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Audrey Rose #2
For Love of Audrey Rose
The sequel to Audrey Rose takes Janice Templeton back to the death of Audrey Rose and the mystery of where she is if she was reincarnated as Ivy Templeton. Ivy, Janice's daughter, was also killed in a car crash. Janice is determined to find the truth.
480 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1982
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Frank De Felitta
28 books92 followersFrank's latest book, "L'Opera Italiano," is now available as an ebook on Amazon.com and BN.com.
Best known for Audrey Rose and The Entity, De Felitta has also made a name for himself in the theatrical world as a producer, writer, and director.
De Felitta also briefly experimented with song writing, with one of his songs appearing in his son Raymond De Felitta's film "Two Family House".
Best known for Audrey Rose and The Entity, De Felitta has also made a name for himself in the theatrical world as a producer, writer, and director.
De Felitta also briefly experimented with song writing, with one of his songs appearing in his son Raymond De Felitta's film "Two Family House".
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August 26, 2019
I read this straight after reading Audrey Rose, which is a well-known 70’s horror novel. It tells the story of Bill, Janice and Elliot as they come to grips with the outcome of the story as detailed in the first book.
It is well written, and the characters have depth and emotions as they react to the situation they find themselves in. The events of Audrey Rose have a lasting impact on all three of them and completely changes their lives
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Having said that, there is little to no horror in this book. It explores the three characters and it does drag while doing this. This is about the devastating impact on the three of them. I did not find it interesting enough and I just wanted to finish it.
This is my last Frank De Felitta book and I doubt I will read any more. I will if I find any copies in my local second-hand bookshops but I won’t go out of my way to get a copy.
It is well written, and the characters have depth and emotions as they react to the situation they find themselves in. The events of Audrey Rose have a lasting impact on all three of them and completely changes their lives
.
Having said that, there is little to no horror in this book. It explores the three characters and it does drag while doing this. This is about the devastating impact on the three of them. I did not find it interesting enough and I just wanted to finish it.
This is my last Frank De Felitta book and I doubt I will read any more. I will if I find any copies in my local second-hand bookshops but I won’t go out of my way to get a copy.
November 10, 2015
It's really more like 2.5 stars and NOWHERE near the book Audrey Rose was for the masses nevertheless neither is it a waste of time as interesting info and theories abound within this tome. I feel like I traveled to India at one point in the book so well fleshed out was the scene.
It ends on a somewhat bittersweet but happier note overall than Audrey Rose. If you loved Audrey Rose; it's worth a read. Also just fun to be back in the 60s/70s since I was born in the 70s and so much has changed no matter that much stays the same.
It ends on a somewhat bittersweet but happier note overall than Audrey Rose. If you loved Audrey Rose; it's worth a read. Also just fun to be back in the 60s/70s since I was born in the 70s and so much has changed no matter that much stays the same.
October 19, 2017
Zombieslayer/Alienhunter's 31 Days Of Hallo-reads #3
The best thing about this book? It didn't take me quite ten days to read.
The worst? I spent a perfectly good Saturday morning that could've been spent with cartoons and/budget horror movies finishing it.
Oh the RAGE you poor souls will have to witness. It's been, like, FIVE DAYS since I finished this smoldering garbage, and looking at the cover makes me want to punch a stop sign.
Y'all gonna have to bear with me here. This is gonna take some work.
Shape up or ship out.
You were warned.
...Well then.
-review-
Our story begins, in newspaper articles, in 1975.
Ivy Templeton, a pretty, creative, fun-loving little girl, has just died.
Her devastated father, Bill, throws himself into alcohol and mindless wandering until he suffers a nervous breakdown.
Meanwhile her mother, Janice, leans on friends, family...
And the man who stalked Ivy until her death.
Elliot Hoover, whose daughter Audrey Rose was killed in a fiery car crash just moments before Ivy Templeton was born, lost everything. He was a broken man.
Fallen into despair and needing, more than anything, a belief, Hoover gave himself to the study and practice of Hindusim.
While the practice steadied his life, and did give him peace, Hoover tragically learned of the Hindu belief in reincarnation.
Janice Templeton would normally never believe in such a thing.
But, Ivy did suffer night terrors in the weeks leading up to her suspicious death. She screamed for her father, though Bill was no comfort, and that it was 'HOT'.
The only thing that soothed these nightmares was Elliot Hoover's voice.
Elliot Hoover's voice calling her Audrey Rose.
But Ivy's death, while taking her from her parents, took her from Hoover all over again.
He disappeared. To India, to holy places of serenity and silence.
But Hoover may be the key to saving Bill, when, in his fractured mental state, he starts to study the Hindu religion for himself.
Bill believes in reincarnation.
And he's found Ivy.
