The inconsistencies in this novel are actually frustrating. The plot is weak and the family secrets were unrealistic. The book didn’t have any real depth or have clarification. I don’t like how Rain has no backbone. This book was a disappointment. It was almost depressing with the amount of tragedy in this novel. I found Austin’s bond with Rain was unrealistically fast.

Another fantastic book by V C Andrews. The thrilling storyline and the addictive characters keep you from going to sleep at night haha! :-)

an OK story about what happens to Rain after her grandmother dies.

Rain is now rich but she but has an accident riding a horse and cannot walk. Her Aunt Victoria loses her mind and keeps Rain captive. Victoria drowns in the bathtub and Rain's physical therapist Austin rescues her. It ends with Rain married to Austin with a daughter. Roy returns and is not pleased with this turn in events.

It a good, but have a lot of drama

Always a good read by this author
Would only recommend for mature adults only.

I finished this book within days. The book begins with Rain now living in her Grandmother Hudson's mansion after her grandmother's death. Her Aunt Victoria mostly, along with her mother and stepfather are contesting the will, that left Rain with 51% of the house, 50% of the business, and about 2 million dollars in assets.

Unfortuntely, Rain never makes it back to school in London. She spends a lot of time arguing w/ her parents and aunt. Her half-brother Brody, he has a crush on Rain, not realizing that she's his half sister. Things go bad one night when he comes to the house and gets drunk and decides to stay the night. When he makes advances towards Rain, she kicks him out of her room and he drives off into the night, and into a tree, killing himself. This makes her mother blame herself for the deception and she goes a little crazy for a while, being institutionalized. Then Aunt Victoria makes advances towards her sister's husband.

Rain continues to live in the mansion and is friendly with the chauffeur whom she learns is actually her Aunt Victoria's father, although she has no idea that this is true. She rides his horse that he has named Rain as well, and one day the horse throws her and she ends up with 2 permanently paralyzed legs.

Being disabled makes her Aunt very happy. She begins controlling Rain. She changes the house and adds a ramp and makes the maids quarters look nothing more than a hospital room. She also hires a physical therapist, Austin, whom Rain eventually falls in love with.

Once Rain's mother is out of the hospital and her husband returns to her, Aunt Victoria loses her mind. She calls rain by her mother's name, (Megan) and confines her to the house. She has the ramp removed, the phones disconnected, and once she finds out about Rain's love affair w/ Austin, she send him away and threatens a lawsuit against his uncles therapy company if he comes anywhere near Rain.

Rain does her best to try and escape the house, but her aunt always foils her escape attempts. Things come to an end when Grant comes to take Rain away and her aunt informs him she's already left. She goes upstairs to put Rain in the bathtub, with crazy talk about holding her head underwater. They struggle and her Aunt slips in the bathroom and knocks her head on the faucet and literally drowns herself in the tub. Rain, who cracked her head as well, does her best to not pass out, but does. When she becomes conscious, she sees that Austin has come back and sees her in the bathroom and her Aunt in the tub and calls the police.

In the end, everything is cleared up and Rain finds out she is pregnant with Austin's child. Her brother Roy, who is in military prison for most of the book, is finally released. He comes back for the last chapter to find Rain and Austin married with their daughter Summer. Rain asks him to be part of their lives and that he can work for the company that she now owns. Rain's relationship with her mother takes a turn for the better, and they try to get along as friends. Even Rain's bio dad and his family come to the Hudson mansion for Rain's wedding. It is truly a happy ending, especially after reading page after page of the torture she went through at the hands of her evil Aunt Victoria.

I couldn't remember anything about this book. I had completely forgotten about the whole paralyzed storyline.

This started off well enough, following the traditional Andrew's formula, for example, Rain's real brother really wants to sleep with her. In fairness, he doesn't know she is his sister but why does every bloke Rain meets, wants to jump her bones within 5 mins of meeting her?

It started to get a bit boring after she was paralyzed and became trapped in the house by Aunt Victoria. I also struggled to see how Victoria changed from being a hard nosed business woman into full on crazy within a space of a day.

This series started out really well but my adult mind is supercritical on this one, not the best as the storyline is just not that interesting.

4.5 stars

Yep, still loving this series, Eye of the Storm is the third book in the Hudson saga.

This series finally reveals some wacky, loony, cuckoo behaviour from a nutty character who also features in the first two books.

Darkish, freakish and completely screwy. Loved it!

Can’t wait to read more of the addictive characters in book four.

*Book #46/72 of my 2019 coffee table to-read challenge, cont. 2020

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FS: "Sometimes I think that Mama Arnold named me Rain because she knew so many tears would fall from my eyes."

LS: "She could have been our baby, he said."

I wasn't so thrilled with this installment of the Hudson series.