#v .c. andrews

[vamptvgirl]

[snailmailthings]

METAMORPHOSIS AS SURVIVAL

Flowers in the Attic, V. C. Andrews (1979) / A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin (2000)

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Red- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Addie LaRue- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

Cooper Dayton- The Wolf At The Door by Charlie Adhara

Andrew Perrault- Don't Let the Forest In by C. G. Drews 

[bittersweetsweetheart]

[motorway-south]

funniest thing about flowers in the attic: the origin is the implication that olivia foxworth would be cool w having a gay son

[authorappearances]

V. C. Andrews in Flowers in the Attic

Author V. C. Andrews made a cameo appearance as a maid in the 1987 film adaptation of her novel, the first in the Dollanganger series. Andrews did not live to see the film, dying of breast cancer in December 1986.

[phantomdraws]

Ahh, guess who nearly forgot to do an art recap for 2024 😅 Anyway, here we are! My proudest works of that year :]

[snailmailthings]

DOLL HOUSES IN GOTHIC FICTION

Flowers in the Attic, V. C. Andrews (1979) / Sharp Objects dir. Jean-Marc Vallée (2018)

[escapeintothepages]

“How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain.”

Petals on the Wind, V. C. Andrews

[wulfhalls]

just found out that sofia coppola is a flowers in the attic fan. sofia listen to me it’s not too late to channel your father’s energy and make a very successful book to film adaptation series. i genuinely think coppola could do wonders with cathy’s character arc. THINK ABOUT IT

SOFIA LISTEN TO ANON!!!!! SOFIA ANON IS MAKING SOME REALLY GOOD POINTS IF U JUST THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!

[drinksglue]

so I remember seeing some post a really long time ago where someone was like "I'm going to school to become a librarian and if anyone ever asks me where to find the RAPE BOOKS I'm burning the library down" and assuming it wasn't just ragebait, the concept is so funny to me

honey if you become a librarian, you get two options:

Bite your tongue and do your fucking job when someone asks you where they might be able to find Flowers in the Attic or how they can get signed up for Hoopla so they can read the Penelope Douglas e-books that are in your library's digital collection

or

2. Lose your job instantly and waste all those years of schooling because you couldn't keep your fatass mouth shut and tried to reprimand your patrons for asking about books you don't personally approve of

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

the fact My Sweet Audrina was made into a clunker on Lifetime and not an A24 flick starring Toni Collette as Ellsbeth is proof the film industry is run by cowards and dweebs

[virginstoner666]

no connection in life more poignant and intense than that between a girl and the copy of her favorite book from adolescence. 

[darkcrowprincess]

Heyyy,

I was looking through your blog and found out about VC Andrews. Her work seems pretty interesting.

Can you recommend some of her books to me? Or is all of her work worth checking out, lol?

Also, some of her work had ghost writers?

I'm not the best person to ask cause really I've only read like two of the books made by the actual writer and the the other few by the ghost writer. Also to explain the ghost writer thing.

Vc Andrews the real lady wrote the flowers in the attic series/the dollanganger series and the first two books in the series The Casteel family saga( Heaven and Dark Angel) and the stand alone book(or at least it was suppose to be) My Sweet Audrina. While she was writing her last books she got Cancer and soon died from it at 63. Because some of her books were left unfinished her agent and the publishing company wanted to finish her work. They also wanted to get more money from the dead person by using her name and redoing the same themes in other books over again. So that's what we literally mean by a ghost writer. People reused her name, pretend to be her, and just kept selling books with the same taboo themes in them. The ghost writer is not as good as the orginal. You can tell the difference. But his early work isn't too bad. It's his later stuff that has issues. I haven't read everything so again I'm not an expert.

What I have read:

Flowers in the Attic(by the orginal writer) part of the dollanganger series

Dark Angel(by the orginal writer) part of the casteel family saga.

Beneath the attic(by the ghost writer) part of the dollanganger series

Out of the Attic(by the ghost writer) part of the dollanganger series

I'm in the process of reading more of the The Casteel family series and the second book in the flowers in the attic series. Fair warning about the books, the usually have incest in them, and child abuse so be aware if that triggers you. Why I like the books and plan to read at least some the best of the sagas. The main characters are female characters that are girly girls. They have dark fairy tale themes, dark romance, and gothic horror. And I just like the combination.

From what people has told me these are the best sagas to read from all the books:

The dollanganger saga: Main character is Cathy Dollanganger.

The Casteel Family saga: Main female Character is Heaven Casteel. This takes place mainly in Boston and Virginia

My Sweet Audrina: Main female character is Audrina Adelle Adare

The Landry family Saga: Main female character is Ruby Landry and this story takes place in the Bayous of Louisiana.

The Cutler family saga: Main character is Dawn Cutler.

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Flowers in the Attic, V. C. Andrews (1979)

[escapeintothepages]

“Cruelty comes in many forms — ignorance is one of them.”

Garden of Shadows, V. C. Andrews