Reviews - Flowers in the Attic / Petals on the Wind / If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday / Garden of Shadows

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Flowers in the Attic / Petals on the Wind / If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday / Garden of Shadows

V.C. Andrews

3.61 AVERAGE

naomivilla's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

martigormi's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bestfemcel's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

Idc how mentally ill you are u cannot get freaky with your brother

sammigrace_r's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

keziaholland's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Had the potential to be a modern gothic horror masterpiece in the vein of "The Fall of the House of Usher"--but what the hell was that disappointing ending? Where was any revenge or justice for the characters? There are authors that represent difficult subject matters to be critical of said subject matters, and there are writers who are just writing to get their rocks off... after looking up the rest of the series' plot, I'm inclined to believe Flowers in the Attic falls into the latter category. Still... for the most part this novel was awful and compelling in the aforementioned modern gothic tradition. I'm going to pretend the story wrapped up differently and ended in this one.

vampbatsy's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Just depressing honestly. It was very descriptive and engaging, it definitely shows its age at times too. It's an interesting exploration of generational trauma and how strict, religious upbringing can lead to more sneaky, defiant children. The twists near the end felt like they were all very piled on, there would be a big secret revealed that greatly changes how you view a chatacter/s and the story, and instead of leaving it there there would be another and then next chapter "oh and also this".
I feel like the ending was left purposefully open ended and vague just to set up a sequel.

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