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If There Be Thorns

By: V. C. Andrews
Narrated by: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski
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Publisher's summary

Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for 14-year-old Jory - so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart, who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine-year-old.

Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother". And soon Bart's transformation began....

Fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father...leading him into shocking acts of violence. Now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents 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.

©1981 The Vanda General Partnership. All rights reserved. (P)2014 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Donada Peters

absolutely love the dollanganger series. Why I must have listened to it a hundred times. Donada Peters made it come alive for me. it was magical!

This time however, narrated by Mena Subaru & Gillian Flynn I was left longing for the old readings I love so much. Even though this is the same story, it isn't the same story.

But eventually I forgot about all that and just enjoyed listening :) 👍👍

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Very captivating

I've read the first two books in this series and, so far, this one (the third of five) was the best. The story keeps moving and answers a lot of questions the first two bring about in the readers. The narrator does a great job and makes listening a pleasure.

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excellent book!

the flowers in the attic series is one of my all time favorites, and if there be thorns kept me listing every chance I got!

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Great story

Very well read...i can't wait to hear the rest...so far I have not been disappointed.

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Love this book. I love all the VC Andrews books!

I can't wait to start the next book. VC Andrews is one of my favorite authors!

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very good book!

it was so descriptive. I loved it. the actors were very good too at playing character

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Favorite

This is my favorite series to read it is so heart warming . I do recommend any one that watched the movie to read / listen to this book series it was amazing.

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Riveting!!!

This book kept my attention from beginning to the end. I read the series Flowers in the attic when I was in my early teens. I had to have each book. I had my head buried so deep in the books, that my mom had to see what I was reading. She then asked to see the first book in the series. I thought that I was in trouble, until she had finished reading it, and asked for the second book; then the next until she had passed me up. This series is even better now than before, because there were things that I didn't understand then that I can now. Excellent writing. It's tie to move to the next book again, in this series.

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Blast from the past if you grew up reading these books.

The story was good. I read these as a youngster many years ago and they had more of an impact back then. It was enjoyable to rehash the story. Not sure about the performer. He was good as Jory and Chris but as a female voice and as Bart it was a little odd… some manage this better. Overall a fun “beach read” type of novel.

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Drama Made Moot by Dull Narration

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I felt like the only real reason why I finished the book was just the commitment I already put into listening to the book. The narration was very dull and boring. I found myself zoning out of the book and not wanting to replay the scene.

If you’ve listened to books by V. C. Andrews before, how does this one compare?

The first two Dollanganger books were magnificent. They were really enthralling, the narration easy to listen to and I was completely engulfed in the series. This one was just made disappointing because of the narrator. The book itself was okay - it seemed like a tv soap opera twist and turn. The actually story could have been completed in half the book's time.

How could the performance have been better?

Just another narrator altogether. This guy was so boring I felt like I was in science class listening to a boring lecture.

Could you see If There Be Thorns being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

TV series probably because it's so dramatic.

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