Seeds of Yesterday

This is probably my second favorite book in the series, behind Petals on the Wind. This shows Cathy and Chris in their later years, as well as showing how Cathy's sons have grown up. It is full of interesting twists, and it a must read for the Dollanganger series.

This book is very slow moving compared to the others in the series. I really find Cathy, Chris, and Bart the only interesting characters in the book. As I am sure most readers are, I am endlessly curious about Cathy and Chris and their romantic relationship. I don't understand who is in the know and who isn't. I am never clear if Cindy, Melodie, the nurse, etc. know that Cathy and Chris are brother and sister. The book tries to include many characters that don't really interest me (ie. Melodie, the nurse, Cindy). It would have been better if Joel's true intentions were fleshed out. I mean, we just assume he was behind everything but I never really understand his motivation. His horrible upbringing? His hatred of Corrine? Incest? And overall the ending is unsatisfying. *****SPOILER ALERT******
Chris dies. Cathy dies at like 53 of a broken heart? Whatever.
Jory and nurse live happily ever after? fine.
Cindy becomes an actress and Joel leaves? I can still buy that.
Bart becoming a televangelist? I don't even know.......
The first two books are the best. In fact they could have expanded Petals on the Wind into two books because it covers so much time and ended it after that. I don't recommend this book unless you want closure on the Dollanganger series. Don't even bother with the final book (the prequel). It just contradicts a lot that we know (or thought we did) and is an overall hot mess. They even spell Corrine differently in that book.

This book was full of surprises. Too many events happen to the family, good and bad. It makes the readers not want to put the book down because you don't know what may happen or what will be said next.

I read this series of books in my late teens & found them fascinating. Reading them again as an adult in my mid 50's, I find them to be silly & rather boring.
We all go through heartbreak at some time in our lives, but we out grow it & go on to live normal healthy lives. There are many abused children in this world who grow up & overcome the damage done to them by the abuse & learn to take responsibility for their own lives.

I have read the entire Dollanger series to the end, or should I say I endured it. I thought that Flowers in the attic was a very well written book with interesting plot lines. However, it quickly went down hill when I started reading the second book in the series. Cathy spent 90% of the book either sobbing or fending off one of her many admirers. I found it fitting and numerous that her son Bart while crazy has nailed the incestuous nail on the head with his opinion of his "parents". Joel finally put her in her place when he found her stretching on her bar and he said she was to old to be sensual. I love cc Andrews but I quickly tired of Cathy's conceited opinion of herself.

I appreciated the closure this book gave me. I have read all the Dollanger books, starting with Flowers In The Attic. I enjoyed the first couple, and then became a bit distracted. This book kept my attention and gave me the closure I was hoping for.

I loved reading V.C. Andrews books growing up I'm in my mid 40s now, I read flowers in the attic when I was in jr high (holy cow!) ANYWAY
I had to force myself to read this book, I even did something I never ever have done.... I skipped around the chapters to see if it was worth seeing it to the end. I kept thinking "it's got to get better!" It never did, sad!
V.C.'s ghostwriter did a bad job on this one!

when i bought this book and it was used, i didn't expect it to be perfect. but it was alot "more used" than i was led to believe by the description. several pages were loose in the middle of the book. while i still enjoyed reading the book, i think next time i would spend the extra few dollars for a new one.

They finally released an audio version of this book. I've been waiting years!! I returned it the same day. The narrator is horrible. She has NO talent in doing other voices. It's clear she did not listen to the first two books, to see how the characters were betrayed. Having her step in after the first two was a huge mistake. Anyone who listened to the first two audible books, will have a huge problem with the last two. She has no emotion and literally change the way the previous narrator did the books. Don't waist your money.

It gets worse and worse. The series' gets worse with every word and the minds get more demented. A person who is a doctor should know better and so should his sister, no wonder her sons are not okay.

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Seeds of Yesterday, the fourth installment in the Dollanganger Family series, returns to Catherine as the narrator. The story picks up her son’s Jory and Bart in their 20’s and Catherine and Christopher in their 50’s. Their adopted daughter, Cindy is now in her late teens. Bart is still a very unstable young man who is viciously jealous of his famous ballet dancer brother Jory and his dancing partner and beautiful wife Melody. Bart also hates his adopted sister, Cindy and does everything to make her miserable when she visits their parents at his estate, Foxworth Hall. Plus, he continues to harbor resentment towards his mother and her incestuous relationship with her brother Christopher as they continue to pose to the world as husband and wife.
Catherine tries everything to believe in her son Bart but struggles as she slowly watches him deliberately destroy all those he despises. While she has no proof that he is responsible the evidence is all too clear. She watches her son decline mentally as he is prone to fits of uncontrollable rage and violence believing he is acting on God’s plan. Still, as she tried to escape the cursed Foxworth Hall and what remains of her shattered family, disaster strikes her family again.
The Seeds of Yesterday was an intriguing conclusion to Catherine’s story. The entire series is dark and seeded but entertaining nonetheless. It’s a psychological journey of how a greedy mother lusting after a hefty inheritance not only destroys the lives of her four children but also manages to destroy the lives of her grandchildren as well.

And so it came to pass, the winter when I was mesmerized by the two previous books in this series, the back cover copy's promise of a last dark chapter in a strange, chilling tale of passion and peril was delivered, but it was neither strange or chilling, being instead a bad convoluted mess.

Bart has reached the age of twenty-five and gotten his inheritance from his grandmother, or rather part of it, because unbeknownst to him her will only gave him a paltry five hundred thousand dollars annually, with the bulk left in trust under Chris' guidance until Bart turns thirty-five. So now the family, joined by Uncle Joel who had been presumed long dead, have all moved to Foxworth Hall, where Bart reigns as master of hearth and home, letting Joel influence him with talk of God and sinners, constantly berating Cathy for her incestuous relationship with with her brother that ruined his childhood, doing his best to ignore Chris, lusting after his brother's wife, possibly causing Jory's career ending injury, and tormenting Cindy so she keeps flying away in a huff.

And none of the other characters are any better. Except Jory, who maintains dignity and grace throughout. Chris is away working much of the time and oblivious to what's going on around him. Cindy is a spoiled selfish wanton brat who desperately needs a good spanking. Melodie is a weak spineless wet noodle. And Cathy – god, Cathy has turned into a self-righteous wimp, judging everyone around her then leaping to their defense, sneaking around spying on others, cowing down constantly trying to appease Bart and make him happy when she should've just given up on this son and gone to Hawaii with Chris.

It didn't take long for me to know how the book would end. Not the Epilogue, but the last chapter. It was truly the only way this book could possibly end.

