Ok

It was good just to pass some time. I'll read the second book in the series just to see what happens. This is something that I would recommend to a teenager. Can you tell I was desparate at the library?

Let me start off by saying I really like this book. This is the only book, where I had a love/hate relationship with most of the characters. Case in point the grandmother, at times I really disliked her, but at other times I didn't really love the character but I liked her. As for the brother he was alright but reading some of the other reviews on this book, I can understand where people thought he was just strange, I honestly would have to agree with them. The one thing I would warn you on though that this book comes on a little strong with sexuality at the beginning, but don't let that stop you from reading it though, it comes all into the big picture of things later on. So to make a long review short, my recommendation for reading this book is yes! I can't wait to start the second book!
One more thing I didn't not like the father at all, that is the only character who got on my last nerve.

hate hate hate! gave me the creeps!!

Haven't read VC Andrews since high school. Was looking for some trashy fluff, definitely fit the bill and was much, much better written than I remember. Maybe I'll even think about reading the Dollanger series again. Pretty identical features: Absent parents, gothic old money mansion, nefarious grandmother. Less incest (more suggestion?), so that was a less creepy direction in a good way. Not sure that I'll read the others in this series, but a good kind of book to break a reading slump.

My problem is not the precocious puberty or what her brother is doing - this kind of stuff happens in real life, but the ghostwriter has handled this matter in a very sloppy, tasteless, tacky, and poorly-written and thought-out manner. But then, that's how he has approached all the sensitive topics that have come up in previous books. It wasn't so bad in his earlier books, but the last few series have been quite abysmal. Characterization and details are inconsistent, and honestly, this book and its sequel had no need to ever exist.

Mr. Neriderman, please stop writing for VCA and go back to your own work. You're a old man, stop writing from the POVs of girls and women, at this point it has gotten past the point of creepy.

V.C. Andrews family is too greedy. They should've never hired that perverted jerk Neidermann. The book is sick and boring... The real V.C. did write about very disturbing things, but she was never vulgar. Neidermann seems to be a closet paedo who should be imprisoned.

NOT as good as the Flowers in the Attic series. Disappointing! But a quick, entertaining read none-the-less.

THIS . IS . SICK!

V.C. Andrews had some intriguing ideas for novels when she was alive, but since the ghost writers have taken over, things have gone downhill. Some series are better than others, but this one disturbs me on a whole lot of levels!

The story starts with a SIX-year-old CHILD entering into what's called "precocious puberty." Her body begins to develop, and in subsequent chapters, we have the child's father, brother, and complete strangers talking to her about such things as masturbation and orgasms! We also have a sixteen-year-old girl trying to gift this now seven-year-old child a VIBRATOR, and said sixteen-year-old also attempts to molest this child. The mother's reaction isn't much better, because she treats the early onset of puberty as some kind of melodramatic terrible secret that this child is supposed to keep from everyone in the house. Perhaps the best demonstration of the creep factor of this novel is that when the little girl's brother uses rat poison to kill the "evil nanny", I was happy about it, because it's the most heroic and/or most logical thing anybody does in the book!

I can understand disturbing content in a novel if it is essential to developing the character or telling a compelling story. But this book strikes me as a literary train wreck whose only purpose is to "make you look." It's as if somebody wrote down every single creepy, unsettling, discomfort-inducing topic they could think of, and threw it all together into this novel!

Somewhere in here, there's a plot line or two, but I'm too creeped out to even focus on what they were.
IIIIIIICK!