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Dec 17, 2009

Neva rated it:

Hey, guess what? Flowers in the Attic was only the beginning of this sordid tale! We now follow Cathy to South Carolina with her gross brother and little sister who didn't die of arsenic poisoning (almost did though). They get taken in by a doctor and his sassy housekeeper. Seems harmless enough, right? Oh, how quickly we forget. Cathy ends up sleeping with the doctor who's like 40 years older than her and then running away to become a ballerina. She marries the MOST FAMOUS ballet dancer, and ha More...

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Jul 02, 2008

Sarah rated it:

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Jan 26, 2011

Cassy rated it:

I cringe to think how much V. C. Andrews I read in middle school. And honestly, once you have read one of her series, you have read them all. Mix together incest, rape, car accident, evil grandmother, vacant mother, missing father and bam, you have her latest series!

That was my disclaimer. Here is my confession.

I love this particular book. I thought the initial book in the series, Flowers in the Attic was good. The subsequent books and prequels were horrible. But this bo More...

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Jun 07, 2008

Trudy rated it:

My books are tattered and dog eared... I couldn't put these books down when I was in high school. Read the whole series twice. Which says alot at a time in most teenagers lives when they are repulsed by reading anything that isn't required by school.

So, just when you think the kids are going to be all right - after escaping Grandmama's evil clutches - they go and find bigger and better ways to mess up their lives... and I root for the remaining Dollangagner kids all the way.
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Jan 20, 2010

Ann rated it:

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May 17, 2010

travelmel rated it:

part two to the original guilty pleasure read really delivered the disturbing. Even looking at the cover brings me immediately back to my teens.

I'm stealing the following paragraph from another reviewer because it fits this so well:

QUOTE FROM JESSICA:
I can't (for me: shouldn't) rate these books, because giving a bad rating would be a lie -- I was crazy about them when I read them -- but giving them a good rating would be misleading because it would lead you to beli More...

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May 23, 2009

Emily rated it:

This book was not as good as the first book, Flowers in the Attic, but was definitley just as creepy. Cathy, Chris, and Carrie have escaped the Attic and are adopted by a 'kindly' doctor. Cathy licentiously works her way in to many a mans heart in her attempt to become a Prima Ballerina and get revenge on her mother and now sickly Grandmother. Chris continues towards being a doctor but never stops loving Cathy (CREEPER). Carrie, still very small, just tries to fit in and find true love, despite More...

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Jun 08, 2008

Laura added it

I wanted to claw my eyes out while reading this book. It was so horrible, and yet I had to finish it because I can never leave a book unfinished. It was difficult and painful. Every chapter was redundant. Cathy and the men that LOVE her, Cathy and her long golden hair, Cathy and her plies and "supple" leg muscles. Cathy talks for 400-something pages about the revenge she is going to get on her mother...and she has all of these random run-ins with her and doesn't do anything. The reveng More...

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Nov 03, 2007

Robin rated it:

I'm going to copy and paste this to all of them!!!! I feel like I have to justify this and all of the other V. C. Andrews books on my list!! I read these when I was young and loved them! My sister and I poured through them- they were obviously trashy for our age (probably the appeal) but mom let us read ANYTHING- as long as we were readung she was ok with it! And that paied off- because both my sister and I still read for pleasure daily. You can't beat it! Hey- and why be a book snob???

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Feb 12, 2012

Michelle rated it:

UGGGGHHHH, Cathy. Cathy is so terrible and manages to drag down this entire book. Almost the entire Flowers in the Attic awesomeness. Does anybody else remember her being this awful?

Cathy, Chris, and Carrie do indeed escape the attic, and somehow get taken in by a kind doctor in SC and his housekeeper. Cathy, after years of studying ballet by herself, manages to get accepted by a ballet school, then a ballet company. She's so talented and I guess we're supposed to cheer for her. What More...

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Feb 11, 2012

Bekah rated it:

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Jan 23, 2012

Rachel rated it:

Let me start by saying I LOVED Flowers in the Attic. I thought it was brilliant, and when I found out there was another book i was actually really excited!

