Runaways

Book finally arrived took almost a month

Butterfly, Crystal, Brooke, and Raven are back in the full-length novel Runaways by V.C. Andrews. These four girls are best friends; well more like sisters. They live in a foster home in New York. The foster home was once a tourist home. Now it’s run down and old. It’s not the best place for Gordon and Louise to run a foster home, but then again Gordon and Louise aren’t exactly fit for the job. The four girls want out. For two reasons, they can’t stand their living conditions or Gordon and time is running out for them to be adopted. So Brooke, the one who is telling the story comes up with the idea to run away to California. The reason it’s California, is so she can find her real mom, Crystal can become a doctor, and Raven and Butterfly can get their big brake as singers. They all agree. They decide to steal Gordon’s car and make up a phony map to send Gordon on a wild goose chase. On the way to California they meet many new people. It’s a novel filled with romance, adventure, and surprises. The final question is does Gordon find them or do they make it to California? Well to find out you have to read this book I promises you won’t be disappointed. I know I wasn’t. May I suggest one last thing? It is that you read Butterfly, Crystal, Brooke and Raven so you can fully understand each girl and their past.

V.C. Andrews Runaways is the best book that I have ever read. It is about four girls Brooke, Raven, Crystal, and Butterfly (Janet). Raven hoped to be a singer, Crystal planned to go to college to be a doctor, Butterfly a dancer, and Brooke secretly hoped to find her mother in California. They lived in New York at a foster home called the Lakewood House, which was owned by Gordon Tooey and his wife Louise. The four girls runaway to California, borrowing Gordon's car. During their trip a lot of mishaps had happened. Making their journey much more difficult. There were almost times where they wanted to give up. This book I thought was very exciting. It has so much suspense and drama. When you read it everything is described so perfect, it is almost as if you were there. If you want to know how these brave young girls lived the rest of their lives you should read the book. I guarantee that this book is one of them books you don't want to put down and you can't wait until the end.

I loved this book. It's the best book I've read in a long time. I couldn't put it down - I read the whole thing in one night. Most books I get bored a lot. This book was sad and happy at the same time. It reminded me of me and my best friend. I haven't read the other four books but I'm buying them today.

When this series came out I read all of them as soon as they came out. I had to have them and find out what happened to each girl. It was a powerful series that let me discover a whole new type of writting. It wasn't your typical teenage romance or you have problems and by the end of the book she has her perfect life back. It was awsome and I'm glad she is writting The Wildflowers now. It is just as good as her first series and not as descriptive and mature as her other books. They are absolutly perfect reading material for me.

Well, four Thelma and Louises. It was a great conclusion to the Orphans series, but the ending was kind of odd. Also, why was Brooke chosen to be the narrator. I think that it should have been narrated by all four of them, maybe one person for each chapter. What was so remarkable about Brooke that she would have been chosen to be narrator? If There Be Thorns used the technique, so why can't Runaways? If anything, it should have been Raven, since she was my favorite character. But she kind of dissapointed me. She seemed so level-headed in Raven, it was unrealistic that she sworn she would never be like her mother, yet like a fool she went out and had sex with the first attractive boy she saw. Never the less, it was an excellent book, very strongly done and I felt as if I was right there with them. Their experieces; naive, knowing, innocent were very much like what real teenagers would feel, and it was very well done. I'm only sorry it had to end!(sob)