Neederman is a hack, her publisher was a vampire, and her mother (who kept her a virtual prisoner most of her life after she became wheelchair bound at the age of 17) sold her to the highest bidder after her death. Please don't read anything she didn't write. That said I am of the age that these books were originally published for, and the reason they were so popular is that she wrote about things that actually happened to girls/women.. if not you then someone you knew. Everyone knew about it, no one did anything about it.. and no one talked about it. Until VC Andrews. Her characters not only lived through these horrible things, they came out of the other side of them. It was cathartic for many, scandalous for others.. and I really do feel it helped to get people talking and doing something about things that were completely verboten before.
Neiderman writing as Andrews is appalling. I’ve never read anything he wrote himself but his ghost writing…honestly I’m a better writer than he is! Anything after Fallen Hearts isn’t worth reading in my humble opinion. I didn’t know that about her mother though.
I’m 53 and I was 15 when I first started reading VC Andrew’s. She was my favorite author and I actually recommended Flowers in the Attic to my children. I’m a fan and so are my adult children. My daughter 29 sent me this podcast. Thank you!!!
Same here. My mum suggested it to me when I was at a Christmas fair. She always encourages me to read even today 😂 but flowers in the attic impacted me greatly in high school. I also love that it read like a dark fairytale which is one of my favourite genres. Angela Carter is also a good writer in that realm ❤️
It's so true how there weren't books for the in-between age group. I pretty much went from The Babysitters Club to VC Andrews. My dad hated me reading these "trash," and would leave more appropriate classics on my bedside table. But my mother read the Andrews books and I would once she had finished. I think the more recent Lifetime series of the Flowers in the Attic series was a good representation of the book. I couldn't watch the Heaven series, though, with Heaven having red hair.
Ha ha, there's such a huge gulf between Babysitters Club content and VC Andrews! What a jump into adult reading. I did cover a Babysitters Club book on this channel recently, they're quite charming reads. Very different to VCA though! Thank you for sharing this with me. And I agree with you about the Lifetime series.
I went from Babysitters Club, to Sweet Valley High, to VC Andrews. I was 13 when I started reading VC Andrews books and was completely hooked. My dad found one of my secret books and sat down and had a talk about this being smut. I was raised in a religious household with very little talk about sex, so of course I was very interested in what was forbidden.
I went from Beverley Cleary and Judy Blume to VC Andrews. Of course I’m generation X so adults in those days considered their kids adults before we were out of diapers.
I think I was about 14 or 15 when I read this series. I was on vacation with my dad, his wife and her kids. My step-mother made me "share" the books with my step-sister and considering neither one of them were well-read, they didn't understand that the books were a SERIES, not stand alone novels. Because my step-sister couldn't really read, she decided to splash me as much as possible trying to ruin my copy of my book by soaking it with pool water. The joke is on her because I loved the series, I am an avid reader and as far as I know, she is still dumb as a post. I am now 57. Thank you for the opportunity to release that grudge I've been carrying for the last several decades. 🙂
I loved these books in middle school in the 80s and we traded them between friends. I convinced my immigrant parents they were required reading for school.
I read them as a 12-13 year old - loved them and still think of them as a 54 year old lady. I am now a librarian working with children and young adults. ❤️from Sweden
Yep, GenX kid here too. I remember first reading Flowers in the Attic when I was 9! My mom had a copy, I was reading at an advanced level for my age, so she let me read whatever books I wanted. All I remember after reading that the first time was, "good thing I don't have a brother!"
Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the flowers in the attic series was a very dramatized version of what she went through. The claustrophobia from being locked away in an attic, the narcissistic mother, the controlling and religious zealot grandmother, and the way the different ways the children coped with their trauma might be loosely inspired from her life. Definitely think she added in a lot of things for shock value, but I don’t think everything she wrote in the books was foreign to her. In the second book, Cathy becomes a professional dancer, but her abusive husband (who’s also her dance partner) breaks the bones in her feet so she can’t dance any longer. And he partially does this from jealousy. I can almost see parallels to what you said about her mother being jealous ands attacking her cousin. I’m just glad she finally got to live out dreams the last few years of her life, though it’s sad she passed at a young age.
Yes, I'm really glad she got to live out her dreams in those last years of her life as well. So sad she passed so young. Thank you for watching and your comment.
I was a huge fan as a teenager in the 90’s! Devastated when I learned she passed. Did read many of the ghost written books. I went down a huge rabbit home and found out that a number of books were created from her notes she kept. That’s why there is big difference between the originals/the two ghost writer finished, the ones she had notes on and the ones he just recreated based off her brand.
I actually found out she had passed from the closing credits of the first Flowers movie! I saw “In Memory of VC Andrews” and nearly fell on the floor in shock. After that, her family started putting notices in the books that were partly or fully written by the ghostwriter, so the whole world knew.
I read these in my late teens, I'm not even sure how I ended up starting them, maybe I was attracted by the covers - I remember the first one I got was Flowers in the Attic which had reused the idea of the keyhole cover but without it opening out, so it was just Cathy's face in the window of an attic. I pretty much spent a whole summer just burning through all of the original novels. It probably was just a couple of years after Virginia Andrew's death that I read them and before they started the NEW Virginia Andrews novels, as they referred to the ghost written novels at the time. I'm sure they were claiming that they were written from notes that Andrews had left but by that point it was the start of the Cutler Family series which now they state was completely written by Neiderman. (In the UK, VC Andrews was just credited as Virginia Andrews on all her books - not sure why that was, maybe to appeal to women readers?)
I have a few of these non-keyhole keyhole covers. I knew immediately what you meant. he he. I love the keyhole design though. They're great covers on all these books. I love that you spent a Summer reading them in your teens. Thank you for sharing that memory with me. And so interesting that they used her name differently in the UK. Thank you for watching.
Yep, my copy of If There Be Thorns was a later printing, so it had the solid cover and the painting that used to be behind the keyhole on the back. I also had a book club hardcover of Flowers in the Attic that had the solid front cover image on the dust jacket without the keyhe painting appearing anywhere. (I think those book club editions were the only time VCA’s work appeared in hardcover).
Great video! And you are absolutely correct about women in pain not being believed. I was in excruciating pain for 10 years with endometriosis. I finally got a female doctor who sent me to a specialist. She recommended a hysterectomy. I agreed and my insurance company denied my claim. 😮. And I have great medical insurance. My doctor appealed the decision, and it was rejected. I fought my insurance company myself and won. Turns out that it was more than endometriosis 😡. Had I not fought for it, it would’ve eventually killed me.
