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If There Be Thorns by V.C. Andrews
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If There Be Thorns (1981)

by V.C. Andrews

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Series: Dollanganger (3)

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My review for If There Be Thorns is that the book does read very slowly in such a way that you are waiting for something exciting to happen. Sure this is a slow read, but in the end, the book is definitely worth the read. There are many shocking twist and turns that VC Andrews adds in the novel quite well. There is definitely scadelous stuff happening in all of the Dollanganger series books that make this series so hard to stop reading. In order to understand this book, you really need to read the books before this. The book is not hard to understand, but as said, the book is a very slow read. There are many grusome details in the book and it makes things so much more interesting in the book that make this novel an addicting read. In all, I love this series but this book was no a disappointment, but something different. ( )
  RayanneBrode | Oct 18, 2012 |
Last in the series of Flowers in the attic. Not a bad book, different.
  lyn369 | Sep 5, 2012 |
As a tween (1980's)reading this series was unlike anything else - I borrowed Flowers in the Attic from a friends older sister, keeping it hidden from my parents and then begged my friends older sister borrow the others from the library so i could read them (I was 11/12/13 and you had to be 15 before they would let you borrow them). It might be time to reread them. ( )
  shelleyraec | May 9, 2011 |
Warped, but good. ( )
  Anagarika-Sean | Sep 25, 2010 |
Warped, but good. ( )
  Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 |
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Loon, Parma vanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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In the late evening when the shadows were long, I sat quiet and unmoving near one of Paul's marble statues. (Prologue)
Whenever Dad didn't drive me home from school, a yellow school bus would let me off at an isolated spot where I would recover my bike from the nearest ravine, hidden there each morning before I stepped onto the bus.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0671729454, Mass Market Paperback)

Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart,who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old.

Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother".

And soon Bart's transformation began...

Fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father...leading him into shocking acts of violence.

Now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood, still tipped with fire.

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Follows "Flowers in the Attic" and "Petals on the Wind." Chris and Cathy, still plagued by past horrors, try to raise Jory and Bart as they are watched by a mysterious Lady in Black next door.

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