Flowers In The Attic

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Summary: Scared the bejebbies out of me.
Review: This series of books about this family would make anyone wish they would stay an orphan. After her husband dies, a mother brings her 4 children to live in a grand home she lived in as a child. The grandmother is not your Cookie Baking,Mother Hen type. She lockes her grandchildren in a attic room for years, making the kids life a living nightmare. The mother on the other hand is no better. While her mother is making life hell for the kids, she is living the good life oblivious to what is happinging to her children. After a few years 3 kids escape and move on to a different life

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Summary: Couldn't put it down, got me in trouble in school
Review: I thought this book was one of the best I ever read, and I have read a lot of books. I am only 12 years old, but I thought this was a spectacular book. I kind of understood what happened between Cathy and Chris as they became more and more the parents of the twins. However, I kind of thoughy Cathy was asking for it, what with letting him kiss her and all. I loved all of V.C. Andrew's books, and I will read them all someday.

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Summary: V.C. Andrews' Best series
Review: While the cover of "Heaven" may claim that the Casteel series is 'the most passionate, most powerful series V.C. Andrews has ever written', I belive that the entire Dollanganger series is her absolute best!

Anyone who enjoys reading her novels feels all the emotions Cathy goes through--hope, fear, anger--and can sym/empathize with her plight. Not just Cathy, but Chris, Cory and Carrie as well!

I have every single V.C. Andrews book on the market, and out of all of them, the Dollanganger series is my favourite! The others are wonderful, but they can't hold a candle to the Dresden Dolls!

I highly recommend this novel, and all other V.C. Andrews books. Once you start reading them, you can't stop! :)

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Summary: Excellent book, extremely hard to put down...
Review: This novel was the first I ever read of V.C. Andrews collections. This is an excellent book, I didn't want to eat or sleep once I started reading this book. I would suggest that if you want a novel that is going to keep your attention day in and day out you need to try this one. V.C has you wondering what is going to happen next. I can remember times when I would try to skip a few pages just so I could see what the outcome was going to be.

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Summary: I Love This Book
Review: Flowers in the Attic was the first V.C. Andrews book I read. I took me a while to get into it but when i finally did I couldn't put it down. I loved every page of it. Ever since then I have been reading her amazing books. All of them seem to keep my interest. I haven't found any other authors that can write like V.C. Andrews. Out of all the books I've read Flowers in the Attic was my favorite. I recommend it to everyone.

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Summary: easy to read , hard to put down
Review: Flowers in the attic was one of the first novels I read after leaving shcool, I loved it, after I finished it I ran to the video shop to watch the film (that was a big let down after the book) so I rushed to buy the sequel infact I now own nearly all of Virginia Andrews book and it didnt take my sister long to follow. I am delighted that her family have decided to finish the work she left before she died. I am a mother now and find her books easy to read in the little spare time I have the book are not dragged out, compelling, tear jerkers and heart warming I just wish I had bought the whole family sega at once so I didnt have to wait to see what was in store for the children next. A book for almost any female

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Summary: Pure drivel
Review: Intriguing plot, lousy writer. Andrew's writing is immature, worthy of a romance novel, or at least, Danielle Steele. I think I liked this book when I was about 13 - then I grew up. The theme of incest seemed to stem from a need for melodrama rather than actual suffering. Yuck.

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Summary: Best V.C Andrews series
Review: I'm started reading V.C Andrew books when I was 11 two years ago. I like them all but nothing can compare to this series. Flowers in the Attic: The trama of the four children in an inclosed attic for years was heart- breaking, the tears were flowing during this book, the sespense of the escape defenitely the best part of the book. Petals on the Wind: The story with their new guardian, Bart is in the text. If there be thorns: The trama and sespense of Bart continues. Seeds of yesterday: The shocking ending, is the best. I can't give it away but you'll definetly enjoy this series. There is a book before in the series called " Garden of Shadows." It's not nessesary to have to get the text, but is a good thing to order.

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Summary: VC Andrews first book wrenched my heart out
Review: Flowers in the Attic has to be my all-time favorite book, next to Gone With The Wind. The story of four children, imprisoned in a northern bedroom, waiting for their grandfather's death to set them free is heart-wrenching and very realistic. Four children, deprived of the love their mother gave them in abundance before their father's death, turn to each other for the love they desperately need to keep hope alive. Hope is yellow, like the paper flowers they place in the attic to make it more like a garden for the younger twins who are rapidly forgetting what it was like to be outside. The betrayal of their mother, the starvation, torture, beatings, and emotional devastation are easily accepted as reasons for Chris and Cathy to draw closer together, forming a family with the little twins, Cory and Carrie. Only in the context of this book could I find understanding for an incestuous relationship. But locked in that cold, dreary northern bedroom, cut off from their mother and all hope of love and affection, it is natural they would turn to each other. Humans need love, need to be touched and held. To deprive four young children in the midst of their development of these basic necessities is to destroy their ability to look outside of their own circle of love. Trust is a commodity which carries a price too high for them to pay. VC Andrews writes this story so convincingly, it leaves the reader wondering if there might not be a hint of personal experience or knowledge buried somewhere in the pages, or growing beside the "Flowers in the Attic."

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Summary: Read if you had a troubled childhood - Author Not Anne Tyler
Review: If I had not been raised in the crazy atmosphere of a typical southern Gothic environment, I likely would have put the book down after the first few chapters. I would call this book and the author sophomoric if I didn't carry the baggage that I carry. I loved the book as it allowed me to vicariously experience my desire for revenge against a mother who is a child. This mother and my mother could have been twins even though I doubt that my mother would have been able to kill her children. The theme of incest could turn some readers off, but I suggest plodding through it -- the book is wonderful in its own way. I am now reading the rest of the series.