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Gemini #2
Black Cat
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375 pages, Paperback
First published September 28, 2004
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V.C. Andrews
370 books9,082 followersBooks published under the following names - Virginia Andrews, V. Andrews, Virginia C. Andrews & V.C. Endrius. Books since her death ghost written by Andrew Neiderman, but still attributed to the V.C. Andrews name
Virginia Cleo Andrews (born Cleo Virginia Andrews) was born June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia. The youngest child and the only daughter of William Henry Andrews, a career navy man who opened a tool-and-die business after retirement, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator. She spent her happy childhood years in Portsmouth, Virginia, living briefly in Rochester, New York. The Andrews family returned to Portsmouth while Virginia was in high school.
While a teenager, Virginia suffered a tragic accident, falling down the stairs at her school and incurred severe back injuries. Arthritis and a failed spinal surgical procedure forced her to spend most of her life on crutches or in a wheelchair.
Virginia excelled in school and, at fifteen, won a scholarship for writing a parody of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. She proudly earned her diploma from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth. After graduation, she nurtured her artistic talent by completing a four-year correspondence art course while living at home with her family.
After William Andrews died in the late 1960s, Virginia helped to support herself and her mother through her extremely successful career as a commercial artist, portrait painter, and fashion illustrator.
Frustrated with the lack of creative satisfaction that her work provided, Virginia sought creative release through writing, which she did in secret. In 1972, she completed her first novel, The Gods of the Green Mountain [sic], a science-fantasy story. It was never published. Between 1972 and 1979, she wrote nine novels and twenty short stories, of which only one was published. "I Slept with My Uncle on My Wedding Night", a short fiction piece, was published in a pulp confession magazine.
Promise gleamed over the horizon for Virginia when she submitted a 290,000-word novel, The Obsessed, to a publishing company. She was told that the story had potential, but needed to be trimmed and spiced up a bit. She drafted a new outline in a single night and added "unspeakable things my mother didn't want me to write about." The ninety-eight-page revision was re-titled Flowers in the Attic and she was paid a $7,500 advance. Her new-generation Gothic novel reached the bestseller lists a mere two weeks after its 1979 paperback publication by Pocket Books.
Petals on the Wind, her sequel to Flowers, was published the next year, earning Virginia a $35,000 advance. The second book remained on the New York Times bestseller list for an unbelievable nineteen weeks (Flowers also returned to the list). These first two novels alone sold over seven million copies in only two years. The third novel of the Dollanganger series, If There Be Thorns, was released in 1981, bringing Virginia a $75,000 advance. It reached No. 2 on many bestseller lists within its first two weeks.
Taking a break from the chronicles of Chris and Cathy Dollanganger, Virginia published her one, and only, stand-alone novel, My Sweet Audrina, in 1982. The book welcomed an immediate success, topping the sales figures of her previous novels. Two years later, a fourth Dollanganger novel was released, Seeds of Yesterday. According to the New York Times, Seeds was the best-selling fiction paperback novel of 1984. Also in 1984, V.C. Andrews was named "Professional Woman of the Year" by the city of Norfolk, Virginia.
Upon Andrews's death in 1986, two final novels—Garden of Shadows and Fallen Hearts—were published. These two novels are considered the last to bear the "V.C. Andrews" name and to be almost completely written by
Virginia Cleo Andrews (born Cleo Virginia Andrews) was born June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia. The youngest child and the only daughter of William Henry Andrews, a career navy man who opened a tool-and-die business after retirement, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator. She spent her happy childhood years in Portsmouth, Virginia, living briefly in Rochester, New York. The Andrews family returned to Portsmouth while Virginia was in high school.
While a teenager, Virginia suffered a tragic accident, falling down the stairs at her school and incurred severe back injuries. Arthritis and a failed spinal surgical procedure forced her to spend most of her life on crutches or in a wheelchair.
Virginia excelled in school and, at fifteen, won a scholarship for writing a parody of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. She proudly earned her diploma from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth. After graduation, she nurtured her artistic talent by completing a four-year correspondence art course while living at home with her family.
After William Andrews died in the late 1960s, Virginia helped to support herself and her mother through her extremely successful career as a commercial artist, portrait painter, and fashion illustrator.
