Finished: If there Be Thorns/Seeds of Yesterday

Started around the 20th of August, Finished on the 2nd of September

These are the 3rd/4th books in the Dollanger Series by VC Andrews. These books follow Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind.

These books are weird. I can't imagine living like the people in these books did. I just can't wrap my brain around it. Overall they were good books. There were times when I couldn't put the books down. I liked the story, however I felt that the ending came too soon, like it was headed for several more chapters, but the ending came suddenly in the last chapter.


If There Be Thorns:
Out of the ashes of evil Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for their splendid children...
Fourteen-year-old Jory was so handsome, so gentle. And Bart had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old.
Then the lights came on in the abandoned house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching their home with prying eyes, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon the shrouded woman had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother."
And soon Bart's transformation began...
A transformation that sprang from "the book of secrets" the gaunt old butler had given him... a transformation fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father... a transformation that led him into shocking acts of violence, self-destruction and perversity.
And now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents, his helpless brother, an obsessed old woman and the vengeful, powerful butler await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood, still tipped with fire....

Seeds of Yesterday:

The final, haunting novel, in the extraordinary story that has enthralled millions! The horror began with Flowers in the Attic, the terrifying tale of four innocent children locked away from the world by a cruel mother.
The shocking fury continued with Petals on the Wind and If There be Thorns. Now V.C. Andrews has created the last dark chapter in the strange, chilling tale of passion and peril.

**There is one more book in the series after Seeds of Yesterday telling the tale of the main character's mother.