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Summary: They're out of the attic....
Review: VC Andrews has wrote an exceptional followup book to 'Flowers in the Attic.' I read the book in two days, glued to each page as the Dollanganger's finally escaped the attic and began an adventure in the outside world. Chris was obviously infactuated with his sister, Cathy and although we all turn our noses up to incest, VC Andrews seems to make it appear normal with her writing ability and way with words. When Carrie becomes extremely ill on a bus, Chris and Cathy realize she needs a doctor pronto and that is when they end up meeting Doctor Paul Sheffield. After this meeting, all kinds of things start happening for them. I turned each page with exciting anticipation as to what would happen next. Although Andrews will never be able to write a book as fantastic as the first Dollanganger horror of being locked in an attic for four years, this followup is very good none the less. If you do decide to read this book, you must read Flowers in the Attic first so you understand the whole story.
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Summary: So sad, so wonderful...
Review: Cathy runs from man to man, trying to escape her brother's love and from the fact that she returns it. She wants revenge against her mother and her grandmother. Most of all, she runs from herself, the horror and the guilt that taint her childhood. This series is excellent, fabulous and poignant. Carrie is given a lot more attention in this book and she well deserves it. Cathy's breaks hearts left and right without healing her own. Julian the cruel and wounded dancer and Paul, the doctor with a scarred past. Bart Winslow also is quite the character, bewitched by the beautiful woman who looks so like his wife, untimately entangled in the web of the Foxworth clan. I somehow find it impossible to hate Corrine as much as I once did. And Chris, quietly waiting his turn because he knows, as Cathy does not, that he and his sister belong together. I have read this particular book about seven times and I still cry when one of the characters dies. Every time, without fail. And I still love it! Cathy wants peace, but the evil of Foxworth Hall won't let her go and she drags everyone she loves along with her on her path to revenge.
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Summary: read it now before it's late
Review: Flowers in the attic,have you ever read this book ?If not well sorry,to those your lucky.Flowers in the attic is the story of four children,that have been locked in an attic for 3 years 5 months and 6 weeks.While being there they knew the whole truth.The truth about their mothers life ,that she's disinherited because she married her half uncle,Garland Christopher Foxworth their father.Somehow they manage to escape from Foxworth Hall,going to Sarasota,there they're going to spend their new life without Cory.Cory was killed by arsenic poisoning.It is coated in the dougnut that their grandmother brought.They use a wooden key to escape.They steal the money they needed for their escape.They steal their mom's money.When they knew that their mother was gone,even though they dont have enough money,they still escape.
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Summary: Yeah...
Review: Do half of you dumb asses realize that V.C Andrews DID INDEED write this novel? It wasn't until 1987 that she finally passed away. So how about you make sure that your information is correct before writing a review that rips apart a great novel by a great author.
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Summary: Such a let down
Review: It took me a long time to read VC Andrews, I kept looking at her books and reading the blurb and wondering about them. Eventually I gave in and read FITA. I was astounded, how could I have missed such a deeply emotional, gripping story? Having eagerly read to the end and cheered at their freedom, I reached for the sequel and started to read...and boy did I wish I had stopped at book 1. Cathy, our protagonist, turns into the most feather-headed, sex obsessed victim I've ever seen. I could understand Paul (the whole gratitude thing) and I could see why she had the hots for Chris, (the whole attic thing) but Julian? From the strong, fairly mature character in the 1st book, she transforms into a petulant, whining, constantly crying version of her mother. VC Andrews should have stopped at FITA. Their lives slipped from drama to melodrama and Cathy (who was the only sane voice in the FITA) turns into a throughly dependent, foolish bitch. The book stumbles from crisis to crisis, with half the cast dying and Cathy moving in with her brother, who can't seem to get over his 'love' for her. I was so disappointed that I read it in bits and ignored most of the book. Read FITA but leave the rest on the shelf.
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Summary: Blowing in the Wind indeed
Review: "Flowers in the Attic" to this day remains one of my all time favorite books. Anyone caught in it's spell could not possibly not want to read the sequel and see what happened to the three children that escaped the clutches of the Attic and their evil grandmother. Well........for one this story is a bit far fetched. Did V.C. Andrews even write this? Didn't she die after 'Flowers' and has had a ghost writer for the last twenty years? Anyway they leave the attic and get on a bus, headed for Sarasota, Florida to join the circus. Instead they run into a mute housekeeper who takes them to her employer, a doctor. As in real life, this complete stranger befriends the three of them. He adopts Carrie, sends Chris through medical school and helps Cathy follow her dream of being a ballerina. In the course of this of course, the doc falls in love with Cathy while Chris is still in love with her sister. The great confrontation which ends in a disappointing anti-climax is when Cathy meets her grandmother again. You remember 'Flowers'? The hate, the fear, the helplessness. Remember how badly we wanted Cathy to get away? Well now the shoe is on the other foot. After a stroke, the grandmother lays helpless, though alert. Cathy stands over her with a switch and strips the helpless grandmother. The anger is burning in Cathy's eyes. The fear is in the grandmother's..... I'll stop here. You just have to see what happens. I for one was disappointed. The story ends with a great fire that destroys the mansion and it's evil, forboding attic.
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Summary: Freedom wasn't the end of their turmoil...