Ok. Um. What the fuck?

LIke...WTF VC ANDREWS!? What kind of fucked up childhood did you have?

Cathy becomes absolutely DETESTABLE in this book. I literally hate Cathy and everything she represents. Add pedophilia to the list of freaky shit that VC Andrews likes to include in her novels. I was even MORE disgust More...

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Dec 08, 2011

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Aug 03, 2011

Ashley rated it:

I have to say...after reading the first..i couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. Now after the three remaining kids are free..they're now faced with the question of where they will go. With hardly anything to "their" names...they struggle with this present set back. And suddenly as if fate has decided to help them, they are struck with some luck.
Now they have a guardian and after a while...things seem to change. And as they all grow...Cathy finds herself looking at her More...

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Mar 25, 2011

Marian rated it:

I am soaking up this series so far like a fat girl on a cupcake. I just couldn't put it down. It's like reading the worst soap, and it is a soap - an over-the-top melodramatic, pornographic, preteen romantic soap. Whenever I find myself thinking - oh, you wouldn't go there! - Andrews did. Of course, this series so far is completely and utter garbage as far as reading materials go; the writing is juvenile (although granted there weren't many real grammatical errors, so that saved her somewhat More...

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Jan 19, 2011

Oliver rated it:

Like Flowers in the Attic, I first read Petals on the Wind, the second in the Dollanganger series, back in middle school. I've been reading it again over the past two weeks, well really more like a quick 5 days! Oh yes, it's good. This one moved faster, was trashier (aka more sex) and had a healthy heaping o' death.

This story picks up where flowers in the attic left off. The story is still told from the perspective of Catherine, the eldest Dollanganger daughter, and details Cat More...

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Dec 22, 2010

Brittany rated it:

How I Came To Read This Book: Having just read 'Flowers in the Attic' for book club, a fellow member found 'Petals' in their book collection and lent it to me to continue on with the Dollanganger kids.

The Plot: The book picks up immediately where the last one ended, with the siblings on a bus to join the circus down South. Things take a turn however, when they are blessed with the good fortune of being provided for by a mysterious benefactor. Cathy and Chris both continue the pursuit o More...

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Apr 01, 2010

Melissa rated it:

I read the VC Andrews Flower in The Attic series as a young teenager. After reading the other reviews I was struck by the fact that so many people had commented that they weren’t allowed to read these books or had to hide them from their parents and/or teachers.

I don’t remember my mother ever having a problem with me reading these books, in fact, I’m sure she must have purchased them for me. As long as I was reading, she was fine with it. I don’t however remember them being quite a More...

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Oct 25, 2009

Christine rated it:

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Jun 18, 2009

Lori rated it:

"Petals on the Wind" is not your average sequel - - mainly because it surpasses the first book in the Dollanganger series, "Flowers in the Attic", in both literary merit and story.
"Petals" picks up where "Flowers" left off, with Chris, Cathy and Carrie having just escaped the attic and their formidable Grandmother. It follows the fractured family for the next twenty-five years - - through the kids finding a home with the lonely widower Dr. Paul Shef More...

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Nov 22, 2008

Miss Mouse rated it:

This is my very favorite VC Andrews book. It's probably because they finally get to make something of their shattered childhood. It's such a bittersweet story after the Dollanganger children finally escape. There are very happy parts but reality is never far away.

I was definitely in Cathy's corner during this book. I was right with her plotting revenge on her mother. My very favorite part was at the Christmas party where Cathy wore the replica of the green dress and emerald jewelr

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Jun 13, 2010

Jay rated it:

Ahh, V.C. Andrews. The purplest prose of all purple prose.

Although I do, admittedly, like this book, there are a few points that I'm having trouble with.

1. Andrews has (had?) a tendency to leave rather important details out before getting back to them. Such as Cathy's wedding date to Julian, or the fact she found Cory's body. It'd be nice if it was mentioned during the time.

