Flowers In The Attic

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Summary: Flowers in the Attic
Review: I thought the book was great. It was very hard to put it down once i got started. I have read Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, and If there be Thorns, I would like to know the order in which to read the other books.I have met women that have also read the books and we get into a indepth conversation about Cathy, Chris and the Twins. I recommend you start reading about them and find out what DID exactly happen!

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Summary: Outstanding book!
Review: THIS BOOK WAS BY FAR ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. MY MOM RECENTLY LENT IT TO ME TO READ. SHE READ IT AS A TEEN AND ENJOYED IT NOW IT IS MY TURN. THIS BOOK CATCHES YOUR ATTENTION VERY QUICKLY. IT IS A PAGE TURNER, AND YOU DON'T WANT TO STOP TO PUT IT DOWN. I STAYED UP UNTIL 2:00 AM JUST WANTING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. SAME WITH THE SECOND. IF YOU ARE GOING TO READ THEM, BE SURE TO DO IT IN ORDER. OTHERWISE YOU MIGHT NOT REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. I AM NOW ON THE THIRD AND IT IS A VERY GOOD ONE. BE SURE TO READ THIS BOOK, FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC.

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Summary: Flowers in the Attic
Review: V.C. Andrews outdid herself in the book Flowers in the Attic. Cathy Dollanger one of the four Dollanger children narrates the story. Cathy a twelve-year-old must learn to grow up fast. Her father dies and Cathy and her brother Chris who is 14; must raise the children for their mother. They now live in with their grandparents in a huge mansion. In order for their mother to inherit her father's wealth he must not know about his grandchildren. The children must live there because their mother has no skills to obtain a job. The mother starts visiting the children less and less. The kids now rely on themselves. Although times are tough the kids find little things to amuse themselves. The four children go through many tough times. Andrews puts the characters through many different twists and turns. She keeps you wanting to know what happens next. This book was great and I suggest it for the young and old. This book shows how strong the bond can be with brothers and sisters. This is on of the best books I've ever read. It kept me guessing what was going to happen next. I am not much of a reader- and I read this book in less than a week. I strongly suggest this book.

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Summary: Compelling!
Review: This book was really good! Well written, and well nararrated. Although very dark, VCA outdid herself with this one! Cathy was an ok heroin (she got a little on my nerves but altogether ok), but the grandmother! She was the one who got the book rolling. Mean, heartless, uncaring as she was, her cruelty was what made this book as eyecatching as it was. It is a really good read, i recommend it to all who like these dark stories!

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Summary: Best of the series, and that's not saying much!
Review: Back in junior high school (15 years ago), more often than not one would see a girl toting a VC Andrews paperback along with her schoolbooks. Ever since I was made aware of her existence I managed to avoid her titles because I just was not into "horror fiction". Recently, though, I moved to Hampton Roads, which encompasses VC's hometown of Portsmouth, and what can I say: I was curious to know exactly what it was that had so many young women hooked all those years ago.

The core of the story, I admit, has some appeal. Four children, devestated at the loss of their father, are promised hope and a future of luxury when their mother reveals she has wealthy relatives. So eager are the children for this lifestyle that they willingly subject themselves to being isolated in a forbidding wing of a lonely mansion, away from curious eyes, while their mother tries to reconcile with her monster of a father before his pending death.

Here is the true horror of the story: the mother's good faith slowly peels away to reveal a woman consumed by greed who distances herself from her children, leaving them to the mercy of a disapproving grandmother and ill nutrition while she lives the life of luxury she promised them. The younger children are stunted in growth, while the older children are ultimately pressed into a relationship the grandmother constantly lambasts. The mother, depending on the wealth, goes so far as to commit an unspeakable deed.

Abuse and neglect are the focus of this horror story, rather than blood and gore. This is a story that should make you more angry than scared. I've heard FitA was based upon a true story, but I have yet to find any information substantiating this claim. Either way, I've satisifed my curiosity of Ms. Andrews by reading the four books of this series (the only series I believe she wrote on her own), and can say undoubtably this is the best one, though Cathy's narrative is at times immature. I don't expect I'll read any other titles.

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Summary: Never Left My Hands!!
Review: Being 12 years old. at first I thought the book was going to be boring and too mature for my unprepared hands, but, I was soon to find wrong. I found the book was very interesting and I enjoyed it. The book starts up as a simple story and I was almost turned away, but, the story of four children locked away by a greedy mother and a heartless grandmother, took it's toll on me. I was swept away. As the four children learn the real reason why they are in the dark and dismal attic, they plan to strike back. But they soon learn that their widowed mother remarries and fear that all hpe for their return to civilization is long gone. I really didn't have a favorite part in this book. It's hard to pick one written by such an author as V.C. Andrews. I loved the ending also because it continues to the second book, "Petals on the Wind", wich is just as enjoyable as the first(book).

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Summary: Flowers in the Attic
Review: I just got finished reading "Flowers in the Attic" for a reading project at my school, Franklin Learning Center. The first book in all of Virgina C. Andrews' series was very shocking. I got so into this book, it was as if I was in the attic with the children, experiencing what they were experiencing. This book is about a cruel mother who locked her children away in a dingy, dusty attic for almost four years, because of her selfishness. Corrine (the mother) brought her four children to the manor where she lived as a child, Foxworth Hall, after her husband died. Corrine's mother ordered that the children be condemmed to the attic. The children were only supposed to be there for no longer than a week. The days turned into weeks, weeks into months, months into years. In the attic, the children, who were only fourteen, twelve and five year old twins were negleted of what all children need: sunlight. Because of Corrine's selfishness and cruelty, one of her children died. This book is very spellbinding and it is a page turner. This is one of the most marvelous books by anyone I have ever read.

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Summary: great book
Review: My mom is not as selfish as Corrine(the mother in the book). I could not imagine my mother locking up in the upstairs bedroom and the attic to fulfill her own selfish desires. I can not also imagine her poisoning me like what Corrine did! I could not believe the lap of luxury that she had while her kids were starving upstairs!

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Summary: Absolutely Peerless.
Review: I read Flowers in the Attic a number of years ago now and I still re-read all five in the series every so often. These books drew me in and kept me in until the very last moment. When Cathy's heart broke so did mine. When she cried, I cried. She is a character without compare, she's fragile, cruel, vulnerable, ironwilled, hard-hearted, emotional, defensive, disturbed, traumatized, beautiful, graceful and violent. There just aren't enough adjectives out there. She's so well-developed, with her mannerisms and her figures of speech...You hate what she hates. And you love what she loves and for just a few hours and a few hundred pages, you can get into the mind of a person you would have dismissed as bad and you can feel what she feels. This is the mark of a fabulous book: taking away a realization about the world and about the nature of human emotion. You find out that Cathy's sins are not only her fault her relationship with Chris is heartwrenching. The plot is well done, haunting and full. Characters, I think I've said how wonderful they are. This book is so powerful and anyone who can should read it. And the sequels. Especially Petals on the Wind and Garden of Shadows. You won't ever forget them. (I don't recommend the movie, though :-))

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Summary: Perfect
Review: I have just finished reading this book to find tears spilling out of my eyes. Such a compelling novel and the author describes everything so powerfully, you feel like you're there. No matter what anyone else thinks, this book is definitely something to cherish.