Cheese and whiskers! That's awful. I'm so sorry to hear that happened to you. Good on you for fighting and advocating for yourself. That's not easy. And thankyou for sharing your story with me as well. 🐈⬛
Back in the late '70s my Mother would get the monthly Doubleday Book club mailer that would feature new published books, and I remember looking at it ever since I could read. For some reason FitA piqued my interest, and when a coworker let my Mom borrow her copy of it I immediately took it and read it (my Mom didn't really care about the story, I think she knew I was interested.) I was only around eight years old at the time and my parents had NO IDEA about the relationship between Christopher and Cathy, otherwise they wouldn't have let me read it at all. I was hooked and I still have the books with the keyhole covers. I lost interest in the mid '90's because by that time it seemed like it was all just recycled nonsense. Thanks for the video, this was very interesting!
I used to love those book club type catalogues that did the rounds. You unlocked a memory for me there! Eight is so young to read VC Andrews, but I think it was not unusual at all to be reading them at that age. I love this story you shared with me. Thank you for watching.
I read them as a teen and it was problematic then and now but I identified with the main characters as far as having a terrible mother and the abuse. The mother in the flowers of the attic reminded me so much of my mother. It helped me feel less alone.
I love that they made you feel less alone. I think that's a really important thing. A lot of books, movies, used to never show that kind of family or abuse, so it's a very pertinent point that you make here. Thank you for this comment and sharing this thought.
I can’t believe the audacity of people complaining about “umms” or scriptwriting. It’s a 0 budget, FREE video on RUclips, not a David Attenborough-narrated BBC production. Please ignore the peanut gallery and keep going. You’re doing a great job.
I first heard about 'Flowers' in a VH1 'I love 70s/80s' episode and thinking it was weird. I only picked up last year and found it alright. I had read worse growing up but it was really alright.
I can see Virginia’s experience of being kept isolated an hidden by her mother in writing. Her mother depended on Virginia to support her. She kept her daughter hidden, not allowed a social life so she would not leave her. I wonder what happened to the mother after Virginia died. I know doctors do not take worn seriously. I was finally diagnosed with a rare Lymphoma. I was stage 4.
Thank you SO much for the biographical info. There’s a lot of people talking about her characters, but nobody talking about HER, and this provided SO much insight as to where her stories came from. Olivia Foxworth, the evil grandmother from Flowers in the Attic, definitely seems to be a caricature of her controlling mother. Serves her right that her daughter wrote books that exploded on the world like an atom bomb and finally had something she could call her own. (And I am not exaggerating the impact of her books. I was a teenager when they came out. Before VC, all teen girls had were very frank and earnest books about the messiness of puberty and teen sexuality by the likes of Judy Blume. VC delivered all of the shock without any of the underlying “You’re developing normally, and that’s okay!” nutritional value). Also, the freaking ghostwriter must be stopped. I thought the Christopher’s Diary books were bad (“Cory is alive! Really! Everything that happened from Petals on the Wind onwards was for NOTHING!”) But the fact that he wrote Twilight-like VAMPIRES under her name? That hack needs to have his license to write taken away.
Ha ha, I love this! I love that girls would read stuff like this (myself included) and then share it. Minds blown for sure... Thank you for your comment.
I wouldn't call her books "exploitative" of women. They're a testament to things that actually happen to women. The fact that the main characters endure these hardships and come out the other side is empowering.
I had a very strange childhood too that most people would find unbelievable. I was disabled at seven and became an... audience? for my mother's stories and recollections. I think she thought I was mentally challenged and so it would not matter. But she'd talk about being molested as if it was the most exciting thing to happen to her. She disclosed to me her deepest darkest thoughts... It was enlightening. Not so much about her but the world. The things people do when no one's watching. That's why so many people hate the very concept of God. They don't want to be watched and judged. And god judges.
Thank you for sharing this story about your life and your maternal relationship...that sounds like a very intense experience and I'm sure VC herself would relate. Thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment!
Hi everyone! I first discovered VC Andrews in JHS in the 80s. Very controversial dark stuff at the time but also a "rite of passage" reading for our generation! Thanks so much for this.
I remember reading the Landry series (Ruby) when I was...I don't know, 9-11 ish. All of the Ghost written works really do seem to follow the pattern or tropes, so when I finally, in adulthood went back and read FitA I was floored by it's literary merit. It was genuinely compelling.
New sub! Loved this thorough synopsis of VC Andrews. I read Flowers in the Attic when I was 12, and it was absolutely fascinating. (I'm 44 now for context.) It did not ruin me, and I have a happy, healthy relationship and three beautiful grown children, so I think a lot of the pearl-clutching may have been misplaced. There's something to be said for reading the "taboo," and I think reading it at such a young age made me more empathetic of the world around me. Are there people out there who have really lived through these things? There are, and much, much worse than we can imagine. I read it with zero adult input. None. I was left to interpret it myself, and I think that was important. I developed critical thinking skills well beyond my years just from reading books that most parents would never allow their children to read. Food for thought... I don't think every parent should let every child read it, just to be clear. I still read the newer series and it's just that dopamine hit of nostalgia that takes me back to my younger years. Love it.
I love this comment, and you've made me think, I like that your perspective on it building empathy and critical thinking skills. That's very insightful. Thankyou for watching and commenting!
I definitely was too young, but I read all of the Doll series, I loved them then. Being the age I was I knew it was shocking, but it didn't really phase me to much. Like the relationship Cathy had when they first escaped, I thought it was soooooo romantic
I grew up in a religious family, and I still have never read any of these books, but I've always kind of wondered about them... So many people carrying them around in high school! (I was reading Stephen King and Anne Rice in secret, but somehow V.C. Andrews felt even more taboo...)
I was 13 or 14 when I read Flowers in the Attic and Petals in the Wind. I still LOVE those books, and your video inspired me to reread them and continue the reading of VC's books. Thank you so much
I’m so glad I discovered your channel, I listened to this last night and it was really in depth. I’m currently reading the books for the first time after seeing the original 1987 movie as a kid. Great video!
I think probably so, a very dark muse. The biography implies that she was inspired by local gossip and things she read in the newspapers. I suppose both could be true. Such a sad life story she had, but I do love her resilience.
I'm 47. I read these when I was very young. I remember it being shocking to me, but I read every book. And, the prequels and the sequels. The incest was always cringe. Kinda like the sibling romance in game of thrones.
