Petals on the Wind

from atreic

This is the What Happened Next book for Flowers in the Attic. It is Cathy's revenge story, working out for herself who she is and what her childhood imprisonment has done to her. I can forgive it some very unlikely things (they get on a bus, and immediately are taken to a doctors who wants to ado...

from mandolin

This is the sequel to Flowers in the Attic, and while decent, it's not as good as the first book. We see what has happened to children after escaping the attic and their struggles in adulthood. Chris struggles with his separation from Cathy, Cathy struggles with relationships in general, and Carr...

from SonicQuack

It's been over twenty years since I read the first volume in this series. It's a very wordy novel and could be a hundred pages shorter should Andrews not labour so many points, so often. That aside, the story of the continuing tribulations of the Dollanganger family is page-turning stuff. There a...

from shelleyraec

As a tween (1980's)reading this series was unlike anything else - I borrowed Flowers in the Attic from a friends older sister, keeping it hidden from my parents and then begged my friends older sister borrow the others from the library so i could read them (I was 11/12/13 and you had to be 15 bef...

from LoriHedgpeth

"Petals on the Wind" is not your average sequel - - mainly because it surpasses the first book in the Dollanganger series, "Flowers in the Attic", in both literary merit and story. "Petals" picks up where "Flowers" left off, with Chris, Cathy and Carrie having just escaped the attic and their f...