#v. c. Andrews

[escapeintothepages]

“How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain.”

Petals on the Wind, V. C. Andrews

#petals on the wind #v. c. andrews #reading #book quotes

[veryslowreader]

Olivia by V. C. Andrews

The King of Queens: "White Collar"

#olivia #v. c. andrews #the king of queens #leah remini

[darkcrowprincess]

Heyyy,

I was looking through your blog and found out about VC Andrews. Her work seems pretty interesting.

Can you recommend some of her books to me? Or is all of her work worth checking out, lol?

Also, some of her work had ghost writers?

I'm not the best person to ask cause really I've only read like two of the books made by the actual writer and the the other few by the ghost writer. Also to explain the ghost writer thing.

Vc Andrews the real lady wrote the flowers in the attic series/the dollanganger series and the first two books in the series The Casteel family saga( Heaven and Dark Angel) and the stand alone book(or at least it was suppose to be) My Sweet Audrina. While she was writing her last books she got Cancer and soon died from it at 63. Because some of her books were left unfinished her agent and the publishing company wanted to finish her work. They also wanted to get more money from the dead person by using her name and redoing the same themes in other books over again. So that's what we literally mean by a ghost writer. People reused her name, pretend to be her, and just kept selling books with the same taboo themes in them. The ghost writer is not as good as the orginal. You can tell the difference. But his early work isn't too bad. It's his later stuff that has issues. I haven't read everything so again I'm not an expert.

What I have read:

Flowers in the Attic(by the orginal writer) part of the dollanganger series

Dark Angel(by the orginal writer) part of the casteel family saga.

Beneath the attic(by the ghost writer) part of the dollanganger series

Out of the Attic(by the ghost writer) part of the dollanganger series

I'm in the process of reading more of the The Casteel family series and the second book in the flowers in the attic series. Fair warning about the books, the usually have incest in them, and child abuse so be aware if that triggers you. Why I like the books and plan to read at least some the best of the sagas. The main characters are female characters that are girly girls. They have dark fairy tale themes, dark romance, and gothic horror. And I just like the combination.

From what people has told me these are the best sagas to read from all the books:

The dollanganger saga: Main character is Cathy Dollanganger.

The Casteel Family saga: Main female Character is Heaven Casteel. This takes place mainly in Boston and Virginia

My Sweet Audrina: Main female character is Audrina Adelle Adare

The Landry family Saga: Main female character is Ruby Landry and this story takes place in the Bayous of Louisiana.

The Cutler family saga: Main character is Dawn Cutler.

#my thoughts #vc andrews #v.c andrews #v. c. andrews #v.c. andrews #v c andrews #books

[noface8834]

All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.

V. C. Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

#quotes #my sweet audrina #v. c. andrews

[bittersweetsweetheart]

#coquette #flowers in the attic #cathy dollanganger #Chris dollenganger #v c andrews

[wulfhalls]

just found out that sofia coppola is a flowers in the attic fan. sofia listen to me it’s not too late to channel your father’s energy and make a very successful book to film adaptation series. i genuinely think coppola could do wonders with cathy’s character arc. THINK ABOUT IT

SOFIA LISTEN TO ANON!!!!! SOFIA ANON IS MAKING SOME REALLY GOOD POINTS IF U JUST THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!

#asks #imagine getting the sofia coppola to adapt v c andrews high camp schlock. cinema: saved

[rottedgirlie]

~my lil corner of the world~

#mine #dollie #rotted #girlie #rottedcore #baby grunge #traumacore #pastel grunge #soft grunge #angelcore #soft #trauma #ty beanie babies #curly #rosary #jewelry box #stephen king #the dark half #v c andrews #vc andrews #petals on the wind #butterfly #skill #chokin #plate #trinkets #bedrot

[andy-clutterbuck]

#H E #Andrew Lincoln #* #andygifs #don't flash your chest at me you tart #fuzzies ✨ #that bottom lip is illegal #his N E C K #oh...there's bram stoker knocking again #H A N D S #once again rick's clothes but the vibe is insanely wrong #that's not a georgia peach that's an english muffin #so cool that he's next to the word Handsome in the dictionary #like hello healthy testosterone how lovely to see you #excuse me but The Nose™ #if I lay here.....if I just lay here....you could step on me and that'd be fine #also his arm hair but i'm not gonna be that weird right now #the v of his shirt would be a wonderful place to rest your face #im just sayin

[virginstoner666]

no connection in life more poignant and intense than that between a girl and the copy of her favorite book from adolescence. 

#.txt #ice by anna kavan #flowers in the attic #and then there were none #those were mine but tag yrs im curious 👀👀👀👀 #rb bait #v c andrews #agatha christie #anna kavan

[trauma-trove]

"Please, God, she's so young, and it hurts her so much, and she's been through so much. Be kind. Look down, God! See us! Hear us!"

Petals in the Wind, V. C. Andrews

#flowers in the attic #fita #dollanganger series #petals in the wind #v c andrews #quote

[escapeintothepages]

"Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will."

Flowers In The Attic, V. C. Andrews

#flowers in the attic #v. c. andrews #reading #book quotes

[veryslowreader]

Twilight's Child by V. C. Andrews

C Blok

#Twilight's Child #v. c. andrews #Andrew Neiderman #C Blok #Ülkü Duru

[darkcrowprincess]

Heaven Leigh Casteel. Book step back art cover of 'Dark Angel' book.

#books #book covers #book art covers #art #heaven casteel #dark angel #vc andrews #v.c. andrews #v.c andrews #v. c. andrews #the casteel family series #gothic romance

[coping-via-clint-eastwood]

Sorry, I only have 12 spaces

Please reblog. I want more engagement.

