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RAIN ALREADY KNOWS HOW HARD LIFE CAN BE. BUT SHE IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER A SHATTERING SECRET FROM THE PAST THAT WILL CHANGE HER FUTURE FOREVER....
Growing up in the ghettos of Washington, D.C., the cards are stacked against a hardworking dreamer like Rain Arnold. Rain has fought to be the best daughter she can: she studies hard and gets good grades; she helps her mother cook and clean. And unlike her defiant younger sister, she avoids the dangers of the city streets as if her life depends on it...and it does. But Rain can't suppress the feeling that she has never truly fit in, that she is a stranger in her own world.
Then one fateful night, Rain overhears something she shouldn't: a heartbreaking revelation from the past, a long-buried secret that is about to change her life in ways she never could have imagined. In the blink of an eye, everything Rain has ever known — the family she has loved and the familiar place she has called home is left behind, and Rain is sent to live with total strangers, the wealthy Hudson family. But just as she did not belong to the troubled world she was raised in, Rain is also out of place in this realm of luxury and privilege. With nowhere to turn, Rain finds an escape in the theater, inside the walls of an exclusive private school. But will it be enough to fulfill her heart's deepest wish — and give her a place to call home?
A tale of tricky emotions from the author of the best-selling Shower of Tears. Rain doesn't feel that she belongs in the Washington, DC, ghetto where she grew up. But when she discovers that her biological mother was a rich white woman and goes to live with her family, she finds the world of wealthy whites pretty hard to take, too. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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Roy Copeland
reviewed Rain (Hudson Series #1) on January 14, 2011
Rain (Hudson Series #1)
Epic Fail Alert!!!
I admit it.
The only reason I purchased a copy of this book was to see how well a black lead character would fare in V.C. Andrews-land. I'll also admit that I'll be reading the next two as well. Yes, I'm a glutton for punishment.
I should have known better than to expect anything than trite stereotypes. Rain Arnold, hardworking black girl from the ghetto (Point of Fail #1: Why are all black people assumed to be from the ghetto? Didn't anyone ever watch The Cosby Show?) with a long-suffering mother, a wild sister, a strong brother and a father for an alcoholic. Where have we heard this all before? I thought it was from one of Oprah's books.
I know that a V.C. Andrews novel is the literary equivalent of a Twinkie--bad for you but, oh so very good--but my sweet tooth went sour after finishing this book. And finish it I did, hoping against hope that Rain Arnold would become a character I could have a modicum of sympathy for. Seriously folks, it's got to get way tiresome to use the same old plot devices that were used in Flowers in the Attic (the only decent V.C. Andrews novel written...maybe that's due to the fact that SHE actually wrote it!).
Point of Fail #2: Rain finds out that she's half-black because her real mother, Megan Hudson Randolph, is filthy rich and white. Rain finds out that her real mother couldn't keep her because a half-black child conceived out of wedlock would have been an embarrassment to her upper-crust family. Uh, what year was this taking place in? Were any of the characters related to the late Strom Thurmond who hid his love child away for decades?
Point of Fail #3: Rain's "brother" Roy suddenly finds himself attracted to his sister/not blood sister.
Point of Fail #4: Rain finds herself living with her real family, the Hudsons, who are fabulously wealthy and absolutely dysfunctional. The grandmother, Victoria, is a stern matriarch who comes to like Rain a little.
Point of Fail #5: Rain attends a snobby girls' school and ends up the belle of the school play.
Point of Fail #6: Rain's "real" brother, Brody, seems to like his new "sister" a whole lot...
SERIOUS Point of Fail #7: Rain gets drunk and foolishly loses her virginity to the first sweet-talking playboy she meets. Not, a great role-model for teenage girls. And, in this age of sexually-transmitted diseases, where's any mention of safe sex?
Point of Fail #8: She finds out that the woman who has been her mother thus far has conveniently died of cancer. And now she's on her way to London to further screw up her already messed-up life.
Rain is that proverbial train wreck that you don't want to look at, but for some reason the carnage just draws you in.
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