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I loooooove this series! Not the Dollanganger series, but this series explaining it. I will probably not read the books, but hearing you talk about them is super entertaining!

I don't believe in revenge but I understand Cathy's motives about exposing her mother and having an affair with Bart Sr. However, what I thought was admirable about Cathy was once she had exposed her mother, and part of the affair was exposing her mother's lie bout her own past. Cathy left Corrine alone, I think if Corrine and Olivia had been exposed and caught by the law and faced a trial for Cory's death even if they were able to make a plea deal or get a hung jury Cathy may not have felt a need for revenge. It was the fact they had abused them so severely that Cory died, while Olivia and Corrine both covered it up, and Corrine just walked away to live it up as a wealthy socialite. I don't think anyone would've let it go without at least making it public what had been done to them. In my opinion, it's laughable that Corrine believes that Cathy owes her anything, much less a grandson as repayment for being exposed for who she really was, and what she had done.

My pincushion is starting to run empty. I need at least some of those for actual sewing!

This is random, but I really like the way you speak! The cadence, your tone, etc. is really nice.

These videos are such a fascinating combo of soothing and captivating.

Love you ❤ thank you for this series ❤

I really wish the original VC Andrews website was available. I remember being slightly obsessed with her life because FITA may have been loosely based off her life. I wish we had more information All I know: she might have been in love with her doctor (she was disabled and spent a lot of time in hospitals and away from other children) and the doctor, Chris, was locked inside with his siblings for many years.

Can’t believe you’re feeding me so well

Omg I am so happy you're doing this series! Please do the Casteel family saga at some point!

Doesn’t Corrine originally say ‘hey kids, it’s just for a few weeks till I can get my father to get into the idea I have kids’ then after two years or something she’s like ‘that’s not working, so let’s just wait till he dies!’ And he already had! Idk I could be remembering it wrong but I swear she keeps them on their toes.

"I will in fact heal in Hell" that is very much how i am tbh

This series messed me up as a kid. Hearing you go through it feels like therapy honestly

One of FIVE?! I know that isn't the most dramatic thing but that actually happened vs the tea witch

If I were to do a rehaul of the Dollangager series the changes I would make would be: -Cathy and Chris' 'love' isn't noncon but it is absolutely trauma bonding and they know it and they both desperately want to find other relationships apart from each other the rest of their lives. Which, of course, they can't do because they can't escape the horror that they went through. The series and the audience should not judge them for what they did, like Corrine and Chris Sr, but it must absolutely not approve of it. -Bart Sr. is closer in age to Cathy than to Corrine, which makes Corrine look all the more like she's trying to be 'young' again but still makes CathyxBart effed up. -No marrying/being romantically/sexually interested in Cathy at all from Paul. He genuinely just wants to be a good dad and love the children especially since he fugged up his first go. Maybe people suspect him of being 'interested' in Cathy but no he's not. -No Paul approving of Cathy and Chris's creepy trauma bond -> only that he wants them to escape and for Cathy to raise her sons right. -Cindy should be Chris's biological daughter after one of his failed affairs to get over Cathy failed; Cathy and Chris see her as being their functional biological child. -Melodie does not remarry at all but instead runs away, hysterical with serious post-partum depression and the confused feelings of failing to love Jory anymore and feeling confused on how to love Bart Jr. -Despite their differing life choices, Cindy, Bart and Jory all keep in touch and slowly form a genuine healthy adult-sibling relationship with each other; a first and the only time for the family. -Lazers. All natural blondes are born with genetic lazer powers. Considering how inbred and blonded-up the Dollangager fam is they ought to be pretty dangerous with it.

Corrine sounds like an endlessly fascinating hateful character; not because she should be forgiven at ALL (she killed her fugging son and mother) but because she's the kind of vile person whom you understand why she is the way she is once you peel back the layers and look at this entire family's history. She was the spoiled, beloved only daughter and 'golden child' of two parents who were not happy together and who's love was only conditional. She fell and love and ran off with a man to get away from her parents, but came crawling back when that 'happier' (not perfect, she was always selfish and spending also she and her husband ARE RELATED) fell apart, because she knew nothing else. She fell in line with her mother and father's punishment and new life they had picked out for her because she only knew how to be taken care of, not really care for others, and so chose the life they had picked for her over her children. Influenced by but probably independent of her parents, she then chose filicide which didn't work and her wrongs came back to bite her in the ass and ruin the new 'perfect' image she had crafted, to which she responds by killing her mother for all she did and her husband because, like you said, if she couldn't have him no one could. After she's released she reenters society a disgrace that she is, clinging on to one of the last semblences of her old life through John. She tracks down her kids to do god knows what but then both selfishly and sincerely loves her grandson -> shaping him into his great-grandfather but also being actually truthful with him unlike his parents; she, like all the Dollangagers/Foxworths wants to escape the cycle of abuse and start fresh which she of course can't do because of what she all too happily consented and decided for herself earlier; her last act is dying for her children and grandchildren, a to-little-to-late act of maternal love which she should have years ago for all her children, especially Cory and Carrie. That she does even her 'best' deeds with a whiny "I'm not at fault"-tude is so sickening, hateful but also fascinating. I would read this series for myself if it didn't ultimately take the side of "incest is okey if it's consentual". The 80s movie and the Lifetime movies look like trash full-offense, and from what I can tell don't fix any of these problems while also still being trash. Ick. A genuine reboot is in order.

