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Title: Celeste (Gemini) by V. C. Andrews ISBN: 0-7434-2862-5 Publisher: Pocket Star Books Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Exceptable
Comment: I have been reading V.C. Andrews books since I was in eighth grade. I am now a freshman in college and continue to purchase and read every single V.C. Andrews book that is published. This book was definitely a classic V.C. Andrews book chock full of death, rape and being housebound with odd family members. It was quite predictable but I was kept entertained. Unlike the other series, this book portrays quite a different family. Usually the heroine of the novel goes through highschool meeting the love of her life, however, in this book that does not happen.
Celeste is housebound and imprisoned by a mother who is obsessed with supernatural powers. She can't go to highschool because she has to stay at home, resembling her dead twin brother. Honestly, I can't wait until "Black Cat" comes out because I'm curious what is going to happen to the new arrival third member of the party.
Rating: 4
Summary: Descent VCA novel
Comment: I decided to give Celeste a try, after giving up on V. C. Andrews years ago, because of the different plot description. I bought it right away and read the story and was moderately impressed, but not to the point where I'm buying V. C. Andrews books again. But, over all, for V. C. Andrews fans, read this book.
The strongest point of this book is that it's different. Yeah, way different from the previous family series and miniseries books. This book reminds me very much of My Sweet Audrina.
The book starts off and continues on for quite some time with Celeste and her brother Noble as kids. Sarah, their mother, insists that she can see spirits, and she wants her children to see them as well. From the beginning, we realize that Sarah favors Nobles much more than Celeste. Even though Celeste's father states that she is the smarter twin, Celeste is the most impressionable one, maybe because she craves to have her mother's attention without realizing it. When Celeste does get the "gift", and not Noble, instead of her mother being fully proud of her, Sarah is silently disappointed that her beloved Noble doesn't have it. She orders Celeste help him achieve his gifts. The responsibility of Noble, and his unpredictable ways, leaves Celeste with a heavy burden, for if she fails, her mother would surely reprimand her, something she does not want.
Tragedy strikes again and again in this novel, and Celeste world keeps going upside down. When her brother Noble dies, her mother snaps, and Sarah convinces herself that her son didn't die. In fact, she convinces herself that Celeste has died (with the help of her "spirits"). This is the part where Celeste's identify is taken and replaced with her dead brother. Of course, this masquerade is not perfect, and things go horribly wrong.
The characters are stronger and more complex in Celeste, and (finally!) I felt something for the main character. But at times I found the plot moved a little too slow, but it made up for the different atmosphere, characters, and situations that this book brought to the table. This book is indeed a breath of fresh air, but I found that it could have been...more? No matter. Most fans who will enjoy it. 3 ½ - 4 stars
Rating: 1
Summary: I didn't think it was possible...
Comment: ...for a "V. C. Andrews" novel of recent years to disappoint me more than the De Beers novels did. And yet "Celeste" left me both angry and sad. The legacy begun by Virginia Andrews, a truly gifted story-teller has been completely tarnished by Andrew Neiderman. I fear he has ruined her legacy beyond repair.
I honestly thought the first novel in the Gemini series would be Neiderman's redemption. I thought Virginia's ghostwriter had taken a good look at his previous three mini-series, his De Beers series, and his Broken Wings series, and had decided to try something truly different: make a real effort to produce a piece of literature, not just something to enthrall the masses of tweens that read these stories these days.
From my first glimpse of "Celeste's" cover, I was mad. The phrase "A mother's love as deady as Mommy's in FITA" caught my attention, and kept it. Andrew Neiderman has not, and will never earn the right to compare *his* V.C. A. writing to what Virginia herself wrote.
(The actual book itself was boring...an interesting concept, but horribly written.)
Virginia was a story-teller. She spun yarns. Her words...her tone...her plots...they all pulled you into the world she sought to create. By the end of one of *her* novels, you felt as though you knew each and every character personally. You rejoiced with their triumphs and ached with their sorrows. Her stories moved you...or at least, me.
No main character after Ruby Landry (aside from Rain Hudson, Brody Randolph, and Melody Logan) moved me. No series after some parts of the Hudson series, and no mini-series plot or character has ever moved me.
Neiderman's stories try to live up to V.C. Andrews and fall flat. And his recent stories don't even make that effort. They are full of stale pop culture references, weak characters, and pathetic, female, idealized leads.
In closing, I would like to urge everyone to refrain from reading "Celeste." It is not worth your time, and will only continue to tarnish your good memories of the brilliant story-teller Virginia Andrews, and her stories.
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Title: Midnight Flight by V. C. Andrews ISBN: 0743428617 Publisher: Pocket Star Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Broken Wings by V. C. Andrews ISBN: 0671039970 Publisher: Pocket Star Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Hidden Leaves by V. C. Andrews ISBN: 0743457870 Publisher: Pocket Star Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Into the Woods by V. C. Andrews ISBN: 0743428595 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Twisted Roots by V. C. Andrews ISBN: 0743428587 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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