Secrets of the Morning

I rate this book 4 out of five stars for an entertaining read. After reading Dawn, I was naturally anxious to see what happened to her afterwards and how she uses the opportunity Grandmother Cutler gives her. However, in her haste to get rid of Dawn, Grandmother Cutler does not realize what might happen with sending a young girl to the big city by herself, and quite a few things happen, including a older and handsome man (in this case, a teacher) taking advantage of a naive teenage girl (Dawn)

We also get to see the Meadows for the first time - the location that would be very important through the rest of the series.

This book packs quite a few punches, especially the ending where Dawn's paternity is revealed, and Grandmother Cutler's show more hatred of her now finally reveals the reason behind it. Once you read Darkest Hour - the last Cutler book, the whole series makes much more sense. show less

Gosh Darn it!

I wanted to loved it but so many parts of this book bothered me, pissed me off, and had me cursing to the greater gods that I had to say Although I did still love Dawn..The book itself fell flat. A pretty enjoyable read and I will definitely be finishing the series there were so many things and people in this book that I hated and found pretty damn peculiar. Overall it was decent but as I went into the others I know now it was this one that had me heated the most!

So this if the first book I have read by VC Andrews and it may not have been the right choice. I know this was actually written by VC Andrews but by her family or someone else. When I had originally picked this book up, I had no idea what to expect, I thought that there would be witches and warlocks or some other fanatical being but it was the complete opposite. It was like reading a soap opera! People at work would ask me what it was about and most of the comments I got were along the lines of "I don't know how you keep all that drama straight."

Now, when I had started reading this, I had no idea that it was the SECOND book in a series.(that is something I have major problems with, I get a book because it sounds good and its like number show more five and you have to read the other ones for it to make sense.) So many of the loose ends that dealt with the main characters past would have been in that one. Of course it is a bit hard to determine how much is explained in the first one considering I haven't read it yet.

There was one part that I especially didn't enjoy, of course it somewhat of a big part of the storyline, is that the main female character, who is a teen, gets pregnant. Sometimes when that's a part of a story, it doesn't really bother me, but for some reason in this particular book it did and not just a little. It was kind of like, "really, does she really have to get pregnant!" But it added more to the drama of this miniature soap opera that I'm holding in my hands.

There where times I wanted to just throw the book and quit reading it, but naturally I couldn't! With all that drama, I had a need to see how it ended. But I won't lie, I did start to skim instead of actually reading it.

It's a little hard for me to rate considering I think it would have been better had I read the first book. So this feels more like an uneducated guess. show less

I like that this book took place in the school setting.
Then moved to The Meadows.

This book was the second best of the series, next to Darkest Hour.
I loved Dawn's personality until the end :)

This was the furthest I got in her books. I believe there was a ghost writer after this novel. I thinnk this one was okay.

This was the furthest I got in Andrew's book. I believe there was a ghost writer after this novel.

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