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Summary: It was always Chris.....
Review: I dont think the man who watched her in the shadows in her dreams was Bart Sr. I think it has been Chris all along. Chris was the one always there, watching her, yearning for her. Julian, Paul and Bart Sr. were insignificant (well, maybe not Paul.. but i mean in Cathy's life).
What Chris and Cathy feel for each other is not sick. At least, i dont find it sick. Their love story is one of the most saddest love story that I ever read. Im glad that Paul died and had Cathy accept Chris. It's the way its meant to be. Cathy and Chris belong together, therefore they should be with each other.
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Summary: This one's my favorite
Review: I like Cathy, except the way she treats Chris. It really isn't his fault. Most people say it's a "sick, sad relationship. ", but I say it's just sad. Sad that Cathy won't admit that she, too, has sinful feelings for her sibling. She runs from man to man, trying to fight off Chris, but only ends up in his arms (my favorite part). I don't think Jullian was useful, I personally hated his guts for what he did with Carrie and other younger girls, and then ran back to Cathy, claiming he was lonely. He's a sick, sad jerk, and I hate him for ruining her like that, and hating Chris and Paul, becuase he knew Cathy had feelings for them. Cathy annoyed me in her relationship with Paul, that's worse that the Cathy/Chris relationship, which is sweet and sad, but hers' and Pauls' is disgusting! She's his legal DAUGHTER! Hello! Her affair with Bart was stupid, I think he's a loser, cheating on his wife for Cathy, and then refusing to marry her, even when he knew she was carrying his only child. I loved the way she confronted her mother, and grandmother. Yessss! But that thing with Carrie.... oh, how I cried! It was sooooo sad. Corrine was still the evil, disgusting, revolting person she became in Flowers In The Attic, and it was annyoing with her denying Cathy, Carrie, and Jory. Ohhhh, how I wish to punch that woman! Take my advice, read this book if you like twisted, interesting stories, but make sure to read Flowers In The Attic first, because you'd be lost in the plot. Then, you can finish the series, and take it from me, it just gets better, crazier, but better!
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Summary: CATHY IS A MONSTER
Review: I don't like Cathy. She is truly monstrous. First off, I don't like the way she seduces Bart, Sr. I also don't like Julian Marquet or his pushy mother. They are a pair of dancing fools. Cathy was a fool to marry Julian and an even bigger fool to take up an uxorial role with her brother, Christopher. V.C. Andrews (this was the REAL V.C. Andrews and not the GW) has run that tired theme of brother-and-sister incestuous relationships underground. The stories are all more or less predictable. The V. C. Andrews has never been at a loss for monstrous females, starting with the grandmother Olivia, the shallow, stupid mother Corinne who locked the children in the attic for over three years and killed her youngest child, Cory, and of course, Cathy the Fiend. Cathy is singularly horrific. Forcing Carrie to leave Paul's comfortable house where she was loved and happy, was the height of stupid and unfair. It was too bad Carrie didn't just point blank refuse to go with Cathy when the latter insisted they head north, near the Foxworth estate. When Carrie commits suicide, one can easily feel that Cathy was to a large extent responsible for Carrie's act. If she hadn't pressured Carrie to leave Paul's, Carrie would have been spared the horror of revisiting the Foxworth years. Cathy belongs in the toilet with the other sewage.
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Summary: This family is messed up!
Review: In this sequel, the Dollanganger/Foxworth children finally manage to escape the hellish prison of the attic. However they are not equipped to deal with the "real world". As Cathy gets older, she is obviously more affected by the loss of her father then she knows, because she seeks out and seduces men (especially older ones) left and right! Poor Christopher hangs on to his "sinful" lust for his sister and refuses to find another girl, even though he is quite a catch. And Carrie slowly wastes away, living in Cathy's shadow, thinking (probably rightly so) that no man will ever look at her as long as her sexy sister is around. If any kids ever needed a psychiatrist, it's these three! This book isn't that great, I would say that "Flowers in the Attic" is the only book in the series worth reading, because the other ones get deeper and deeper into soap opera territory.
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Summary: Engrossing, like all of Andrews' works
Review: The second of the "Flowers in the Attic" series, I believe, is the best book in the aforementioned series. It tells of Cathy's incline in the world of ballet, her affairs, and the bitterness she harbors towards her grandmother, her mother, and her mother's betrayal. She wants revenge on the two and will stop at nothing to gain it, but even better is the longing that Chris has for her, and her passionate relationship with another prominent ballet dancer, Julian. I enjoyed this book, and I most definitely recommend it for anyone looking into VC Andrews.
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Summary: Worthy Sequel
Review: This story tells of the escape of Christopher, Cathy, and Carrie who are taken in by a kind doctor. Following her dreams Cathy continues studying ballet and Christopher goes off to college. In an effort to distance herself from her brother, Cathy seduces their guardian and eventually finds fame as a prima ballerina. After a disastrous marriage, Cathy finds herself relying too much on Christopher and trying to make a home for herself and her frail sister. Her hatred toward what her mother did to them increases until she plots the sweetest revenge. This book is a worthy sequel and a must read.
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Summary: Incredible Story
Review: I first read Flowers in the Attic and thought it was a bizarre story which could happen to anyone -- with the way money is so important to the world today. At the end of it, I wanted more! How was the mother going to "pay" for her sins? In Pedals in the Wind, she paid -- but so did everyone else. How I wanted Cathy to get her revenge; knowing revenge only destroys. At the end, it was only experiencing "true love", from where ever she could find it was going to save Cathy's soul. Or so I thought. How was she to know what love was all about when she had only her brother's love to measure it by? They all would have died in the attic if love for each other hadn't made them survive their ordeal. This story hurts to read it. It made my tears flow when Carrie died and when Paul and Chris loved so strongly but weren't loved in return. If you decide to read this book, you won't soon forget it.
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Summary: Very Good Seqeal
Review: Petals On The Wind takes place the very day that Flowers In The Attic ends. Cathy, Chris, and Carrie are headed for Florida until Carrie's illness leads them to a doctor. After hearing the horrible tale of their last few years the doctor comes to a decision and adopts them. But Cathy still hurts from her mother's betrayel and plans to take everything from her. As Cathy strives to be the best ballerina in her troupe she is inching ever closer to her mother and to the horrifying revenge she has planned.
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Summary: Sequel to Flowers is twice as trashy, but just half as good
Review: This book picks right up where the first ended, with the three Dollaganger children escaping their hellish lives in the Foxworth Hall attic, and immediately begins stumbling. The children are rescued and then raised by a widowed doctor and his housekeeper. Hopes for a "normal" life outside of the attic appear hopeless as the hyperactive melodramatics and Catherine's heaving bosom narration drag on and on. The plasma parched girl is thristing for revenge but takes forever and a day to get around to it (this book would have been a short novel if she had done it sooner). What made the first book so good was its timelessness, the aura of a fairy tale gone horribly bad. In this book the characters move about a very real and time placed world and this weakens the book. While it may have its moments, they are so few and far between they don't merit looking for, and abuse is not a sign of true love. Soap opera fans might want to give it a look, others should skip it.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: Cathy Dollanganger goes from being a good kid with a good head on her shoulders to becoming a messed up, desperate basket case! This book drags on and on about her dysfunctional relationships with men before finally getting to her revenge on Corrine. Check it out at your library if you really need to read it, but save your money to purchase one of Andrews' better works.
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