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Let's just say the rest of the books in the series seemed a little forced, you know. As if going out of the way to match Flowers in the Attic in everything. . . especially the ick factor.

Gardens of Shadows is the last but the first. It tells the story of how Chris and Cathy's parents - Chris and Corrine (I think) met. . . Why the grandmother Livia became the person she was in FITA and some minor characters introduced in Petals in the winds, If there be Thorns and Seeds of Yesterday.

Apart from the forced part, I'll recommend reading everything.

Nah, it wasn't Flowers in the Attic like ( what was V. C Andrews thinking). These ones thought they might be but couldn't fight the attraction and were quite relieved when they found out they weren't. . . after sexing each other up like oh I don't know 5 TIMES!! (Errrr. . . I'm guessing of course, remember I skipped pages  )

I got tired of the Sweet Valley Highs quickly, meanwhile I'D read the Famous fives, Secret Sevens, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drews over and over again. Also loved CS Lewis Narnia Series, The Malloy Towers and St.Claires books.

Did You ever complete the Series for Flowers in the Attic.  . . especially Gardens of Shadows? Eeeeek!

Find out some few years back that it wasn't even VC Andrews who wrote the rest of it but a ghostwriter. Apparently, FITA was the only she wrote. No wonder it stood out.

Lol, I swear it was mind control and hell yeah the tearing of the clothes is preferable to the slowly undressing.

My first real romance, romance book was [b]Slow Heat in Heaven [/b]by Sandra Brown. The name should have been a hint, right? Nope, not to me. . . hey, I’ve never had a problem admitting I can be sometimes slow. Anyway, before this book, all I read were books where someone was murdered, possessed, hunted and the usual bloody good stuff.

This is how it started, my sisters and I were traveling and I had miscalculated,  . . I usually have at least 3 books with me but somehow this time, I didn't and was so happy to see my sister had extra book. I start reading, it didn’t look so bad. Oh la la! Someone is dead. . . an old man but a dead person nonetheless, Brilliant! There seems to be a mystery of sorts here, I'm liking, I'm liking! The main guy is a li'l on the caveman macho side for me but aah, I'm sure I’ll get past that and before I can finish that thought. . . BAM! Sandra Brown took it to another level. Okay, I don’t know if you’ve read any of her books but Sandra brown is borderline insane with her descriptions. 

So there I was. . . 13yrs old, sitting in the most uncomfortable airline seat ever with one sister on my left. . . fast asleep, the second on the other side of the aisle doing whatever, reading [i]"he flickered his tongue on her clitoris" ([/i]I swear I didn’t know what that was. . . Clitoris I mean) I quickly closed the book and looked around hoping no one saw me (if it was today, I'm sure they would have suspected I was up to no good and maybe the innocent looking thing in my hand was a bomb not a book with the way my eyes was darting all over the place) Jeebus! What the heck was that? So this is what my sister reads? What can of perverted person am I related to? I swear on everthing, I am telling my mommy on her and maybe even Hadjia (my grandmother) too. . . just as soon as I finish the book. Yep, I couldn’t stop!

Now before you call me hypocrite, let me explain myself. See, I had to find out for my peace of mind that the two people having sex were not freaking siblings because right to the very second they were grunting and panting, this insane woman insinuated they were half siblings!! Can you imagine this rubbish? It was too much for my 13 yrs old mind to comprehend! When I was done ( I skipped pages like a mofo) I jejely dropped back in my sister’s bag and nary a word I said. It took me 3 yrs to pick up another romance book. Luckily Judith McNaught is a delightful writer.

Here's an idea, maybe we should all talk about how first romance novel experience. We have kukuma accepted we like to read it, so what else is there to talk about? 

Lmao! Somehow, I don't think you or anyone else for that matter, will be interested in the love match between a cuckoo in the head human and tadpoles, toads, frogs and every other amphibian on the surface of this earth. Tee hee hee

You wanna go first?

@ iice
Lol, you and me both. My sister thinks it's the reason I have problem writing romance and all that lovey, dovey crapola. The moment I see "Slowly undressing" the pages starts flickering, sometimes I don't even touch 'em. . . It's like mind control.

Seriously though why do they all have to slooooowly UnCloth? For ordinary bath, I don't slowly UnCloth then it's right in the middle of the action I start unbuttoning one. by. one? Yeesh!

We read 'em to escape the harsh realities of our romanceless world.

Lol, I get you. It's like everyone was living a fairy tale life BEFORE marriage the way some people carry on. On the other hand, one can also say when you are single, you have the problems of one which becomes that of 2 when you get married and to top it off, some partners are only partners by name. Instead of helping you out, they dump their own on you, so you are one person carrying the load of 2 . . . hmmm, in retrospective, maybe I was kinda over-reaching creating this thread.

There is no such thing as Real Life Romance. . . NO WONDER WE BURY OURSELVES IN ROMANCE BOOKS. 

Ah, there goes my experiment, oh well at least it shows we don't read romance because we're brainless, we read 'em to escape the harsh realities of our world.