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serralinda73 t1_j9kp8h3 wrote

It's just more of a mess, lol, though I'm pretty sure Cathy ends up..."victorious" in the end. Like, she finally puts it all behind her, gets all the money, survives the rest of them. The youngest girl is okay - she goes off to do her thing and isn't really an important character that I can remember.

Hmm, Cathy and Christ act like a married couple for a while? But he's a drunk or something and they break up or she leaves him or he dies. Their mom dies and Cathy ends up married to her mom's ex-husband, B-something (Bart?)? And he's a jerk? And Grandma finally dies and there's some issue with the inheritance? Maybe B-dude wants the money so that's why he hooks up with Cathy? I think they have a kid? Damn, it's been like 30+ years since I last read these, lol.

Oh, and it turns out (there is a prequel book) that Cathy's mom didn't marry her cousin/half-uncle/...sort of close relative (which is what we thought Grandma thought was so bad about the parents' relationship being incestuous or whatever and why Cathy's mom was disinherited originally). Cathy's dad was actually her mom's half-brother because Gramps had a thing for that other lady before he had to marry Grandma in an arranged marriage because money/power. Something messed up like that.

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Curve-Master OP t1_j9kwf42 wrote

From what I read on the wiki Cathy ends up with Chris and Carrie kills herself when she sees her mom out and about and calls out to her calling her mama and her mom says she has no children. Cathy has two kids, one from moms new husband Bart, and another one from Paul who ends up dying which is why she ends up with Chris (no incest babies.) The story is crazy, whenever I have the time I'm reading them for sure..

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laced-with-arsenic t1_j9mthx9 wrote

Cathy has Jory with Julian, another ballet dancer who I believe she marries for a brief period, he's horrible and abusive as are most men in VC Andrews books. Her other son is Bart Jr.

She also collapses and begins bleeding heavily early in Petals on the Wind and needs a d&c, but it's kind of open ended on whether she was suffering a miscarriage from sleeping with Chris in the attic, or if malnutrition and poisoning just messed up her menstrual cycle.

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cMeeber t1_j9ky2nz wrote

Carrie never really gets healthy after they leave the attic. She’s described as pale and her growth is all stunted so she’s always small and frail until she dies…and with obvious psychological issues, like all characters in all VC Andrew’s books smh.

My grandma gave me her like 100 VC Andrews books when I was in 6th grade. They might’ve f*cked me up for all I know. They all run together now because the stories are so similar, a lot of incest and assault and what not. The Jewels series set in New Orleans even has the class soap operatic twin switching bs. The other early ones, My Sweet Audrina was sick af too smh. The real Andrew’s didn’t write all the later ones, just a ghost under their name but the writing gets so repetitive then even down to the phrases. Even as a middle schooler I would recognize the same phrases and occurrences across multiples books and smh at the laziness.

Anyways, I sold them all at a garage sale and I kinda regret it? I liked all the covers with the peepholes. But they would just be taking up space. My grandma will still mention them sometimes like “Well, I left all my VC Andrew’s books to Cmeeber!” and I feel so guilty lol

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WritingJedi t1_j9kyv0i wrote

You're telling me you had a set of the first edition Andrews paperbacks and you sold them in a garage sale.

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cMeeber t1_j9kzu5d wrote

Never said they were first editions. I have no idea. Looking at eBay for the ones that had the same covers I had there’s a whole bunch of them and no more than $3-$5 each. These books were highly mass produced, I doubt they’re worth much. You see several at every thrift shop.

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WritingJedi t1_j9l06f2 wrote

I was imagining those first edition full paperbacks that are HARD to find, because it was a pretty small print run.

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