Frustrated with the lack of creative satisfaction that her work provided, Virginia sought creative release through writing, which she did in secret. In 1972, she completed her first novel, The Gods of the Green Mountain [sic], a science-fantasy story. It was never published. Between 1972 and 1979, she wrote nine novels and twenty short stories, of which only one was published. "I Slept with My Uncle on My Wedding Night", a short fiction piece, was published in a pulp confession magazine.
Promise gleamed over the horizon for Virginia when she submitted a 290,000-word novel, The Obsessed, to a publishing company. She was told that the story had potential, but needed to be trimmed and spiced up a bit. She drafted a new outline in a single night and added "unspeakable things my mother didn't want me to write about." The ninety-eight-page revision was re-titled Flowers in the Attic and she was paid a $7,500 advance. Her new-generation Gothic novel reached the bestseller lists a mere two weeks after its 1979 paperback publication by Pocket Books.
Petals on the Wind, her sequel to Flowers, was published the next year, earning Virginia a $35,000 advance. The second book remained on the New York Times bestseller list for an unbelievable nineteen weeks (Flowers also returned to the list). These first two novels alone sold over seven million copies in only two years. The third novel of the Dollanganger series, If There Be Thorns, was released in 1981, bringing Virginia a $75,000 advance. It reached No. 2 on many bestseller lists within its first two weeks.
Taking a break from the chronicles of Chris and Cathy Dollanganger, Virginia published her one, and only, stand-alone novel, My Sweet Audrina, in 1982. The book welcomed an immediate success, topping the sales figures of her previous novels. Two years later, a fourth Dollanganger novel was released, Seeds of Yesterday. According to the New York Times, Seeds was the best-selling fiction paperback novel of 1984. Also in 1984, V.C. Andrews was named "Professional Woman of the Year" by the city of Norfolk, Virginia.
Upon Andrews's death in 1986, two final novels—Garden of Shadows and Fallen Hearts—were published. These two novels are considered the last to bear the "V.C. Andrews" name and to be almost completely written by
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May 30, 2017
Pre-review:
Ah, goddamn it. After reading 3 books by V. C. Andrews, I became addicted to her stories like a junkie needing her fixes.
Actual review here:
Rating: 3.8 stars. It's nice and well written book although the ending is a bit weak and predicable.
Dark family secrets, crazy parents, child abuse, mental illness, abusive relationship, manipulation and lies, a heroine desperately needs to grow a backbone (I know she had been abused for years, but still), every main characters being described as beautiful...
Well, it is just another day in the fictional world of V.C. Andrews', even though this book isn't written by her but her ghost writer.
Black Cat is an enjoyable novel though it doesn't make me become passionate about its story nor its characters. I can appreciate how the ghost writer kept the core elements of Ms. Andrews' stories alive and intact, the plots also work smoothly within the logic of the fictional world and the characters are understandable. It is such a shame that I can't find the prequel of this book from the bookstore and read it. *sighs*
My review for Dark Angel, by the same author: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Ah, goddamn it. After reading 3 books by V. C. Andrews, I became addicted to her stories like a junkie needing her fixes.
Actual review here:
Rating: 3.8 stars. It's nice and well written book although the ending is a bit weak and predicable.
Dark family secrets, crazy parents, child abuse, mental illness, abusive relationship, manipulation and lies, a heroine desperately needs to grow a backbone (I know she had been abused for years, but still), every main characters being described as beautiful...
Well, it is just another day in the fictional world of V.C. Andrews', even though this book isn't written by her but her ghost writer.
Black Cat is an enjoyable novel though it doesn't make me become passionate about its story nor its characters. I can appreciate how the ghost writer kept the core elements of Ms. Andrews' stories alive and intact, the plots also work smoothly within the logic of the fictional world and the characters are understandable. It is such a shame that I can't find the prequel of this book from the bookstore and read it. *sighs*
My review for Dark Angel, by the same author: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
August 31, 2016
Okay, I have a lot of problems with this book. . .
So much repetitiveness, Celeste being satisfied with a reclusive life and doing chores non-stop was getting kind of old, and unrealistic. It was basically the same thing over and over again just filling up the pages.