2. The last quarter is very rushed. I wonder if Andrews had initially meant for the bo More...

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Jul 16, 2009

Cicely rated it:

Mothers do not let your daughters read this book! I remember being so enthralled by it as a teen, that I just had to give it a read as an adult. Turns out it's AWFUL! HORRIBLE! DISGUSTING! What do young girls learn from this book? Well, apparently it's okay to be raped as long as you love the person raping you, or at least can live with them long enough to learn to love them. (Seriously, Cathy is raped THREE TIMES in this series, by three different men! One of whom is her BROTHER! And she has re More...

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Sep 29, 2011

Connie rated it:

FROM THE MOMENT DR.PAUL TOOK IN CHRIS, CATHY, AND CARRIE I KNEW HE AND CATHY WOULD END UP IN BED. SHE (THE AUTHOUR) MADE IT TO OBVIOUS, THE SHORT NIGHTY, THE LONG STARES HE WOULD GIVE HER. I THOUGHT FOR SURE THAT (OR TATHER HOPING NOT) CATHY HAD MISSCARRIED WHEN SHE AUDITIONED FOR MADAME MASHA AND ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE WAS BLEEDING PURFUSELY. I KEPT ON HOPING AND SAYING "NO, OH PLEASE NO!" I REALLY WANTED CORRINE TO SUFFFER MORE, FOR HER WORLD TO LITTERLY CRUMBLE AND FOR ALL OF THOSE ARO More...

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Nov 18, 2011

Shane rated it:

In this continuation of "Flowers in the Attic" V.C. Andrews ramps up the sensationalism, with a higher body count, revenge, and several wildly inappropriate romances for the lead character, Cathy Dollanganger.

Speaking of sensationalism, I noticed that most of the characters use the word 'sensational' several times - and if there were a drinking game built around this word in particular, someone could end up quite tipsy if they took a drink every time 'sensational' is used More...

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Oct 25, 2011

Liss rated it:

Chris, Cathy and Carrie escape from their mother. A total bitch. Carrie was sick, and a woman took them where she worked, with a doctor. Cathy was 15 years old. She was beautiful and fell in love with the doctor, Paul, who took care of them and told them he was going to adopt them. Cathy is a man eater. She was looking for real love, and she loved everybody that was in her way and handsome. She was in love with Paul, with her brother Chris, then, with a ballet dancer, Julian. She married him aft More...

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May 21, 2011

Kolleen rated it:

Get ready, Grandmother. Here I come! And so begins the tale of book two, and if you haven't already guessed, this book is all about sweet revenge! I am devouring this series, and although the books are only four star books, if they keep up like this they will quickly become favorites of mine.

This book starts with Chris, Cathy, and Carrie escaping from the attic and embarking on their journey. Soon they find a stroke of luck with meeting a lonely doctor that is willing to take t More...

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Feb 17, 2009

Gaby rated it:

After waiting so long (6 days) to read the second book in the Dollangager series I was a bit disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the book definitely quenched my thirst for crazy love triangles, moral issues and other plot twists that many books don't have enough of. However, I was expecting something different from what I actually read.

Cathy is hellbent on revenge on her monther and grandmother after living 3 years and 4 months in the attic of her grandparents lavish home in Virginia More...

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Sep 29, 2011

Amber rated it:

This is the second one in this series which I have read, and it is so much better than I expected.
To be honest I was a bit put off by the cover and age of the book, but it's one of those books you get into really well. The subject of the book is very strange, but it's nice to read a book which isnt all and they liked each other and something happened now they are in love and they lived happily ever after.
This isn't a very usual topic, but you can still relate to all of the characters More...

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Jun 20, 2009

jenn rated it:

V.C. Andrews is kind of like watching Passions used to be. In order to get to the weird, entertaining stuff, you have to sit through an eternity of tortured, redundant dialog. But then something totally surreal happens, like Cathy finally confronts her grandmother, and works herself into such a rage that she literally starts pirouetting around the room through her monologue. And who doesn't want to read that?

This book is about 5 times more dirty than FitA. (I was tempted to hype More...

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