Spanning years of travel and hectic life, Janice Templeton and Elliot Hoover are connected in cosmic senses by loss, rebirth, and the soul of one little girl.
"I become the fire of life which is in all things that breathe, In union with the breath that flows in and flows out as I burn."
In case you were wondering, no. That ^^ is NOT from For Love Of Audrey Rose. It's a quote from Krishna, several of which punctuate the four sections of this suck-ass book.
Why would I do that, do you ask? I always use quotes, even from my 1-stars.
Boils and ghouls, I hate to be this way, but there is not ONE quote I'd use from this waste of a tree.
This is the first book I've ever truly thought I could burn. And I've actually seen copies of the MF-ing Turner Diaries.
I mean, seriously, anyone, s'mores? Hobo stew? Target practice? I'm up for anything.
... I mean. Don't burn books, kids.
Unless you're cold and it's this book.
But I guess don't burn books.
Flick your fucking Bic, man
It was the story of parents trying to put their lives back together after the tragic death of a child, only to have it turned ass over teakettle over and over again by the fleeting hope that said child might still be alive, somehow, somewhere.
I'm surprised I can make it sound THAT coherent, because the plot was anything but. It's filled with prose the color of Raisin Bran, characters as dimensional as the average brick, and descriptions like nutrition labels. In short, go watch paint dry.
I found out this was a sequel shortly after I started it here on GR. It's not listed as such, but it is.
I have no desire to find out who, what, where, how and sometimes why this trash came about.
Frank De Felitta can't write.
I spent probably a dollar on this thing and I still feel ripped off.
In ever so eloquent closing, dearest review-reader, before we part ways,
The best thing about this book? It didn't take me quite ten days to read.
The worst? I spent a perfectly good Saturday morning that could've been spent with cartoons and/budget horror movies finishing it.
Oh the RAGE you poor souls will have to witness. It's been, like, FIVE DAYS since I finished this smoldering garbage, and looking at the cover makes me want to punch a stop sign.
Y'all gonna have to bear with me here. This is gonna take some work.
Shape up or ship out.
You were warned.
...Well then.
-review-
Our story begins, in newspaper articles, in 1975.
Ivy Templeton, a pretty, creative, fun-loving little girl, has just died.
Her devastated father, Bill, throws himself into alcohol and mindless wandering until he suffers a nervous breakdown.
Meanwhile her mother, Janice, leans on friends, family...
And the man who stalked Ivy until her death.
Elliot Hoover, whose daughter Audrey Rose was killed in a fiery car crash just moments before Ivy Templeton was born, lost everything. He was a broken man.
Fallen into despair and needing, more than anything, a belief, Hoover gave himself to the study and practice of Hindusim.
While the practice steadied his life, and did give him peace, Hoover tragically learned of the Hindu belief in reincarnation.
Janice Templeton would normally never believe in such a thing.
But, Ivy did suffer night terrors in the weeks leading up to her suspicious death. She screamed for her father, though Bill was no comfort, and that it was 'HOT'.
The only thing that soothed these nightmares was Elliot Hoover's voice.
Elliot Hoover's voice calling her Audrey Rose.
But Ivy's death, while taking her from her parents, took her from Hoover all over again.
He disappeared. To India, to holy places of serenity and silence.
But Hoover may be the key to saving Bill, when, in his fractured mental state, he starts to study the Hindu religion for himself.
Bill believes in reincarnation.
And he's found Ivy.
Spanning years of travel and hectic life, Janice Templeton and Elliot Hoover are connected in cosmic senses by loss, rebirth, and the soul of one little girl.
"I become the fire of life which is in all things that breathe, In union with the breath that flows in and flows out as I burn."
In case you were wondering, no. That ^^ is NOT from For Love Of Audrey Rose. It's a quote from Krishna, several of which punctuate the four sections of this suck-ass book.
Why would I do that, do you ask? I always use quotes, even from my 1-stars.
Boils and ghouls, I hate to be this way, but there is not ONE quote I'd use from this waste of a tree.
This is the first book I've ever truly thought I could burn. And I've actually seen copies of the MF-ing Turner Diaries.
I mean, seriously, anyone, s'mores? Hobo stew? Target practice? I'm up for anything.
... I mean. Don't burn books, kids.
Unless you're cold and it's this book.
But I guess don't burn books.
It was the story of parents trying to put their lives back together after the tragic death of a child, only to have it turned ass over teakettle over and over again by the fleeting hope that said child might still be alive, somehow, somewhere.
I'm surprised I can make it sound THAT coherent, because the plot was anything but. It's filled with prose the color of Raisin Bran, characters as dimensional as the average brick, and descriptions like nutrition labels. In short, go watch paint dry.
I found out this was a sequel shortly after I started it here on GR. It's not listed as such, but it is.
