Tarnished Gold - part 3

We rejoin Gabriel 3 years later. Gabriel’s father has managed to keep a job as a tour guide for wealthy city folk who go hunting in the swamps, and Gabriel spends most of her time helping her Mama make food and crafts for the tourists, moping about the house missing Paul, the child she sold to the Tates, and living for ( Read more... )

Tarnished Gold - part 2

We open the main part of the story in 1944, with Gabriel days away from her high school graduation, discussing post-secondary prospects with her bitchy friends. Somehow in books about teenaged girls there is always at least one bitchy friend either trying to steer an independent heroine into conformity or talk her into ( Read more... )

Tarnished Gold is a weird book for me to be starting with, as it's the prequel to the Landry series, one of the later of the 'good' series. But it's the only one they had at the library, and damned if I'm buying these books on ebay and paying for shipping! I am not yet that desperate, but I fear it's only a matter of time ( Read more... )

Hi all,

It took something as momentous as a V C Andrews literary blog movement, but I'm back on LJ!

What is this V C Andrews business? Well, dear reader, all the answers are here in this lovely explanatory blog entry. V C Andrews is an author of slightly gothic family saga-type series of books. Basically, two bloggers decided to each read a dozen of ( Read more... )