Name: My Sweet Audrina
ISBN: 9781451636970

V.C. Andrews

A haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love from V.C. Andrews. The idea of her sister hovered above them all. Audrina fiercely desired to be as good as her sister. She knew her father could not love her as he loved that other girl, for her sister was so special, so perfect—and dead. Upstairs in a locked room awaited her sister’s clothes and dolls, her animals and games—and her sacred rocking chair. Now Audrina will rock and rock and rock to reclaim all of her gone sister’s special gifts. And then finally she’ll learn the secrets everyone else knows but her.

My Sweet Audrina

Ivy X

3.5 - guilty pleasure book, was very invested in the plot. I figured out who Audrina was early on so I’m surprised it took the character so long to figure it out lol

Swasti Ramadhin

This certainly was quite a ride. Halfway through the book I knew what the big reveal would be, but it was fun to read how they went about it. Not my most favorite Virginia Andrews book, but definitely not my least favorite.

V. C. Andrews

Contains excerpt of Whitefern, sequel to My sweet Audrina.

b.andherbooks

What did I just read? Not my first V.C. Andrews (and this it the REAL Andrews, not a ghostwriter), and while Flowers in the Attic is definitely f'ed up, My Sweet Audrina is one hundred times crazier. 

Child rape, amputees, a magic rocking chair, three separate deaths on the same damn staircase (get carpet people), and oh let's not forget the charater who has a miscarriage and is subsequently forced to clean it all up by herself because it may stain the carpet.

Despite all the crazy events, there wasn't really a plot...or a point? I don't know. I finished it, but man, what a creep show.

Mahasin S Ameen

I'm really surprised by how much about this book I remembered.

Jessica 

"There were shadows in the corners and whispers on the stairs and time was irrelevant as honesty."


In preparation of Lifetime's adaptation of this very book, I've decided to revisit the very first book I'd ever read that disturbed and haunted me in my early teen years. V.C. Andrews is known for her enthralling works of twisted fiction--family sagas twinged with great descriptions and horror, betrayal and rags to riches. All the trigger warnings are necessary for her novels and they certainly aren't for every one. Our biggest trigger would be sexual violence.

Everything about V.C. Andrews and her original catalog is filled with twists, turns and great sums of controversy. For years, her novels have dominated their genre and gone past the decades that have come and gone. This is due primarily to her captivating and disturbing tale of Flowers in the Attic and the novels that followed in the Dollanganger Series. I guarantee you that a good portion of us have all read at least one book by her and loved or hated it due to its content. Andrews isn't for the weak of heart and while she wasn't the greatest author to exist from her generation, or any that have since passed, you've gotta give it to her for standing the test of time.

My Sweet Audrina is one of the most frightening, heartbreaking and twisty turny stories I've ever had the privilege (or misfortune) of reading. 

Continued: BOOKEDJ.

Amber Laurent

The house in the wood was picturesque and charming. The family who lived there were happy and affluent. So what was the secret of that room - empty of everything but the rocking chair?

Adrian wanted to be as good as her sister. Adrian knew her parents could not love her as they loved her sister. Her sister was perfect, much loved - and dead. 

But how did she die? Who was Adrian and who did she have to become? What was the secret that everyone knew? Everyone except sweet Adrina...

THE HAUNTING STORY OF LOVE AND DECEIT, INNOCENCE AND BETRAYAL AND TERRIBLE FAMILY SECRETS
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