A review by bonnybedlam
Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

2.0

Ironically, this is probably the best book of the series. I would actually recommend for curious adults with other things to read just sticking with this one and the OG Flowers in the Attic. Maybe Petals on the Wind, if you're really into it. If There Be Thorns is frustratingly redundant, just repeating the last two books without any addition to the story beyond teaching small children about incest, with bonus animal harm, while Seeds of Yesterday is offensive drivel that serves only to refine and magnify the misogyny and cruelty that's always been at the heart of the series, only to wrap it all up as having led everyone to The Lorp in the end.

Basically one of those teenage reads that didn't really need revisiting, but here we are.