Flowers in the attic

Submitted by Curve-Master t3_1195otn in books

So I just finished the first book and saw that it was a whole series, honestly, I don't want to read the whole thing so I was hoping for spoilers. What happens to the remaining children and their grandmother and mother? I want to know but goddamn I really don't want to read all those books, the obsession for the first was too much and I can't keep getting distracted by reading the others 😅

Probably in the future I will read them, but I need to know if it's a "good" ending so I won't cry myself to sleep.

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Maleficent-Radish-86 t1_j9kjxd1 wrote

You should read them! I read all these back in the 90’s when I was in high school. It’s such a trippy story.

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Curve-Master OP t1_j9klpbc wrote

Yeah I read the ending on the wiki and brah.... Whenever I'm feeling self destructive I think I will haha

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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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AbbyM1968 t1_j9kysdy wrote

I think there’s 2 or 3 sequels & 1 prequel to "Flowers." If you don't want to read them, don't. You're not really missing anything.

V.C. Andrews books are seriously messed up, trying to pretend they're normal.

Every family has "skeletons in their closets," but few of them bring it out & ask it to dance for entertainment or profit. (Even The Royal Family has a few "rumours" floating around them)

Elsewhere, here on Reddit, there's often questions, "What is your family secret, & when did you find it out?" NONE of them are as messed up as any V.C. Andrews story.

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Sandi_T t1_j9kzbpa wrote

Now I need to read it because I'm usually "that" person. The one the "guy with no legs" looks at from the end of the "someone is always worse off than you" line. Maybe it'll make me feel better.

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goosepills t1_j9kwt6n wrote

Everybody dies, basically. It’s been a while since I read them.

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LovesBooks22 t1_j9mol9g wrote

I never read the whole Flowers in the Attic series, but I did read a number of VC Andrews books when I was a teenager. I didn’t realize at the time how completely bonkers they were—they were just weird and entertaining and a little scandalous. Now as an adult I’m like….wtf? But I guess I have to sort of admire anyone who can write such off-the-wall stories with such fervor.

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maghy7 t1_j9n584o wrote

Reminds me of myself back in the 90’s when I was a teenager a friend of mine recommended this book and I ended up reading the entire series and soooo many more! Now I’m like woah that was bat shit crazy lol

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LovesBooks22 t1_j9n8f3r wrote

Haha I know! I feel like these books are every teen’s/pre-teen’s guilty pleasure at some point or another.

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laced-with-arsenic t1_j9msf24 wrote

Read them all.. Then read the Casteel series and My Sweet Audrina. Just do it!

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