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Summary: Petals on the Wind
Review: In this book, Cathy, Chris and Carrie have managed to escape from Foxworth Hall. They have new lives living with Dr. Paul Sheffield, who has adopted them. But, Cathy longs to get revenage on their mother. Will Cathy get her revenage?
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Summary: Its Funny
Review: Its funny how cathy has a relationship with her foster parent who is about 30 years older than her and for some reason, V.C. Andrews makes it sound as if its ok. Chris's infatuation for her sister, She makes it sound ok. Her affair with her mother's second husband, Its ok. V.C Andrews is so sick! But I love it! The Dollanganger series always have incest in them and she makes it sound as if its OK! And I like the books. It takes some writer to write about all these controversial topics that are considered offensive and make it sound good.
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Summary: The Original VC Andrews does it again
Review: It's really sad how much of a difference you can tell b/w the books written by VC Andrews herself and the books written by her ghostwriter. The entire Flowers series shows what a genius storyteller VCA really was and how now, the company, and the ghostwriter have pretty much tarnished that image with the new novels and the repeated sereies which is the Hudson. Had the Hudson family series been written by VC Andrews and not a ghostwriter, it would have been one heck of a groundbraking series. But on to the review of Petals on the Wind: Petals is a great book. Cathy is seeking revenge and taking no prisoners and Carrie's fate is tragic and will have you crying. It's a novel that will keep you up late reading it from cover to cover. Not one to be missed at all.
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Summary: An all-night read!
Review: I have read this book so much that I could quote you a couple of chapters. This book is very captivating and the plot doesn't get old like Flowers in the Attic. After reading this book, you will have a mental picture of all the main characters. The only things that are annoying the use of the word "thousandfold" over and over, and the fact that Cathy stays with an abusive husband. I won't say anymore and give away the story. ENJOY!
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Summary: WOW!
Review: The second book in the thrilling Flowers in the Attic saga. After years of torture and suffering in the Attic of Foxworth Hall Cathy, Chris, and Carrie are finally free (!), but the twisted story doesn't end there. After a long trip they are forced to go to a doctor when Carrie becomes violently ill. This is where they meet Dr. Paul Sheffeild who soon takes them into his home when he hears their unfortunate story. Cathy continues to persue her dream of becoming a prima ballerina and winds in and out of various relationships. After her dancing partner and lover, Julian, dies she goes to Barthomelow Winslow to have him get money from Julian's life insurance. After a few run-ons she decides to move next to him and make him fall in love with her as she gets revenge on her mother. (finally) One word for this book : WOW! It was very exiting. I couldn't put it down. If you want to see what happens to the Dollanger family and want to see Cathy give some serious payback to their selfish mother read this book! If you like horror, romance, and a dash of suspence rolled up in one, go for V.C. Andrews. But be sure to read Flowers in the Attic before this one or you may be left in the dark. Then you may move on to the next book,If There be Thorns, which only gets crazier!
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Summary: Excellent tale of passion and revenge...
Review: "Petals On The Wind" is one of my most treasured books. This tale has it all: romance, drama, death, heated debates, fame, and revenge. Cathy's need for revenge against Corrine colors all her actions, and prevents her from ever attaining the love she dreams of. The characters are richly drawn and beautiful: Paul, a tragic figure, saintlike and giving, yet very real. Julian, the tortured dancer who is more like Cathy than she cares to admit. Bart Winslow, an interesting man who seems to be Cathy's soulmate, and Carrie, Cathy's sad frail sister. This is one of the best of the Dollanganger series, and fans of Flowers in the Attic will not be disappointed by the continuing saga of the family. A must read.
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Summary: A tale of Reality
Review: They escaped after three years and some months of imprisonment. A continuation of a story with a tragic beginning and an even more tragic continuum. Three kids, Chris, Cathy, and Carrie escaped Foxworth hall, a large mansion which now belonged to their mother. Poisoned with arsenic, tortured, and desperate, the three remaining children boarded a bus that would take them to Sarasota, Florida. They never reached Florida because Carrie,the youngest of the three became very ill aboard the bus. Led by a kind woman they went to a doctor in South Carolina who helped Carrie heal, and then took the three kids in as his own.The doctor, happy to forget his own tragic past welcomed them into his home and traeted them as his own. They lived with Dr. Paul Sheffield who helped Chris, achieve his goal of becoming a doctor and Cathy her dream of becoming a ballerina. I would definetely recommend this book because it shows how cruel and unfair life can be. It shows reality mixed with fiction as well as a kind of fictional romance that most people could only dream of. Aside from being romantic it is also spellbinding. Ther are parts that will make you laugh and parts that will make you cry, but overall this book can teach you a lot of enthralling things about the real world and its many injustices.
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Summary: Cathy and Chris
Review: This tale is the best! I do like Flowers in The Attic more but I like this one second best! I love Cathy and Chris's relationship and Cathy should stop running from it!
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Summary: Cathy is still regretting what she did with Chris?
Review: Chris and Cathy escape, and Chris still can't get over Cathy. Not that I think Cathy is over Chris but at least she's trying. She keeps running from guy to guy trying to forget him but she is just like Chris. She should never have married Julian! She shouldn't have married Paul either. I would have done the same thing to her mother and grandmother! This story has touch me deeply!! I really think that her and Bart should have lived on happily but Its regretful!!
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: Petals is an adequate sequel to Flowers in the Attic, and given that the first book is not exactly a classic of contemporary literture, this doesn't say much. In a word, this book is disturbing. Hardened by her experience in the attic, Cathy is hell-bent on revenge. She wants her mother to pay for her brother's death (murder?), the pyschological problems her sister suffers, and the consequences the experience has had on her and her older brother, who wants to be more than a brother to Cathy. The only way Cathy seeks to achieve this goal is become a complete trollop, which to me makes her character the least sympathetic in the book. Cathy is a user. She abuses the kindness of the gentleman who takes in her family after their escape, she uses Julian to forward her dancing career, and she uses her mother's current husband as a tool for revenge. Looking back after reading this novel, I realize Ms. Andrews could have used this story to create a truly psychological work of horror and revenge. For example, how Cathy torments her mother with letters is the only fascinating thing about the book. Petals might have made for a better story had Cathy sought her revenge in this manner, slowly driving her mother insane. Instead, Ms. Andrews goes for sensationalism, and lots of needless sex. Cathy's promiscuity is disturbing. The incestuous overtones are disturbing. The climax with the destruction of Foxworth Hall is silly and melodramatic. The only character I liked in this book was Paul's mute maid, who might have served as a good moral compass for Cathy. It's a shame Ms. Andrews did not develop her character better.
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