Flowers in the Attic was her best work in my opinion. I read the books out of order, I read If There Be Thorns when I was ten or eleven. It was my older sister’s book and I had no idea it was part of a series until I started reading it then I headed for the library to read the first two. Usually my mom would be seriously offended by any kind of sexual content in books or television or movies but she actually borrowed them from me when I finished them and or kept telling me to read faster so she could read them next.
I was around 14-15 and my first book was “Melody” from the Logan series. I actually liked it even though it was written by the Ghost writer. (I also enjoyed the Culter series) After I finished the Logan series I read her own books. My favorite is My Sweet Audrina.
I was the same. I read this book on the way to school and away from school 😂 and I would always hide it in my school bag with shame. But I couldn’t stop reading it. I will read it again ❤️
*Cathy does not draw/scetch. She’s a ballerina 🩰 through 3 books. And that’s just one misrepresentation- How do you have so much confidence to create a video getting so many things wrong?
These books were shared by my fellow workers at the bank for which we worked in the early 1980s. I had never read anything having to do with family intimate relations. I ended up reading all the books written by VC Andrews. Very unusual books for that time.
I started reading these books in junior high. After reading the FITA series and a few after, I wondered why Andrews was so obsessed with incest. The books were good, but that always creeped me out.
14 years old, first read FITA on a camping trip. Loved it and gobbled up the rest afterward. It was the second "adult" book I read (first was The Firm by Grisham). I paid 125$ for a mint condition signed 1st edition hardcover of Petals on the Wind back in 1998.
wow, you got a bargain for that signed copy! I was around the same age when I read The Firm, maybe I should review some Grisham at some point🤔- Thanks for the comment!
35:35 people talk about them being problematic, and I’m not saying they are not- but they are so much like written soap operas that just hook you and shock you and don’t let you go.
Thank you for your lovely comments (appreciate all of them) VC is definitely addictive reading. Also your channel looks cool ❤️❤️ thanks for stopping by!
I really love these books, thank you for making this video, (Koontz is my favorite author so I am no stranger to the disturbing) and I relate to the protagonists a lot but I do know they are fiction. I did not know ANYHING about VC. I also learned a lot from them and they were helpful to me during a very hard time in my life, though some lessons only life can teach like my 6 year relationship with my abusive (narcissitic) ex who nobody tried to help me realize the abuse because he is so charming. Thanks, you bastard. My mother actually gave my her collection and gave me a warning about the subject matter when I was 12 which is the right age I think. My favorite is Heaven. I understand the controversey over the SA but as a victim myself there is a normalization of it not being your fault, even if you felt you 'wanted it'/didn't hate it, not letting men determine your worth, being strong but not hardened, not being beaten down, generational trauma, a lot to learn there as well. It is a taboo subject no matter how you approach it so I absolutely love it being broached especially with the shades of gray. Also as a fellow daydreamer it is just lovely fantasy Herculean journey.
Thank you for this lovely, heartfelt comment. And i like hearing your perspective on how it was useful or had lessons as a survivor. That's really powerful. Also, booo to your narc ex! They can be very charming and convincing. xx
I’d only heard vague things about these books before this video, thank you for the context! Also, all this time I thought the title “flowers in the attic” was using purple prose to refer to the children themselves
Yes, I thought the flowers in the title referred to the children too. I guess it sort of does, but it's also the paper garden they make. Thank you for watching and commenting.
I was probably in 6th grade when I started reading these. Like another comment said, I went from reading Babysitters Club books to VC Andrews. They are quite different to say the least. My mom read them and I'd see them around the house and just read them myself. I still occasionally read them when I notice a new one is out. The incest in the stories is really bad so that gives me the ick factor but I still read them. The books have the same plot line though. Poor unpopular girl gets liked by the hot guy at school, then ends up in a rich family, then she is treated horribly by that family and ends up in love with a relative(most of the time she doesn't realize they are related until they've already fallen in love). I don't really have a favorite but I will say I prefer the original Flowers in the Attic movie with Christy Swanson vs. the Lifetime version.
I did it backwards. At 10 my dad gave me Stephen King. I had to have read FitA before the movie because I remember being excited for it, so I would have been 11, but I don't remember really geting into the series it until I was in 8th grade at 13. Most of my 8th and 9th grade was reading all the VC Andrews stuff, and I pretty much stopped at the Casteel series. My Sweet Audrina was probably my fave as a kid though. I did keep up the King for another decade after this, lol.. I recently started re-reading the Dollanganger series this year though.
There were other books besides V. C. Andrews novel series...Sweet Valley High (teen drama) by Francine Pascal, The Babysitters Club (young teen drama) by Ann Martin, books by Judy Blume famously known to focus on divorce, sexuality, puberty and bullying and there teen novels based on romance and mystery.....The main reason V. C. Andrews got So....Popular....because Flowers in the Attic was considered shocking and taboo. And probably young readers did not want to read another teen romance.
@lauriejones4507 I'm glad you got therapy and have been able to do some processing and healing. Some things are a life long challenge to overcome. Stay resilient and thank you for watching.
33:47 I feel like all these books seem to be about escaping from horrible families… 🤔 (which honestly a lot of us dreampt about as teens in those days)
This might sound strange but I like them all but I'm also used to horror movies and everything else so to me it's just a normal read let's just saying the grandmother Olivia what is the most insane character in all literature in my opinion
Andrews is the only author who has books to her name 40+ years after her passing. I would never write what she writes. I am not comfortable with family members having romantic relationships.
I wonder if the 70s was the heyday of suggesting novels were based on true events (Go Ask Alice, for example). I also read these as a teen, which felt very rebellious.
Oh, dear God, Go Ask Alice. Freaking Beatrice Sparks. The podcast You’re Wrong About did a great episode on that. Apparently, BS (and her initials are accurate, her books were BS) was a writer for Art Linkletter, a comic whose daughter allegedly died because of drugs. So Ms. Sparks decided to write a book warning kids off drugs and pass it off as the diary of a real drug-addicted teenager. (Never mind that it wasn’t well-researched!) The thing became a massive bestseller. For her next trick, she turned the diary of a REAL troubled teen who had passed away into Jay’s Journal, an even LESS researched tale of a boy’s descent into Satanism. The actual diary writer never touched anything regarding the occult. The book contributed to the Satanic Panic and Sparks was slammed by the boy’s family. Undeterred, she published “diaries” about the Parental Panic of the Moment (teen pregnancy, AIDS, runaways) for the rest of her life. If she were still around today, I’m sure she’d be writing, “Explosive: The Actual Diary Of A Video Game Addicted School Shooter.”
