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Summary: heart pounding tension I enjoy!
Review: i love this book a real tale of sibilies and family tearing each other to pieces for no reason I hope Melody hates herself cause she just gave up a guy girls would die to have!!![.] Great Book I advise you to read it!
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Summary: The Dollanganger Series is over
Review: I first read the flowers series in 10thgrade, i have just reread them now being almost 22, i love these books.i cried so hard at the end of this book, because i felt like i was there and really got to know and love the characters, sad to see taht the original dollangangers were all gone...but finally reunited with each other. All books by vc andrews are excellent but this will always be my favorite series.
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Summary: Just plain depressing.
Review: The final installment in the Dollanganger saga is just plain depressing. Nothing went right for anybody in this book: Cathy was still haunted by her days in captivity in the attic, Chris was as incestuously lustful as ever, Jory was seriously injured and forced to end his dancing days, Melodie was mentally unstable and left him after their children were born, Bart was obsessive and manipulative, Cindy was a strumpet...nobody was happy and little, if any, good happened.I gave two starts because it's important to read this book if you want to learn how the series ends.
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Summary: Seeds of Yesterday
Review: If you have read the first three books by V. C. Andrews in this series, you MUST read this one! It is the last of the series and a very great book. I have been trapped in these books from the very beginning. I dont think that I have ever read so quickly or so much in the time that I have throughout these books; I could not put them down. I am not a person who cries over movies or books, but this book was an exception. I was skeptical about Seeds of Yesterday and its content because Cathy and Chris have both aged so much, however It turned out to be one of the best. I definitely would reccomend reading this last book, and if you dont you really are missing out on something wonderful!
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Summary: Greed, incest and betrayal lives on in the next generation
Review: Only Bart and Jory made this fourth book in V.C. Andrews' best saga worth rereading over and over. Cathy is once again the narrator, and she's ok, but it's really all about Bart, and how screwed up he still is. All Chris and Cathy do is continue to enjoy their incestuous marriage, which angers me, because it is at the expense of Bart's happiness. The two of them were obsessed with each other, and she wouldn't even leave Chris to ensure Bart's inner peace and mental well-being, so to heck with her. She let herself believe that it was Bart's problem, not hers, when you better believe it was.
So anyway, I liked this book, but I don't like Chris and Cathy. Those who like Chris and Cathy might be very disappointed that they don't play as big a role in this addition to the saga as Bart does. Those who are fascinated by the little trickster are sure to get a little enjoyment out of Seeds. Bart is a sad, sad young man and who can blame him? Shows the affects of parents' stupidity on their children.
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Summary: "They'll pay and pay, and then pay some more!"
Review: Or so Bart claims, one eventful (or should I say, uneventful)evening after being slighted, yet again, by those pesky villagers who don't have much respect for the "creep of the hill and the hall". And such is the kind of wild antics you get to put up with from that crazy, yet hilarious Malcolm clone in this fourth installment of greed, incest and betrayal. "Seeds" picks up fifteen years after "Thorns". Bart is about to turn 25, and any day now he will supposedly "come into his own". Cathy and Chris , who will do anything to appease the malevolent Bart, have agreed to celebrate the happy occasion with him (his birthday and the reading of the will), but they plan on moving to Hawaii. Actually, Bart asked Cathy to come (he couldn't care less about Chris, and as a reader, neither could I). Jory and his wife Melodie fly down from New York, and Cindy shows up as well. And the happy family is together again. Cathy, once more the narrator, is hoping against hope that once Bart is rolling in money, he will finally "find himself...and pray God he found the right self." It is not long before she discovers that she has another Malcolm Foxworth on her hands, only this one isn't confined to bed and a wheelchair (though later on another character is, thanks to Bart?) Then there's long-lost Uncle Joel who has come back from the dead and returned to his old home to, one can only assume, break his sister's will and live his final days in splendor. Bart, who is in desperate need of a male role model, takes to Joel right away. Joel reminds one of John Amos, hypocritically religious, and all too eager to stay glued to little Bart's (only now he's not so little) side. Cindy, at one point, claims that perhaps Bart's "hang-up" is his fixation with older male relatives.
Out of the five books that make up the Dollanganger saga, I would consider this to be the third best (right after Petals and Thorns). This is based solely on the fact that I love the characters of Bart and Jory. Bart is just as fascinating as he was in Thorns, only now he's not a little shrimp anymore. He's over six feet tall. He's still as confused as ever, especially when it comes to his relationships with members of his family. He is disgusted with his "father", Uncle Incester, and refuses any relationship with him. He probably can't get it out of his mind that this was the father who gave him baths and spankings and such, and all the time he was sleeping with his sister, whom he raped years and years ago in an attic. Bart is torn between his love and hatred for his brother Jory, and for Cathy, and he has the never-failing hope that she will one day leave Chris and only then will he be happy. The obsessive-compulsive habits he picked up when he was ten are still apparent; he believes them to be his unsuccessful attempts at ridding himself of the dirt in his life. During his frequent inspections of his eternally messy home (figuratively speaking), he will sometimes come across a scantily clad Cindy, whom he hates as much as when she was two-years-old, but hates even more when she dresses provocatively, reminding him of his sinful mother. And he steals into his sister-in-laws room, while she grieves for her husband, his brother, who is in the hospital.
