The Works of V.C. Andrews

[Queena]

Sorry for the double post. Which book had the main character move with a aunt, or maybe grandmother who had a sister that was child like. The lady locked both the sister and the main character in a grand ole mansion (natch). I think it was part of the Cutler series. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I would love to read that one again. However, first I have to finish Heaven. I'm almost at the part when Pa sells the kids. I'm going to miss Our Jane.

[dwanollah]

May 30, 2011 11:35:08 GMT -4 Queena said:

Sorry for the double post. Which book had the main character move with a aunt, or maybe grandmother who had a sister that was child like. The lady locked both the sister and the main character in a grand ole mansion (natch). I think it was part of the Cutler series. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Oh yes, that was a Cutler book, probably Secrets of the Morning. Darkest Hour was the grandmother's back story, and it also featured the locked-up-in-the-mansion thing.

[carrier76]

The NAME "Our Jane" is what annoyed me the most, I think.

[sugarhigh]

I just checked out a VC Andrews site and she has A LOT more novels than I realized. I'd only read up to the Landry series when I was a kid.

Damn, you guys are tempting me to buy the lots on ebay and read the books all over again.

[dwanollah]

No, you stopped in the right place with the Landry stuff, sugarhigh! I tried a few later, full-on Neidermanwhoever ones, and they were so un-campy and just plain boring. Even the Landry ones were hilarious and awesome by comparison, and, really, those sucked donkey, too.

[Queena]

In rereading Heaven, followed by Dark Angel, the editor didn't do a good job...editing! Already I'm bored with the Casteel series. Fanny is a bit more of a bitch than I thought. Truthfully, and IMHO and YMV, I don't really like Heaven. Too whiny. Speaking of whiny, Troy was a bit melodramatic, with a touch of emo. Tony's and Jillian are both creepy, the scary kind of creepy. I guess I will read the next series. I'm looking forward to the aforementioned plot.

[satellite]

Jun 2, 2011 23:37:03 GMT -4 @dwanollah said:

No, you stopped in the right place with the Landry stuff, sugarhigh! I tried a few later, full-on Neidermanwhoever ones, and they were so un-campy and just plain boring. Even the Landry ones were hilarious and awesome by comparison, and, really, those sucked donkey, too.

Just out of curiosity- at what age/ book series did you guys stop reading V.C. Andrews? Well...unironically, I mean.

I stopped with the Cutler series, so I would have been close to 16. I guess the homoerotic gothness of Anne Rice captured my imagination, plus I was reading more Stephen King. I think I tried reading The Wildflowers when it came out.

[chonies]

IIRC, I stopped about 12 or 13 because at the time I was unaware of the existence of the Casteel series. I got away from series lit and never really went back, but instead read a lot of YA novels about girls with various problems.

[Peggy Lane]

My roomie at camp the summer before seventh grade brought the entire FITA and Heaven series, pls MSA with her. So we read them all summer long. And really, reading them with a bunch of other girls was the best way to go. After that I read the Dawn series, but didn't like it as much and kind of lost interest.

Hissyfit, I think, had some threads about them so I read them again when I was 21 or so.

[kathy1977]

Speaking of whiny, Troy was a bit melodramatic, with a touch of emo.

People always find Troy hot.

I thought that although he sounded cute, he came off as a bit of a loser. Like a character you would see in one of these over the top Lifetime movies or something. Uggghhh. Logan had his faults but at least he was human. And from the descriptions, I always thought Logan was probably hotter.

And the funny thing is, I never bought that Heaven truly loved Troy. She saw him as some tragic, romantic figure who needed somebody to save him and she fell for that. Fanny would have seen right through all that shit.

Heaven was kind of a bore too though. At least Cathy from the FITA series had a bit of fire to her. At least until the last book.