It’s been awhile but I bought the audiobooks versions of the first 4 books. Flowers in the Attic was the better one … sequel seemed too repetitive… I think the third or the forth book was the same book of Flowers of the Attic but told by the brother’s point of view instead of the sister. I find Flowers of the Attic a very sad book. The sequel felt like the author had fun torturing the characters … I was more irritated than sad as listened the story … it felt like bad things happened mostly for shocking value … like the mother’s son in the second book was just evil … the boy had like evil on his genes … he was not raised through hate … it just didn’t make sense to me. If not to add intense drama and bring pain to the story. After the 4th book I got too frustrated with the circle of pain, suffering and mean spirited characters.
You know, I haven't read these other Flowers books, so I like hearing your opinion on it. I can agree that there's a theme of relentless and cycling suffering and of course, being shocking for the sake of it. This becomes more and more apparent to me in later books, as the marketing machine went on. Thank you for watching and commenting.
26:18 well, even not that long ago, men didn’t marry for companionship but for.. you know, domestic servitude. So, not being able to cook and clean etc could have been a big hindrance.
It as very transgressive and trashy when it came out. and if you could read this as a teen or tween seemed VERY (....) it also included trapped boys of all ages. when I read these I was tenetatively pleasurably SHOCKED!!!
Half uncle means it was the half-sibling of one of her parents and from a purely genetic point of view that makes it much, much better than a „full“ uncle, because she shares less genetic material with him. Technically I think the risk of causing genetic defects in their children isn’t any higher than with a first cousin (who was considered a perfectly acceptable candidate for marriage through much of our history). The social stigma here doesn’t really match the actual impact of their marriage, which is think is purposefully done. They’re juuust related enough that it makes it „unacceptable“.
I read several of her books. I had to stop. I love her writing and love the author but the books were just soooo bleak. I got depressed at the ending of each book I read. It’s like a generation after generation of family members having the worst of luck. It didn’t matter poor or rich they just had the worst happen. There never was a happy ending lol. Like give me one happy ending people. I still don’t have the courage to read the rest of the volumes. I read about a few of the families volume before I had to stop. My sweet Audrina was the only one I remember at the time that didn’t have a continuation and am glad it didn’t. I can’t help but feel sadness every time I see V.C Andrews name. But a wonderful author indeed
Yes, the are still printing them.. and then are still relentlessly bleak.... lol. They ghost wrote a sequel to Sweet Audrina and i'm pretty sure that has a bad ending 😅 Thank you for this great comment ❤️
The sniffles and ums are a bit distracting, as are what appear to be AI-generated images for some of your backgrounds(Side note: there are actually free stock image sites, if you did not know. I'm sorry if that comes off as backhanded, that's not how I mean it, I'm just a creative myself and recently discovered that free stock images are a thing). Still, this is a high quality, well-written dive into an author who doesn't have much biographical information available on wikipedia and the like, and I'm glad you made it.
It’s a good idea to write a script before making a video like this. That way you won’t have to keep saying you don’t remember or don’t know some fact that would seem pertinent to anyone who’s going to devote an hour to watching your content.
Yep, read them as a kid. GenX kid here, we've been grown since childhood, lol
Haha, I hear that - Thanks for watching!
Y'all came out 45 years old.
Gen X too- ended up being a gothic writer cartoonist when I grew up - partly from reading V.C. Andrews
Neederman is a hack, her publisher was a vampire, and her mother (who kept her a virtual prisoner most of her life after she became wheelchair bound at the age of 17) sold her to the highest bidder after her death. Please don't read anything she didn't write. That said I am of the age that these books were originally published for, and the reason they were so popular is that she wrote about things that actually happened to girls/women.. if not you then someone you knew. Everyone knew about it, no one did anything about it.. and no one talked about it. Until VC Andrews. Her characters not only lived through these horrible things, they came out of the other side of them. It was cathartic for many, scandalous for others.. and I really do feel it helped to get people talking and doing something about things that were completely verboten before.
I agree, thanks for watching!
Neiderman writing as Andrews is appalling. I’ve never read anything he wrote himself but his ghost writing…honestly I’m a better writer than he is! Anything after Fallen Hearts isn’t worth reading in my humble opinion. I didn’t know that about her mother though.
I’m 53 and I was 15 when I first started reading VC Andrew’s. She was my favorite author and I actually recommended Flowers in the Attic to my children. I’m a fan and so are my adult children. My daughter 29 sent me this podcast. Thank you!!!
That's really lovely, I love that you and your daughter share these books! 🐈⬛ Thanks so much for watching ❤️
Same here. My mum suggested it to me when I was at a Christmas fair. She always encourages me to read even today 😂 but flowers in the attic impacted me greatly in high school. I also love that it read like a dark fairytale which is one of my favourite genres. Angela Carter is also a good writer in that realm ❤️
It's so true how there weren't books for the in-between age group. I pretty much went from The Babysitters Club to VC Andrews. My dad hated me reading these "trash," and would leave more appropriate classics on my bedside table. But my mother read the Andrews books and I would once she had finished.
I think the more recent Lifetime series of the Flowers in the Attic series was a good representation of the book. I couldn't watch the Heaven series, though, with Heaven having red hair.
Ha ha, there's such a huge gulf between Babysitters Club content and VC Andrews! What a jump into adult reading. I did cover a Babysitters Club book on this channel recently, they're quite charming reads. Very different to VCA though! Thank you for sharing this with me. And I agree with you about the Lifetime series.
@cravenwild I'll have to find the Babysitter Club one! There was probably a lot in the VC books I didn't quite get at that age, thankfully.
THIS!!!! Same, now that you mention it! From Babysitters Club to VC Andrews is the PERFECT description!
I went from Babysitters Club, to Sweet Valley High, to VC Andrews. I was 13 when I started reading VC Andrews books and was completely hooked. My dad found one of my secret books and sat down and had a talk about this being smut. I was raised in a religious household with very little talk about sex, so of course I was very interested in what was forbidden.
I went from Beverley Cleary and Judy Blume to VC Andrews. Of course I’m generation X so adults in those days considered their kids adults before we were out of diapers.
I was 12, my favorite was Garden of Shadows and Heaven. I can’t read them now but brought many happy hours reading in middle school and high.
I love to hear these reading memories! I'm glad you have this nice memory of them. Thank you for watching and commenting.
