Petals on the Wind

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Summary: BEST SEQUAL EVER!
Review: I read this book over a year ago, and re-read it again recently, because it's one of the best books I've ever read in my life! The horror continues in this saga, but to me it's one of the best books in the Dollanganger series. If you've read the first, "Flowers in the Attic", this is a good way to see what happens to Cathy, Chris, and Carrie when they become young adults. So many things occur in every chapter, it's hard to explain everything that happens. A real page turner, and a must-read!!

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Summary: A Captivating Sequel
Review: If you have read "Flowers in the Attic" by V.C. Andrews, you'll love "Petals on the Wind". This is a captivating sequel that will hold your interest until the fiery end! You won't want to put this book down. You'll be taken through the continuation of lives of the 3 remaining Dollenganger children after their escape from Foxworth Hall. You'll be enthralled by Catherine's plan for revenge on their mother, and find out the truth about Cory's death once and for all! The ending of this novel will have you wanting for more. Will Catherine's revenge finally be enough for her?

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Summary: I couldn't put it down!!
Review: I loved flowers in the attic and I loved the Dresden dolls!! Cathy is so much like me - we both like being independent and we can both be very unforgiving. I even have the actress's short haircut from the movie of f in attic!! but if i were cathy i wouldnt wait three and a half years i reckon id have waited a week then busted out by beating up the grandmother or my mother when she visited!!! Also i would have tried to forgive my mother i wouldnt seduce her husband

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Summary: MY FAVORITE!
Review: I know the whole book makes you almost think Cathy is willing to have sex with anyone! But come on the way they write about it keeps you intrigured!! I loved it! Sure it was different, but thats what made it good! Keep writing like this!!!!

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Summary: Exciting!!!!!!!!!
Review: OUt of all the V.C. Andrews series, this is my favorite. I love the Dollanganger family. It's thrilling, and keeps the reader interested page by page. I recommend this book to anyone lost for love and enjoys adventures.

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Summary: A wonderful ficton book for young adults and older
Review: I would definitly recomend this book to anyone young adults and older. IF you like books with never ending events. This book has a little bit of all of it. All of V.C. Anderews stories are full filling and have endless amount of details. This story is about a family with four children that start out normal then as always something goes wrong. The book "Pedals on the Wind" is a sad story but I realized it's not true but it does go on out there in the real world. this is a book young adults and older can learn a lot from. I once again recomend the book "Pedals on the Wind" very stongly.

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Summary: Revenge is sweeter than life, so think fools
Review: This sequel to "Flowers in the Attic" is a very pleasant surprise, given that "Flowers" was no literary achievement or even a very interesting soap, since its aspirations to be the Gothic Anne Frank were too high. Here, V. C. Andrews hits her stride, realizing that the Gothic horror is more effective combined with soap-opera romances than war history rewrites. The story is again first person, narrated by Cathy, but since our protagonists are not sequestered in the beyond-boring attic, the action and dialogue are ten times more involving. If "Flowers" was a long hibernation into inertia, "Petals" is a true page-turner, an edge-of-your-seat adventure. Overall, this is the book that "Flowers in the Attic" should have been, had V. C. Andrews spiced it up with more characterization. END

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Summary: Enchanting
Review: I can't say whether or not I liked Petals on the Wind better than Flowers in the Attic, because I felt they were both equally wonderful. Petals on the Wind was utterly enchanting and it was literally a book that I could not put down--I brought this book with me at every spare moment I had to read it only took me four days ro read. Again in this book Cathy is this supreme herione to me and she puts up with so much stuff, but her dream of becoming a ballerina does come true but there were other difficulties that went along with that dream. Now there are only two Dollanganger children left, and I can't wait to read If There Be Thorns. They should seriously make a movie out of this book and combine it with Flowers in the Attic. The movie in the 80's of Flowers in the Attic was hardly like the book, and I think it's time for a new movie! Read this book!

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Summary: I Absolutely <3ed this book!
Review: I am 14 right now, and I tried to put myself in Cathy's place. I probably would've given up in the attic, but Cathy is such a strong character that she couldn't if she tried. I am in love w/ the V.C. Andrews books, and I can't wait for more to come out. The Dollanger series is my favorite so far, and I read Petals in the Wind over, and over. Each time you read it you understand a little bit more, piece by piece. I recommend you to either purchase this book, or find some way to read it! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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Summary: a modern classic, up there with Rice, King, and Koontz
Review: Hmmmmmm . . .I have read every single V. C. Andrews book out, I only wish I could read the Gods of the Green Mountain, her first novel that was never published. But this book, Petals on the Wind was her second published work. I can still remember when I was sitting on my parents sofa and I picked up Flowers in the Attic, a book I saw laying on the table, I opened it up unsuspectedly, not knowing what I would find in these pages. What I found was the voice of my passion, every chapter, ever word, held such meaning for my soul. I never thought I would find a book that I adored as much as Flowers in the Attic, I was wrong, and twice! Then came along Petals on the Wind, now sequels are normally not that great, with the exception of Anne Rice's witch and vampire books, and ofcourse the V. C. Andrews' series, but this novel was far more outstanding than Flowers in the Attic, it goes into the deep motivations of Cathy's hatred towards her mother, Corrine. You sensed that majorly in Flowers in the Attic, but it is so clear in Petals on the Wind that it definityly places this book and all of V. C.'s books into the horror category, and they are horror, yet they're told in romantic fairy tale tones, they're absolutley incredible. And I said I was wrong twice about Flowers in the Attic being the best novel, with Petals on the Wind being my absolute favorite, Dark Angel comes in second. I wrote a rather lengthy review for Dark Angel, but that's another story, it goes into the brilliance of the Casteel series and how it is 99.8% in comparison to the geniusly written Dollanganger series. All in all, Virginia Cleo Andrews had an extraordinary talent and she gave me the opportunity to travel to different worlds and into the minds of incredible characters. Cathy will always be my most favorite fictional character. But if you want to know, my second favorite is The vampire Lestat. But this isn't about Rice, it's about Andrews's amazing skill.

~Tom Nordlum