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Lets just talk about how much I DETEST Sarah, the mom. I really don't like her, she's just a liar and a manipulator that takes advantage of poor, EXTREMELY GULLIBLE Celeste. Then she goes and kills Dave, which I have no idea WHY she did that. I did not understand that, and I was beginning to really like him, but no. Sarah had to kill him. Because the spirits said so. And it was just really fake how Celeste just took her mothers answer about what happened to Dave. Celeste was really starting to care for Dave, and her stupid mom had to rip away a positive father figure. If Celeste had been a believable character, she would have phoned the cops and had her, and her mother committed, and Baby Celeste adopted to some NORMAL family, where hopefully her mental illness or whatever the heck is wrong with all three of them could be caught before she turned into a total basket case.
What confirmed the "spirits" as mental illness to me was that as the book came to a conclusion, Celeste sounded so much like her annoying, piece of junk mother that I was getting angry. To me, its just a case of schizophrenia that was handed down to both Celeste's.
Of course, we never are able to "confirm" whether Celeste is really insane or not (In this novel), but the fact that she gets committed definitely says SOMETHING.
I think after I finish Gemini #3, I'm probably going to donate these books back into the thrift store cycle. They are taking up space on my shelf where better books could be sitting. Sorry, Neiderman.
So much repetitiveness, Celeste being satisfied with a reclusive life and doing chores non-stop was getting kind of old, and unrealistic. It was basically the same thing over and over again just filling up the pages.
***PLOT SPOILER***
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Lets just talk about how much I DETEST Sarah, the mom. I really don't like her, she's just a liar and a manipulator that takes advantage of poor, EXTREMELY GULLIBLE Celeste. Then she goes and kills Dave, which I have no idea WHY she did that. I did not understand that, and I was beginning to really like him, but no. Sarah had to kill him. Because the spirits said so. And it was just really fake how Celeste just took her mothers answer about what happened to Dave. Celeste was really starting to care for Dave, and her stupid mom had to rip away a positive father figure. If Celeste had been a believable character, she would have phoned the cops and had her, and her mother committed, and Baby Celeste adopted to some NORMAL family, where hopefully her mental illness or whatever the heck is wrong with all three of them could be caught before she turned into a total basket case.
What confirmed the "spirits" as mental illness to me was that as the book came to a conclusion, Celeste sounded so much like her annoying, piece of junk mother that I was getting angry. To me, its just a case of schizophrenia that was handed down to both Celeste's.
Of course, we never are able to "confirm" whether Celeste is really insane or not (In this novel), but the fact that she gets committed definitely says SOMETHING.
I think after I finish Gemini #3, I'm probably going to donate these books back into the thrift store cycle. They are taking up space on my shelf where better books could be sitting. Sorry, Neiderman.
February 15, 2017
This book was weird like the first one. After I read it I just wanted to scrub myself and take pills to fall asleep to ignore the book all together.
January 2, 2015
This book wasn't as good as the first one, and it had enough discrepancies from what happened in the first book that I began to wonder if it's a different author from the first. The first glaring discrepancy was that in the first book Celeste/Noble called her mother "Mommy" the entire book, but in this book she switches to calling her "Mama". That bugged me a lot, mainly because this book picks up right where the other book left off; there is no time lapse. Why would she switch with no explanation or prompting? She was 15 at the end of the first book so the fact that she was still calling her mother Mommy added to the creepiness of their relationship, which was good considering the series is supposed to be creepy. Switching to a more age-appropriate Mama took that away, with no explanation provided.
The other thing I didn't like was how the author felt he needed to summarize the first book in the first few chapters of this book. I'm sure he did that so that someone who picked up this book without reading the first one could understand what was going on. The problem was that he didn't do a good job of it. The summarizing was too forced, contained discrepancies with the first book, and why he shared (or didn't share) certain things didn't make sense. A better author would weave the history into the current story naturally and with more subtlety, and he would have at least made sure the details matched the first book.
Even though there are things that bugged me about this book and that I didn't like, at its core it's an interesting enough story that I'm going to read the 3rd book to see how it ends.
The other thing I didn't like was how the author felt he needed to summarize the first book in the first few chapters of this book. I'm sure he did that so that someone who picked up this book without reading the first one could understand what was going on. The problem was that he didn't do a good job of it. The summarizing was too forced, contained discrepancies with the first book, and why he shared (or didn't share) certain things didn't make sense. A better author would weave the history into the current story naturally and with more subtlety, and he would have at least made sure the details matched the first book.
Even though there are things that bugged me about this book and that I didn't like, at its core it's an interesting enough story that I'm going to read the 3rd book to see how it ends.
