Broken Wings

I love this book. It is exactly how my favorite author(s) would write it. Fun, adventures, and enough to have you on the edge of your seat.

I bought the book with the second half so I was able to read the whole story. It really gets into it in Midnight Flight. The ending really hooks you. I liked it. And I think the ghost writer is doing a good job. It is different from the earlier books. That did get boring after a while. This one is totally different.

I really enjoyed "Broken Wings." After being very disappointed with the last 2 series of books, I was extremely happy to read this book. My favorite was Robin, daughter of a wanna-be country singer. I'm looking forward to reading "Midnight Flight."

this book is very very nice and cool i fell in love with the characters totally and felt as if all of these girls sound so much like the people i know i think this book is great!

This book has a very satisfying balance. For once, these girls are not the innocent (and sometimes extremely flaky) victims of circumstance that become devoured by the "cruel" adult world. Like Hannah, they are more balanced, and take a large part of the blame because their behavior is genuinely bad. Their parents as well, react realistically to these little problem children. No one rapes them, no one locks them in the closet. The parents rant and rave and ring their hands, tell them to act like adults and finally end up giving up on them. This is also done very realistically, for the most part. They are in no way the cruel adults from Ruby or Dawn, although they sometimes act ridiculously as well. This story is told from the perspective of three girls, Robin, Teal and Phoebe. Another thing, I love is that these girls don't have wacky names. I mean, Cinammon? You call a horse that. The first story is Robin's. She is travelling to Tennessee with her mother who is pursuing a dream of being a country music star. Her mother is laughingly immature sometimes, but she comes across as one of those street smart women with a heart of gold and honorable intentions. Robin doesn't care much for her and constantly refers to her as "Mother darling". She blames her mother for a pretty significant mistake that she made a long time ago. I don't blame her for this, but she thinks this gives her the right to smoke and shoplift and genuinely be a pain in the butt. So Robin is sent to a special school where she meets the other two little darlings. All this is pointed out in the prologue so I'm not spoiling anything. Next is Teal. She is a genuine brat. Teal is also a pathological liar. She feels that she is not loved because her parents keep telling her to act like an adult-and she does, need to act like an adult. Throughout her story, she reminded me of numerous past VC. Andrews villians, Clara Sue, Fern, Vera and Gisselle come to mind. This is refreshing, because the ghost writer has never done this before. I haven't read Phoebe's story yet, but it looks like quite a whopper from the excerpt in the beginning of the book. This book is pretty entertaining and frequently amusing. So far I like it. The ghostwriter is divine for long flights and car trips when you want to just chill. But---if these girls end up burying anyone, related to them or not in the backyard in the sequel (or in this book) I swear I will never read another VC Andrew's book again. Well except for the real ones, when VC Andrews was an author instead of a genre.

Broken Wings is a terrific collection of girls who ring true in today's world. I have friends just like them in so many ways and in so many ways, I am as well. I can't wait to see them at the camp. This would make a great film!