Family Storm by V.C. Andrews review

     Family Storm tells the story of Sasha Porter and how she came to be in the home of a wealthy family the Marches.  In the beginning we find out that Sasha's father left her mother and her with no money to survive.  Sasha's mother tries to get work but her alcoholism gets in the way and losses every job she gets.  They end up being homeless and living on the street.  They survive by the mother selling calligraphy and Sasha making key chains.  On a stormy day, Sasha and her mother are heading toward the beach and are crossing a cross walk.  When a speeding car hit both Sasha and her mother.  Sasha blacks out and wakes up in the hospital and finds out that her mother died in the accident.  Not know what to do Sasha lays in the hospital bed in shock.  A couple days later Mrs. March comes to the hospital and tells Sasha that she id going to live with them.  When asked why Mrs March tells Sasha that her daughter Kiera was driving the car that hit Sasha and her mother while high on drugs.  Sasha agrees to live with the Marches and it causes a lot of tension in the house.  Especially with Kiera.  Kiera goes to court and has to go to therapy by court order, which Kiera is not too happy about.  Sasha finds out just by watching Kiera that Kiera is a master manipulator especially with Mr March.  After a while Kiera starts becoming nice to Sasha and Sasha thinks that they are now going to be friends.  It turns out that Kiera set up Sasha to be raped and get labeled a bad seed so that Sasha would be kicked out of the house.  Then Kiera almost dies from a drug overdose and the friends that had help Kiera get Sasha in trouble confess to their parts in the scheme and Sasha ends up staying with the Marches.
     I really liked how this book was written and how the characters interact with each other.  I loved that you can almost fell the emotion of what Sasha is going through.  I will admit the part where she felt betrayed by Kiera had me literally crying for her because how it was written you could feel Sasha's pain and feeling of betrayal.  I also liked seeing how Sasha's character evolves into herself even though it looks like through out the book Mrs March is trying to turn her into their dead daughter Alena.  I give this book 5 stars just by how moving and keeping the reader engaged until the very end.