April 4, 2011
IF YOU HAVE NOT READ "CELESTE", THE FIRST BOOK IN THIS SERIES, SPOILER ALERT!!!
Celeste is forced by her (possibly schizophrenic) mother to live as her twin brother Noble after Noble's tragic, accidental death. In the last book, Celeste gave birth to "Baby Celeste" as the result of a neighbor boy finding out about her gender and blackmailing her into having sex with him. Noble/Celeste and her mother see the spirits of their dead ancestors and take advice from them. Although, since Celeste became Noble, they've been largely ignoring her. It's possible Baby Celeste is seeing and hearing them, too. When Mama decides the way to reveal Baby Celeste to the world is to marry the neighbor man, and tell everyone her cousin died and left the baby to her, the family's secrets must be guarded even closer.
I'm still not sure whether the author means for her protagonist and family to "actually" be seeing and hearing spirits, or if the implication is that they're mentally ill, but I would really like that cleared up. Also, I find it very difficult to like any of the characters in this book, including Noble/Celeste, our narrator. Mama is mean and controlling, Noble/Celeste is weak and whiny, Dave is completely clueless, Betsy (Dave's daughter) is spoiled and nasty, and Baby Celeste is just creepy. Even so, I want nice things to happen to them, but this being V.C. Andrews, that'll never happen.
Celeste is forced by her (possibly schizophrenic) mother to live as her twin brother Noble after Noble's tragic, accidental death. In the last book, Celeste gave birth to "Baby Celeste" as the result of a neighbor boy finding out about her gender and blackmailing her into having sex with him. Noble/Celeste and her mother see the spirits of their dead ancestors and take advice from them. Although, since Celeste became Noble, they've been largely ignoring her. It's possible Baby Celeste is seeing and hearing them, too. When Mama decides the way to reveal Baby Celeste to the world is to marry the neighbor man, and tell everyone her cousin died and left the baby to her, the family's secrets must be guarded even closer.
I'm still not sure whether the author means for her protagonist and family to "actually" be seeing and hearing spirits, or if the implication is that they're mentally ill, but I would really like that cleared up. Also, I find it very difficult to like any of the characters in this book, including Noble/Celeste, our narrator. Mama is mean and controlling, Noble/Celeste is weak and whiny, Dave is completely clueless, Betsy (Dave's daughter) is spoiled and nasty, and Baby Celeste is just creepy. Even so, I want nice things to happen to them, but this being V.C. Andrews, that'll never happen.
March 12, 2018
Things are starting to get repetitive now. Celeste is still a recluse and looking after her baby and the new characters of Dave and Betsy are plain annoying. Feel like this one fell short a little bit.
January 8, 2012
A very freaky book. Going to read the last one in the series and then going to take a break from V.C. Andrews for a while.
March 31, 2014
I didn't finish this book. Life is to short to waste it on books with no original plot.
December 17, 2014
She has great books!!
January 3, 2022
I loved this!
June 26, 2012
I wanted to give this book more than three stars, but there are so many discrepancies with regards to Celeste's and Betsy's ages that I couldn't give it more stars.
In the first book, "Celeste," when Celeste met Elliot, she told him that she was fifteen years old and was currently being home schooled. Elliot told her that Betsy was almost eighteen years old. In this book, Celeste once mentions during her narrative that she got her high school equivalency at fourteen years old then, another time when baby Celeste was three years old, she said something about get her high school equivalency two years ago. At that point, she had to be at least eighteen if not nineteen in order for Baby Celeste to be three years old.
With regards to Betsy, her dad referred to her as a teenager when he complained about her, but she had to be at least twenty one years old.
Another thing that bothered me was when baby Celeste was referred to as an infant when she was at least three years old if not four years old and why was she carried everywhere. Toward the end of the book, she acted more her age though.
Other than the problems stated above, I was intrigued enough to keep reading and it ended with a great cliffhanger which makes me want to read the next book, but I can't say that I'm a fan of the V.C. Andrews that isn't the original V.C. Andrews.
In the first book, "Celeste," when Celeste met Elliot, she told him that she was fifteen years old and was currently being home schooled. Elliot told her that Betsy was almost eighteen years old. In this book, Celeste once mentions during her narrative that she got her high school equivalency at fourteen years old then, another time when baby Celeste was three years old, she said something about get her high school equivalency two years ago. At that point, she had to be at least eighteen if not nineteen in order for Baby Celeste to be three years old.
