnes & Noble and Amazon) to pick it up as quickly a More...
When I think back to my adolescence, V.C. Andrews always pops into my mind. She was my absolute favorite author, with her Dollanganger/Flowers in the Attic series being the first set of books I became absolutely obsessed with. I still remember the thrills and excitement of a new V.C. Andrews release and hurrying to the local B. Dalton (pre-Barnes & Noble and Amazon) to pick it up as quickly a More...
Jun 28, 2011
Neil
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Ahhhhh one of those pick me up settle in, and complete reading it within a day, a interesting tale spun around a spunky character who has been down and out, and through an accident which kills her Mother ends up in a wealthy family, it contains opulence,how the nouveau rich live, the thankless rude and nasty daughter, who will before the book is over change her ways??? maybe not.
Great reading on a summer day, while sitting on the balcony, then taking the book to bed, curled up with my puss More...
Great reading on a summer day, while sitting on the balcony, then taking the book to bed, curled up with my puss More...
Dec 24, 2011
Jessica
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A young girl, already lost in society and homeless, living in the streets, lost the only possession she had left...her mother. Both, mother and child hit by a reckless, drug induced driver at high speeds, finds herself waking in a hospital alone with no one to answer her only question, where is her mother? Finally, her answer comes and along with it a new world seperate from the one she was use to living. The mother of the driver that killed her mother brings her to live in their home, provide s
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Feb 22, 2012
Sharon
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I was enjoying this book, it was going to be a solid 3-3.5 stars. I thought it would be a book I could recommend to my nieces and the other teens I know. But then 2/3 through the book, it all changed and I would never recommend it to younger teens and probably not even to older teens (not the ones I know anyway). Another review I read says it best: "There are some very heavy subjects in this book but they are not dealt with in a good way and I wouldn’t want young girls to think that you
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Nov 05, 2011
Claire
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I only read the first 135 pages.. The action has been really slow so far and I think there's too much background information on some characters and too less on others. I don't think I will finish this book.
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Mar 20, 2011
K
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It's very rare for me to give a 5 star rating, but w/ Family Storms, I felt it was well deserved. Of the more recent Andrews's books, this is the first one that I've really liked in awhile. And in fact, reminded me of Flowers in The Attic. There was so much I liked, I don't where to begin :)! Let's see, I thought the story was well written and fast paced w/ relateable and memorable characters. I really liked Sasha's character, especiallty her strength and determination; and found myself root
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Sep 02, 2011
Megan
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This is not my usual sort of read by any means. It was my mom's book and I picked it up just for the sake of something to read. I was left bored and wondering when things were finally going to happen. It got promising a bit over halfway through, but then I found it took another nosedive. Ah well, it's just not my kind of book; but that doesn't mean it was a bad book. If you like this sort of genre then it will probably work for you. The main character was likable enough to keep me going. I just
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Dec 12, 2011
J.N.
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Sasha Porter and her mother are homeless. When they are hit by a teen driver high on Ecstasy, Sasha's world comes to a halt when her mother is killed instantly. To make up for what she has lost, the teen's mother, Mrs. March, invites Sasha to come stay with them at their mansion, where Sasha will have the best clothes, the best schooling, the best everything. However, she is placed in the bedroom of the March's dead daughter, Alena, where she is expected to be as perfect. At first the teen daugh
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Aug 08, 2011
Betty410
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Quick read--beach book about a 13 y.o girl living on the streets with her alcoholic mother until the mother is killed by a teen age driver on drugs. The mother of the driver (rich) pays for the hospital care of the street girl-broken leg-- and then brings her into the mansion. The conflicts with the natural daughter, a senior in the private school to which the street girl is also sent. One can't quite avoid getting caught up in V.C. Andrews style of writing.
Feb 21, 2012
{eri}
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3 1/2. Actually not that bad for a new V.C. Andrews which I still read for some misguided reason :P Much better than the Delia series, the best since Celeste perhaps (Willow series being the last GOOD one IMHO) and much much less cliche. Sasha's situation was more interesting than I thought and didn't end super predictably. The VA club was new and while this book wasn't great it was less mediocre than much of the newer ones, glad I read it!
Jul 14, 2011
Trisha
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I liked the first book in this new series by VC Andrews. I have read so many VC Andrews books and series I thought I knew the outcome of Family Storms about mid-way through. I was right on one assumption, which I will not reveal, and was surprisingly wrong on my other two assumptions.
A good read with a likeable main character and interesting plot. I am anxious to see whaty is in store for the second book in the series.
A good read with a likeable main character and interesting plot. I am anxious to see whaty is in store for the second book in the series.
Aug 21, 2011
Tracy
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I have given this book four stars, not because I feel that is a demonstration of great literature but because for it's genre it is an enjoyable read. Nobody reads V.C. Andrews because of the eloquent writing. You read V.C. Andrews for some good family centred drama. This book delivers that. If you enjoy VC Andrews then you will enjoy this story. It may not be Hemmingway but it is a good, mindless summer read.
Jun 08, 2011
Cassie
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This is closer to 3 1/2 stars. Anyone who has read VCA before could tell where the climax of this book was headed. I almost didn't want to keep reading bc I knew something horrible was going to happen to Sasha. I am definitely looking forward to the sequel this fall. To me, there seems to be two types of VCA books. The older ones, and the newer ones. Obviously the Dollangagner series, but I would lump The Casteel, Cutler, Landry, and Logan families all in a category of more "classic" V
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May 02, 2011
Ruby
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Dec 14, 2011
My Book Views
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The plot was interesting and far more realistic than previous titles from V.C. Andrews, but character development was either weak or a little off. Throughout the book, Jordan seemed naïve or somehow uneducated despite her background. Sasha, on the other hand, was always waxing on philosophically which seemed quite unnatural given her character’s age and background.
Dec 03, 2011
Danielle
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Normally I LOVE V.C. Andrews her books were good. This book was ehh. Since V.C. Andrews ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman took over writing them I find them repeating plots and family dynamics.It does have a few twist that were new. In all it was an okay read but if you have read all the early works of Andrews prepare for a new twist on a old plot.
May 25, 2011
I just started reading this book. i love how things pop out of know where and how the girl reacts. if i were ever losing a mom im not sure how i would do. i think the girl is a brave girl going through everything. i would recomend it for anyone
Feb 20, 2012
Shari
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This is a good book for high school students. I think a lot of them would find something within the characters they can relate too, therefore, relating to the book, and enjoy reading it. It is somewhat predictable if you've read VC Andrews in the past, as I have. I would definitely make this a YES for free reading choice.
Feb 17, 2012
Erin
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Oct 20, 2011
Cecile
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This book you can actually learn some lessons from. Basically what it's like to go from having a family to not having anything and then back to a family again. I can't wait til the next one comes out.
May 10, 2011
Ashlynn
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Although I love most V.C. Andrews books, this one bored me. I found it to be bland until the very end. I do plan to continue reading the series when the next book comes out. I hope I find it more interesting.
Jun 27, 2011
Leslie
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Quick read, kind of predictable. Ill read the other book in the series to see what else will happen but the ending doesnt really leave an opener for the next book. Should be interesting to see how it picks up
