Garden of Shadows

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Summary: OUT OF THE BRIGHT AND SUNNY WORLD OF HAPPINESS..........
Review: EMERGED YOUNG OLIVIA WITH HOPES AND DREAMS OF A HAPPY LIFE WITH HER NEW AND HANDSOME HUSBAND MALCOM FOXWORTH. YET IN THIS BOOK WE SEE THAT AFTER LIVING WITH HIM HER DREAMS BECAME NIGHTMARES AND HER HOPES UNREACHABLE. IN THIS BOOK, WE BEGIN TO SEE WHY THE GRANDMOTHER IS AS CRUEL AND UNCARING AS SHE IS. YOU UNDERSTAND HER DEVOTION TO THE BIBLE AND HER FEAR OF INCEST AND SINNING. YOU GO BEYOND THE THOUGHTS OF RAGE AND SIN, AND THEN GET TO KNOW THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DOORS OF THE FOXWORTH HOME AND WHY A ONCE YOUNG AND INNOCENT GIRL IS NOW THE EVIL AND HEARTLESS WOMAN THAT WATCHES OVER FOXWORTH HALL.

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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I just hated the grandmother in all the other books, until this one. Then I just felt so sorry for her. Malcolm seemed like the type of man who should never get married. He is just not the type. She really wanted to marry for love, and look at what she received instead. She really did care for her children too. I really enjoyed it.

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Summary: The book made the grandmotherandMalcom not look half as bad
Review: The grandmother had a sad lonely life and hopes and dreams were only shattered from the marriage of Malcom. He cheats on her, lies to her, ignores his sons,and even kills his father. Malcom, in short, was sad and disturbed. I couldn't put the book down, not that I had a reasons too. It was good and it explain alot about how the children were raised and how the grandmother felt. I think that it was more of John Amos who made the "Flower Children" the way they were.

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Summary: A dark legacy that began it all....
Review: What a cold life Olivia Winfield led. Garden Of Shadows is a great insider's look on what she suffered and why she became the vicious woman she was. You can sympathize with her and pity her instead of hating her.

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Summary: Unnecessary
Review: When ý read the Flowers In The Attic ý thought that,ýt was the best book ý have ever read.Of course the other books of the series are also good ,except Garden of Shadows. I think ýt's an unnecessary book.If ýt hadnt written ,we would have thought Olivia is a merciless character.And we wouldnt think whether Corinne was right or not. Now we cant understand who is right.Malcolm was abondened by his mother and he is an unstable man. Nobody loved Olivia and she is merciless woman. Corinne was spoiled by her father.Her fate was readied by her family.Like Dresden Dolls... Althoght the book is ýnterestýng the desprictions are long and many unnecessary sentences written.

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Summary: The Beginning of the Foxworth Family
Review: This Book is the beginning of everything that happened to the Foxworths and the generations below them. Olivia always wanted her dreams to come true but they did the opposite. And she became a very mean lady the same as her husband Malcom Foxworth. If not worse then him. I thought this was a very good book. I've seen Flowers in the Attic on t.v. But I never knew how it began until I read this book. If you haven't already read the other books you should. There is Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, and If There Be Thorns. I'm sure theres more to it.. I haven't read If There Be Thorns yet But I'm sure it's just as good as the rest!!!!

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Summary: Not as good as I expected!
Review: Yes, the book helps you to understand why the 'wicked old grandmother' is the way she is. because she thinks her grandchildren are 'demons', and who can blame her? It is a fact that the offspring of siblings are missing a few genes here and there and can turn out to be 'different'. But, really, the only thing you find out from reading the book is that Corrine and Christopher are half-brother and sister rather than half-uncle and niece. It is a good book, but I don't think there is as much of a storyline as 'Flowers in the Attic'. I think the book goes on for too long, after all it starts when Olivia is twenty-four years old and ends with her at the age of sixty-four. it does prove that even wicked people have some love in them though, for she truly loved her sons, Mal and Joel.

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Summary: Now It All Makes Sense
Review: If you've read the Flowers in the Attic series you must read this it is the best one of them all!!! But don't read it before Flowers if you haven't read flowers yet. Read the series as it came out it makes this last one so much better.

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Summary: Olivia's Transformation
Review: "Garden of Shadows" shows the transformation of Olivia over the years into the "Grandmother" we've come to dread in "Flowers in the Attic". Was Olivia this dreadful punishing person from the start? What was Malcom Foxworth REALLY like in his younger years? Did Cathy's mother Corrine really marry her half uncle? All secrets will finally be revealed and a light will be shone on the shadows of Foxworth Hall in this captivating novel.

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Summary: It made me fell so empithetic for Olivia!
Review: It is the best book in the series!You understand how Olivia is driven to insanity!Fantastic!Absouletely Phenomonal!