And...don't scroll down if you don't want to see a small spoiler...

I totally could not buy Bart's sudden redemption. At all.

"Seeds of Yesterday" is the final saga of Cathy and Chris from the "Flowers in the Attic" series and the characters have come full circle in this novel.

It is now many years after the end of "If There Be Thorns". Cathy is fifty-two and Chris is fifty-four. Jory has grown up to marry his childhood sweetheart, Melodie, and both have become successful dancers. Bart has just graduated from Harvard Law School and although, as Cathy points out, his psychiatrists have declared him "cured", it quickly becomes evident that Bart is still suffering from some pretty serious issues. Corinne, Cathy and Chris' mother, has left Bart the rebuilt Foxworth Hall, which Bart plans to reopen and make the grandest home in Virginia.

Cathy and Chris have arrived, to live once again, forty years later, in Foxworth Hall. You would think they would immediately realize that this may not be the best idea, if for no other reason that their mental health, but no, they come for a fairly long visit.

Jory and Melodie come for a visit, along with Cindy (Chris and Cathy's adopted daughter from "Thorns") and their long presumed dead Uncle Joel Foxworth shows up - - much as John Amos Jackson did in "Thorns". Joel's only purpose seems to be to spout off Malcolm-like pseudo-religious vitrol - - why no one tells him to pack his bags and get the hell out is beyond me.

Although this story is told again from the perspective of Cathy, and feels much more comfortable than the narrative of "Thorns", Bart again seems depraved and warped. It's hard to have sympathy for a character that seems so unredeemable.

Chris and Cathy's love story continues and is as bittersweet and tender as ever. Their love seems genuine and real.

As does Jory's love for Melodie. His eventual anguish over being paralyzed, losing his career and eventually his wife are the only parts of this story (other than Chris and Cathy) that ring true.

The rest of the story feels forced and the characters very one dimensional. Can Bart be any more like Malcolm? Can Joel be any more like the Grandmother? Can Cindy be any more like a young Corinne or Cathy? Even Jory and Melodie have blond twins, a boy and a girl - - giving us visions of Cory and Carrie.

Reading the story you wonder how much grief and anguish one family can take. And why everyone seems to be stepping around Bart and making excuses for him. You get to the point where you wish Chris or Cathy would just knock his lights out.

This book is worthy to read as a conclusion to the Dollanganger saga - - although the ending is a bit rushed and Chris and Cathy's demises are tragically sad.

Definitely does not compare to "Flowers" or "Petals" but as good as, if not slightly better than, "Thorns".

The years passed. Jory and Bart, Cathy's sons, are now in their mid to late twenties. Cindy, Cathy and Chris's adopted daughter, is a rebellious teenager. Bart will "come to his own" when he turns twenty-five, making him the sole heir of the Foxworth fortune. Cathy, Chris, Jory and his wife Melodie visit the newly constructed Foxworth Hall to celebrate Bart's twenty-fifth birthday. Bart has received psychological treatment over the years and now, a law school grad, is mature enough to have a mind of his own. The original Foxworth Hall is no more after the fire several years ago, and this new one doesn't hold the sinister past and secrets from those terrible years Cathy and Chris spent in the attic. Olivia and Corrine Foxworth have been long dead. There are no ghosts of attic's past lurking in the shadows of this new house. Nothing could go wrong this time, right? As expected, a series of disasters set in. Jory's thriving dancing career is jeopardized, his marriage is also in peril, an uncle of Cathy's and Chris's, once presumed dead, reappears, and Cathy and Chris find themselves prisoners in Foxworth Hall once again. Tragedy and pain are rampant in the house, and one cannot help but wonder if Bart is behind all of the horrible new occurrences. Will the ghosts in the attic ever leave Cathy in peace?

This has got to be the worst book in the entire series -- nothing to do with Flowers in the Attic. As some reviewers have already said, the characters are nothing but cheap replicas of previous characters. Cindy is a seductress and a man-magnet, kind of like Cathy when she was young (is this supposed to be ironic, since Cindy is not Cathy's biological daughter?), Bart is a player like his namesake of a late father, Chris is like Chris, Sr. in more ways than one, Jory experiences the same kind of decisions his late father Julian faced, and there are twins that are just like Carrie and Cory. Realism is thrown out the window and I couldn't believe the disaster this book turns out to be. I would have killed Bart and his constant nobody-loves-me whining had I been Cathy. Cathy has never been a likable heroine, but she is downright insufferable here. I'm tired of her constantly defending her incestuous relationship with Chris. Yes, she and Chris were forced to be together in the attic during the most crucial moment of their lives, but they're adults now and they should know better. No matter the circumstances that drove them to be together, what they're doing is wrong, period. I do not blame Bart in this part. The ending is awful -- rushed, abrupt and inconsistent. Loose ends are never tied up. Who was responsible for Jory's accident? What about the other stuff that occurs? Did Andrews write this book, or had the ghostwriter already taken over her work? If so, then her family should have hired a better ghostwriter to wrap up the series. I don't know if I should read Garden of Shadows (the ghostwritten prequel) now. Something tells me that I will hate it. I think I'll just pretend this is the very last book in the series. As Cathy says in the book, the Dollanganger saga has reached the end. It definitely has for me.

I know many readers have bad mouthed this one and said it was un-needed and that they should have just left the series alone - I for one completely disagree. For you lovers of that twisted brother/sister couple Chris and Cathy this book has it all over again in spades. We get the whole family back together again and the crazy just keeps happening. I loved the first half of the book and couldn't get enough - the second half kind of winds down with your typical bittersweet V.C. Andrews kind of ending. I just wish she would have kept the crazy up throughout the whole thing. This is one where to talk to much of the plot will ruin it for you and it will steal the surprises. We start with Bart coming into his own and inheriting mass amounts of money and the rebuilt Foxworth mansion from his crazy grandmother. Chris, Cathy, Jory and his wife Meoldie and Cindy all come to spend the summer with him - of course crazy thing after crazy thing happens and everyone's plans are changed. I really liked this one and thought it was a good end to everyone's favorite dysfunctional family.

I have been a V. C. Andrews devotee since the mid-80's, I first read Flowers in the Attic and I was hooked. Her writing style, often maligned and criticized as "not great literature," is greatly misunderstood. She writes in an exaggerated, melodramatic, romantic style...countering the darkness and ugliness of the taboo subjects that people don't want to face. Yes, she writes about child abuse, incest, and rape...ALOT. Guess what people, those things are happening every day, right now, and she exposes them, shines the light on them and explores the aftermath, what these traumas can do to a child, and to a family.

