Now, April's survival depends on being true to the one person she's never fully accepted: herself. But when a dangerous couple arrives with greedy intentions, April discovers they will take advantage of her very special friendship with Echo to get what they want. There, April found a shelter from her mixed-up life, and from the confusion that severed her relationship with Brenda, after an encounter with Brenda's girlfriend, Celia. If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows V C Andrews. It was mere chance that led her to the secluded home of a kindly elderly woman and her deaf teenaged granddaughter, Echo. Books by V C Andrews Authors like V C Andrews What Should I Read Next. Now, with nowhere to go in the wake of losing her mother and father, April had to grow up fast as she embarked on an odyssey of heartbreak and betrayal. But chances are you'll tire of it halfway through (if you make it that far) and toss it in the trash where it belongs.Some secrets survive the light of day, others should stay lost in darkness forever-the family saga that began with April Shadows continues!Īpril Taylor wasn't a little girl anymore-but who was she really? The home she shared with her parents and her older sister, Brenda, may have been filled with turmoil, but it was the only home she knew. I'll just end by saying that if you are feeling nostalgic for your middle school days when yourself and your friends gathered together to giggle at the naughty parts then, by all means, indulge yourself. But you know, I've known plenty of sixteen year-olds that had much more talent than this, so I shouldn't make such a generalization. *shudder* Anyway, a poorly written novel that might as well have been penned by a sixteen year-old for all of it's skill and depth of emotion. Uncle Palaver? I'd like to know a bit more about that situation.

Oh wait.except incest, which is a typical Andrews plotline and I imagine might make a comeback in the next book? And of course, you have the standard overall creepiness of general atmosphere. Anything bad that could happen to a person, happened to April all before she hit adulthood. April Shadows 1 Shadows is a Used Mass Market Paperback available to purchase and shipped from Firefly Bookstore in Kutztown, PA.

Wow.if I needed a reminder of how awful people can be to each other, then this book did the trick perfectly. Andrews book since I was in middle school so when I came upon this at the grocery store the other day, I picked it up.

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