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Summary: Absolutely incredible...
Review: Petals on the Wind was obviously one of V.C.Andews best. The Dollangers series is my favourite, and after reading this book, always will be. I've never read anything as remarkable as these stories. V.C.Andrews has a very vivid, interesting and ultimate imagination. I only wish that she had the time to capture us,again with more of these tales herself,but there is a special thanks to her family for trying to continue her legacies! I hope to find more of these books soon, and continue reading them!
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Summary: This book, is beyond words
Review: Flowers in the attic was the mothers betrayel, Petals on the wind is the daughters revenge!!, this book is excellent probably better then the first book, the first one was great how they were locked up, very emotional etc. but this one is even better as cathy wants REVENGE!!!
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Summary: ummm....... really strange
Review: Petals on the Wind had a strange plot line. Well, i t wasn't that strange. Cathy feels she has to have revenge, because her mother betrays and ignores her children to inherit her fathers money. It is a some what emotional book. I guess it was enjoyable.
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Summary: Excellent and Exciting- The best book there is!
Review: The book Petals on the Wind is the best book ever written. It never gets dull and is filled with suprises. Once you pick it up you can't put it down! The sequels to books aren't normally as good as the first one but this book is BETTER than Flowers in the Attic. I highly recommend reading this book
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Summary: This book is great from cover to cover!
Review: While reading this book I could hardly put it down. There is never a dull moment, chapter, page, or sentence. I liked this book even more than the one that came before it in the series. V.C. Andrews is really good at turning out "page turners."
I can't wait to read the next book in the series. "Petals on the Wind" includes romance, drama, and mystery in one great book. I love books that offer everything. It is hard to find these kind of books any more, but this is definitely one of them. Just when you think a character is going to do one thing, she does another. This book just keeps you guessing from the very beginning to the very end.
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Summary: More horrifying the deeper you read into Cathy's motivations
Review: The first time you read this book, it seems to be another "daughter's revenge" horror story. Upon re-reading it, you will discover how many levels of human frailities it transcends. The main character's obsession with revenge leads her to give up love, fame and happiness just to see her mother fall. While most authors give the protagonist a challenge to rise above, VC Andrews' Cathy sinks lower and lower into self-hate which manifests itself ultimately in her becoming her mother, the very object she hates the most. A psychological
thriller that makes the reader wonder, "What price would I pay for revenge." What price, indeed. Read it twice, at least!
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Summary: Hasn't lost her touch...
Review: I decided to take a go at reading a genre I wouldn't normally & started with V. C Andrews "Flowers in the Attic", this book totally changed my mind about the things I had been reading previously, as it was so good. I went onto reading "Petals on the Wind", I wondered whether like most series it would be a let down, but it was nothing close. It was full of emotions most books can't portray. It gives you deeper insite into the Dresden Dolls growing up, the now older & seductive Cathy, the painfully depressing Carrie, and the handsome, intellectual Chris. All with their own new issues entering adulthood. It is full of entertainment. I wasn't once bored with this story, I read it in a couple of days. Yes, it was depressing in places, but it made up for it in others. The only downside I thought was that the story made them all grow up to fast, there wasn't much youth & vibrance left by the end like in-Flowers in the attic. I think the fact there was so much loss & change made the story all the more interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting a good entertaining, hearty read. I can definitely say it is on my top of the list for good reading material.
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Summary: Fantastic Sequel to Flowers in the Attic
Review: After three years, four months, and sixteen days, Cathy, Chris, and Carrie Dollanganger have escaped Foxworth Hall. "Petals on the Wind" begins with the three children on a bus destined for Florida. However, their travels are cut short because of Carrie's poor health. They are assisted by a mute woman (Henrietta Beech) who takes them to her boss, Dr. Paul Sheffield, their soon-to-be guardian. The three children have a new chance at a "normal" childhood. They attend school, and Cathy and Chris even begin pursuing their personal goals: Cathy joins a ballet school; Chris later enters medical school. At her ballet practices, Cathy meets Julian Marquet, the son of her instructor. He is attracted to Cathy and pursues her until she agrees to marry him. All the while, Cathy is torn between these three men: her older brother Chris who never abandoned his love for her since they left Foxworth Hall; her much older guardian Paul who becomes her first lover; and Julian, her abusive new husband, who she married out of desperation rather than love. One of them fathers her first son Jory. Carrie, on the other hand, doesn't have as much success as her older siblings. She's constantly teased by her classmates because of her short size and large head, which makes her become more withdrawn and miserable. Then one last encounter with her mother leaves Carrie on the brink of suicide. Throughout the book, Cathy strikes out at Corrine, trying to ruin her mother's life any way she can. At the height of her revenge, Cathy steals her mother's husband away from her, becomes pregnant by him with her second son (Bart Jr), and publicly announces her imprisonment in Foxworth Hall. "Petals on the Wind" is the second book in the Dollanganger series, preceded by "Flowers in the Attic" and followed by "If There Be Thorns", "Seeds of Yesterday", and "Garden of Shadows". This was the first V. C. Andrews book I ever read and is still my favorite. If no other Dollanganger books had followed this one, I would have been satisfied with the series. As far as I'm concerned, "Flowers in the Attic" and "Petals on the Wind" are the only two books worth reading in the Dollanganger series. Although the other three all have their significance to the Foxworth-Dollanganger storyline, I was only interested in the lives of Cathy, Chris, and Carrie; no other characters captured my interest very much. Also, for being a sequel, "Petals on the Wind" is very successful and true. The effects of their imprisonment in the attic are life-long scars: Carrie's dwarfism; Chris's desire for Cathy; Cathy's bitterness. If you've read "Flowers in the Attic", "Petals on the Wind" is a must-read. It's the aftermath of the children's stay in the attic and how they choose to forget or remember what happened.
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Summary: A bit out there!
Review: This book was very good, but it was a bit far fetched. I was like she started writing this book in a dream state. I d also didn't like how they grew uup so fast in the book. It was like one mnute there fifteen, and the next she's thirty-six. It was very hard to keeo track of the age. But nonetheless it was still a very good book. A very intersting novel.
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Summary: Rather disappointing...
Review: "Flowers in the Attic" was my first step into this genre, and I found it one of the best books I've read. I looked to "Petals on the Wind" with great anticipation, but a short ways in, my enjoyment nearly flatlined. Bad points of the story: The story jumps around a bit too much, and what there is of the story seems to be too many people trying to get into Cathy's tutu. It seems half the time she's sobbing, a word used a bit too often throughout the book. And if she's not sobbing, someone is gripping her to them and telling her how exquisitely beautiful she is and that she belongs to him. Another annoying habit in the story is the placing of an exclamation mark behind Chris' name, as if Cathy is surprised her brother actually shows up. Chris himself doesn't seem to have much personality outside of studying and trying to convince his sister that his love for her isn't wrong, and if it is, oh well. Through some pieces of the story you have to wonder if Cathy left her brain in the attic. At one point I was so disappointed in Catherine, I really didn't want to finish the story, as she thought to herself "Life seemed to me nothing without a man." Lastly, I felt there was excess character killing, with eight deaths (that I counted) throughout the story. Good points of the story: Carrie gets some more attention in the story, but it's mostly bittersweet. The only real redeeming part of the story was settled in the last fifty or so pages, with an excellent revenge set loose on the mother and grandmother. Which almost makes the rest of the story worth reading. In conclusion: Between "I sobbed.", "You're beautiful. You belong to me!" and "Chris!", the author manages to create a mildly entertaining story. But if I had it to do over again, I would have stopped at "Flowers in the Attic" and let my prior image of Cathy's character be.
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