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Living with her kindly aunt and domineering uncle, Raven is threatened by humiliating secrets from her past which could ruin her dream of belonging to a real family.Tags
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Raven has a different feel than the first three since she still has her mom, even though she doesn't know who her dad is. Her mom lands in jail so it's off to live with Uncle. Since this is a mini-story, lots of details that could have been explored - the implication that Uncle had dome something maybe naughty with Mom - were briefly mentioned and then never explored. This series had the potential to have a full and more fleshed out story for each girl, it's too bad that Neiderman decided to cut short and make a mini-series instead of another superb series like the Cutler series.
Nothing seems to have gone right in Raven's life and after her mom is arrested, her aunt and uncle take her in. Unfortunately, her uncle blames her mom as well as her for the added burden and responsibility now placed on him. His daughter doesn't help and instead makes things worse by emulating her father and claiming any time she is caught doing something wrong, Raven "made" her do it. Raven is punished to the point that she is eventually taken out of their home and placed in a foster home. That is where she meets the other girls who have been there longer.
This is an entertaining series, but you can get that her ghost writer wrote it.
(Série Órfãs; 4)
Nov 29, 2022Portuguese (Brazil)
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Born on June 6, 1924 in Portsmouth, Va., Virginia Cleo ("V. C.") Andrews was one of three children of William Henry and Lillian Lilnora. Andrews worked as a commercial fashion and portrait artist for a time. However, after her father's death in the late 1960s and the family's subsequent move to Manchester, Mo, she began what she described as show more "closet" writing. It was her publisher's decision to use the initials V. C. rather than her full name. This was done for the purpose of neutralizing her gender so as to sell to adult male audiences; the common belief was that men did not like to read books by women writers. Andrews eventually became a full-time writer. Her first novel was a science fiction fantasy entitled The Gods of the Green Mountains, published in 1972. In 1980, she published the bestseller Flowers in the Attic, followed by Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows; all of which comprise the Dollanganger Series. Andrews died of breast cancer on December 19, 1986, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. After her death, her family hired a ghost writer, Andrew Neiderman, to finish the manuscripts she had started. He would complete the next two novels, Garden of Shadows and Fallen Hearts, and they were published soon after. These two novels are considered the last to bear the "V. C. Andrews" name and to be almost completely written by Andrews herself. She left a legacy of books that have been sold worldwide and translated into 13 foreign languages. (Bowker Author Biography) V.C. Andrews' novels have sold more than eighty-five million copies and have been translated into sixteen foreign languages. All 38 of V.C. Andrews' novels have hit the New York Times bestseller list. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Canonical title
- Raven
- Original publication date
- 1998
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
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