In a weird sort of way I've been waiting for this video since I was a kid! Thank you
You are very welcome 😊
I think I was about 14 or 15 when I read this series. I was on vacation with my dad, his wife and her kids. My step-mother made me "share" the books with my step-sister and considering neither one of them were well-read, they didn't understand that the books were a SERIES, not stand alone novels. Because my step-sister couldn't really read, she decided to splash me as much as possible trying to ruin my copy of my book by soaking it with pool water. The joke is on her because I loved the series, I am an avid reader and as far as I know, she is still dumb as a post. I am now 57. Thank you for the opportunity to release that grudge I've been carrying for the last several decades. 🙂
This made me cackle! ha ha! I have also had step siblings in my time, and can relate to this. Thank you for sharing. 🐈⬛
My favorite book by her was My Sweet Adrianna when I realized what had happened to her I cried …was extremely emotional and sad.
I loved that book
I've read that one as well ! its a VC Classic
My Sweet Adrianna is amazing! IMO, VC Andrews best novel, way better than Flowers!
The first one I read.. but definitely not the last.
Probably her most bonkers book, and also utterly compelling. Arden Lowe is THE ABSOLUTE WORST.
I loved these books in middle school in the 80s and we traded them between friends. I convinced my immigrant parents they were required reading for school.
Hahaha so sneaky, i love that! - Thanks for watching
I read them as a 12-13 year old - loved them and still think of them as a 54 year old lady. I am now a librarian working with children and young adults. ❤️from Sweden
I love Sweden & I love librarians. Dumle for life!!! 🐈⬛
Yep, GenX kid here too. I remember first reading Flowers in the Attic when I was 9! My mom had a copy, I was reading at an advanced level for my age, so she let me read whatever books I wanted. All I remember after reading that the first time was, "good thing I don't have a brother!"
You're hilarious! 9 is so young lol. Thanks for the comment ❤️
Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the flowers in the attic series was a very dramatized version of what she went through. The claustrophobia from being locked away in an attic, the narcissistic mother, the controlling and religious zealot grandmother, and the way the different ways the children coped with their trauma might be loosely inspired from her life. Definitely think she added in a lot of things for shock value, but I don’t think everything she wrote in the books was foreign to her. In the second book, Cathy becomes a professional dancer, but her abusive husband (who’s also her dance partner) breaks the bones in her feet so she can’t dance any longer. And he partially does this from jealousy. I can almost see parallels to what you said about her mother being jealous ands attacking her cousin. I’m just glad she finally got to live out dreams the last few years of her life, though it’s sad she passed at a young age.
Yes, I'm really glad she got to live out her dreams in those last years of her life as well. So sad she passed so young. Thank you for watching and your comment.
I was a huge fan as a teenager in the 90’s! Devastated when I learned she passed. Did read many of the ghost written books. I went down a huge rabbit home and found out that a number of books were created from her notes she kept. That’s why there is big difference between the originals/the two ghost writer finished, the ones she had notes on and the ones he just recreated based off her brand.
I agree! Thanks for watching
I actually found out she had passed from the closing credits of the first Flowers movie! I saw “In Memory of VC Andrews” and nearly fell on the floor in shock. After that, her family started putting notices in the books that were partly or fully written by the ghostwriter, so the whole world knew.
I read these in my late teens, I'm not even sure how I ended up starting them, maybe I was attracted by the covers - I remember the first one I got was Flowers in the Attic which had reused the idea of the keyhole cover but without it opening out, so it was just Cathy's face in the window of an attic. I pretty much spent a whole summer just burning through all of the original novels. It probably was just a couple of years after Virginia Andrew's death that I read them and before they started the NEW Virginia Andrews novels, as they referred to the ghost written novels at the time. I'm sure they were claiming that they were written from notes that Andrews had left but by that point it was the start of the Cutler Family series which now they state was completely written by Neiderman. (In the UK, VC Andrews was just credited as Virginia Andrews on all her books - not sure why that was, maybe to appeal to women readers?)
I have a few of these non-keyhole keyhole covers. I knew immediately what you meant. he he. I love the keyhole design though. They're great covers on all these books. I love that you spent a Summer reading them in your teens. Thank you for sharing that memory with me. And so interesting that they used her name differently in the UK. Thank you for watching.
Yep, my copy of If There Be Thorns was a later printing, so it had the solid cover and the painting that used to be behind the keyhole on the back. I also had a book club hardcover of Flowers in the Attic that had the solid front cover image on the dust jacket without the keyhe painting appearing anywhere. (I think those book club editions were the only time VCA’s work appeared in hardcover).
Oh thank you for this video! I've rediscovered the series a week ago, I'm obsessed all over again. And you have a very nice voice :)
I'm so glad that I helped you find something that you're enjoying diving into. Thank you for the compliment (love your username)
Great video! And you are absolutely correct about women in pain not being believed. I was in excruciating pain for 10 years with endometriosis. I finally got a female doctor who sent me to a specialist. She recommended a hysterectomy. I agreed and my insurance company denied my claim. 😮. And I have great medical insurance. My doctor appealed the decision, and it was rejected. I fought my insurance company myself and won. Turns out that it was more than endometriosis 😡. Had I not fought for it, it would’ve eventually killed me.
Cheese and whiskers! That's awful. I'm so sorry to hear that happened to you. Good on you for fighting and advocating for yourself. That's not easy. And thankyou for sharing your story with me as well. 🐈⬛
Holy crap! Thank God they caught it and you’re okay now!
Back in the late '70s my Mother would get the monthly Doubleday Book club mailer that would feature new published books, and I remember looking at it ever since I could read. For some reason FitA piqued my interest, and when a coworker let my Mom borrow her copy of it I immediately took it and read it (my Mom didn't really care about the story, I think she knew I was interested.) I was only around eight years old at the time and my parents had NO IDEA about the relationship between Christopher and Cathy, otherwise they wouldn't have let me read it at all. I was hooked and I still have the books with the keyhole covers. I lost interest in the mid '90's because by that time it seemed like it was all just recycled nonsense.
Thanks for the video, this was very interesting!
I used to love those book club type catalogues that did the rounds. You unlocked a memory for me there! Eight is so young to read VC Andrews, but I think it was not unusual at all to be reading them at that age. I love this story you shared with me. Thank you for watching.
I read these as a young teen and wow yes so problematic.
SOOO Problematic !
I read them as a teen and it was problematic then and now but I identified with the main characters as far as having a terrible mother and the abuse. The mother in the flowers of the attic reminded me so much of my mother. It helped me feel less alone.
I love that they made you feel less alone. I think that's a really important thing. A lot of books, movies, used to never show that kind of family or abuse, so it's a very pertinent point that you make here. Thank you for this comment and sharing this thought.