#csi #csi shenanigans #c-v-c-e poll #gil grissom #catherine willows #warrick brown #nick stokes #sara sidle #greg sanders #jim brass #al robbins #david philips #david hodges #henry andrews

[totallynotreadingatwork]

Out of the Attic, by V.C. Andrews

...except it's actually ghost-written by Andrew Neiderman because the real Virginia Andrews has been dead since 1986 and this book came out in 2020. It is also just... not very good.

Spoilers ahead.

TW: rape, abusive relationship, controlling behaviour

Out of the Attic is a tie in to the popular Dollanganger series by Virginia Andrews, the first book of which was Flowers in the Attic, which was published in 1979. Andrews wrote 5 books for the series before she passed away, and then in 2014 the series was revived for another 6 books by ghost writers hired by the family. Out of the Attic is the 10th book written for the series, but chronologically takes place before Flowers in the Attic and focuses on Corrine Foxworth, Malcolm Foxworth's mother, as she marries into the family and has her son.

I think Neiderman was aiming to make Corrine a more likeable and relatable character by having her be married into the family against her will and feel isolated and alone as she is whisked away from the family and friends she's known all her life and taken to live in the grand and unwelcoming Foxworth hall. She is plied with alcohol and raped by Garland Foxworth, which results in a pregnancy that means she has to marry Garland or face ruin.

She obviously marries him, and things are going well at first but soon end up with her all alone in this huge house, sections of which she is too scared to go into, and with an infant son that she feels no maternal connection to. Corrine spends five years rattling around doing pretty much nothing but shopping, keeping up with the latest fashions, and making herself look beautiful every day whilst a nanny raises her son, whom she by now actively dislikes, until one day she meets a woman whilst out shopping who says she should join their ladies club.

Corrine then finds out Garland is cheating on her, goes to a Halloween party dressed as a nun, takes her son and the nanny to the beach, hires an artist she met at the Halloween party to paint her portrait, has an affair with said artist (his name is Beau and he seems very nice), gets raped by Garland again, then flees to France with Beau where she discovers that she's pregnant with Garland's child. The end, thank god.

Now, on reading that brief summary you may be thinking 'yeah, that doesn't sound like a very fun life, I feel like I could sympathise with this character', but the way that Corrine is written and portrayed really just makes you dislike her. You sympathise with her in some aspects, where in others you're just sort of left thinking she's actually a horrible person.

Take her relationship with her son, for instance; Corrine believes that Malcolm is evil and conniving and and manipulative. He misbehaves, he tries to wriggle his way out of punishments, and he asks questions and keeps pestering her for things.

Malcolm is also 4 years old.

Now, I'm not particularly fond of young children myself, so I understand her not wanting to be around him 24/7 or finding him a bit overwhelming at times. However, I don't think calling this behaviour 'evil' is quite correct. All 4-year-olds ask a ton of questions, all 4-year-olds will try to escape punishment for things they've done, all 4-year-olds will pester you to go places and do things, especially if you've promised them such things earlier in the week (Corrine is on several occasions annoyed by Malcolm asking to go to the seaside... after she herself suggested they go to the seaside but didn't tell him when that would happen).

I know that Malcolm Foxworth grows up to be the grandfather of the Dollanganger children who are then locked in the attic (and Neiderman even tries to foreshadow that by having him very briefly lock Corrine in the attic in this book) so Neiderman is obviously trying to plant the seeds of a very disturbed person, but it's like the man has never met a toddler before. We're supposed to be on Corrine's side, to look at Malcolm and say 'ah, so he's always been evil and bad', but Malcolm just isn't ; he's just a child who's a little bit spoilt. The most 'evil' things he does are destroy a wedding photograph album belonging to his mother (which certainly isn't good behaviour but children have definitely done worse), and lock her in the attic... when she's chasing him round the house threatening to beat him with a belt for destroying the album. This woman is not likeable.

Obviously it goes without saying that a book character doesn't have to be morally good in order to be a compelling and interesting point of view character, but the framing of the book so often seems like it's trying to portray her in a positive light that it just... I don't know. It doesn't feel very good to read. We don't linger on Corrine's trauma or her feelings of loneliness or isolation long enough to develop as much sympathy for her as I think the author would like. There's quite a bit of telling and not much showing.

Also, Neiderman is very 'men writing women' in places. There's a lot of hot flushes rushing to breasts of course, but also there's... this???

Image description: Quote from the book that reads as follows;

"What are they?"

"Open and see."

Children and women are so distracted, so mesmerised, by surprise presents that they'd ignore being in a burning building, I thought. I was disappointed at how excited I was and how quickly my pride and indignation had weakened, my fury and determination along with them. I had stepped in here ready to demand answers to questions I knew would stir his rage. I was more than willing to do that than ever I had bee, but right now all I could think was What's in those boxes?

Image description end.

So yeah, apparently women will disregard their own safety for shiny presents. This, by the way, is when she's going to confront him about cheating on her.

Overall, a thoroughly mediocre reading experience that I do not recommend to anyone. If you liked Flowers in the Attic then this will just annoy you and taint your memories of it, and if you've never read the Dollanganger books then there's no point in picking it up because nothing substantial happens in it!

#books & libraries #book review #v c andrews #flowers in the attic #out of the attic #men writing women #I just really feel like several opportunities were missed #this could have been so much better #also I'm still really uncomfortable with families using ghost writers to profit off their dead relatives names #it's like william w johnstone all over again

[lunarruled]

❝ jesus christ... ❞

"What? You've never seen a woman take down a deer all on her own with just a knife before or something?"

@deathsvalcr​

#☾ deathsvalcr #☾ v: Welcome To The New Age #☾ (The Walking Dead) #☾ c: Jacob Andrews