As far as I know, there's no proof that she was abused, mostly because she had what she felt was a very bad interview early in her career and then avoided publicity after that.
In her defense, the first book she wrote was Flowers in the Attic (which contained the half uncle/half niece relationship between Chris Sr. and Corrine and then the full on brother/sister relationship between Chris Jr. and Cathy). The book was an immediate bestseller so I'm guessing the publishers encouraged her to continue in the same vein. Next she wrote a stand alone book (My Sweet Audrina) which contained no incest. Then she wrote a second book series (Heaven) that ended up having the exact same incest twist (half uncle/half niece) as Flowers in the Attic (and in the Heaven series, she went the opposite route - she had the two characters stay apart because they were related). While she was finishing the Flowers in the Attic and Heaven series, she died. Her family hired a ghostwriter who then just copied and pasted the same format/storylines into a zillion "new" book series.
Although she has a bunch of incest books written in her name, she only wrote two of the series, The rest of them were a result of her publisher and family wanting to cash in on her previous fame/success. The ghostwriter created 25 additional series in her name after she died. I stopped reading around Dawn/Ruby/Melody so I don't know how many more of the post-VCA series were incesty but I'm guessing a fair amount. My point is that the public's general perception of VCA is that she wrote about a bunch of incest books when the truth is that she really only wrote the Dollanganger and Heaven series (I know, that's still two too many but still).
RE: Hi, reader of VC Andrews until I read about the vampiresilverstarryJuly 18 2022, 21:34:46 UTC
We really need the vomit reaction. I quit reading the ghost writer's books because it was so obvious that he was just copying and pasting and then changing the names (plus my OCD could not stand how his lazy ass was contradicting info from the previous books). But I'm glad I never got to the later books where he tried new stuff if it resulted in the twin plot above.
I read the first one or two Christopher diaries at the bookstore (meaning I stood there and read the entire thing because I refused to give the ghostwriter even $1 for what I knew would be absolute garbage). I could not believe the bull shit he came up with.
I later read the Audrina sequel he wrote which was FUCKING AWFUL except for the part where [Spoiler (click to open)]Arden finally takes a long awaited trip down the famous stairs, which was awesome.
RE: Hi, reader of VC Andrews until I read about the vampiresilverstarryJuly 19 2022, 01:37:33 UTC
Yes, after the Lifetime movie, the publisher had the ghostwriter cash in on the popularity and write a terrible sequel. I read it at the bookstore aka for free. It's really bad. I wrote a very short recap in last week's VCA post.
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In her defense, the first book she wrote was Flowers in the Attic (which contained the half uncle/half niece relationship between Chris Sr. and Corrine and then the full on brother/sister relationship between Chris Jr. and Cathy). The book was an immediate bestseller so I'm guessing the publishers encouraged her to continue in the same vein. Next she wrote a stand alone book (My Sweet Audrina) which contained no incest. Then she wrote a second book series (Heaven) that ended up having the exact same incest twist (half uncle/half niece) as Flowers in the Attic (and in the Heaven series, she went the opposite route - she had the two characters stay apart because they were related). While she was finishing the Flowers in the Attic and Heaven series, she died. Her family hired a ghostwriter who then just copied and pasted the same format/storylines into a zillion "new" book series.
Although she has a bunch of incest books written in her name, she only wrote two of the series, The rest of them were a result of her publisher and family wanting to cash in on her previous fame/success. The ghostwriter created 25 additional series in her name after she died. I stopped reading around Dawn/Ruby/Melody so I don't know how many more of the post-VCA series were incesty but I'm guessing a fair amount. My point is that the public's general perception of VCA is that she wrote about a bunch of incest books when the truth is that she really only wrote the Dollanganger and Heaven series (I know, that's still two too many but still).
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I wish I could show my face right now as I remember reading it.
IDENTICAL TWINS who were brother and sister. The brother rapes his sister and dies and their mother forces her to become her brother.
I can't even talk about the retcon where Corey lives in Flowers in the attic, let alone the vampiers and rapey lesbians.
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I read the first one or two Christopher diaries at the bookstore (meaning I stood there and read the entire thing because I refused to give the ghostwriter even $1 for what I knew would be absolute garbage). I could not believe the bull shit he came up with.
I later read the Audrina sequel he wrote which was FUCKING AWFUL except for the part where [Spoiler (click to open)]Arden finally takes a long awaited trip down the famous stairs, which was awesome.
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This fucking writer really scraping the bottom of the barrel!
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