I think with all of these books you need to have a certain mind frame and I just love them all. I enjoy even though this book was written many years after the original series was done.

I loved this series as a teenager but now that Andrews has died, it is just not the same. I love the movies on Lifetime too.

If you are not loyal to the original books in the series this may be ok, but I could not even finish it.

Flowers in the Attic was a book that shocked me, and I always wondered about the back story for all these interesting, cruel, tormented characters. Beneath the Attic provided that backstory and more. Complex while haunting, it was sad to see the generation trauma and event leading up to the events we see in Flowers in the Attic.

Beneath the Attic is the 9th book in the Flowers in the Attic series and is set two generations before Corinne Foxworth kept her grandchildren locked away in the attic. In this story, we learn about Corinne's grandmother, Corinne Dixon, and her relationship with Garland Foxworth.

I first discovered this series through my mom, who read the books when she was a teenager. I watched all of the Lifetime movies whenever they came out and I was so intriguied and captivated by how beautiful the Dollanganger family was to everyone who encountered them, but how dark and messed up their lives were behind closed doors. I was really looking forward to reading this and diving even deeper into this family's history and really getting to see how everything started, but unfortunately I just couldn't get into this book. Although I'm not sure who the ghost writer is for this series since V.C. Andrews passed away, their writing just isn't the same for me.

Although I didn't enjoy this like I was so hoping I would, I still recommend that you at least give this story a chance if you're a fan of this series because you might end up really loving it!

Thank you to Gallery Books and Netgalley for the chance to read and review this book!

Thank you to the author, V. C. Andrews, the publishing company, Gallery books, and NetGalley for an early electronic copy of this book, for an honest review.

Truly the beginning of the Dollanganger series, and how the grandmother came to be a Foxworth. If you have ever read any of the V.C. Andrews Dollanganger series, this one is the one that brings it all together.

As always, V.C. Andrews does not disappoint, and to know that this one came out 40 years after Flowers in the Attic, which was the first book that alerted all of us to the Dollanganger series, this is truly an amazing feat. Especially since just as all of the other books in the series, this keeps us on the edge of our seats throughout.

I know it's been years since I've read the original books, but I absolutely hated this. I feel it didn't even tie in with the original series. Couldn't finish it

Classic VC Andrews, read these books growing up and was happy to dip back into the strange world she weaves

Far too slow paced for me to get through and there was nothing special about the setting or characters to make me want to continue

Love this series and this one was a great part of it! Andrews has a wild mind creating these books! Loved this!! Grateful to the publisher, writer and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

The books written after Andrews’ death are always hit or miss. This one is a miss. I stopped reading 30% in because it was so boring.

Slow and awful.
I enjoyed Flowers in the Attic many years ago. But this book is slow and awful
don't waste your money...only marginally entertaining if free

V.C. Andrews light. Not the best work and not true to the time period too many flaws in the period and not nasty enough to follow in the V.C. Andrews style.

One of the series that made me the avid ready i am today was "Flowers in the Attic". However, this prequel was not good. This ghostwriter continuously disappoints - it seems he/she should let the Foxworth/Dollanganger family RIP! I generally muscle through books all the way to the end no matter what - but I couldn't do it with this one. DNF
Thanks to V.C. Andrews, Gallery Books and NetGalley for the ARC of this book.

This book is a prequel to the famous Flowers in the Attic series. We delve into the backstory of Corrine Dixon and Garland Foxworth. It was an early read and an interesting addition to the series.

When I first really got into reading around the age of 12, the first series I tackled was "Flowers In The Attic". V.C. Andrews really knew how to tell a story and keep the reader engaged. I loved her other series of books as well. Unfortunately this is not the story for me. I'm not sure who the ghost writer is but this was just awful. I could not get through this one.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy in exchange for a review.

So in general, I've been a V.C. Andrews fan since I first read her books in middle school and the Flowers in the Attic series was always one of my favorites. Unfortunately, I haven't really been impressed with the books that have been written to try to add on to this series, including this book. The writting quality is poor and it seemed as though no research was done to make it historically accurate, causing a bit of an annoyance when reading.

‏I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review.

Beneath the Attic is the prequel to the wildly popular Dollangager family series by V.C. Andrews. The most well known is the first in the series, Flowers in the Attic which was published in 1979. Beneath the Attic is the 6th book published.

Beneath the Attic tells the story of Corrine Dixon, the grandmother of Corrine Foxworth, the main character in Flowers in the Attic. I felt its description is misleading. It does not discuss the early parts of the book and focuses on the later parts. However, the story offers a close look at the family. The story ends as if the story was divided into 2 and the rest would be left to the sequel. A continuation of Beneath the Attic, Out of the Attic, is scheduled to be published in 2020.

The original author of the Dollangager series, V.C. Andrews died in 1986. Since then, numerous books published under the name V.C. Andrews have been ghostwritten by Andrew Neiderman. Many reviews have written harshly about the later books. It might be because they know they are written by a different author. Neiderman captures V.C.Andrews' writing style accurately.

I preordered Beneath the Attic's continuation, Out of the Attic.

This 200-word review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 1/13/20.

V.C. Andrews will probably always be best known for her Dollanganger series which began with Flowers in the Attic. Beneath the Attic is an expansion on that series which takes readers back to the great grandmother of the Dollanganger children who were locked in that attic.

This story introduces readers to Corrine Dixon who was at the age she was looking for a suitor to marry when she met Garland Foxworth. Garland was wealthy and handsome and intrigued Corrine but when she met up with him without a chaperone things went too far leaving Corrine pregnant however Garland did the right thing and married her bringing her to Foxworth Hall.

This section of the series is of course being written by V.C. Andrews’s ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman who took over V.C. Andrews’s work after her passing. While I’ll admit some of the titles since Neiderman took over are not all that great some of them actually do have that V.C. Andrews feel to the story and are quite enjoyable so I always continue to pick them up and check them out when I can.

With Beneath the Attic I really came away with the feeling that this is just a so-so effort at continuing the Dollanganger series. Some things really didn’t seem to feel as if they fit the historical setting but were more for the shock of the readers who know the darkness of the Foxworth family. It will still be interesting to see where the story goes since this is only the start of the prequel novels.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

I remember reading Flowers in the Attic years ago. It was a rather disturbing book to read at times, but the author really knew how to weave a story together and keep a person reading to find out what happens next. Going into this book, I knew it was a ghostwriter who chose to write this novel about the ancestors of that fateful family drama. When I had a chance to pick up a free copy, thanks to Netgalley and Gallery Books, I was shocked. This was not at all what I was expecting. I went into this book enjoying a truly great, nostalgic read. However, this book was simply not for me. What did not work for me was the main character, Corinne. She was so conceited that it was nauseating to read about how highly she thought of herself and how she was proud of her beauty. Her mother was cast in a horrible light. I'm sure in her teenage "everyone is out to get me because I'm beautiful!" feelings were to blame. While I did not agree with her mother all of the time, I think maybe she was actually trying to keep her headstrong daughter safe. Garland, Corrine's love interest, also disgusted me. He definitely was not a good person and I was gritting my teeth during the entire story. There are dark secrets lurking in Garland's family mansion, a cup of madness lurking behind a handsome face, and a bleak future waiting for the generations to come. Is it really worth Corinne's complicated and possibly unhappy future in exchange for a beautiful home and wealth?
Even though this story and the characters did not work for me, always take someone's opinion like a grain of sand. You never know if you are going to like something unless you try it for yourself! Happy reading!

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