I have no desire to find out who, what, where, how and sometimes why this trash came about.
Frank De Felitta can't write.
I spent probably a dollar on this thing and I still feel ripped off.
In ever so eloquent closing, dearest review-reader, before we part ways,
September 24, 2013
Ever wonder what happens to the characters of a book after you've finished reading it? This book is the sequel to AUDREY ROSE, and for about the first half, it seems to not be so much a story, but rather a lengthy epilogue to the first. Honestly, I don't think AUDREY ROSE needed a sequel, but the more I read, the more I found myself lost in the world of Hoover, Janice, and Bill yet again. This time around, Bill has lost his mind, and Janice and Hoover are trying to help bring him back to normalcy. There isn't a lot of horror in this one, at least not until the very end. De Felitta also pulls a neat little trick in the final pages that is almost impossible to second guess. It's a beautiful novel and a lot of fun.
March 11, 2016
I enjoyed the book "Audrey Rose", but I didn't know there was a sequel until I saw it on my daughter's bookshelf. It was a great read and an awesome opportunity to get to know the characters on a more intimate level. I thought the book was a keeper!
November 9, 2015
The sequel to "Audrey Rose." I read this book immediately after reading the first book, but it wasn't as memorable or as haunting as the first.
June 4, 2010
I was very disappointed in this book. I really enjoyed the first one. I didn't care for this one at all.
April 21, 2019
Nowhere near as good as the first. Why do so many books have sequels that do not need to made?
I would have stopped at the first one which was a good story.
I would have stopped at the first one which was a good story.
June 21, 2021
I read AUDREY ROSE a long time ago around the time when it first came out in the mid-seventies ... I was probably too young to read it but that didn't stop me, of course. I remember loving that first book, it was one of my first "horror" novels and the whole thing captivated me.
Seeing its sequel, FOR LOVE OF AUDREY ROSE, in my library's e-book catalog I was intrigued ... but not THAT much; it langured on my TBR pile for a good year or so as, what I perceived, a trashy book I'd get to when a moment arose. Whelp, I had jury duty and I thought that would be a good time for a good ole fashioned trashy book! Turns out this book was a lot better written, conceived, and executed than I'd have expected it to be.
Some really thought-provoking ideas about life after death, very expressive passages about grief and mental breakdown, a really interesting journey through India during a mudslide/monsoon (which I was not expecting), and overall good storytelling. Also, no mistaking that this book takes place in the seventies- Doctors pull out cigarettes without a second thought, research takes hours (two people tottering high up on ladders opening up drawer after drawer of birth records) and if you want to get a message to someone in India the best way is to actually FLY there and TRACK THEM DOWN. Ahhhh, I remember those days.
Not a SUPER terrific book by any means, but a good enough one if you come across it and want to see what happened to the people in the first AUDREY ROSE book. It's certainly entertaining enough.
Seeing its sequel, FOR LOVE OF AUDREY ROSE, in my library's e-book catalog I was intrigued ... but not THAT much; it langured on my TBR pile for a good year or so as, what I perceived, a trashy book I'd get to when a moment arose. Whelp, I had jury duty and I thought that would be a good time for a good ole fashioned trashy book! Turns out this book was a lot better written, conceived, and executed than I'd have expected it to be.
Some really thought-provoking ideas about life after death, very expressive passages about grief and mental breakdown, a really interesting journey through India during a mudslide/monsoon (which I was not expecting), and overall good storytelling. Also, no mistaking that this book takes place in the seventies- Doctors pull out cigarettes without a second thought, research takes hours (two people tottering high up on ladders opening up drawer after drawer of birth records) and if you want to get a message to someone in India the best way is to actually FLY there and TRACK THEM DOWN. Ahhhh, I remember those days.
Not a SUPER terrific book by any means, but a good enough one if you come across it and want to see what happened to the people in the first AUDREY ROSE book. It's certainly entertaining enough.
April 4, 2021
While this wasn't exactly a thrill-a-minute to read, it was a lot more interesting than I expected, judging by some other reviews. I read it as a drama, rather than paranormal or horror. In some ways, it was even more compelling than Audrey Rose, because it involved more personal catharsis for the main characters, and they were more fully fleshed out than in the original novel as well, especially the Janice and Elliott characters. I'm glad I read this immediately after finishing Audrey Rose, because it seemed more like a long extension of the first book rather than a sequel. If I had taken a break in between them, it may not have been such a good read.
October 21, 2024
Bill Templeton, after losing his daughter Ivy, also known as Audrey Rose, has a severe nervous breakdown and is hospitalized in a sanitarium. His wife, Janice, is increasingly concerned that no one will be able to reach into his closed mind again. When she reconnects with Elliott Hoover, they decide to join forces, including a young orphan girl named Jennie, to break through Bill’s defenses.