What's fantastic about her various series, particularly the Dollanganger Saga, is seeing the LONG TERM effects of these issues, and how people CAN overcome them and end the cycle of generational abuse in families.

Her tales are chock full of sinister characters, imposing locales, and all the gothic gloom and doom you can handle...that's the entertainment aspect of her writing. But under the veneer of surface horror, she exposes the true horrors in life...abuse and the destruction of family.

As for Seeds of Yesterday, it ended, in my opinion, exactly as it should have. Cathy and Chris finally managed to end the cycle of generational abuse, saving Bart from his own demons and letting go of the Foxworth past. Finding himself, forgiving his parents, accepting Jory and Cindy as his siblings, and Chris as the only father he ever had.

My only issue was "Uncle Joel." He felt fairly contrived...just thrown in to add a secondary villain. I found him mostly unnecessary, and really pulled out of thin air. Bart, teetering on the edge of madness and sanity, was more than enough of a villain for this entry.

Regarding the ending, I always kind of enjoy a "come full circle" moment in a series. Having things end how they began. This time, the new generation of Foxworths/Dollangangers/Sheffields can enjoy the luxury and riches of Foxworth Hall, free from the ghosts of the past, taking what was promised yet denied to their parents, Cathy and Chris. Chris, meeting the same end as Chris Sr. in the first novel, and Cathy returning to the attic, and eventually succumbing to death and ascending to the "garden in the sky," gets me EVERY time. It's so beautifully written, and the tears just flow, every single time I read it.

Near perfect ending to an iconic series of novels. Highly recommended.

If you want the product, dont use this seller. I have never received the book, so therefore, I cant read the series. The price was good, but a bit exspensive for not receiving the product. DO NOT USE THIS SELLER.

Seeds of Yesterday, the fourth installment in the Dollanganger Family series, returns to Catherine as the narrator. The story picks up her son’s Jory and Bart in their 20’s and Catherine and Christopher in their 50’s. Their adopted daughter, Cindy is now in her late teens. Bart is still a very unstable young man who is viciously jealous of his famous ballet dancer brother Jory and his dancing partner and beautiful wife Melody. Bart also hates his adopted sister, Cindy and does everything to make her miserable when she visits their parents at his estate, Foxworth Hall. Plus, he continues to harbor resentment towards his mother and her incestuous relationship with her brother Christopher as they continue to pose to the world as husband and wife.
Catherine tries everything to believe in her son Bart but struggles as she slowly watches him deliberately destroy all those he despises. While she has no proof that he is responsible the evidence is all too clear. She watches her son decline mentally as he is prone to fits of uncontrollable rage and violence believing he is acting on God’s plan. Still, as she tried to escape the cursed Foxworth Hall and what remains of her shattered family, disaster strikes her family again.
The Seeds of Yesterday was an intriguing conclusion to Catherine’s story. The entire series is dark and seeded but entertaining nonetheless. It’s a psychological journey of how a greedy mother lusting after a hefty inheritance not only destroys the lives of her four children but also manages to destroy the lives of her grandchildren as well.

And so it came to pass, the winter when I was mesmerized by the two previous books in this series, the back cover copy's promise of a last dark chapter in a strange, chilling tale of passion and peril was delivered, but it was neither strange or chilling, being instead a bad convoluted mess.

Bart has reached the age of twenty-five and gotten his inheritance from his grandmother, or rather part of it, because unbeknownst to him her will only gave him a paltry five hundred thousand dollars annually, with the bulk left in trust under Chris' guidance until Bart turns thirty-five. So now the family, joined by Uncle Joel who had been presumed long dead, have all moved to Foxworth Hall, where Bart reigns as master of hearth and home, letting Joel influence him with talk of God and sinners, constantly berating Cathy for her incestuous relationship with with her brother that ruined his childhood, doing his best to ignore Chris, lusting after his brother's wife, possibly causing Jory's career ending injury, and tormenting Cindy so she keeps flying away in a huff.

And none of the other characters are any better. Except Jory, who maintains dignity and grace throughout. Chris is away working much of the time and oblivious to what's going on around him. Cindy is a spoiled selfish wanton brat who desperately needs a good spanking. Melodie is a weak spineless wet noodle. And Cathy – god, Cathy has turned into a self-righteous wimp, judging everyone around her then leaping to their defense, sneaking around spying on others, cowing down constantly trying to appease Bart and make him happy when she should've just given up on this son and gone to Hawaii with Chris.

It didn't take long for me to know how the book would end. Not the Epilogue, but the last chapter. It was truly the only way this book could possibly end.

And...don't scroll down if you don't want to see a small spoiler...

I totally could not buy Bart's sudden redemption. At all.

"Seeds of Yesterday" is the final saga of Cathy and Chris from the "Flowers in the Attic" series and the characters have come full circle in this novel.

It is now many years after the end of "If There Be Thorns". Cathy is fifty-two and Chris is fifty-four. Jory has grown up to marry his childhood sweetheart, Melodie, and both have become successful dancers. Bart has just graduated from Harvard Law School and although, as Cathy points out, his psychiatrists have declared him "cured", it quickly becomes evident that Bart is still suffering from some pretty serious issues. Corinne, Cathy and Chris' mother, has left Bart the rebuilt Foxworth Hall, which Bart plans to reopen and make the grandest home in Virginia.

Cathy and Chris have arrived, to live once again, forty years later, in Foxworth Hall. You would think they would immediately realize that this may not be the best idea, if for no other reason that their mental health, but no, they come for a fairly long visit.

Jory and Melodie come for a visit, along with Cindy (Chris and Cathy's adopted daughter from "Thorns") and their long presumed dead Uncle Joel Foxworth shows up - - much as John Amos Jackson did in "Thorns". Joel's only purpose seems to be to spout off Malcolm-like pseudo-religious vitrol - - why no one tells him to pack his bags and get the hell out is beyond me.

Although this story is told again from the perspective of Cathy, and feels much more comfortable than the narrative of "Thorns", Bart again seems depraved and warped. It's hard to have sympathy for a character that seems so unredeemable.

Chris and Cathy's love story continues and is as bittersweet and tender as ever. Their love seems genuine and real.

As does Jory's love for Melodie. His eventual anguish over being paralyzed, losing his career and eventually his wife are the only parts of this story (other than Chris and Cathy) that ring true.

The rest of the story feels forced and the characters very one dimensional. Can Bart be any more like Malcolm? Can Joel be any more like the Grandmother? Can Cindy be any more like a young Corinne or Cathy? Even Jory and Melodie have blond twins, a boy and a girl - - giving us visions of Cory and Carrie.

Reading the story you wonder how much grief and anguish one family can take. And why everyone seems to be stepping around Bart and making excuses for him. You get to the point where you wish Chris or Cathy would just knock his lights out.

