by V.C. Andrews
Every Friday, my husband drops me off at the Half-Priced Bookstore and my mom picks me up when she gets off work. Otherwise, I would not see her often. I bought her this book because she couldn't remember if she read it (she has read other V.C. Andrews books and borrowed mine when I was a teenager!)...
I think she did a fantastic job with the Flowers in the Attic and the Heaven books, but this book is unique in its own way and tells a compelling story within one book, instead of a series. To be frank, this sort of story works better as a standalone, otherwise the story would have dragged on)This i...
I read this book when I was 12 or so, and I remembered liking it, so this time I wanted to read it in English and not in French... I guess the "ignorant preteen" + "bad translation" combo left me with a very different impression than the one I got now. Some 25 years later, I definitely didn't like i...
Jan 19, 16 ยท edit liked it bookshelves: 2016, 90s-young-adult-section, blast-from-the-past,childhood, co-workers-recommend, family-life, horror, kindle, new,series-read, sexy-sexy-sex, unreliable-narrator, very-violent, ya I've really struggled with my rating and what I want to say about thi...
I understand that but this family was full of manipulators. Jeesh!!! I was so confused, I didn't even know who to believe! This novel was pleasurable and disturbing at the same time. I couldn't put it down though. Lol. I'm actually ready to check out the sequel which doesn't come out until July, ...
This was one of the first V.C. Andrews books I read, and I was probably way too young for it, but it remains one I like because the central mystery is so odd. As par for the course in a V.C. Andrews book (and this one was actually written by her and not by one of the legion of ghostwriters that to...
Review to come. Hopefully soon.