false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172871727m/226706.jpg 226706 28 Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart,who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old.<P>Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother".<P>And soon Bart's transformation began...<P>Fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father...leading him into shocking acts of violence.<P>Now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood, still tipped with fire. <P> 464419 1981 If There Be Thorns (Dollanganger, #3) total:4243|5:844|4:1164|3:1585|2:538|1:112| 4243 14819 5137 109 3 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Sat Nov 03 19:50:36 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 20:09:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 18 07:44:14 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 08:52:45 -0700 2009 My main problem with the book is not so much the storyline, but the fact that the story is told from the perspectives of fourteen-year-old Jory (Cathy's son with...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 09:08:22 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 19:26:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 04:41:59 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:01:43 -0700 2009
When I started this book, I was disappointed in the change of narrator from the previous two in the series (Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind), but I understood why it was necessary t...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Oct 07 08:01:45 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 08:03:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 20:17:16 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 16:15:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 20 00:00:00 -0800 1984 Sun Apr 19 19:47:47 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 22:13:13 -0700 2009
I'm stealing the following paragraph from another reviewer because it fits this so well:

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I kind of liked that one of the kids was, like, just flippin' crazy, because if you don't think this kind of effed-up family dynamic trickles down to your kids, then you're pretty much just a ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Nov 02 14:41:03 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:45:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Apr 04 11:24:04 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:44:26 -0700 2009
This is the only V.C. Andrews book written from a boy's point of view. As in Petal...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982 Fri Mar 07 15:56:19 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 11:17:44 -0700 2008
If There Be Thorns is the third book in the Dollanganger series. The story continues with the incestuous siblings, Cathy and Christopher ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 11:28:39 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 14:32:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Dec 30 15:26:42 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 15:38:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 07 23:09:28 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 23:32:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 18 06:00:19 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 06:01:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 08:08:23 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 25 13:44:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 22:48:20 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 06:05:33 -0800 2009 1 Seguimos con la vida de Cathy y Chris, ya adultos y casados, criando a los hijos que ella tuvo en el anterior libro. Los niños se convierten en los protagonistas de este libro, y es un poco como un soplo de aire fresco. Aparte, es "bonito" ver la relació...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Mon May 26 11:12:45 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 18:35:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 06:30:38 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 06:33:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=226706