Celeste / Black Cat / Child of Darkness

by V.C. Andrews

Book Overview

The second thrilling book in the New York Times bestselling author's Gemini series continues the saga of Celeste, whose bereaved mother forces her to take on the identity of her dead twin brother,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739447297
• ISBN13: 9780739447291
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

exceptional book

the first book celeste dragged a bit and really did not pick up any steam this one on the other hand is more along the style of vc andrews. we pick up with celeste still impersonating her dead brother noble while helping her mother raise baby celeste who is actually her own daughter that she cannnot admit to. when her mother marries a kinkdly neighbor, all the secrets that have been long buried are threatened to be revealed because what is hidden does not always stays this way. the story had just enough poetic justice to it to be nice and definitely you will want to get the next volume in march of child of darkness.

Black Cat!!!!

What a total surprise. So many questions arose from Celeste:The First book. Was Celeste going to remain noble into the next book? Or would the scandel be revealed? Would Celeste live happily with her baby? With Grandfather Dave and Aunt Betty? What about Sarah? Was she going to die, or be trapped in a assulym. The first five chapters went very slow. I didn't know what was going to happen to Noble(Celeste). But then it became chilling when Sarah married Dave. Then everything broke loose. Betty was a woman- misunderstood and abused sexually. She deserved to die by falling down a flight of stairs. But it's the ending that's the most scariest. You'll have to read the book to fing out the ending.

Recommend reading it

Black Cat" is an interesting book. I really enjoyed it. Fans of Andrews will likely enjoy this novel for what it is - another Andrews' novel.

The momentum never stops...

After thoroughly delighting in the evilness of VC Andrews' book one of the Gemini series, "Celeste"... I eagerly embraced the second, "Black Cat"...AND the momentum never stopped...I was sucked into the swirl of deliciously devious deviltry that is dished up in this evocative, emotional tale of abuse and neglect and deception all mixed up with good old fashioned mental illness... The pages turned as fast as my eyes could take in the words, which brought to the brain a mass of images that one cannot find on the screen or in a newspaper report of twisted lives...the passages are thought provoking and eerily beautiful. Outstanding read...only problem is that I have to wait until next March for book THREE...darn...

THE BOOK VC HERSELF WOULD HAVE WRITTEN! AWESOME!

WOW. I am honored to once again be able to submit the first review on this V.C. Andrews book. As her most loyal fan, and the most loyal fan of the ghostwriter, I am thrilled to submit the following review of BLACK CAT. BLACK CAT is indeed the book V.C. Andrews herself would have written! The ghostwriter -- Mr. Andrew Neiderman -- has successfully captured all the essence of Ms. Andrews. This book is hauntingly like My Sweet Audrina, yet the mother character is so wicked that at times she makes the mother in FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC seem tame! One could even say that perhaps the spirit of Ms. Andrews is finally guiding Mr. Neiderman. This novel grips you from the start and doesn't let you go until the final page! BLACK CAT is dark, gothic, and downright frightening. At times throughout the book, you will wonder how Celeste, still posing at her brother Noble, can allow her mother to so control her life. But as the book plays out, you can see and even feel the depth of the mental illness Celeste is suffering, compliments of her mother. And that mother takes every advantage of it. Only at the end of the book does it hit you how young Celeste was when she had her baby and how warped her mother has made her. Mama this time (not Mommy!) is WACKO, dark, evil, and brooding. Often she calls Celeste stupid, tearing her down even more. Then there's Baby Celeste. She gave me the creeps! These are firsts in VCA books - a mentally ill heroine who you can still love, and a baby that appears to be following in the dark footsteps of her grandmother and her mother. While it is never my style to recap the book for you event by event -- you have to read it yourself -- I can say that when Mama marries dead Elliott's father, you understand just how deep the mother's cunning and evil runs. I cannot stress how much I loved this book and how it was totally different from any V.C. Andrews book ever written. This time, the ghostwriter has abandoned the vain mother and dim herione style we grew used to and instead he hits us right between the eyes with characters you can't even begin to imagine! This is a VCA book through and through - shocking! And the climax will leave you breathless and starving for more So speaking of more, I cannot wait for Child of Darkness, the last book of the GEMINI series. However, I STRONGLY encourage the ghostwriter and the publishers to consider doing a prequel and soon! How did Mama get so strange, so power hungry, and so evil? What was her childhood like? What was her mother like? The answers lie only in the brilliant depths of Mr. Neiderman's mind and they must be allowed to come out! You have to buy and read this shocking book! I promise you, you will not be disappointed!