This was a good read, although it did seem to be too wordy in parts and I would find myself skimming over paragraphs.
If you read “Audrey Rose” or saw the movie, you will definitely want to read this sequel. Excellent ending.
July 7, 2021
The brilliant sequel keeps the staggering action coming, like machine-gun fire, and brings the plot full circle to a perfect ending to the saga. It bashes your head to a pulp! Yet has a sweetness about it. Don’t miss this one!
December 28, 2024
If you read this after reading the original Audrey Rose you will be disappointed. Basically the whole book is Audrey Rose's father going off the deep end and the mother trying to find Audrey Rose's father to try and help her. Nothing like the original.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 15, 2020
Not as good as the first book (sequel’s rarely are) but still a good, enjoyable read.
January 10, 2024
Interesting but it drags and is not as good as the first book.
December 8, 2023
I did not know there was a sequel to one of my favorite novels. So I was quite excited to read..Unfortunately, this sequel does not come close to its predecessor.
August 14, 2012
I have nothing bad to say about this book. It is amazing.
Obviously I KNOW it's shit: the writing is appalling, the plot is ludicrous, the dialogue is unrealistic, it's a totally unnecessary sequel to something that was just about decent as it was, etc, etc... I don't care. It's fantastic, and I can give several hundred examples why.
Mild spoilers!
I'm baffled by the number of one-star ratings. This is GOLD. Paging John T. Fuller - if you've not read this, you really should. :D I just picked it up randomly while I was waiting for the shower to be free, I'd forgotten how brilliant it is!
Obviously I KNOW it's shit: the writing is appalling, the plot is ludicrous, the dialogue is unrealistic, it's a totally unnecessary sequel to something that was just about decent as it was, etc, etc... I don't care. It's fantastic, and I can give several hundred examples why.
Mild spoilers!
I'm baffled by the number of one-star ratings. This is GOLD. Paging John T. Fuller - if you've not read this, you really should. :D I just picked it up randomly while I was waiting for the shower to be free, I'd forgotten how brilliant it is!
August 13, 2016
For Love of Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta is the follow up to the story of Ivy Templeton and her parents Bill and Janice. It is also the story of Eliott Hoover, who was sure that Ivy was the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose.
After the horrific death of Ivy, Bill has lost his mind. Janice is now wondering about Ivy -- could she have been reincarnated again? She needs answers. She is travelling to India. Hoover has disappeared from their lives, but when Janice finds him, agrees to help Bill.
I did not enjoy this one as much as the first, as it seems like an after-thought. That being said, it did carry the characters on in a realistic way.
After the horrific death of Ivy, Bill has lost his mind. Janice is now wondering about Ivy -- could she have been reincarnated again? She needs answers. She is travelling to India. Hoover has disappeared from their lives, but when Janice finds him, agrees to help Bill.
I did not enjoy this one as much as the first, as it seems like an after-thought. That being said, it did carry the characters on in a realistic way.
February 18, 2016
I didn't love the first Audrey Rose book, but I liked the story and the concept. Watching the movie afterward helped me appreciate the story more. This sequel, unfortunately, missed the mark for me. It started out strongly with the conflict between Ivy's parents arguing the question of whether Audrey Rose/Ivy has reincarnated. Following that quest, though, the story muddles through a lengthy search for Audrey Rose's father and a left turn involving another child thrown in to confuse the story.
Overall, it was a mess for me.
Overall, it was a mess for me.
June 27, 2011
In the first part the crazy dad wanders around New York, in the second part his wife wanders around India, and in the third part the other guy shows them both up by wandering around Florida, Kansas City, Wheeling, and Pittsburgh. F------ vagrants- why doesn't anybody DO anything?
More here:
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More here:
http://www.mrsatanism.com/books/forloveofaudreyrose.htm
March 17, 2012
I read this when I was 12 or 13, after reading Audrey Rose. I liked the first one better. I remember being so, so sad for Ivy & Audrey for dying so young. I want to re-read these as an adult to see what my impression would be now.
August 26, 2016
Read this soo many years ago but it just popped into my head for some reason.
From what I recall it took me forever to finish and was a tad bit scary to me (hey I was like 12 when I read this). I do remember I cried at a part.
From what I recall it took me forever to finish and was a tad bit scary to me (hey I was like 12 when I read this). I do remember I cried at a part.
July 4, 2008
I'm not sure why I decided to read this sequel when the first book wasn't that great, but what can I say? I'm thorough.
September 26, 2019
All I can say is that my English teacher and I have very different tastes. (Of course I lied and told him I liked the book. Yikes. Sorry, sir B, didn't want to hurt your feelings.)
December 4, 2015
Sequel to Audrey Rose...enjoyed!
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