This book is worthy to read as a conclusion to the Dollanganger saga - - although the ending is a bit rushed and Chris and Cathy's demises are tragically sad.

Definitely does not compare to "Flowers" or "Petals" but as good as, if not slightly better than, "Thorns".

The years passed. Jory and Bart, Cathy's sons, are now in their mid to late twenties. Cindy, Cathy and Chris's adopted daughter, is a rebellious teenager. Bart will "come to his own" when he turns twenty-five, making him the sole heir of the Foxworth fortune. Cathy, Chris, Jory and his wife Melodie visit the newly constructed Foxworth Hall to celebrate Bart's twenty-fifth birthday. Bart has received psychological treatment over the years and now, a law school grad, is mature enough to have a mind of his own. The original Foxworth Hall is no more after the fire several years ago, and this new one doesn't hold the sinister past and secrets from those terrible years Cathy and Chris spent in the attic. Olivia and Corrine Foxworth have been long dead. There are no ghosts of attic's past lurking in the shadows of this new house. Nothing could go wrong this time, right? As expected, a series of disasters set in. Jory's thriving dancing career is jeopardized, his marriage is also in peril, an uncle of Cathy's and Chris's, once presumed dead, reappears, and Cathy and Chris find themselves prisoners in Foxworth Hall once again. Tragedy and pain are rampant in the house, and one cannot help but wonder if Bart is behind all of the horrible new occurrences. Will the ghosts in the attic ever leave Cathy in peace?

This has got to be the worst book in the entire series -- nothing to do with Flowers in the Attic. As some reviewers have already said, the characters are nothing but cheap replicas of previous characters. Cindy is a seductress and a man-magnet, kind of like Cathy when she was young (is this supposed to be ironic, since Cindy is not Cathy's biological daughter?), Bart is a player like his namesake of a late father, Chris is like Chris, Sr. in more ways than one, Jory experiences the same kind of decisions his late father Julian faced, and there are twins that are just like Carrie and Cory. Realism is thrown out the window and I couldn't believe the disaster this book turns out to be. I would have killed Bart and his constant nobody-loves-me whining had I been Cathy. Cathy has never been a likable heroine, but she is downright insufferable here. I'm tired of her constantly defending her incestuous relationship with Chris. Yes, she and Chris were forced to be together in the attic during the most crucial moment of their lives, but they're adults now and they should know better. No matter the circumstances that drove them to be together, what they're doing is wrong, period. I do not blame Bart in this part. The ending is awful -- rushed, abrupt and inconsistent. Loose ends are never tied up. Who was responsible for Jory's accident? What about the other stuff that occurs? Did Andrews write this book, or had the ghostwriter already taken over her work? If so, then her family should have hired a better ghostwriter to wrap up the series. I don't know if I should read Garden of Shadows (the ghostwritten prequel) now. Something tells me that I will hate it. I think I'll just pretend this is the very last book in the series. As Cathy says in the book, the Dollanganger saga has reached the end. It definitely has for me.

I know many readers have bad mouthed this one and said it was un-needed and that they should have just left the series alone - I for one completely disagree. For you lovers of that twisted brother/sister couple Chris and Cathy this book has it all over again in spades. We get the whole family back together again and the crazy just keeps happening. I loved the first half of the book and couldn't get enough - the second half kind of winds down with your typical bittersweet V.C. Andrews kind of ending. I just wish she would have kept the crazy up throughout the whole thing. This is one where to talk to much of the plot will ruin it for you and it will steal the surprises. We start with Bart coming into his own and inheriting mass amounts of money and the rebuilt Foxworth mansion from his crazy grandmother. Chris, Cathy, Jory and his wife Meoldie and Cindy all come to spend the summer with him - of course crazy thing after crazy thing happens and everyone's plans are changed. I really liked this one and thought it was a good end to everyone's favorite dysfunctional family.

I have been a V. C. Andrews devotee since the mid-80's, I first read Flowers in the Attic and I was hooked. Her writing style, often maligned and criticized as "not great literature," is greatly misunderstood. She writes in an exaggerated, melodramatic, romantic style...countering the darkness and ugliness of the taboo subjects that people don't want to face. Yes, she writes about child abuse, incest, and rape...ALOT. Guess what people, those things are happening every day, right now, and she exposes them, shines the light on them and explores the aftermath, what these traumas can do to a child, and to a family.

What's fantastic about her various series, particularly the Dollanganger Saga, is seeing the LONG TERM effects of these issues, and how people CAN overcome them and end the cycle of generational abuse in families.

Her tales are chock full of sinister characters, imposing locales, and all the gothic gloom and doom you can handle...that's the entertainment aspect of her writing. But under the veneer of surface horror, she exposes the true horrors in life...abuse and the destruction of family.

As for Seeds of Yesterday, it ended, in my opinion, exactly as it should have. Cathy and Chris finally managed to end the cycle of generational abuse, saving Bart from his own demons and letting go of the Foxworth past. Finding himself, forgiving his parents, accepting Jory and Cindy as his siblings, and Chris as the only father he ever had.

My only issue was "Uncle Joel." He felt fairly contrived...just thrown in to add a secondary villain. I found him mostly unnecessary, and really pulled out of thin air. Bart, teetering on the edge of madness and sanity, was more than enough of a villain for this entry.

Regarding the ending, I always kind of enjoy a "come full circle" moment in a series. Having things end how they began. This time, the new generation of Foxworths/Dollangangers/Sheffields can enjoy the luxury and riches of Foxworth Hall, free from the ghosts of the past, taking what was promised yet denied to their parents, Cathy and Chris. Chris, meeting the same end as Chris Sr. in the first novel, and Cathy returning to the attic, and eventually succumbing to death and ascending to the "garden in the sky," gets me EVERY time. It's so beautifully written, and the tears just flow, every single time I read it.

Near perfect ending to an iconic series of novels. Highly recommended.

It is still hard for me to concieve the idea of Chris and Cathy gone forever, though it's been a whole year since I've finished the book. Cathy was my absolute favorite character, except for in "Thorns" (because she's such a bimbo in that one!). It's hard to think that all that they endured as children was for nothing. Even though they died at different places, it was still at Foxworth Hall, like Cory in "Flowers". Even though I don't like any of the ghost writer's stories (except for the Cutler series), I would like it if the person would attempt to continue the trilogy. I mean, what happened to Bart, Jory, Melodie, the twins, Tony, etc, after Cathy died? Did Bart leave Foxworth Hall? Did the twins grow up happily? What was Jory's and Tony's new baby like? Was it a boy or a girl? So many questions, so little of answers.
I am truly filled with sadness, like a family relative died recently that I had known all my life. My favorite book was "Flowers" and the whole series besides "My Sweet Audrina", another true V.C. Andrews classic (the only Casteel book I really liked was Heaven, but I only liked the beginning but as things continued it got old).
Any ways, I hope that a new Dollanganger book will come out, this one with the answers that I sought and some people may be looking for too. So, it is with tears that I say good-bye to the Dollangangers now, and thank fully I still have the first three books that I can read and attempt to forget the fourth one, for now.

