I can't believe how much I disliked this book. I've read every one of V.C. Andrews books, even the ones after her death... but I'm just now trying to read the last few years worth (perhaps 10ish- it's been a while) of new ones and I don't understand why they're trying to publish them under Andrews name! First off, 60% (literally) of the book is spent in a narrative writing format, throwing itself back and forth from past to present to somewhere in between with nothing but explaining and trying to get the reader to understand a complicated childhood... ?? I hate this way of writing. After it finally STARTED, the book was almost over, and then it rushed done. It had the Andrews's family twist... it was a bit more stupid then I could appreciate though. Daughter-Wives that become mothers to more daughter-wives? Lots of them, living together and being happy? Mothers that are only oh-so-happy to let their children go and live to grow from being loved daughters to the prodigy of their perverted fathers so they can pro-create more? Shoot.Then all this time they throw in a random renegade that has no other purpose then to muddy the waters for the main character a little bit...it's immediately forgiven and blown to the side. Then she falls in love with some guy, has sex with him, wants to be with him and can't think of NOT being with him...knows she'll be disowned for not feeding him to her father (lmao) but then just hitches a truck ride away from him without a second thought? O-kay. There's no real explanation for what's in their daily food, no real understanding of what makes them develop so quickly. Who was going to be the new sister? From the pictures, it became immediately obvious that his previous 'daughters' were giving birth to the new generation. Her younger sister apparently is the daughter of her oldest sister who left, but there's no real understanding of the time between...so you're left in a time lapse of wondering when 'this' happened and 'this' took up from it. Who would have been the new sister's mother, not Ava because she would have JUST left the house...so obviously one of the many babies at the orphanage, but obviously not ALL OF THEM, so who took care of all the other babies while a special ONE was chosen to be raised with daddy and the others were just prepped to be baby-mamas when they got bigger? Jeeze. I think I'll avoid any 'new' V.C. Andrews book. I literally had to force myself over and over to keep reading to the end, just so I could say I did read the entire book, and I still didn't like it. I picked up this book because V.C. Andrews, and because vampires. Given the reputation of popular fiction and their butchering of the vampire lore, I should have stayed away. I started out disliking it, but said to myself, "Eh, why not? I'll read a bit more." By the time I reached page 300 (out of 400), I realized I still didn't like it. To hell with it though--I'd already read far more than halfway. So pretty much nothing happens in this entire book, save for undertones of incest and a rather disjointed coming-of-age story that happens to include vampirism. Lorelei begins to feel changes within herself, mostly sexual in nature, and her body changes to become tempting, sexy, if not enchantingly so. She competes with her sisters for her father's undying love and affection, and she knows little of her family, of why it's so important to stay close to her father and her family and to simply accept what is happening to her. Even though she has the potential to become the favored daughter, she does what's most forbidden of her: fall in love.More like fall in lust and obsession, which we all know is healthy and realistic in a setting for vampires and teenage love affairs. So we get this giant info dump at the end about who Lorelei really is, where she's from, what the purpose of her body changing and becoming of age really is--which, by the way, I'd begun to expect by page 250. I give this book two stars rather than one because V.C. Andrews. Perhaps I'll satisfy my painstakingly masochistic curiosity and suffer through the second book to get some more answers.
What do You think about Daughter Of Darkness (2010)?
This was a really bad book. The plot was horrible and it had no progression.
—Usama
Not sure I'll finish the series after reading this one.
—Sol4
