Garden of Shadows

by V.C. Andrews | Horror | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 067164257x Global Overview for this book
Registered by crrcookie of Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on 7/22/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Sunday, July 22, 2007
This is a book that was picked up from a generous freecycler in the area of Waldorf, Maryland!

Journal Entry 2 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Sunday, August 26, 2007
Book Five in the Flowers in the Attic Series

From the back cover:

Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall...

V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions - of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride.

At last with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread...an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives...a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever!

The wicked curse of the Dollanganger family begins in...

Garden of Shadows

Journal Entry 3 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Sunday, August 26, 2007
In August 2005 I read a different copy of this book and here are the comments I had at that time.

This final book in the Flowers in the Attic series takes us back in time to tell the tale of Olivia (that horrible religious Grandmother that was so evil that she locked her four lovely grandchildren in an attic for years) and of her husband Malcolm (the terrible Grandfather that was supposed to die so that the fortune could be shared by those attic mice).

There is argument of whether this book should be read inthe series forst or last. I for one am in favor of it being read last. There are details revealed in this book that were kept secret all the years that the other books cover and I think that those details might corrupt the feelings that the reader might have about characters that are revealed in later books. In other words, these are the secrets that no one is supposed to know, the secrets that died with the characters in the previous books in the series.

By the time that I got to this book I had quite an understanding of what was going on already as I could vaguely remember reading this book many, many years ago when I read Flowers in the Attic. I am not sure if I read the three middle books in the series as there were many surprises in them for me (but then again that could be that I read them and just have a bad memory - which is very likely). So some of the surprises in this book were not as big of a surprise to me as they would be to someone who has never encountered this series before.

In some ways I felt that this series was far too long and that this book is not necessary at all but it was an effort to capatilize on author popularity by giving a final book to the series. If I had not ever read this book then the series could have still been complete. But then again I think that after this book I did have a greater understanding of why some of the characters were the way that they were and why the things that they did were so shocking to the ones that knew the terrible secret that they were carrying.

Journal Entry 4 by crrcookie at Carroll Community College in Westminster, Maryland USA on Friday, November 9, 2007

Released 16 yrs ago (11/10/2007 UTC) at Carroll Community College in Westminster, Maryland USA

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Journal Entry 5 by Jessy17 from Owings Mills, Maryland USA on Sunday, November 18, 2007
Found at the Random House Book Fair at Carroll Community College on Nov. 10.

Journal Entry 6 by jrsjewels from Owings Mills, Maryland USA on Sunday, August 2, 2009
I think I must have picked this book up at the Random House book fair a couple of years ago. I recently came across it at home while cleaning. I read it many years ago and enjoyed it but not looking to read again any time soon.

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