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Family Storms (Storms #1)
by
V.C. Andrews
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, s...more
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, s...more
Paperback, 400 pages
Published
February 22nd 2011
by Pocket Star
(first published February 10th 2011)
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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. After Sasha and...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. After Sasha and...more
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Family Storms marks the beginning of the twentieth family series (including standalone such as My Sweet Audrina and Daughter of Darkness) written under the VCA name, and the seventeenth series penned by the ghostwriter. Family Storms is also the seventieth book published under the VCA name - an astonishing number when you consider that the real VCA was only able to actually finish just seven books in her lifetime. Well, eight if you include her sci-fi book, Gods of Green Mountain.
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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 that t...more
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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 struck by a teen driver named Kiera Ma...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 struck by a teen driver named Kiera Ma...more
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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 deeper into the r...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 deeper into the r...more
“Do you really see me?”
So asks Sasha Fawne Porter in V.C. Andrews’ latest, “Family Storms”.
For those of you who do not know who this phenomenal writer is, she is the author of the very popular, dramatic story, “Flowers in the Attic” a superb gothic romance written with such sensitivity and detail it is such a tragedy that the author passed away from Breast Cancer in 1986 but her books still live on through a carefully selected ghost writer.
I’ve been reading V.C. Andrews books now since roughly...more
So asks Sasha Fawne Porter in V.C. Andrews’ latest, “Family Storms”.
For those of you who do not know who this phenomenal writer is, she is the author of the very popular, dramatic story, “Flowers in the Attic” a superb gothic romance written with such sensitivity and detail it is such a tragedy that the author passed away from Breast Cancer in 1986 but her books still live on through a carefully selected ghost writer.
I’ve been reading V.C. Andrews books now since roughly...more
Summary:
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 is whi...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 is whi...more
I was a huge V.C. Andrews fan throughout junior high and high school, so I picked up this latest book mainly for nostalgic reasons. This book follows the same "formula" that I recall from other VCA books where there is an orphaned, or orphaned-like girl who ends up with a ridiculously wealthy family by some strange circumstances.
This book was interesting and fast-paced enough for me to get through it quickly. I liked Sasha's character at the beginning of the book, but by the middle she didn't e...more
This book was interesting and fast-paced enough for me to get through it quickly. I liked Sasha's character at the beginning of the book, but by the middle she didn't e...more
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 emotionally replace t...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 emotionally replace t...more
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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: her mother is dead, her leg...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: her mother is dead, her leg...more
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 as I could and staying up late in...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 as I could and staying up late in...more
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 pussy cat,...more
Great reading on a summer day, while sitting on the balcony, then taking the book to bed, curled up with my pussy cat,...more
I finally have finished another V.C. Andrews novel. I have to also give great applause to the author who has helped her family finish her novels she started so many years ago Andrew Neiderman. This of course is a great novel. Sasha a homeless girl living on the streets with her mother and is one day walking on the streets and they both get hit by a car. Tragically her mother dies she is rushed to the hospital not knowing her fate. She is taken in by a very wealthy family by the last name March....more
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...more
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 can hit...more
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.
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 rooting...more
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Overall, I enjoyed this book. I felt like it took way too long for the story to actually begin. I felt anticipation for more than half of the book and then everything happens so fast, my head was spinning. But, I enjoyed it and look forward to the sequel.
This is the story of Sasha who is seriously injured and loses her mother when a rich girl hits them with her car. The rich girl's mother decides to bring Sasha home as a replacement daughter for the daughter she'd lost to some serious illness. A...more
This is the story of Sasha who is seriously injured and loses her mother when a rich girl hits them with her car. The rich girl's mother decides to bring Sasha home as a replacement daughter for the daughter she'd lost to some serious illness. A...more
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...more
This book really makes you realize how fast life can change & how teenagers can be so mean. This poor girl (Sasha)loses her mother in a tragic car accident. She goes from living on the streets, to living with the entitled girl (Kiera)who was the cause of the accident that took her mother's life.
Not only does Kiera have no remorse for what she has done, she is continually cruel to Sasha, as if she were the one who had done something wrong.
I really enjoyed this book & look forward to read...more
Not only does Kiera have no remorse for what she has done, she is continually cruel to Sasha, as if she were the one who had done something wrong.
I really enjoyed this book & look forward to read...more
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...more
I absolutely adored it!
I literally couldn’t put the book down. It kept me wanting to read more and that is what love about certain books. It had a really good plot line with lots of twists and turns and a very surprising turn of events. The way Andrews tricks her readers into believing that the older sister Kiera is really up to something good when really she’s plotting and using Sasha. The hostile relationship between Jordan March and her daughter Kiera also make me wonder what secrets the fami...more
I literally couldn’t put the book down. It kept me wanting to read more and that is what love about certain books. It had a really good plot line with lots of twists and turns and a very surprising turn of events. The way Andrews tricks her readers into believing that the older sister Kiera is really up to something good when really she’s plotting and using Sasha. The hostile relationship between Jordan March and her daughter Kiera also make me wonder what secrets the fami...more
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.
a typical andrews book, nothing news breaking or innovating but just what you would expect. vulnerable young girl meets new family, meets evil foster sister, who sceming and setting up an evil master plan, ending with a sort off happy end...
Not the same quality of the first flowers in the attic series, but still enjoyable if you like her books/genre.
You kinda expect and predict what is going to happen but still how everything is described makes it a not that bad.
Not the same quality of the first flowers in the attic series, but still enjoyable if you like her books/genre.
You kinda expect and predict what is going to happen but still how everything is described makes it a not that bad.
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!
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.
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.
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" VCA. And th...more
I have found that her books lack that certain something they used to have since V.C. Andrews passed away and the books are now written by a ghostwriter! The stand alone books or two book series are just not nearly as good as the ones that have 5-6 books either. I know the ghostwriter does his or her best and cannot possibly fill the author's shoes but I would like to see him or her try a longer series then just 2-3 books!
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Virginia Cleo Andrews (born Cleo Virginia Andrews) was born June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia. The youngest child and the only daughter of William Henry Andrews, a career navy man who opened a tool-and-die business after retirement, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator. She spent her happy childhood years in Portsmouth, Virginia, living briefly in Rochester, New York. The An...more
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