Jory is still the happy, optimistic brother who dances and dances through life, with his lovely ballerina wife, the Cathy clone, Melodie Richarme Marquet. And Jory is the Julian clone, in appearance. This is the recurring ambiance of the book, that history is repeating itself, through Jory who resembles his father, Bart who resembles his father, Cathy's stepfather and lover Bart Sr., and Cathy and Chris who resemble their parents. Then there is Joel who looks like an older version of Chris Sr., and Cindy and Melodie who show small resemblances to Cathy. In fact, there is one humorous scene where Chris glances at Cindy, whose dress is riding down over her shoulder (baring more than necessary), and he remarks to his wife "She looks like you used to". But even more haunting are Darren and Deirdre Marquet, Jory and Melodie's little children, the doppelgangers of dead Cory and Carrie.
Cathy was ok as the protagonist/narrator, however, she cannot compete with Bart, as if any character can, save the mysterious, vampirish Julian from Petals. Cathy's too normal, though we all know this is far from being true. I'll take a deeply disturbed antagonist over a domineering, overbearing incester any day. As for Chris, he is also an incester, and a very annoying man. He is also kind of suspicious. He spends far too much time doping up his favorite son, Jory, who ends up in the hospital at one point in the book, and tending to every need and whim of his eccentric family. This is one guy who likes to play doctor to his relatives, even in the hospital, which I found unprofessional. And he was left as trustee of Bart's estate until he came of age, and guess what? A bizarre codicil magically appears in his mother's will. But back to the interesting characters.
Bart must have somewhat of an Oedipus Complex (gee...you think?). But that was apparent even in ITBT, and it is doubly so now. When I first read this book, five years ago, there was one scene where I was almost positive Bart was gonna pull a Chris on Cathy, but no, V.C.A. does have limits apparently. The truth is, though, if Bart had to have an Oedipus Complex, why didn't Virginia put it to full use, and then we wouldn't have had to put up with a whole other book filled with Chris's ignorant antics, and obnoxious bits of hypocritical wisdom.
Oh well, that would have only led to Cathy dying even sooner of loneliness and then there wouldn't have been any more story. Sometimes you have to put up with Chris, just to get more of Bart.
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Summary: a great ending
Review: this book starts out with the live of bart and jory as grown ups.
jory is now dancing with a famous ballet company with his wife.
bart has come into his inheritance left by his grandmother. but
like his mother he cannot let go of the past. demons still haunt
this poor family. at the end they finally come to know some type
of peace but it takes so much heartbreak to do this. maybe this
is a lesson for all of us not to wait until we are old to try to
forgive and move on with life.
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Summary: this was great!
Review: this book was just as good as the others in its series
of course certain characters such as Cindy dissapoint you with thier actions
but as usuall VC Andrews provides a good reason for this
the ending is as tragic and heart breaking as all the other books in the series except this ending provides closure
and belive me
it will make you weep and think about it for days
i recommend you read this book
and for anyone who wants to know what is invloved in the ending here are some hints
paper flowers
car crash
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Summary: Another great novel!
Review: This book was fantastic! It had all of the emotions a book should have, happiness, sadness, drama. The story starts off with Cathy and Chris going back the the Foxworth Manor Bart (Cathy's son) had rebuilt. They mees their uncle Joel who was lost many years ago. Once in the house, Cathy notices Barts not so hidden emotions for his half brother Jory's wife. When Jory becomes paralyzed their marriage is put to the test. The adopted daughter Cindy is in this novel as well and she is causing trouble and she and Bart don't get along at all. A shocking twost near the end leaves for a very sad but great ending to Cathy and Chris's story.
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Summary: Great Ending
Review: This book is a great ending to the series of Cathy and Christopher Dollanganger (or whatever last name you prefer). It starts out when Chris and Cathy are 50-something years old and Bart is now sane. He has just finished the last of all his psychological problems. Jory and Melodie are married and still dancing and Cindy is around 16 years old. Bart still shows the disgrace for Cindy from when she was only 2 years old. Cathy's and Chris's uncle, Joel comes. Joel is believed by Cathy and Cindy to be messing up Bart's brain again. This is a wonderful story.
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