Petals on the Wind

Petals on the Wind by V.C Andrews:

The continuing story of the Dollanganger family and it picks up right after the other book. The family is taken in by a wonderful doctor and they grow up under his watchful gaze.

                                    *SPOILER ALERT*

ok so I can’t really divulge anything without spoiler alert because its hard not to say anything. It isn’t as incestuous as I thought, Christopher never touches his sister again as she is growing up and none of her children and up being his. The doctor takes them in as he is infatuated by Cathy who is by far a huge tease and she knows it. Carrie is sent away to a boarding school and is consequently tortured by her underdevelopment. Chris studies hard and has tutelage from his benefactor the doctor so he can get thru medical school as quickly as possible. Cathy does become a famous ballerina and fucks the doctor and then in a fit of anger breaks their engagement and marries her dance partner. Julian makes her wish she never had when she finally realizes that she loves him he breaks her toes and then gets himself in a terrible car wreck rendering him unable to ever dance again. Upon hearing this tidbit of news he cuts his iv needle and kills himself. Cathy finally realizes she loves him and then goes to Foxworth Hall and is determined to seduce her mother’s husband and take him away from her. She succeeds and then when she gets pregnant she decides to unveil her plan, looking exactly like her mother 20 years ago she reveals the truth to everyone. Bart Winslow, her mother’s husband, takes her and her mother into the study where the old Grandmother is also waiting and her mother finally cops to all the horrible things she has ever done. Then the mom sets fire to the  house and Winslow dies. Cathy goes back and marries Paul and he dies and she marries Chris. They leave with their two children (one Julian’s the other Winslow’s ). Oh and Carrie dies she also kills herself.

Bitch Please!

This book was sad and pretty good I was annoyed with everyone telling Cathy how desirable she is and how they all pretty much rape her with the exception of Paul who is a gentleman and would never do that. Then there’s the whole brother obsession thing. I don’t know I won’t read the other books in the series they’re too depressing and honestly sometimes she goes overboard with the rape scenes. I think that its half well written and half ridiculous. Cathy is so miserable blaming shit on her mother she just can’t let herself be happy until she destroyed her. You know what I think I would have immediately seen that my mother went to prison and then lived my life in a wholly new way, trying to erase the horrible shit I’d been through. Overall the series wasn’t so bad it was better than some other stuff I’ve read and it was engrossing.

Flowers in the attic

Flowers in the Attic by V.C Andrews

I was kind of prepared for what this book was going to be about. I wasn't prepared for what other stuff would be going down. The book is about four children who are adored by their parents. A very doting dad and a devoted mother. However their world comes crashing down when their father dies. that's when the problems begin. Their mother is a self proclaimed trophy wife who never learned to do anything, she was beautiful she never needed too. She drags her four children to the house she grew up in. The problem is that she has to hide them. The poor children are sent up into a forlorn part of the house and the attic becomes their play area.
Bitch Please!
That's all I want to say about this book in the above *Spoiler Alert*
Ok what they don't tell you is that the mother married her half-uncle, which is super incestuous and when she tells her father she expects him to be ok with this. after he isn't, I mean how would you feel if your brother married your daughter? Ok here's my thing, I have an amazingly wonderful mother who babies me and is quite the charmer. My mom was born to be a mom. She tries to adopt all of my friends, Salinger has already been adopted. Whats my point? My point is that having this kind of mom I could not even for one second understand why the mother of these four children could have sacrificed herself them that way! Astounding her lust for money, its like she was her mothers clone. The Grandmother is set out to be the witch but honestly I think for sure it was the mother. Super Spoiler alert, the mom tries to kill her children and succeeds in killing one. What kind of mother does that! Honestly who fucking does that! I cried when that little one died. It wasn't fair and the mom acted like she did nothing. I hope in the next book her new husband dies and leaves her penniless and her money reverts to her children and then to have her be on the street poor where everyone who knew her and whom she belittled saw her and she would have to rely on the mercy of the children. fuck I just hate her. The book was good even if the main characters were dirty but I guess it wasn't as bad.. ok yes it was.. but still what can they expect?