Review: With the glut of teen-geared, posthumously-published, ghostwritten V.C. Andrews paperbacks that have been flooding the book world of late, it might be easy to forget that Virginia Andrews had the ability to create wrenching drama and unique characters who struggle to open the door to happiness even when the key is placed right in their hands. In "Petals on the Wind", the second volume of a five-book series, the three remaining "flowers in the attic" - Cathy, Christopher and Carrie Dollanganger - escape Foxworth Hall and certain death by poisoning at the hands of their gold-digging mother. As they heal, Chris, the sunshine of Cathy's heart, continues to try and care for his sisters while pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor. Through Cathy's adoring eyes, the reader sees him grow into a man who is handsome, protective and giving, with the flaws of an occasional temper and an inability - and unwillingness - to love any woman except his younger sister, who yearns to be a prima ballerina. And it's here that the book hits a snag - in Cathy's tortured relationship with her ballet partner Julian, a selfish brat who beats her, cheats on her and allows her no privacy. Given the singular experiences she has endured, it is plausible that Cathy would be torn between her love and gratitude for Dr. Paul Sheffield, the man who takes the children in and becomes their guardian angel, and her forbidden adoration for her brother Chris. However, it seems unfathomable that Julian, whom Cathy accurately calls a "nasty, inconsiderate brute", would fit into the equation. She and have both fiery natures and good physical chemistry that allows them to dance well together, but Cathy has been written to have too much fierce self-preservation (if not self-esteem) to put up with such horrendous treatment. A little more understandable is Cathy's later passion for Bart Winslow, the stepfather who never knew she existed. After all, her infatuation for him has slept inside her since she was fifteen and came across him dozing in Foxworth Hall's infamous Swan Room. V.C. Andrew's books are not for everyone. Readers who want stoic realism and sensible characters that find it easy to live by society's rules might have a hard time swallowing these stories. Some of their events are as fantastic of those that unwound in the soap operas Chris and Cathy watched while locked up in Foxworth Hall. Also, Cathy's deep romantic feelings for her brother, her mother's husband and the man who becomes her surrogate father might certainly be disturbing to some. But for fans who enjoy the struggles of Andrews's characters to find inner peace, artistic fulfillment and true love, "Petals on the Wind" is undoubtedly one of the best choices.
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Summary: You guys have ruined the book for me
Review: I tried to just buy a book , and on the same page as the book are everyone's opinions on the book I was trying to buy. Now AMazon sorry for ya...no money for you now that you have ruined the book for me.....here is a hint move the book reviews!!!!
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Summary: Just okay...
Review: I first watched the movie for "Flowers in the Attic" and decided to read the book and I wasn't dissapointed. In "Flowers" V.C. Andrews gives us strong, beautiful characters. However, in " Petals on the Wind" I found myself thinking how annoying the main character, Cathy, was. V.C. Andrews has us reading a cat and mouse game all throughout the book with Cathy and all of these men which got quite tiring after awhile. I still plan to read the last three books in the series but I would have enjoyed this book sooo much more if V.C. Andrews didn't repeat the same dialog, the same events with Cathy and Chris, with Cathy and Julian, with Cathy and Bart, with Cathy and Paul, etc. Do you kind of sense a pattern? Also V.C. Andrews creates so many times when Cathy sits and sobs a river when Cathy is the one that creates all the drama. I think V.C. Andrews could have written Cathy as a stronger character, anyways I do reccomend it if you have patience and if you are a die hard V.C. Andrews fan. Small summary: Cathy, Chris, and Carrie finally escape from the dark attic where they were hidden for over three years. They get on a bus where Carrie becomes very ill. With the help of Henrietta Beech, the siblings are introduced to Dr. Paul Sheffield who generously takes them in and gives them a place to say. Cathy soon enters a ballet school and follows her dreams of being a professional dancer, while Chris goes to school to become a doctor. Carrie, however, is very miserable and wants to be excepted and isn't because her head is to large for her body... the story basically just follows them throughout their lives. In the book Cathy gives birth to two sons ( I won't give the fathers away) and Cathy plans every day for revenge on her mother and the grandmother.
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Summary: Run Awaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!!
Review: Oh God. I got trapped in a car with this book playing on tape and I truly had to scream out loud several times, "Why are we listening to this crap!!!?!???".'Flowers in the Attic', while somewhat beyond belief (who acts like these people?) was able to hold my interest out of curiosity. 'Petals' on the other hand is so horribly inconsistent, whiney and uninteresting that I almost bailed at 75 mph. If they erased all Cathy's sobbing crying and lust, all of Carrie's fears and attacks with tiny fists, all of Chris' ultra dull personality, lust and jelousy, this book would be 3 pages long. IT IS INTERMINABLE! Who writes this crap? Oh yeah, the dearly departed VC Andrews. At least there won't be any additions to this balderdash. Of course, women love this fantasy, "Let's fall in love" drivel, and I guess it was written by a woman for women, but at least learn dialogue that will interest both sexes and anyone over 13 years old. People just don't talk this way. I mean what do you do with a love scene where "he touches her in that wonderful place" and "she touches him in that wonderful place". Arrrrghh!I had a dire wish for the grandmother to show up with a machete and put this sad group out its misery. Men, grab whateven gonads you have left and flee this book or they will be taken from you. Be warned. This is tripe like you can't believe.
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