![]() ![]() These are carried through the subsequent novels written by Andrew Neiderman, the ghost writer, but not with nearly as much complexity. Anyone who has read Flowers and who has a basic understanding of human psychology knows there is a reason for those themes in that story.Īnd anyone familiar with her work knows the major themes in her stories are child abuse, child abandonment, child neglect and incest. Sorry, that isn't her.Īs for incest being an inappropriate topic for teens, that is a matter of opinion. So now they're trying to cash in on the vampire hype and slap her name on it. Anything beyond the first couple of books in the Heaven series was not written by Ms. I read those books at 13 and onward and I managed to grow up just fine (imagine that!)īTW, I had to look up Daughter Of Darkness because I'd never heard of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() You would never see VC Andrews books in high school libraries today for fear of litigation. Back in the early 80s when I was young the bookstore just had books like that in the fiction or romance section, so teens and adults alike were all getting books in the same place. That is because way back when before we had this "child-centered" society, and children were not wrapped in cotton, there was *no* YA category. ![]()
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