I can’t believe the audacity of people complaining about “umms” or scriptwriting.
It’s a 0 budget, FREE video on RUclips, not a David Attenborough-narrated BBC production.
Please ignore the peanut gallery and keep going. You’re doing a great job.
Thank you so much, that's really kind and made my day. I remember comments like yours and don't worry about that haters!
@@cravenwildI too have obviously enjoyed this, as I have listened to it a couple of times now.😊
@@MsBluheart thank you, I feel like that's a huge compliment
I first heard about 'Flowers' in a VH1 'I love 70s/80s' episode and thinking it was weird. I only picked up last year and found it alright. I had read worse growing up but it was really alright.
Totally agree - thanks for watching !
I was 19 when I read Flowers 🌸 in The Attic, and Petals in The Wind 💨. I couldn’t put them down.
ha, I guess they are best-sellers for a reason! - Thank you for watching.
I can see Virginia’s experience of being kept isolated an hidden by her mother in writing. Her mother depended on Virginia to support her. She kept her daughter hidden, not allowed a social life so she would not leave her. I wonder what happened to the mother after Virginia died. I know doctors do not take worn seriously. I was finally diagnosed with a rare Lymphoma. I was stage 4.
Thank you SO much for the biographical info. There’s a lot of people talking about her characters, but nobody talking about HER, and this provided SO much insight as to where her stories came from. Olivia Foxworth, the evil grandmother from Flowers in the Attic, definitely seems to be a caricature of her controlling mother. Serves her right that her daughter wrote books that exploded on the world like an atom bomb and finally had something she could call her own. (And I am not exaggerating the impact of her books. I was a teenager when they came out. Before VC, all teen girls had were very frank and earnest books about the messiness of puberty and teen sexuality by the likes of Judy Blume. VC delivered all of the shock without any of the underlying “You’re developing normally, and that’s okay!” nutritional value).
Also, the freaking ghostwriter must be stopped. I thought the Christopher’s Diary books were bad (“Cory is alive! Really! Everything that happened from Petals on the Wind onwards was for NOTHING!”) But the fact that he wrote Twilight-like VAMPIRES under her name? That hack needs to have his license to write taken away.
My cousin and I were in eighth grade. When this book came out and it blew our minds l o l
Ha ha, I love this! I love that girls would read stuff like this (myself included) and then share it. Minds blown for sure... Thank you for your comment.
I wouldn't call her books "exploitative" of women. They're a testament to things that actually happen to women. The fact that the main characters endure these hardships and come out the other side is empowering.
You make a valid point and I like your username! - Thanks for watching ❤️
HP Lovecraft had a strange mother induced shut-in life style that feed into his work and worldview. Very interesting.
I had a very strange childhood too that most people would find unbelievable. I was disabled at seven and became an... audience? for my mother's stories and recollections. I think she thought I was mentally challenged and so it would not matter. But she'd talk about being molested as if it was the most exciting thing to happen to her. She disclosed to me her deepest darkest thoughts... It was enlightening. Not so much about her but the world. The things people do when no one's watching. That's why so many people hate the very concept of God. They don't want to be watched and judged. And god judges.
Thank you for sharing this story about your life and your maternal relationship...that sounds like a very intense experience and I'm sure VC herself would relate. Thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment!
Hi everyone! I first discovered VC Andrews in JHS in the 80s. Very controversial dark stuff at the time but also a "rite of passage" reading for our generation! Thanks so much for this.
Thank you so much for watching, glad you enjoyed it - what is JHS?
@@cravenwild lol junior high school
I remember reading the Landry series (Ruby) when I was...I don't know, 9-11 ish. All of the Ghost written works really do seem to follow the pattern or tropes, so when I finally, in adulthood went back and read FitA I was floored by it's literary merit. It was genuinely compelling.
VC could really write... Totally agree, she was a really good writer!
The ghostwritten books are so formulaic that they’re closer to AI than VC.
New sub! Loved this thorough synopsis of VC Andrews. I read Flowers in the Attic when I was 12, and it was absolutely fascinating. (I'm 44 now for context.) It did not ruin me, and I have a happy, healthy relationship and three beautiful grown children, so I think a lot of the pearl-clutching may have been misplaced. There's something to be said for reading the "taboo," and I think reading it at such a young age made me more empathetic of the world around me. Are there people out there who have really lived through these things? There are, and much, much worse than we can imagine.
I read it with zero adult input. None. I was left to interpret it myself, and I think that was important. I developed critical thinking skills well beyond my years just from reading books that most parents would never allow their children to read. Food for thought... I don't think every parent should let every child read it, just to be clear.
I still read the newer series and it's just that dopamine hit of nostalgia that takes me back to my younger years. Love it.
I love this comment, and you've made me think, I like that your perspective on it building empathy and critical thinking skills. That's very insightful. Thankyou for watching and commenting!
I read your comment and you expressed it better than I could have.
I definitely was too young, but I read all of the Doll series, I loved them then. Being the age I was I knew it was shocking, but it didn't really phase me to much. Like the relationship Cathy had when they first escaped, I thought it was soooooo romantic
It's like you're too young to know it's problematic, but old enough to know it's a bit shocking. he he. Thank you for watching
@@cravenwild now I know so much better.....
We were built different, and I swear we had better critical thinking skills because of it.
I was in middle school, and I was a big fan of her books. I particularly liked the books about the grandmoms, it was like reading the origin stories.
So many of us were reading these in middle school! Thanks for Watching!
For anyone who cares, VCA is(was) Gemini sun, Pisces moon, and Virgo asc💫
Ohh, interesting - Thanks for Watching 🐈⬛
I grew up in a religious family, and I still have never read any of these books, but I've always kind of wondered about them... So many people carrying them around in high school! (I was reading Stephen King and Anne Rice in secret, but somehow V.C. Andrews felt even more taboo...)
That's so interesting. VC Andrews would seem a bit tame now, after reading King and Rice! Thank you for your comment
I was 13 or 14 when I read Flowers in the Attic and Petals in the Wind. I still LOVE those books, and your video inspired me to reread them and continue the reading of VC's books. Thank you so much
ah that's so lovely. Thank you for watching and your kind words.🐈⬛
I’m so glad I discovered your channel, I listened to this last night and it was really in depth.
I’m currently reading the books for the first time after seeing the original 1987 movie as a kid.
Great video!
Thank you, that's so lovely! did you spot the cameo in the movie when you watched it?
Her mother and the abuse she endured, was likely Virginia’s muse, right? At least a strong influence on the subject.
