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Summary: Thorns hurt - Ouch!
Review: I have read every book V.C. Andrews has written. I absolutely love this series and highly recommend it.
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Summary: Not the best in the series
Review: I LOVE the Flowers in the Attic series, but this one was not one of my favorites. Cathy is portrayed as a dumb blonde who shows favoritism only to Jory and Cindy. Chris seems melodramatic, but then again, he always was. From the very beginning you know who the stranger is moving in next door. Bart's transformation is mesmerizing and sometimes creepy. It's a quick read though. Just don't let the switch in narrarators throw you off.
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Summary: Not the best in the series, but still pretty good
Review: This was actually the first book in the Dollanganger saga that I read; I borrowed my sister's copy, not knowing it was the third book in a series. Needless to say, I was very confused at first with many of the references to the events of the previous two books, but by the end it became pretty clear. It became even more so when I went back and read the two previous books in the series.I was disturbed by the cruelty to animals that is displayed periodically in the book--for instance, the murder of the little kitten belonging to the "lady in black" and the ghastly mistreatment and horrible murder of Bart's dog, both at the hands of the sadistic, despicable John Amos Jackson. However, cruelty is a theme in all of the books of this series; none of the books are for the faint of heart. Bart is not very likable, although his brattiness seems to stem from jealousy of his handsome, smart half-brother Jory, who is the apple of his parents' eye--and later of Cindy, the little girl his parents adopt. It's not hard to see why he latches onto Corrine (aka "the lady in black") who dotes on him. The complicated (to put it mildly) relationships between the various characters climaxes in several scenes of confrontation, confessions of very ugly truths and deeply hidden secrets. Bart and Jory both learn shocking revelations about their respective biological fathers, as well as the man who's been acting as their father for as long as they can remember. It's often unpleasant, but still a worthwhile read.
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Summary: cruelty goes too far
Review: I love the Dollanganger series as much as anyone, but this book bothered me. I love animals and what Bart did to his dog, Apple just made me furious. He ties the dog up, puts his food just out of reach and leaves him in a swelteringly hot barn. That scene made me cry nad cry. Someone finlly discovers him, and when Bart sees that Apple is running around the barn chasing a ball, healthy and frisky again, he abuses him, kicks him and such. That scene was the most awful thing I had ever read. With all of VC Andrews wonderful writings, why did she include this?
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Summary: a sort of disappointment for me
Review: I really was hoping that Cathy and Chris never ended up together but well that's the way it is written. I particularly liked this book because it was written from Bart and Jory's point of views. I don't think that this book was really as good as the first two, but it's worth reading
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Summary: Sweet and Sour
Review: Thorns is a book in which you sit tail on end and cannot possibly put it down. I read this book, all through my trip to Disney World, so I must say it is easy to read. Like all the Dollaganger books, it sets chills to the bone. It starts out with a lonely little Bart who does not know himself, then proceeds on to be a dominent religous freak who knows to much about himself, and his sinnful "insessive" parents. Everyone blames the lady next door who is really only there to plead forgivness from her hating children. But actully it is the butler John Amos Jackson and Malcom's little red book telling Bart the "real" truth, and teaching him, of femine "wiles", and of sinning. Could Bart really be the one shoving the pitch fork trough Apple's head, and stranggling Clover with Barbwire? Bart is losing connections with everyone except John Amos, and the lady next door whom perfers him to call her "grandmother". He finds himself happy only when he crotches over, has heart trouble, and becomes the dreadful, heartless Malcom Foxworth.My favorite part is when Cathy's mother dies right when Cathy learns she still loves her mother and will forgive her. Will Cathy and Chris (Now a married couple)never rid the grandmother and memmories of the attic? The epilogue is a bit untelling, but as for the book, Way to go VC!
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Summary: good
Review: This is a very good book. Yes, Cathy is somewhat of a ditz and she should have tried harder with Bart. She did favor Cindy and Jory something awful, another reviewer was right about that. But it's true V.C.A. writing. And I think there should be a series with a male lead for once. I think that, for once, it would be kinda neat to see a book with a male narrator who has major problems. It's just an idea, though.
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Summary: blonde love
Review: get off the horse. this book. i mean seriously. does everyone out there want to be blonde and sleep with their own personal brothers (or am i alone here). an eerie, chilling (yet oddly moving and arousing at the same time) insight into the goyum.
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Summary: The worst of the lot
Review: First, even though I find Cathy's character less sympathetic with each page, I believe it was a mistake to switch the narration of the series to her sons. Jory comes off as bland in this story, serving only as the moral foil while his brother raises Hell. Bart is just plain disturbed, it looks that way even before the mysterious Corrine Foxworth appears on the scene, and I suppose the readers are led to believe this character flaw is a direct consequence of Cathy and Chris's incestuous "marriage". Thorns is probably the least believable of the series. I find it baffling that it took nearly the entire book for Chris and Cathy to discover that their elderly neighbor was really their mother. Why wouldn't Chris, who had always had sympathy for his mother, have tried to track her down following her release from the mental institution? At least keep tabs on her in case this happened? Why would Corrine favor Bart more than Jory, aside from that fact that Bart was her husband's child too. They are both her grandsons, why play favorites? The John Amos character was ridiculous, a stereotypical rehashing of the grandparents in Flowers, and his slant on helping Bart become the 'new Malcolm' was absurd.
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Summary: S.O.S. Same Old Story
Review: I don't like Cathy Dollanganger. The way she treats Bart is disgusting. She favors adopted Cindy and graceful Jory and treats Bart like waste paper. I'm tired of brothers and sisters as lovers. V.C. Andrews is the same old story.
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