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Title: Petals on the Wind by V. C. Andrews, Linda Marrow ISBN: 0671729470 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: August, 1990 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW!
Comment: The second book in the thrilling Flowers in the Attic saga. After years of torture and suffering in the Attic of Foxworth Hall Cathy, Chris, and Carrie are finally free (!), but the twisted story doesn't end there. After a long trip they are forced to go to a doctor when Carrie becomes violently ill. This is where they meet Dr. Paul Sheffeild who soon takes them into his home when he hears their unfortunate story. Cathy continues to persue her dream of becoming a prima ballerina and winds in and out of various relationships. After her dancing partner and lover, Julian, dies she goes to Barthomelow Winslow to have him get money from Julian's life insurance. After a few run-ons she decides to move next to him and make him fall in love with her as she gets revenge on her mother. (finally) One word for this book : WOW! It was very exiting. I couldn't put it down. If you want to see what happens to the Dollanger family and want to see Cathy give some serious payback to their selfish mother read this book! If you like horror, romance, and a dash of suspence rolled up in one, go for V.C. Andrews. But be sure to read Flowers in the Attic before this one or you may be left in the dark. Then you may move on to the next book,If There be Thorns, which only gets crazier!
Rating: 5
Summary: They're out of the attic....
Comment: VC Andrews has wrote an exceptional followup book to 'Flowers in the Attic.' I read the book in two days, glued to each page as the Dollanganger's finally escaped the attic and began an adventure in the outside world. Chris was obviously infactuated with his sister, Cathy and although we all turn our noses up to incest, VC Andrews seems to make it appear normal with her writing ability and way with words. When Carrie becomes extremely ill on a bus, Chris and Cathy realize she needs a doctor pronto and that is when they end up meeting Doctor Paul Sheffield. After this meeting, all kinds of things start happening for them. I turned each page with exciting anticipation as to what would happen next. Although Andrews will never be able to write a book as fantastic as the first Dollanganger horror of being locked in an attic for four years, this followup is very good none the less. If you do decide to read this book, you must read Flowers in the Attic first so you understand the whole story.
Rating: 5
Summary: Greed Held Them Captive; Will It Also Set Them Free?
Comment: The Dollanganger kids are out of the attic, yet there's still that one who didn't make it. Cathy is bitter and angry over all that had been taken from her by those who should have loved her. Now the little Dresden dolls are living with a stranger (Dr. Paul) who has given them more than their real family ever had. And Cathy is now on her way to becoming a prima ballerina. She partners up with the arrogant yet miserable Julian, who may very well be the dark-haired man she danced with in the attic (or so she thinks at first). She wants fame, she wants fortune, she wants love, and she wants all those who hurt her most to "pay, pay, pay. . . and then pay some more."
I really liked this book, more so than FITA, which was just so depressing. Also, there are a few characters in "Petals" which I consider V.C. Andrews classics, such as Cathy, Madame M., Julian and Madame Z. I couldn't care less about most of the others, specifically Chris and Paul. Julian was the only male character with whom I could sympathize. I believe that Chris was behind the deaths of Cathy's loves. He was there when each of them died. And also, what does fate care if two ultimately meaningless people get together, especially if millions of lives have to be destroyed in the process? One major thing that bothered me about Chris was that, for the most part, he was portrayed as being a "saint" (when he wasn't raping Cathy, that is). This didn't work for his character at all. As for Paul, he becomes romantically involved with his under-aged ward (25 years younger than him), whom we assume he only took in because she was attractive. He later confesses to having loved her from the moment he first met her (when she was 15 and he was 40), and from the way he eyed her over that first meeting, I think I know exactly what he meant. Don't tell me Cathy wore down his self-control (which he seemed to have plenty of through much of the book). And she didn't need to do much seducing before he "molests" her the first night they are alone together. His wife and son's "accident" hardly makes him a tragic victim, especially when you consider how his son came into existence (read the book to find out). Though what happened to him was horrible (and I'm not saying he, or his son, deserved it; he just isn't totally faultless) it does not explain his actions. Also, he knew what Cathy had been through, and of her complicated relationship with her brother and he must have understood she was just using him to escape her shame. As for Bartholomew Winslow, he wasn't developed much beyond that of an adulterous womanizer, who happens to be (Oh, the horror!) a lawyer. I felt bad for Julian, even though he beat up Cathy and tried to force her to love him. He was one of the only characters who had more depth to him than a sheet of paper. V.C. Andrews gave various glimpses into his motivations, though she may have gone a little over the edge when she threw in the father on his deathbed scene, where Julian launches into the sort of ridiculously dramatic speech that is usually restricted to monologues (the image of Sylvia Plath reciting her poem "Daddy" comes to mind, only in a hospital corridor with orderlies passing by.) And, unlike Chris, he has the decency to admit that he is "no-good" and has "feet of clay". Just once, I would have liked Chris to admit that he wasn't half the man he pretended to be. Though, it is easier to hide behind the facade of honor and integrity when you have many people behind you who honor and respect you. Julian seems to be Cathy's male alter ego. He has a passion for the dance, he both hates and loves the parent who has denied him and whom he wants to outshine, and he changed his last name to Marquet as a way to deny his father, just as Cathy keeps her true heritage a secret for the longest time. Some of Julian's feelings are logical (mostly concerning Paul and Chris). He is actually a perceptive character, as is his mother Madame Marisha (Madame M especially is in the third book), who both see through Cathy's supposedly platonic relationships with Chris and Paul. As for his disgust for the men in Cathy's life, I must say that I, like Julian, tired quickly of the "eternal optimist", "Knight so gallant" (blah blah blah) Chris too, who as everyone knows has various issues of his own. Cathy rarely mentions either doctors' names without placing some wonderful adjective before it, such as "noble" or "honorable". What a joke!
Throughout this book, Cathy turns into the woman she always seemed to despise. She goes from one man to another, including her own brother. She depends on the support of the men in her life, and can hardly make it on her own. When Cathy is left in debt, thanks to all the bills left to her by Julian, who frivolously wasted money, and then, conveniently, went ahead and died (the situation mirrors the the death of Cathy's father, which led to her and her siblings imprisonment), Cathy decides to blackmail her mother. "She owed us," Cathy claims.
Cathy reminds me of the mythological Electra; she bemoans the death of her beloved father and vows vengeance against her betraying mother. And this is where the newest ingredient in the saga comes in. We already have murder, betrayal, lust, greed and incest. Why not add revenge to the mix?
To sum up, there aren't any decent human beings in this book, or in any of V.C. Andrews' books, except for Jory, Cathy's son. Which goes to show how much emphasis V.C.A. puts on a good upbringing and loving parents.
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Title: If There Be Thorns by V. C. Andrews, Linda Marrow ISBN: 0671729454 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews ISBN: 0671729411 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Seeds of Yesterday by V. C. Andrews, Linda Marrow ISBN: 0671729489 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Garden of Shadows by V. C. Andrews, Linda Marrow ISBN: 067172942X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: December, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Heaven by V. C. Andrews, Linda Marrow ISBN: 0671729446 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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