And so we come to the fourth and final book in Cathy's saga. It's back to Cathy's point of view. Some will say that Seeds of Yesterday is better than If There Be Thorns and I get the feeling that people say this because they prefer Cathy's narrative to Jory's and Bart's. Personally, I found Jory's voice quite boring. Bart, on the other hand, was very interesting and I liked reading about the things that went on in his head. In this book, Cathy is just a shadow of her former self. It almost makes me think that even Jory's point of view would have been more interesting. All she really does in this book is spy on people so she might as well be Jory.

I think V.C.A. was maybe getting a little bored when she wrote this. A lot is going on but none of it is really important. It's all been done before and in far more compelling ways. It's like she didn't have much of a plot so she just placed the characters in Foxworth Hall and had all kinds of crazy things happen to them.

Cathy and Chris have come back to the new Foxworth Hall for Bart's 25th birthday. After all, at age 25, Bart is supposed to come into his own. But due to unforeseen events, they are unable to leave. So they remain there for the next three or so years. Deja Vu. There's a new bad guy to take Malcolm`s place---his name is Joel and he is the brother of Corrine. Apparently, he didn't die after all but was rescued by monks. And now he's back to claim what's rightfully his. But not in an obvious way. He befriends Bart and acts like a surrogate father to him. Really, he becomes another John Amos. And so the rest of the book is Bart and Joel acting creepy and Cathy and the rest of the family acting scared. And now that I think about it, it's never exactly explained why Cathy and Chris feel trapped. As a teenager, I just accepted everything at face value, but now I question the facts I was given. I wonder if they really were trapped or if V.C.A. only wanted them to feel that way and so she kept them there longer than they really needed to stay there.
I agree with those who have called this book a "rehash" of earlier plotlines. Cathy and Chris are trapped in Foxworth Hall once again. There's the Malcolm clone named Joel. There are two little twin grandchildren who look just like Cory and Carrie whom Bart and Joel try to warp. And so on. Seriously, this family just keeps reliving the same tragedies over and over and over again and there's usually a Malcolm clone or two thrown in to make things interesting. We get it. Thank goodness it ended here. I think it could have ended with Petals on the Wind, in fact, though I did like reading about Bart's POV in Thorns.
The only thing I liked about this book was the character of Bart. I just found him to be one of the more complex characters in the series. Well, as complex as a character in a book like this can be. And some of the things he said were quite amusing actually, in a darkly humorous way.
But overall, I would not recommend this book unless you're just dying of curiosity. The ending is bittersweet---heartbreaking really---but a bit contrived as well. It feels too neatly wrapped up.

This is a V.C.A. original so it's my gut instinct to defend it. It's probably the best fourth book you'll find in any of the V.C.A./GW sagas. But that doesn't make it wonderful and the best book on earth and I can't pretend that it does. And furthermore, Cathy and Chris's relationship has become a bit trite and unrealistic. It's a sappy romance and not the tragic, disturbing, and yet grotesquely beautiful love story it once was. Cathy and Chris are just two little lovestruck cardboard cutouts---a shadow of their former selves.

That's exactly what I felt after reading this book.

When I read a book it drives me nuts when I don't know what happened later. Sadly, this book just went on to far.

This book just about destroyed the whole story for me.

I hated seeing what happened with Bart and with Jory, though they both did find their happiness.

A lot of reviews were disapproving of Cathy and Chris dying. Hello...with the luck of the Foxworths, they were lucky they lasted as long as they did. I just wish maybe Chris's death could have been different.

The Foxworths circle of life is now completed, with a new mansion and a new monster at the helm. Bart, for all the therapy given him following Thorns is now the master of a duplicate Foxworth Hall, while his "parents", adoptive sister and brother's family have become permanent houseguests.
Unfortunately, what we're stuck with is a lot of recycling. The long lost Uncle Joel appears to be a less manaical version of John Amos from thorns, Cindy shows all the promiscuity of her adoptive mother without the revenge angle, and Bart is just a hypocritical jerk who expects everyone to tow his line, even though he does not practice what he preaches. Even the main plot of Flowers is echoed here: Cathy and Chris are stuck in the mansion with nowhere to go because of various circumstances.
There is even a new set of twins Cathy mistakes for her dead siblings, and Chris meets the same fate as his father. The finale of the book, particularly Bart's sudden transformation, is unbelievable and trite. I realize many of Andrews's fans hail these books as an enduring love story between Cathy and Chris, but I find the whole notion disturbing. Had the two kept their relationship as brother and sister (which is how it should have been) I might have been more sympathetic. But their "marriage" disturbed me greatly.

Seeds of Yesterday is slow paced and does not have as much action as the last books, but is nonetheless beautiful. Although this book mostly involves Bart and Jory, it is told through Cathy's point of view. This book is the closing of the entire series. "The Dollanger Series is over," Cathy says at the end. It's very bittersweet and made me cry. Not surprisingly, this book involves death. Finally, Cathy gets closure and peace towards the end of her life. She realizes that it has been worth something. She comes to the conclusion that her life wasn't valuable because of what she did, but because of who she loved. The last four books ended with characters seeking vengence. This book has characters who are able to move on or even forgive the family members that hurt them. This is so touching because who wants to live their last few moments hating someone? All good things must come to an end, unfortunatley. This is the last book of this wonderful series. Do not pass it up if you have read the other four.

I am one of those die-hard V. C. Andrews fans that must not only read but own EVERYTHING with her name on it. Though I first read SEEDS OF YESTERDAY over 20 years ago, it is one of those books that I find myself returning to almost every year because of the characters, the story and the ending it provides to a saga that has enthralled so many of us since Flowers In The Attic.

V. C. Andrews is a storyteller that was truly ahead of her time, and someone who knew how to tell a powerful tale. All of us fell in love with and had a certain amount of pity for the Children of The Attic, and once we see how their story ends, we can almost find some form of peace in it.

Kudos to Andrews for teaching us lessons of life that we should not forget: It's what you do with what you have not what you have that counts.

