Falling Stars (Shooting Stars, #5)

By V.C. Andrews and Virginia Andrews

Book Overview

All the world's a stage--but what if the play doesn't go as planned?

Four talented girls from vastly different pasts share a dream of stardom: Cinnamon, the edgy actress; Ice, the phenomenal vocalist; Rose, the beautiful dancer; and Honey, the first-rate violinist. The four meet at the prestigious Senetsky School of the Performing Arts--housed in an ornate New York City mansion--and become instant friends as they take off on a dazzling whirlwind of intense classes, theater outings, and celebrity-studded parties. And together they bend the strict house rules of Madame Senetsky, a famous actress who guarantees success for students under her tutelage.

But they soon realize this is no ordinary school. Madame Senetsky pushes the girls' studies beyond reason. She controls their social lives. And they get the strange feeling someone is watching them.

But who...and why?

Cinnamon, Ice, Rose, and Honey set out to untangle a shadowy web of Senetsky family secrets. As they explore dark corners and hidden rooms, every creak and moan of the old mansion tells a story too frightening to repeat. A devastating story that can destroy their dreams...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671039873
• ISBN13: 9780671039875
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

a pretty good teen book

honey,cinnamon, rose and ice all are talented indiviuals in the arts and have been accepted int ms. stenksy's school to polish off their talents before hitting the big time. but all is not as it seems as this exclusive school. they sense that they are being watched all the time, they have no privacy and they are enouraged not to have any outside relationships. but the house holds more buried secrets than the students know and to get to the bottom of it all may well cost them their lives and/or careers. this is not one of the best vc andrews books. it does not have the same tense moments in it and the ending kind of leaves you disappointed as if the author ran out of ideas and wrapped it up quickly. not the quality you normally expect.

Hooray For Cheese!

This book is very cheesy. If you don't like cheesy books, I'd avoid this one if I were you. Like many Virginia Andrews books (the originals and the new ones), it is pure cheddar.Personally, I don't mind cheese as long as it's well-plotted cheese with interesting characters, and this book definitely doesn't let me down here (on the character front, Cinnamon has become a goth, which is funny). It has a plot that, generally speaking, isn't lifted from one of the other books (they do that sometimes when they think you aren't looking), and although the narrator can be a bit of a whinger at times, the other characters more than make up for that.If you've read the other mini-series, you will know that it might be best to skip the first four books (which are mainly about introducing characters rather than having a plot) and go onto the main book. For all three miniseries, I bought all five books. Learn from my mistakes.This isn't exactly as good as the main books from "Orphans" and "Wildflowers," but it's nearly there. The ending is a bit anti-climactic, which is annoying, but since the rest of the story is brilliant I won't nit-pick. Read this book and bask in the glory of cheese.

You people are wrong the GW is good!!

Awesome book It holds my attentionits full of mystery and trying to do whats best for aother person Anyone cold enough to say this book is stupid u didnt read it your lieing it teaches a valuable leson everyone should know!! So dont listen to them other people and give this book a chance cause it is GREAT!!

Shooting Stars: Falling Stars

V.C. Andrews combined mystery, romance, and the realistic struggle to succeed in the world into this great book. It's about four girls going to the Senetsky School of Performing Arts. The story is told by Honey, one of these girls. I really enjoyed this book because it has a lot of cliff-hangers that kept me wanting to keep reading. I never wanted to put the book down. For instance, one night, Honey sees a shadow outside her window. After she talks to Rose, Ice, and Cinnamon, she finds that she wasn't the only one to see this shadow. Rose had also seen it. So, the girls get determined to find out what had made the shadow. They sleep in Rose's room one night to find out. Another part of this book that I enjoyed was the way the four girls always stuck together. When the two boys, Steven and Howard, who were also going to the Senetsky school, bothered one of the girls, another was always there to back her up. They even vowed that they would all leave if one girl was kicked out. Because of their strength when they were all together, the girls were able to get through the strenuous work forced upon them at their school and live through their fears when they believed someone may have been watching them. They discovered that they could do anything together, even if they could get kicked out of the school they had worked so hard to get into. They were also able to find a secret about Madame Senetsky and her family that no one else had ever known. The question is: Will they get caught? I really enjoyed all of the twists and turns that occured in this novel and the great writing by V.C. Andrews. I highly recommand that you, also, read this book.