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Seeds of Yesterday by V.C. Andrews
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Wow.  Almost done with the Dollangangers, thank goodness.  Only two books left to cover in this series, and this one is probably going to be the most difficult to write about.  Why difficult?  Because it sucked.  Seriously.  This book was terrible.  Combine all of the horribly tragic events of the first two books into one, add Chris and Cathy as an old married couple and you have this dreck.

(view spoiler)[Seeds of Yesterday starts up 15 years after If There Be Thorns, when Corrine died in the after the fire, we find out that she left the entire Foxworth fortune to Jory and Bart.  Heh, good thing John Amos actually did die in that fire, or he'd have been pissed!  The manor that was burnt down at the end of Petals on the Wind has been rebuilt in its entirety and some old guy who was previously thought to be dead (one of Corrine's brothers) has returned from some monastery in the Alps to be the creepy guy that's always whispering in Bart's ear.

Jory gets paralyzed while dancing at Bart's birthday party.  Someone set him up to have a horrible accident, thinking he'd likely die.  Oh noes!  He was dancing with his "sister" (remember Cindy, the adopted one?) because his wife (Melodie, another prima ballerina) is pregnant and didn't want to jeopardize her pregnancy.


Pretend this is Jory and those pillars are crushing his legs.

Sooooo...she doesn't want to jeopardize her pregnancy by dancing with her husband at her brother-in-law's birthday party, but guess what she will do?  Sleep with said brother-in-law while her husband is in critical condition in the hospital!  Yeah, right?  Cathy catches Bart and Melodie drinking and whooping it up while her oldest son is trying not to kill himself like his daddy did.  Jeeeez.

Cindy is super slutty.  Really, she is.  She invites some guy home for Christmas, promising her parents they'll be good, but they get caught in bed together.  Too enraptured to even notice or slow their stride, Cindy gets pulled off the guy and screams  about how unfair her family is and how they shouldn't treat her like a baby because she's SIXTEEN NOW, DAMNIT!  She gets caught with another guy later in the story, but I will probably forget about it by the time I get there, so I'm telling you now.

Melodie starts showing, so Bart discards her like milk that's a week past its expiration date.  She goes into labour at home, but decides not to tell anyone for some stupid reason, and by the time everyone finds out, it's too late to get her to a hospital.  She has twins.  Had no idea there was more than one fetus, because even though this is supposed to take place sometime in the 90s, her doctor couldn't tell.

She takes off, abandoning her children and her paraplegic husband because she just can't handle it anymore, and she wants to go back to dancing.   We find out later that she married another dancer right after her divorce papers are signed.  Fuuuuuuuu, all women in this series are just unbelievable strumpets.  It kind of blows my mind.



So, Cathy is pretty much a mommy to the twins, Cory and Carrie Darren and Diedre after they're abandoned by their real mommy (sound familiar?).  Bart starts sleeping with the nanny/nurse that was hired to help take care of Jory and his kids...but Cathy still wipes his tush because he's too embarrassed to have the pretty nurse help him out with that.  O.o

Bart and the creepy old guy, Malcolm John Amos Joel, are taking the twins off into the chapel located at the manor and teaching them all of the horrible things that Chris and Cathy heard from the grandmother while they were locked up upstairs.  They are of the Devil's Seed and were from a garden that should never have been planted, blahblahblah.  Cathy freaks out and tells the nurse (that is now interested in JORY) to never let the twins out of her sight anymore because they're being corrupted by her son that's gone over the edge.

(Oh, I think I forgot to mention that if Bart is ever institutionalized for anything, he loses his entire inheritance, so he's gotta try to keep it together in order to keep his money.)

Creepy old Joel dies of cancer at some point, Chris and Cathy are going to move out of the mansion - taking Jory, the twins and the nurse with them - but before they can...Chris is killed in an accident on a snowy road.  No, I don't think he got pushed off a cliff by a unicorn-riding dodo bird, but I'm pretty sure there was a shark attack in there somewhere.



Cathy is found up in the attic by one of the servants with a note in her hand, saying that she didn't want to live any longer without her beloved brother/husband beside her anymore.

You know, every time I would start to empathize with Cathy, or feel bad for her...I'd remember that she spent the majority of her adult life married to her brother and that her parents were also related.  That ruined it.  Too much ick factor. (hide spoiler)]

Yuck.

Last book (huzzah!) coming up on Tuesday.

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message 1: by Kate (new)
Dec 15, 2011 05:39pm

Kate Sherrod Oh god. Thanks for the horrible flashbacks to seventh grade, when these books got passed around like the junior high version of the clap. Good to see that comparison still holds XD


message 2: by sj (last edited Dec 15, 2011 05:45pm) (new) - rated it 2 stars
Dec 15, 2011 05:46pm

sj Kate wrote: "Oh god. Thanks for the horrible flashbacks to seventh grade, when these books got passed around like the junior high version of the clap. Good to see that comparison still holds XD"
You know, I think it's so funny that we were all in junior high when we read these. I can't possibly believe that was the targeted age group.


message 3: by Natasa (new)
Jan 15, 2012 09:00am

Natasa Oh god. After reading books 1 & 2 I don't think I can handle so much melodrama as if what was there wasn't enough. Thanks for this review, I am seriously glad I stopped reading where I did.


message 4: by sj (new) - rated it 2 stars
Jan 15, 2012 09:09am

sj Natasa wrote: "Oh god. After reading books 1 & 2 I don't think I can handle so much melodrama as if what was there wasn't enough. Thanks for this review, I am seriously glad I stopped reading where I did."Really, be glad you did. Just when you think it can't possibly get any worse than it did from the first books...it totally does.


message 5: by Patricialogan8 (new) - rated it 5 stars
May 10, 2012 09:47pm

Patricialogan8 Seeds of Yesterday is the last of the series


message 6: by sj (new) - rated it 2 stars
May 10, 2012 09:49pm

sj Patricialogan8 wrote: "Seeds of Yesterday is the last of the series"

Nope. The last of the series is actually Garden of Shadows. That's the prequel book that all VC Andrews series end on. :)


message 7: by Patricialogan8 (new) - rated it 5 stars
May 10, 2012 11:21pm

Patricialogan8 Yes but I meant that it ends the story for Cathy and Christopher, I count Garden of Shadows as first because it tells the story before they existed:)


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