This book takes us all the way to the very, very end of the Foxworth saga-Chris and Cathy's deaths! Was that really necessary? Did Chris have to die the way Chris Sr. did? Did Jory have to sire Carrie 2 and Cory 2? It just got a little silly. I didn't understand why Andrews' had included some of the plot lines, for instance, old Uncle Joel coughing up that tired psycho-religious condemnation of incest and children of sin stuff. It felt recycled, like they had to have the Grandmother come back in some form and torture any future generations of beautiful blond twins for no apparent reason.

Also, Bart. What was the deal with him? Of all of Andrews' villains I actually find him the least sympathetic. While the Grandmother, (Flowers in the Attic) was love-starved and neglected, Vera (My Sweet Audrina) made to feel unwanted from birth, Fanny (Heaven) poor and often starving, etc., etc., Bart is rich, handsome, loved and spoiled. What is his problem anyway? His nastiness toward Chris, Cathy, Cindy, and Jory are really obscene. Ok, I admit I wouldn't like it if I found out my "stepdad" was my uncle, but they were such loving parents to Bart and he showed precious little gratitude for that, or sympathy for the extraordinary circumstances that led to their incestrous relationship.

I also wasn't sure why we were supposed to care about Cindy. Not that I had anything against Cindy, but I wasn't given a reason to care about her. Plus, Bart's obsession with her sexuality was extremely, extremely creepy, even for Andrews.

However, if you loved Flowers in the Attic and can't get enough of the original characters from that first book-and God knows anyone who picks up this book fits that description-you'll enjoy it anyway. I did.

I stared reading this series in JHS..a looong time ago :-). But up till now it is still so fresh in my mind..it's like I read it just the other day. I remeber going to the library week after week to pick up the next installment..I refused to read it all at once to ruin to buildup. The first books was great..a classic. It was chilling and so sad..and unbelieveable. I could not believe that people could be so cruel. Of coure being 12..Iwas shocked at Chris and Cathy budding "relationship"..I mean whoa. But it drew me in and after a while as the series went one...it was just natural to me. It upset me that they could not be together. They were so miserable. In "Petals in the Wind"..Cathy tried so hard to fight her past and her feeling for Chris it nearly broke my heart. I think "If There be Thorns" was the most dark. Bart was a great character and "Graandmother" ...she scared me. But by far..my favorite in the series has to be This one. It was just so heartbreaking. This was the FIRST and LAST time that I ever cried while reading a book. I mean at the end when I read that letter..I was not half way through it before my eyes started watering and tears rained down on the pages of the book. I literally fell apart. I twas so heartbreaking. Ohh. I'm tearing up now. To me it was a perfect ending. Just perfect. It all came full circle. I found it so eerie and fitting that Chris died in a similar fashion as his father. Wow. That is all I can say. Great stuff. I'm almost tempted to read this series again.

This is probably my least favorite book in the series.
While I understand Bart's personality I still cannot get the fact that he did not grow out of his jealousy the way I thought he would when he almost lost his mother in the last book.

This was not bad it just was not my favorite in the series. I do love the Dollanganger series and I love how V.C. Andrews shaped the mold with the first story in the series. I just do not feel that any of the rest could meet the brilliancy of Flowers in the Attic

I was a junior in High School when I finally got around to reading Flowers In The Attic, Petals On The Wind and If There Be Thorns. The first two book in that series had my attention from their first words. If There Be Thorns got rather old rather quickly, but at the time I thought that was the end of the story even though I felt that the story didn't come to the great ending that I had hoped for. I was left still wanting more. Well, for a while it was the end. V.C Andrews next book, My Sweet Audrina came out and I thought she was moving onto new characters and new stories. While I didn't care for My Sweet Audrina, I read it and was eagerly awaiting her next novel.

I was a senior in High School when one night at the grocery store (didn't everyone buy these books at the grocery store?) I saw this on the shelf. I picked it up and my jaw dropped. Here it was, the real final book to my favorite book series at the time. I couldn't wait to get home to read it. Three days later, I was in total tears from the end.

20 years later and having read the series several times, I can now say that this book is rather weak. While I do find the story much better than If There Be Thorns and I do get the finalilty that I so longed for after If There Be Thorns, it's still a weak book.

For one thing, I don't know what happened with V.C. Andrews while writing this novel, but this book contains numerous inconsistances with the others in the series. I don't know if she didn't go back and re-read her notes or what, but there are certainly problems with this book.

First and foremost, for some reason, Foxworth Hall is now suddenly all alone on the hill. What happened to the houses that used to be just down the street from the mansion? In Flowers In The Attic, Foxworth Hall was at the end of a cul de sac but higher up on the hill. Almost like it was overseeing the rest of the neighborhood. Now in this book, for some reason, the house sits all alone on the hill with no one around for miles. Major problem that bugs me throughout the entire novel.

There are other problems, but over all I think the story is better than If There Be Thorns even though at several times it all gives you a feeling of 'been there, done that.' Maybe because the public was demanding a better end to the series than If There Be Thorns, Andrews just cranked this one out to staisfy us. A good effort, but not that great.

It gets three stars just for being more interesting than If There Be Thorns and for giving me the ending that I longed for after If There Be Thorns.

I read this book in February and cried at the end. I was a little sad that I was through with the Dollanganger series. I was so used to it, that I didn't want to see Cathy and Chris gone forever. Anyway, it had a good ending. All of Cathy and Chris' children had made up and were happy. I realized that the ending took place at the beginning of the 2000's. I calculated all the years V.C. Andrews had given us in the past books. I wonder what would have been going on right now in Seeds of Yesterday, if it was real. Mmm, makes you wonder....

Finally, we arrived at the end of the series. History indeed repeats itself as Cathy & Chris suffered the same tragic ending as their parents did. & like all series, it has to come to an end. Here we will see after so much dispute the characters reconciling with each other.
I have travelled the Dolanganger's life together with Cathy & has seen her ups & downs, joys & pains. & when I see her wilful rest at the end, I was happy for her that finally, Foxworth Hall has found peace & happiness among its children.

Cathy's sons are grown up. Jory and his wife are famous dancers. Bart has inherited his grandmother's millions and the horrifying house that kept Cathy and Christopher hostage as children. As Cathy watches the house being redone, she also sees that Bart is still a troubled young man. He seduces Jory's wife and abuses his younger sister as he struggles with himself to find his own way. Christopher and Cathy have their own stuggles as they must come to terms with themselves and their past. A great conclusion to a stunning story.