I think probably so, a very dark muse. The biography implies that she was inspired by local gossip and things she read in the newspapers. I suppose both could be true. Such a sad life story she had, but I do love her resilience.
I'm 47. I read these when I was very young. I remember it being shocking to me, but I read every book. And, the prequels and the sequels. The incest was always cringe. Kinda like the sibling romance in game of thrones.
That's a really accurate comparison- Thanks watching 🐈⬛
Flowers in the Attic was her best work in my opinion. I read the books out of order, I read If There Be Thorns when I was ten or eleven. It was my older sister’s book and I had no idea it was part of a series until I started reading it then I headed for the library to read the first two. Usually my mom would be seriously offended by any kind of sexual content in books or television or movies but she actually borrowed them from me when I finished them and or kept telling me to read faster so she could read them next.
hahah, that''s awesome, I love that your mom sneakily got into them too! This is a great memory, thank you for sharing and thank you for watching!
I was around 14-15 and my first book was “Melody” from the Logan series. I actually liked it even though it was written by the Ghost writer. (I also enjoyed the Culter series)
After I finished the Logan series I read her own books. My favorite is My Sweet Audrina.
it seems like Melody was the introduction for quite a few of you, which is interesting. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
I was the same. I read this book on the way to school and away from school 😂 and I would always hide it in my school bag with shame. But I couldn’t stop reading it. I will read it again ❤️
Thank you for sharing this memory with me!!
*Cathy does not draw/scetch. She’s a ballerina 🩰 through 3 books.
And that’s just one misrepresentation-
How do you have so much confidence to create a video getting so many things wrong?
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These books were shared by my fellow workers at the bank for which we worked in the early 1980s. I had never read anything having to do with family intimate relations. I ended up reading all the books written by VC Andrews. Very unusual books for that time.
I love these stories about books being shared. There's something so fun about that. Thank you for all your lovely comments and for watching.
I started reading these books in junior high. After reading the FITA series and a few after, I wondered why Andrews was so obsessed with incest. The books were good, but that always creeped me out.
It''s definitely a creepy subject.... Thanks for watching !!!
14 years old, first read FITA on a camping trip. Loved it and gobbled up the rest afterward. It was the second "adult" book I read (first was The Firm by Grisham). I paid 125$ for a mint condition signed 1st edition hardcover of Petals on the Wind back in 1998.
wow, you got a bargain for that signed copy! I was around the same age when I read The Firm, maybe I should review some Grisham at some point🤔- Thanks for the comment!
True! I was eleven or twelve when I first read V. C. Andrews
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35:35 people talk about them being problematic, and I’m not saying they are not- but they are so much like written soap operas that just hook you and shock you and don’t let you go.
Thank you for your lovely comments (appreciate all of them) VC is definitely addictive reading. Also your channel looks cool ❤️❤️ thanks for stopping by!
I really love these books, thank you for making this video, (Koontz is my favorite author so I am no stranger to the disturbing) and I relate to the protagonists a lot but I do know they are fiction.
I did not know ANYHING about VC.
I also learned a lot from them and they were helpful to me during a very hard time in my life, though some lessons only life can teach like my 6 year relationship with my abusive (narcissitic) ex who nobody tried to help me realize the abuse because he is so charming. Thanks, you bastard.
My mother actually gave my her collection and gave me a warning about the subject matter when I was 12 which is the right age I think. My favorite is Heaven.
I understand the controversey over the SA but as a victim myself there is a normalization of it not being your fault, even if you felt you 'wanted it'/didn't hate it, not letting men determine your worth, being strong but not hardened, not being beaten down, generational trauma, a lot to learn there as well. It is a taboo subject no matter how you approach it so I absolutely love it being broached especially with the shades of gray.
Also as a fellow daydreamer it is just lovely fantasy Herculean journey.
Thank you for this lovely, heartfelt comment. And i like hearing your perspective on how it was useful or had lessons as a survivor. That's really powerful. Also, booo to your narc ex! They can be very charming and convincing. xx
So her female lead characters were her self inserts into her work, it sounds like her mother could have been the mother in one of her stories..
It's debated online , she for sure got her stories from somewhere. Thanks so much for watching!
@@cravenwild of course! Thank you for making such a great video
I remember secretly reading the Flowers in the attic series as a kid🙈. Thought it was just me haha
Ha ha! No, you're definitely in good company there! Thankyou for your watching. 🐈⬛
I’d only heard vague things about these books before this video, thank you for the context!
Also, all this time I thought the title “flowers in the attic” was using purple prose to refer to the children themselves
Yes, I thought the flowers in the title referred to the children too. I guess it sort of does, but it's also the paper garden they make. Thank you for watching and commenting.
I was probably in 6th grade when I started reading these. Like another comment said, I went from reading Babysitters Club books to VC Andrews. They are quite different to say the least. My mom read them and I'd see them around the house and just read them myself. I still occasionally read them when I notice a new one is out. The incest in the stories is really bad so that gives me the ick factor but I still read them. The books have the same plot line though. Poor unpopular girl gets liked by the hot guy at school, then ends up in a rich family, then she is treated horribly by that family and ends up in love with a relative(most of the time she doesn't realize they are related until they've already fallen in love). I don't really have a favorite but I will say I prefer the original Flowers in the Attic movie with Christy Swanson vs. the Lifetime version.
I love this comment! It's a big jump from Dawn and Mary Ann babysitting to the Dollanger siblings in the attic. haha.
I did it backwards. At 10 my dad gave me Stephen King. I had to have read FitA before the movie because I remember being excited for it, so I would have been 11, but I don't remember really geting into the series it until I was in 8th grade at 13. Most of my 8th and 9th grade was reading all the VC Andrews stuff, and I pretty much stopped at the Casteel series. My Sweet Audrina was probably my fave as a kid though.
I did keep up the King for another decade after this, lol.. I recently started re-reading the Dollanganger series this year though.
I think you were cooler than me in high-school haha. I love that your dad was giving you books to read - Thanks for watching!
I loved these books . I read them in my early teens. Also loved the Heaven series.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment ❤️
Very much enjoy your commentary. Would love to hear you discuss some Shirley Jackson.
Oh, I absolutely love Shirley Jackson - maybe i'll do that! 🐈⬛
Thanks for your comment.
