As much as I love V.C. Andrews, however formulaic they can be, this one was just too bland. Sure, she deviates a little bit from the usual v.c. andrews heroines by being "goth", but even that wore thin rather fast. It just didn't have enough dramatic suspense(c'mon the biggest twist is that the grandmother is a nasty old crone). It might have been better as a full scale book, so more attention could've been paid to character developement. The mini-series are just gettting progressively weaker.