Bittersweet is the best words to discribe this last book (I don't count 'Garden' as part of the Dollanganger Series).
Now they are fifty two and fifty-five (I think that's their ages, I took the book back to the library) Chris and Cathy, who still refuse not to wallow in this 'marriage' decide to meet up with their younger, multimillionaire son Bart back at the new refurnished Foxworth Hall for his twenty-fifth birthday. In flies Melodie and Jory, and their adoptee Cindy to ceibrate their deraged brother's birthday and the reading of the Grandmother's will. Well, the Foxworth hall does it again, and keeps Chris and Cathy in the house for years (this time four) to resolve personal feuding between brother vs brother, and brother vs sister. All the while, a mysterious old man, Uncle Joel (that's explained in 'Garden'), returns to his once home as a lonely, psycho-religious maniac with eyes only for the traumatized Bart. The story is again very well written and simple to read (there is nothing Dickens about Andrews!) and comprehend. The ending is sad, but also happy. Yet incomplete. I ask the same things the previous reviewers ask: what happens next? But all good things, like the Dollanganger series, must come to an end.

this book starts out with the live of bart and jory as grown ups.
jory is now dancing with a famous ballet company with his wife.
bart has come into his inheritance left by his grandmother. but
like his mother he cannot let go of the past. demons still haunt
this poor family. at the end they finally come to know some type
of peace but it takes so much heartbreak to do this. maybe this
is a lesson for all of us not to wait until we are old to try to
forgive and move on with life.

I loved the whole Dollanganger series, but I have to admit I was getting a little tired of the whole thing by the beginning of this book. The first two books were wonderful, the third one was kind of fragmented because of its inconsistent story-telling style, but the plot was interesting enough to keep me reading. This book, however, turned out to be so dark and dreary that it was just plain depressing to read it. There can only be so much tragedy to hit one family before it just gets irritating. Definitely read this book to finish up the series, so you know what happens to all of them, but don't expect it to be spectacular or anything....and don't expect a happy ending either.

Seeds of Yesterday is a great book but at times seems just a better written rehash of If There Be Thorns. Cathy and Chris have to move into the newly reconstructed Fowxworth Hall where they have to reside until Bart turns 25. But a tragic accident fells Jory and keeps Cathy and Chris captive there, meanwhile Bart's fragile hold on sanity is jeapordized by yet another old man and he begins tormenting his sister Cindy again. The ending is beautiful though but towards the last chapters it gets hard to read.

The final installment in the Dollanganger saga is just plain depressing. Nothing went right for anybody in this book: Cathy was still haunted by her days in captivity in the attic, Chris was as incestuously lustful as ever, Jory was seriously injured and forced to end his dancing days, Melodie was mentally unstable and left him after their children were born, Bart was obsessive and manipulative, Cindy was a strumpet...nobody was happy and little, if any, good happened.
I gave two starts because it's important to read this book if you want to learn how the series ends.

The novel, Seeds of Yesterday by V.C. Andrews is a very chilling ending to the series Flowers in the Attic. The author uses a dark gothic mood in this story. It takes place in the haunting halls of Foxworth Mansion. The dark settings hint that there will be terrifying things happening but its hard to know what will happen. The author describes the setting in a dark mood and the characters have dreadful personalities. The dark mood that is shown in the book has a great impact on the characters. Foxworth Hall corrupts anyone that lives there. The author also uses some irony. An example of irony in the story was when Chris was killed the same way his father was. There were many unexpected twists that made the story dramatic. During the novel there were some exciting parts but there were some slow parts too. Also some of the events were predictable. Despite the slowness and predictable events, this book was a page-turner because of the ending. In the first three books the reader becomes very close to the characters and in a way the story becomes a part of your life. It makes you feel sad when they are hurting and it makes you happy when they are joyful. Since this is the last book, the ending becomes the climax of the series because it is the end of the Dresden Dolls. After being through so much with the Dollanganger children it becomes tearful to see it all end. However the end was also kind of peaceful to know that the suffering is over. The turmoil began in the attic and it ended in the attic. This is a good book because of the way the author establishes a relationship between the reader and the characters. The author also did a good job of depicting the dark shadows of the mansion and the nightmares it caused. Although this was not as interesting as the first three books, it is still worth reading because of the shocking and emotional ending.

I feel as though Andrews didn't have much to say, but to kill off Cathy and Chris. I just feel that it wasn't all that much suspense, or mind-gripping horror that the others had. I don't know what more could be done as Corrine and John were killed off in "If There Be Thorns", but to me there could've been other ways to write this story. I guess one highlight is where Bart finally accepts Chris as his father, and I guess this is where I will focus for awhile. Look at where he comes to this conclusion; it's at Chris's funeral. Jory seems to have the right idea as seeing it as Bart repenting, and becoming humble, but I can't help, but feel perhaps could it be an attempt to show his vulnerable side to Toni? After all before Toni became romantically involved with Jory she was involved with Bart. This is an irony in all itself because Bart slept with Jory's first wife Melody because Melody felt that Bart was the man because Jory became paralyzed after a accident in which he was performing the ballet. I guess this caused Bart to finally accept the fact that Chris was more a father than Bart wanted to believe. However, there's alot of healing that didn't go on with this family. Yes Cathy was proven right, but how she did it she should've been a little more honest with Bart from the beginning, and want of a better way of doing this John Amos did attempt to help Bart fill in the blanks in "If There Be Thorns", but it wasn't enough to make it sink into Bart because he felt betrayed even though it wasn't Cathy's fault that Bart's father died in the fire of the first Foxworth Hall. I suppose that it came back to the first thing, and that's parents have to mimic good values to thier children, and here it seemed as though Cathy and Chris were still playing victims as they tried to muddle through life. Bart seems to come to the point of a person's morals and values are thier own, and he accepts Christ for his sake, and not his family's for the road with Christ is travelled mostly by ourselves with Christ, and to have fellow Christians walking along the way. I just feel that it showed Bart in a negative light as it was just the fact that he was still hurting from the fact he never knew his birth father, and not knowing what kind of man he was; only getting information from Cathy and Chris who weren't any better. This for the most part was weak especially since they added the character of Joel who was briefly mentioned in "Flowers In The Attic", but not enough was mentioned for us to see him as a manipulative old man who in one hand praised God, and the other manipulated everyone around him. I guess that's why "Garden Of Shadows" was written, but it was still not a caliber story from one of the queens of Horror/Suspense.

Predictable:
Although this is the first book that I read of the series and I don't know if a will read the first three, I can say that you will know exactly what will happen in the next page of the book since the beginning till the end, nevertheless the book will keep you reading and trying to guess what will happen next, of course I would make some changes to the end of the book.
Sad:
First of all is very sad that two brothers love each other in other way than brothers, how many times a woman can be a widow? How many times can a mother catch her daughter in bed with her boyfriend? And I'm not talking about the accidents, the way that Bart made everything his own way... and many things more. This book will really make you cry.

