Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

15 reviews

simonlorden's review against another edition

everyone in this book is miserable. that's not even my problem though, it's just long and I'm bored.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Incest

Moderate: Rape, Bullying, Suicide, Child death, and Child abuse

cosmicruin's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Incest

Moderate: Sexual content

ehamlett's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Incest, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

eyrechrysalis's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Incest, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Child death

rattgurl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Infidelity, Sexual violence, and Adult/minor relationship

bookswithvicky's review against another edition

I cannot stand Cathy anymore 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, and Rape

lovelydeadgirl's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Rape, Emotional abuse, Incest, Suicide, Car accident, Infidelity, Death, Abortion, Sexism, and Sexual content

ellilo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I loved „Flowers in the Attic“ and finished it in a week. I was really exited to read this sequel, but at first it really took me some time to get into it. The first half felt kind of slow-paced, but it really took off and got more eventful in the end. 
I do have to say, some of the time jumps felt really weird, like some events were so detailed and then we jumped to three years later in just two sentences. That was quite weird to adapt to, as well as some of the events just felt odd, like

death after death just was unrealistic for me, and how cathy and her mother finally met also didn’t live up to my expectations

I felt like i was reading a wattpad book, just too many shocking and sad events squeezed into the book. 
Still, i think the writing was really good, even though i’m not a fan of the ending and always wished i could go into this book and shake cathy and tell her to stop acting out, i kind of liked the book in a weird way. Definitely made me think and sometimes my jaw hit the floor, it was quite graphic sometimes. So i guess i would recommed it, if you wanna know what happens to Cathy and the others, but i wouldn’t read it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Incest, Sexual violence, Rape, Death, Violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Grief, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abortion

violetturtledove's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Ok, what to say about this one... The story is a good continuation of the first book, everything that happens makes sense and the writing is still engaging, but it's a completely different sort of story.
It focuses mostly on Cathy's relationship drama and there is a LOT of that, since apparently everyone finds her irresistible from the age of 15... I found the examples of 'romantic' relationships here way more troubling than any of the stuff in the first book! It's only really in the very end of the book that we get any of the darkness of the first book though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual content

arangele's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Incest, and Rape