First of all, no one likes this book.

This is probably the only young adult literature that I will ever read - I certainly could not teach it! So, I heard about these books from the UK Guardian newpaper in an article about books way better than 50 Shades of Gray. Saw them at the library (the covers are just awful), and I'm kind of enjoying this book. I can relate to it, having grown up in my grandmother's house and having also experienced "precocious puberty." Will write more when finished. No challenging vocabulary; no philosophical statements. Constant questioning the movtives of the characters, especially Ian.

I have the controversial Flowers in the Attic on reserve at the library.

After reading: Poor little Jordan was defined by her precocious puberty - that's it. She had no hobbies or interests. Spent the entire novel bewildered. She didn't even communicate her situation to her baby dolls or make-believe friends! She's nearing age 7!

What happens at the end of the book is crazy! As bad as this book was, I want to see what happens in Flowers in the Attic.

I liked the book

I really enjoyed this book. Kind of disturbing the way the brother acted. I really enjoyed the girl's and grandmother's relationship and like how the book ended.

good book, I liked the weird brother, it was nice to see him care about his younger sister, without wanting to be romantic with her! But...I could tell this was not written by V.C Andrews.

I cannot even begin to process my thoughts for this book. Why would you want to keep your daughter from having her period or go through that growth spurt, even though she is young. Everyone goes through puberty at different ages. I didn't understand why her mother how to freak out the way she did. I also didn't like the fact that the brother made her his Sister Project. He had no right to touch her the way he did or even see her naked. Yes, he was doing research on her precocious puberty, but that doesn't give him the right to touch her breast like that. A lot of things happened in this book that were weird, strange, and just downright cruel. The father didn't really have anything to do with his kids and he was having an affair on his wife with a woman he used to date. Then when they get into that accident and the mother ends up comatose, the father moves his girlfriend into the house. The grandmother was a downright bitch to all of them. She didn't even have any kind of relationship with the main character until mere days before she had a stroke and winded up in the hospital. However, the grandmother did the right thing by wanting to get the main character out of that house and wanting her to live with the grandmother's sister. I especially didn't like the lady that was hired to "teach" the main character to be a proper lady. I mean, hell she is only seven. Let her be a fucking kid. I gave this book a three star review, because there were things I liked about it. I loved to hate these characters. There's always going to be a bad guy in every story, but there were several in this one. I think the whole family could use therapy.

Slow at first, but the end hooked me.

Forty-seven pages in and I was confused. The poor little girl of a main character was only six years old and had gotten her first period. Her mother did the right thing by contacting a doctor to see why her daughter had early-onset puberty and what could be done about it, but then when it came time to tell Jordan's father they seemed overly concerned about not telling Jordan's grandmother. Why would her grandmother be so appalled that Jordan had some sort of hormone problem? Being sick shouldn't make you some kind of an outcast with your own family, or anyone for that matter. That's something I just couldn't wrap my head around...

Then things got a little creepy, awkward, and even more creepy. Suddenly, Grandma learns about the problem and it seems there is some mysterious connection between Jordan her her Grandmothers sister, her great-aunt Francis, which it seems we won't learn about until the second and final novel in this short series.

The plot was interesting, to say the least, and well thought-out, and the characters, even Jordan's character, had depth, feeling, and points-of-view. I think Jordan was just a little girl who wanted to have a normal life while everything around her was crumbling.

Absolutely nothing happy happened in this novel and by the end a little girl's life as she knew it was destroyed. Thankfully for V.C. Andrews, a book doesn't have to be happy for it to be good. I think most V.C. Andrews books are shelved with YA, but I found this one in the adult fiction section. I have to say, it was appropriately shelved. I wouldn't recommend this novel for anyway under sixteen.

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This book was very shocking, and it made me sympathize for that little girl.

Precocious puberty is real, according to Wikipedia. For Jordan, it starts when she's almost seven. The treatment is extremely vague in the book, though - must be a pill or something. Ian is hella creepy.

Though this book is definitely as twisted as vintage Andrews, the subject matter is just a little too extreme. The main character is ridiculously young yet experiencing adult themes. A seven year old getting drunk just doesn't do it for me.

Another interesting, but very unlikely series. It was a good thing this series was just a couple books because it was not very realistic, I guess.