With regards to Betsy, her dad referred to her as a teenager when he complained about her, but she had to be at least twenty one years old.
Another thing that bothered me was when baby Celeste was referred to as an infant when she was at least three years old if not four years old and why was she carried everywhere. Toward the end of the book, she acted more her age though.
Other than the problems stated above, I was intrigued enough to keep reading and it ended with a great cliffhanger which makes me want to read the next book, but I can't say that I'm a fan of the V.C. Andrews that isn't the original V.C. Andrews.
August 14, 2015
I enjoyed this strange book, even though I got frustrated at times, but when you're dealing with the mentally ill, anything can happen. We basically learned that not only is Sarah, the mother, ill, but also her daughter Celeste. Too many years of brain washing and pretending to be her dead brother Noble have taken their toll. So in this second book of the series, the story continues with this pretending, and we are introduced to new people who come to live with Sarah, "Noble," and Baby Celeste. Sarah remarries, and not to just anyone. She gets married to Dave Fletcher, father of Elliot, grandfather to Baby Celeste. Dave dies under "mysterious circumstances" and his daughter Betsy eventually comes back from her wild times, with a baby, and a big attitude. When Betsy finds out who Noble really is, all falls apart. Sarah literally falls apart, not being able to handle the truth. So now we're left with the questions of what is going to happen now with Celeste, Baby Celeste, and Betsy's son, Panther?
September 18, 2011
Poor Celeste is still living as Noble. I so wanted her to just show herself to the world and end all the lies and pretence. But fear of her mother and the spirts kept her from doing so. Thats some major brainwashing right there. I also formed a dislike to baby Celeste, she's to much like her crazy grandmother but then she has also been brainwashed since birth. I felt sorry for Dave, I don't see why he needed to die. Celeste's mother is pure evil. And one thing I didn't get, how come at the end Mr. Bogart says to the reverend "This is Celeste, it always was"? Did he know the whole time? Why didn't he say anything? What is wrong with these people!? I really wanted Celeste's story to continue but they'ce locked her in a metal home and Andrews passed the job of finishing the story to Baby Celeste. And on a side note another bookcrosser sent me the book Celeste is reading in the book! Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier. :)
May 6, 2015
The premise of this story is interesting. A psychotic and possibly psychic woman forces her daughter to take on the identity of her dead twin brother, and when the daughter becomes pregnant, her mother weaves an even more complex scheme to hide the true identity of her daughter and her daughter's child. Whether the whole family is psychotic or actually psychic and seeing family spirits, their schemes prove lethal to just about everyone who gets too close, and may prove just as dangerous to the as-yet innocent children of their own family. The characters in this story are not always believable, and the 'black cat' that is referenced early in the book doesn't seem to figure in the rest of the novel at all, despite the fact that the title derives from it. Still, this novel presents an interesting, entertaining, and unusual story.
April 23, 2009
Good book. Picks up where Celeste left off. I don't understand the meaning of the title, because there was no black cat in the book. Celeste/Noble now has a daughter, who believes Celeste is her brother Noble. THe book deals with Celeste's mother revealing that "Baby Celeste" is the daughter of a distant relative, who died in an auto accident. She marries Baby Celeste's bio grandfather and they raise her as their own. Celeste never tries to leave the house, working as Noble doing all of the maintenance work around the house and tending to the gardens. As the reader, you root for Celeste to come to her senses and take her child and leave. Will she? You'll only find out if she escapes her mother's madness if you read the book!
April 5, 2012
I do not know why I keep torturing myself with reading this series!! I hate Noble-Celeste!! I think she is a weak character and I do not understand how she couldn´t stand up to her pyschotic mother after all these years. She is practically an adult and she won´t say a word, only "Yes, Mama." The whole time while reading this I was screaming just say no or learn to stand up for yourself, you dummy! I know I will end up reading the third book in this series because I am a sucker for crappy books and torture myself to read them even though I hate it, but I just have to know how it ends with Baby Celeste. :(
February 1, 2014
Better than "meh". Sarah may have found love, but turns out she's just manipulative. Things get much more interesting when Betsy hits town. Sarah thinks that if promiscuous Betsy becomes pregnant, she'll stop being promiscuous. Think again! And you'll never guess what she names her son... Meanwhile, "Baby Celeste" (Celeste's daughter) is a spoiled Special Snowflake who's perfect in every way...until she does something so terrible that even Celeste has to admit her daughter is hella creepy. Wonder how many bodies have been buried on their property over the decades...
