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Summary: not one of her best books but hey it's a 4 part series
Review: cathy and chris are now living together as man and wife and raising her 2 boys. jory is every parents dream. good in school
and a great dancer like his mom. bart on the other hand seems
to do everything wrong. he is clumsy, always getting hurt and
feeling somewhat neglected until the house next door is occupied.
soon he is making friends with the little old lady there who
starts to whisper secrets about his supposed parents. this leads
him and jory into secrets past left in the past and a showdown with cathy and kris that is unbelievable.
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Summary: If there be thorns
Review: Cathy and Chris are now living happily in California,with Cathy's
kids-14 year old Jory and 9 year old Bart.
Cathy and Chris adopt a two year old girl called Cindy,after her mum dies.
One day an old lady in black,fixes up an old mansion that is beside the Sheffields.
Along with the old lady is a butler who makes Bart Mental,help kills his beloved dog Apple,and even gets him to try to kill Cindy.
Chris finds out who the old lady is his mother who was in an loony bin,and so does Cathy after a while when they are locked up in the basement.
The butler John Amos Jackson burns down the place,where the lady in black die,as well as John.
Bart becomes sane again and they live happily ever after. The End
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Summary: VC is great!
Review: No one writes like her! I've never read stories like hers.
You have to try it, Flowers in the Attic first. I haven't read many of her others, but they are on my "list".
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Summary: Keep reading..
Review: Keep reading this series, it's amazing, they get better & better. More shocking, scary & wild!!
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Summary: The Dollanganger series
Review: I just finished reading the Dollanganger series. This was one of the worse ones. There were 5 in the series : 1) Flowers in the Attic 2)Petals on the Wind 3)If there be thorns 4)Seeds of yesterday 5)garden of shadows. The best books were #1, 2, 5. I did not care for the this book as much, but you should read it if you are going to read the whole series!! HAPPY READING!
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Summary: Creepy tale tries to recapture spell of 'Flowers'.
Review: After the disappointing Petals on the Wind I wondered just what story was left to tell about Cathy and Chris and their troubled family. Not much it seems. This tale revolves around Cathy writing the book that would become 'Flowers in the Attic' while an elderly lady and her sour and sinister butler try to connect with her children, Bart and Jory. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out just who the old lady is. The two children (one well adjusted, the other suffering mentally) take turns telling the bitter tale. While that makes for an uneven narrative it does get the novel closer to the gothic tone of the fractured fairy tale mixed with taboo shattering family secrets in Flowers than the meandering, heavy on the soap suds Petals did. Close but no cigar.
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Summary: The Decline in the Dollanganger Series
Review: In "If There Be Thorns", Cathy Dollanganger, the heroine of the past two books in the Dollanganger series, passes the pen to her two sons, Jory (14 years old) and Bart (9), letting them tell the story of when Corrine (Cathy and Chris's mother) finally leaves the mental institution and comes to live next to them. The family lives in Fairfax, California. The two young boys think they have a pretty normal family: a beautiful, talented mother (Cathy); an equally attractive stepfather (Chris); and a loyal maid (Emma). It all seems too perfect until Jory witnesses a disturbing scene between his mother and "stepfather" in their attic. Afterwards, he realizes his parents have been lying a lot about their pasts--yet he doesn't know the entire truth: that Cathy and Chris are really siblings, not just husband and wife. Jory's questions remain unanswered until the house next door is bought and a woman who dresses in black moves in with her butler. The woman-in-black is Corrine, and she's accompanied by John Amos, her father's faithful, evil butler. Bart is the first to become attached to the odd couple. He receives more attention and love from them, he believes, than from his own family, who no longer consider him the baby when they adopt Cindy, a two-year-old orphan. To make matters worse, John gives Bart Malcolm Foxworth's journal, thus beginning Bart's "change". Bart takes Malcolm's word as gospel and soon begins mimicking the Grandfather's behavior and thoughts, which really disturbs Cathy and Chris the most. To uncover Bart's strange behavior, the family has to confront Corrine and John, thus reopening old wounds and exposing many family secrets. In the end, Bart becomes warped like the Grandfather, and Corrine and John face the fate they had eluded back at Foxworth Hall in "Petals on the Wind". This is definitely not one of my favorite V. C. Andrews books. The change in protagonists really threw me, and the way Corrine reappeared in Cathy and Chris's life wasn't very believable. How could Cathy and Chris not know it was their mother living next door to them? I wouldn't recommend reading this book unless you're really into the Dollanganger series or V. C. Andrews books. "If There Be Thorns" is the third book in the Dollanganger series, preceded by "Flowers in the Attic" and "Petals on the Wind" and succeeded by "Seeds of Yesterday" and "Garden of Shadows".
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Summary: TIRED, QUASI-GOTHIC FARE
Review: Cathy is truly a fiend. Set in 1982, this tired brother-sister union is revisited in this installment. Cathy, her two sons, adopted daughter and Cathy's brother Chris are now living on the West Coast. Cathy is truly disgusting. The way she treats Bart really turns the stomach. Her obvious favoritism towards the adopted 2-year-old Cindy and her cruelty to Bart was appallling. To make a bad story worse, Cathy locks Bart in the attic (again with the attic)! until Chris frees him. I was glad when Bart cut Cindy's hair and I loved the way he stood up to that disgusting Cathy. Too bad the Child Protective Services couldn't have freed him from that loveless monstrosity. Cathy was a fiend. Bart cannot accept their incestuous relationship and his older brother Jory is a goody-two-dancing-shoes phony. To add to the Gothic feel, a shadowy old man named John Amos is part of this stupid tale along with...a woman named Corinne! This book is just a load of taradiddle and belongs in the wastebasket. Chris is the only one you can like. Cathy belongs in the toilet. This book is just a waste of time.
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Summary: The Dollanganger story continues...
Review: I would have given this book 5 stars if it wasn't for the animal cruelty. Being an animal activist, I will not tolerate any kind of animal abuse whether it be fiction or real. Also, it was obvious from the beginning, who the stranger next door was. This book was predictable the whole way through. Chris seemed whiny and Cathy was not the same. This book was either written by a ghostwriter or VC Andrews had a headache the day it was written. If you want to continue reading about this saga though, I'd recommend you read it.
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Summary: She's back!
Review: In this book, Cathy and Chris have settled in California with Jory, Cathy's son by Julian Marquet, and Bart, Cathy's son by Bartholomew Winslow, her mother's second husband. They use the last name of Sheffield. They also adopt a girl named Cindy. All is well, untill the day that an old lady and her butler move into the house next door. She invites Bart over for cookies and milk and tells him to call her "Grandmother". Who is this lady and what does she have in store for Bart?
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