julie42's Full Review: V. C. Andrews - Eye of the Storm
Please note, if you've read and rated this Epinion before, don't do it again. There are about five people who rated it, when I thought it was called "Rain" but it's actually "Eye of the storm" ... I didn't do it on purpose.
I don't know how V.C. Andrews does it (for the sake of present and past tense use, I am going to write as though she's alive.) but every time I read even the first page of one of her books, I'm hooked. Try it. Read the first page, and see if you can just put it down, and not think about where the story might go. Although I get involved with almost every novel I start, hers are always read more quickly.
Rain is a sequel to a book that I haven't had a chance to read. I feel they could have explained in a little more detail what the previous book was about. I didn't even realize until the middle of this novel that the main character, "Rain", is African-American.
The plot is basically this: (Here's where I take V.C. Andrew's 100 000 word idea and turn it into simply 100. Smile.) The main character's grandmother dies. She's only recently come into the "family" full of lies and deceit. They are a rich, aristocratic, white southern family. Rain inherits over half of the Grandmother's worth, and the rest of the family is furious. (Enter petty squabbles.) One day, while riding on her estate, Rain gets bucked off her horse, and is paralyzed from the waist down. (Enter her Aunt trying to force care onto her.) Rain falls in love
with her physical trainer. (Enter same psycho Aunt who
locks her up, tells her lover that she's moved back to England, and keeps her upstairs where she can't get down.) Rain gets very sick, and the Aunt tries to shove her into a bath-tub, while telling her a story about how she tried to drown her mother. Rain squirms, the Aunt slips, hits her head on the tub, and drowns in the water. Rain and Austin (The physical trainer) find out in the hospital that Rain is pregnant, and they make plans to get married.
They live happily ever after!
(Of course.)
The thing about most (if not all) V.C. Andrews books is that there is usually a horribly depressing tragedy, and it's completely unexpected. In this novel, the major, unexpected tragedy is that Rain becomes paralyzed. I definitely recommend virtually all of her novels, specially this one. Although they usually don't turn out how I would like, they are always good stories, with original plots.
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