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November 9, 2016Book 2, of the Gemini series, Black Cat. The first book in this series was Celest. Must read in order. A lot like the mother in Flowers in the Attic; Celest's mom, Sarah is a bit strange, and places many demands on Celest. Celest is forced to grow up unlike any other child her age. Her mother thinks she is protecting Celest from the outside world, causing much damage to her; forced to take on the role of her twin brother. Celest is afraid to stand up, or disrespect her mother; although she is aware, I'm sure, that her mother is the one in desperate need of help.
November 30, 2015
It was a sad day when this lady died. I do believe that her ghost writer Andrew Neiderman has done a fantastic job. This series to me is one of the better ones it feels more believable as far as characters and plot. Although I'm hard-pressed to find a series that I don't like by this author most stay in the 'just fiction' part of my brain this series feels more like this person is real and this really happened, like a memoir.
November 30, 2016
The second in the Gemini Series and still a page turner. Celeste is still required to hide her true self and her child. Her mother continues to deny her and then wants to bring others into the family only to cause them death also. She still insists that their spiritual family is helping them, but are they really. The ending leaves you to be wanting to read the last in this series! This mother is as evil as the one in Flowers in the Attic or worse!
March 7, 2011
This book picks up where Celeste left off. Another dark and disturbing book. In this book Celeste/Noble
now has a daughter who believes that Celeste is her brother Noble. Celeste's mother claims that
"Baby Celeste" is the daughter of a distant relative that died in a car accident. This series is turning
out to be really bizarre.
now has a daughter who believes that Celeste is her brother Noble. Celeste's mother claims that
"Baby Celeste" is the daughter of a distant relative that died in a car accident. This series is turning
out to be really bizarre.
May 15, 2011
This is a very interesting, yet captivating series. I love how most of V.C. Andrews' series involve girls in situations that would never really happen in real life, but the stories are written so clearly and descriptively that we as readers can actually picture Celeste going from looking like a girl to looking and acting like a boy.
January 17, 2013
This book took me forever to read. I don't know why but I just couldn't get into it. It's not that the book is bad, I thought it was alright. It's very hard to follow and sometimes doesn't make much sense.
Also not a very memorable book. I finished it a while ago and can only remember how disappointed I was.
Also not a very memorable book. I finished it a while ago and can only remember how disappointed I was.
August 24, 2014
This book, although good, is one of the most frustrating books I ever read.
*Spoiler Alert*
All through it I kept thinking to myself why doesn't she just grab the baby and run to the police or tell Dave the truth and have her mother committed. She didn't seem crazy herself until the last chapter then she seemed to go bananas really fast.
I hope the 3rd book has a happier ending.
*Spoiler Alert*
All through it I kept thinking to myself why doesn't she just grab the baby and run to the police or tell Dave the truth and have her mother committed. She didn't seem crazy herself until the last chapter then she seemed to go bananas really fast.
I hope the 3rd book has a happier ending.
May 9, 2017
You will not only wonder what is going on in the character's heads but in that of the author's too. There is so much more to this story than you will find between the pages of this book. I might have to search out other books by her though, just to see it I can find it.
This is never implied but now I'm wondering if certain herbal remedies can lead to psychosis.
This is never implied but now I'm wondering if certain herbal remedies can lead to psychosis.
November 5, 2011
Well I accidentally read the 3rd book 2nd so I had to go read this, so it kind of spoiled that I knew what was going to happen. I could have lived without reading this one, this was not a good series...it could have and should have been so much more!
October 6, 2015
This book has to be one of the worst so called V.C Andrews books I've read. The main character is weak and annoying. I felt sorry for her in the first book in this series up to a point but the plot trudges on in bad repetition and monotony.
December 5, 2014
one of the best, most loved series/authors of all time. V.C. Andrews books are something so easily recognizable and new books continue to evolve to go with the times and bring in a whole new generation of loving readers
May 17, 2017
Apparently this is the second book in a series. Now I'll have to hunt down the other two. The story leaves me wondering just what kind of herbs Mama was using on everyone as their thought processes are not at all normal.
January 2, 2009
Another incense book, but scary mother like "Flower in the Attic"
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