This book warped me when I was 10

I remember disliking this book the most out of the series but I’m still looking forward to your recap!

Love this!!!!! Can’t wait to your follow up!!!!

I just realized that the way little Bart spirals is just like the boys that spiral down the bigoted route of social media. The influence and manipulation of information towards them, the way they villainize all women and vulnerability. It’s tragic and terrifying.

I wish Chris (Jr.) had married someone and had a child. The writer could have made his wife look a lot like Cathy. But of course, the wife could have been written out with an illness or some other way and marry Cathy later.

The way I cackled and rubbed my hands together when Cathy beat the snot out of Corinne, smirking and saying "Gooooood." 😂😂😂

Bart is one of the top saddest characters I have ever read. I really love him.

I only know of this story because I watched the movie with the same title.

I will heal in hell 😂 I love your personality

I will heal in hell 😂 I love your personality

Im SO excited when i see a new video from you 😊😊 this is the coolest thing to me❤

Revisiting this after If There Be Thorns, that "they never go home again" hit like a truck. Like I just sat there with my hand over my chest for a second. Ow. Well done.

Ever considered exploring Stephen Donaldson's "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"?

That ending was absolutely horrifying. Bart began to WALK like a great grandfather he never met.. based on reading his journal.. and then that?… Also Tucker Carlson villain origins. My Boho mommy left me so all women are evil. 🥺😡

Just for the record you're not a bad person. I remember reading this and literally counting down the chapters when Kathy would discover Corinne and give her a one-way ticket to ass beat City.

I'm obsessed with your recap of this series. More! Thank you ❤

i read this book when i was like 13, and it still has me fucked up

I love these books

❤ Oh Thank you for your brilliant story telling once again. I"m excited for the next in the series,... I know how much work goes into this, so Thanks again. Can't wait 😅

I have long wondered what Malcolm’s father was like. Did he do something to drive off the original Corrine? Remember, the impressions of a little boy are not the most reliable nor are they the full story.

Such a greatly detailed and insightful summation of one of my favorite book series, thanks! (I first read the series in 8th grade too 🙃😅) Have you thought of maybe doing a comparison video of the 1980's Flowers in the Attic movie and the book?

You have become my favourite TH-camr, you have a very calming voice and I really enjoy your videos ❤❤

I've been waiting for this. Thank you for the breakdown

I don't know if it was intentional or not, but something I always took as a take away from the whole series was at some point you have to stop blaming your baggage and trauma for your bad decisions. Everyone in this story had so much trauma (even Corine) and in true traumatic response fashion it colors all their decisions and reactions but all their lives also start to go downhill when they decide to blame their it and other people for their mistakes.

1. Love Love your breakdowns lol!!! Cause girl I'm healing in hell right with you 😂 2. I had absolutely no business reading this series in like middle school jeeezh..

I have yet to see in a movie of this book the swan bed and baby bed as I imagined it in my 13 year old head and again as an adult. Nothing has come close.

Lifetime did this book so bad. I had forgotten and watched it again after this review. They completely cut the story of Paul out, what!!!!

I’m just a tad obsessed with your reviews on these books lol. Also your voice is soothing.

What I got out of all this was that Bart kins his great grandfather.

In México and some places of Latin America, we have "limpias", a ritual that shamans perform on people that are having really bad luck. They use herbs to "cleanse the body", they brush the herbs on the body (my english is not that good and I'm afraid I can't explain properly how the limpia ritual goes). So, when someone is having a bad luck strike, we often say ""they need a limpia". The Dollengangers need a limpia ASAP 😅😢

Trying to imagine this entire drama and trauma novel but with all the characters in 80s clothes is much, much harder than it should be

Thank you for these recaps! I heard about these books and while I did want to read them at some point, I knew id have to be in the right mindset. Bc of you, Ive been able to listen and turn off if my stomach turns too much

Just commenting to say that I've been thoroughly enjoying these videos as someone who has often wanted to read the sequels to FitA but lacks the dedication to do so

Hi everyone. There has always been a theory that the author VC Andrews was the REAL Cathy. Has anyone else ever heard this and if so what do you think about that? Thank you for covering these books they were my favorites in junior high school 🌺

I remember reading Flowers in the Attic at an age way too young to do so. It always stuck in the back of my mind, but I never read the rest of the series. Listening to your analysis is helping me complete a story that's been opened in my mind for way too long.