So glad your video came up on my FYP…new subscriber 💕
Yay! Thank you! ❤️
The original “series of unfortunate events”
There were other books besides V. C. Andrews novel series...Sweet Valley High (teen drama) by Francine Pascal, The Babysitters Club (young teen drama) by Ann Martin, books by Judy Blume famously known to focus on divorce, sexuality, puberty and bullying and there teen novels based on romance and mystery.....The main reason V. C. Andrews got So....Popular....because Flowers in the Attic was considered shocking and taboo. And probably young readers did not want to read another teen romance.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
This series is so disturbing. As a victim of sibling sexual abuse, I can't with this concept. 😢
Yes its very disturbing, its a subject that probably shouldn't be for entertainment. Sorry to hear about what you went through.
@cravenwild thank you. I've had LOTS of therapy, and he's been dead for years, so I'm actually in a good place now.
@lauriejones4507 I'm glad you got therapy and have been able to do some processing and healing. Some things are a life long challenge to overcome. Stay resilient and thank you for watching.
Authors in the 70a competed to see how transgressive and forbidden they could get away with
@@daisyviluck7932 so gross... I'm happy we've moved past that phase.
33:47 I feel like all these books seem to be about escaping from horrible families… 🤔 (which honestly a lot of us dreampt about as teens in those days)
I don't remember how old I was, but I read them when I was in middle school. In hindsight, I don't know why my mom let me read them, LoL.
Hahahah I love that ❤️
This might sound strange but I like them all but I'm also used to horror movies and everything else so to me it's just a normal read let's just saying the grandmother Olivia what is the most insane character in all literature in my opinion
I don't think that's strange and I agree about Olivia, except maybe Annie Wilkes? - Thank you for watching 🐈⬛
Andrews is the only author who has books to her name 40+ years after her passing. I would never write what she writes. I am not comfortable with family members having romantic relationships.
That's an interesting point, Thank so much for watching 🐈⬛
I was 13. Flowers in the Attic was my first novel. I’m 43 now and that astounds me.
omg so many of us were so young! - Thanks for watching ❤️
I wonder if the 70s was the heyday of suggesting novels were based on true events (Go Ask Alice, for example). I also read these as a teen, which felt very rebellious.
Go Ask Alice is apparently all made up.. A story for another time. Thanks for watching! 🥂
Oh, dear God, Go Ask Alice. Freaking Beatrice Sparks. The podcast You’re Wrong About did a great episode on that. Apparently, BS (and her initials are accurate, her books were BS) was a writer for Art Linkletter, a comic whose daughter allegedly died because of drugs. So Ms. Sparks decided to write a book warning kids off drugs and pass it off as the diary of a real drug-addicted teenager. (Never mind that it wasn’t well-researched!) The thing became a massive bestseller. For her next trick, she turned the diary of a REAL troubled teen who had passed away into Jay’s Journal, an even LESS researched tale of a boy’s descent into Satanism. The actual diary writer never touched anything regarding the occult. The book contributed to the Satanic Panic and Sparks was slammed by the boy’s family. Undeterred, she published “diaries” about the Parental Panic of the Moment (teen pregnancy, AIDS, runaways) for the rest of her life. If she were still around today, I’m sure she’d be writing, “Explosive: The Actual Diary Of A Video Game Addicted School Shooter.”
It’s been awhile but I bought the audiobooks versions of the first 4 books. Flowers in the Attic was the better one … sequel seemed too repetitive… I think the third or the forth book was the same book of Flowers of the Attic but told by the brother’s point of view instead of the sister. I find Flowers of the Attic a very sad book. The sequel felt like the author had fun torturing the characters … I was more irritated than sad as listened the story … it felt like bad things happened mostly for shocking value … like the mother’s son in the second book was just evil … the boy had like evil on his genes … he was not raised through hate … it just didn’t make sense to me. If not to add intense drama and bring pain to the story. After the 4th book I got too frustrated with the circle of pain, suffering and mean spirited characters.
You know, I haven't read these other Flowers books, so I like hearing your opinion on it. I can agree that there's a theme of relentless and cycling suffering and of course, being shocking for the sake of it. This becomes more and more apparent to me in later books, as the marketing machine went on. Thank you for watching and commenting.
@@cravenwild it was my pleasure😊
26:18 well, even not that long ago, men didn’t marry for companionship but for.. you know, domestic servitude. So, not being able to cook and clean etc could have been a big hindrance.
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Please do not think that I am illiterate. This texting puts in different words than typed.
Ha ha! It does do that sometimes!
It as very transgressive and trashy when it came out. and if you could read this as a teen or tween seemed VERY (....) it also included trapped boys of all ages. when I read these I was tenetatively pleasurably SHOCKED!!!
I love this comment !
Half uncle means it was the half-sibling of one of her parents and from a purely genetic point of view that makes it much, much better than a „full“ uncle, because she shares less genetic material with him. Technically I think the risk of causing genetic defects in their children isn’t any higher than with a first cousin (who was considered a perfectly acceptable candidate for marriage through much of our history). The social stigma here doesn’t really match the actual impact of their marriage, which is think is purposefully done. They’re juuust related enough that it makes it „unacceptable“.
interesting highlights - thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
I read several of her books. I had to stop. I love her writing and love the author but the books were just soooo bleak. I got depressed at the ending of each book I read. It’s like a generation after generation of family members having the worst of luck. It didn’t matter poor or rich they just had the worst happen. There never was a happy ending lol. Like give me one happy ending people. I still don’t have the courage to read the rest of the volumes. I read about a few of the families volume before I had to stop. My sweet Audrina was the only one I remember at the time that didn’t have a continuation and am glad it didn’t. I can’t help but feel sadness every time I see V.C Andrews name. But a wonderful author indeed
Yes, the are still printing them.. and then are still relentlessly bleak.... lol. They ghost wrote a sequel to Sweet Audrina and i'm pretty sure that has a bad ending 😅 Thank you for this great comment ❤️
The sniffles and ums are a bit distracting, as are what appear to be AI-generated images for some of your backgrounds(Side note: there are actually free stock image sites, if you did not know. I'm sorry if that comes off as backhanded, that's not how I mean it, I'm just a creative myself and recently discovered that free stock images are a thing). Still, this is a high quality, well-written dive into an author who doesn't have much biographical information available on wikipedia and the like, and I'm glad you made it.
Yes, Still working on my scripts and learning stuff - Thanks so much for comment and tips!
It’s a good idea to write a script before making a video like this. That way you won’t have to keep saying you don’t remember or don’t know some fact that would seem pertinent to anyone who’s going to devote an hour to watching your content.
Good Idea! - Thanks for watching and leaving a comment 😊
Jesus, write a better script.
😩 I'll keep working on it, thanks for watching!
It looks like a face with an eye, in behind the chairs!
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