Read years ago when I was a child and this was back then "slightly taboo" romances. But I was addicted. Written way before it's time this series was seductive, passionate and brilliant. Total perfection. Loved it.

I would have to agree with most of the other reviewers... this book is by far the worst of the series. This book was probably necessary, as everyone would have been wondering, "what happened next?" after "If there Be Thorns," but I think that the Dollanganger pond had pretty much been fished dry by the time this book came around. There was so much stuff that was just repeats of things that happened in the previous books. It was like the author was thinking, "well, that worked before, let's try it again." Jory is paralyzed, just like his father Julian was; Bart is once again under the control of an older, evil man, just like in the previous book; Cindy is basically a regeneration of Cathy; along comes a set of blond boy-girl twins, just like in the first book. The only good reason to read this book would be to get closure follow the whole story through to the end. The best book of this series by far is the prequel, "Garden of Shadows."

Just like every other book in the Dollanganger series this one was full of pulse pounding tension, angry siblings, and of course, tight storytelling. I loved this book, but I wish Chris and Cathy didn't die. I cried so hard near the end and couldn't get the book out of my head for days. I rejoyced when Bart finally forgave Chris and pushed those poisonous ideas out of his head and found love in his black heart for his sister. Too bad tragedy always brings us together....

By the time I read this installment I was getting bored. I was so in love with Cathy in 'Flowers'. But I cannot believe she died in that damn attic while making a purple paper worm. A terrible ending. But on the other hand, she never really escaped the attic did she? But then again on the OTHER hand, why would she agree to live in that mansion in the first place after the dreaded estate was rebuilt? When it was announced that it would be rebuilt, she should have had a fit and refused to see it through.
You can only take so much from these books; Uncle Joel, learning to paint in bed while paralyzed. Oh boy I'm glad the series is over. All in all, 'Flowers' and 'Petals' were the only two that really moved me.

In this book, Cathy and Chris have agreed to stay in the re-built Foxworth Hall untill Bart's 25th birthday when he inherits it. What a mistake.........for Bart's mind is now being filled with evil ideas by his butler, Joseph Foxworth. Who had been thought dead after an avalanche in Switzerland. He is Corrine's older brother and thinks that he should have inherited Foxworth Hall. What will Bart do to them?

I give this book three stars because it was well written for the most part and I loved revisiting these characters, but the ending was just terrible. Bart becomes an evangelist? Totally not believable. This ending was rushed. It's like what should have been four or five chapters all squeezed in to one. I absolutely hated the ending. Perhaps if it had be stretched and I had learned the details leading up to the way things turned out, it wouldn't be so bad but instead I was left feeling no closure. It made me pretty angry after spending so much time with this series and getting to know and love the characters. I felt cheated.

Seeds of Yesterday had me enthralled for short passages and kept me interested in its suffering characters for most of its length. Although I do have to question why someone would put up with the abuse that Bart dishes out, I mean come on.
However, when I reached the end I had to scream with frustration and rage. Clearly the author (Andrew Neiderman and NOT the late V.C. Andrews) had reached some sort of deadline and had to wrap the book and fast. All the plotlines are tied up so quickly that it was insulting! I wanted a stronger sense of closure, especially after all the suffering these characters had gone through. [....]Not recommended at all.

I read this book in paperback when it first came out, but I still remember reading the entire series. Great books and I thinnk anyone would enjoy reading any of the books by this author. I gave this 5 stars and I think it deserves every one of them.

Why is it that so many of you want another book in this series? The series ended the way it should have and apparently no one has an imagnation anymore. DO you really want another book, this time written by the GW after he's given us lame, unreadable novels starting with the Logan family series and onward. Stop asking for a another book in the series. SOY was an excellent book that concluded this sad saga and there are no need for anymore.

I feel as though Andrews didn't have much to say, but to kill off Cathy and Chris. I just feel that it wasn't all that much suspense, or mind-gripping horror that the others had. I don't know what more could be done as Corrine and John were killed off in "If There Be Thorns", but to me there could've been other ways to write this story. I guess one highlight is where Bart finally accepts Chris as his father, and I guess this is where I will focus for awhile. Look at where he comes to this conclusion; it's at Chris's funeral. Jory seems to have the right idea as seeing it as Bart repenting, and becoming humble, but I can't help, but feel perhaps could it be an attempt to show his vulnerable side to Toni? After all before Toni became romantically involved with Jory she was involved with Bart. This is an irony in all itself because Bart slept with Jory's first wife Melody because Melody felt that Bart was the man because Jory became paralyzed after a accident in which he was performing the ballet. I guess this caused Bart to finally accept the fact that Chris was more a father than Bart wanted to believe. However, there's alot of healing that didn't go on with this family. Yes Cathy was proven right, but how she did it she should've been a little more honest with Bart from the beginning, and want of a better way of doing this John Amos did attempt to help Bart fill in the blanks in "If There Be Thorns", but it wasn't enough to make it sink into Bart because he felt betrayed even though it wasn't Cathy's fault that Bart's father died in the fire of the first Foxworth Hall. I suppose that it came back to the first thing, and that's parents have to mimic good values to thier children, and here it seemed as though Cathy and Chris were still playing victims as they tried to muddle through life. Bart seems to come to the point of a person's morals and values are thier own, and he accepts Christ for his sake, and not his family's for the road with Christ is travelled mostly by ourselves with Christ, and to have fellow Christians walking along the way. I just feel that it showed Bart in a negative light as it was just the fact that he was still hurting from the fact he never knew his birth father, and not knowing what kind of man he was; only getting information from Cathy and Chris who weren't any better. This for the most part was weak especially since they added the character of Joel who was briefly mentioned in "Flowers In The Attic", but not enough was mentioned for us to see him as a manipulative old man who in one hand praised God, and the other manipulated everyone around him. I guess that's why "Garden Of Shadows" was written, but it was still not a caliber story from one of the queens of Horror/Suspense.

Predictable:
Although this is the first book that I read of the series and I don't know if a will read the first three, I can say that you will know exactly what will happen in the next page of the book since the beginning till the end, nevertheless the book will keep you reading and trying to guess what will happen next, of course I would make some changes to the end of the book.
Sad:
First of all is very sad that two brothers love each other in other way than brothers, how many times a woman can be a widow? How many times can a mother catch her daughter in bed with her boyfriend? And I'm not talking about the accidents, the way that Bart made everything his own way... and many things more. This book will really make you cry.

Read years ago when I was a child and this was back then "slightly taboo" romances. But I was addicted. Written way before it's time this series was seductive, passionate and brilliant. Total perfection. Loved it.

I would have to agree with most of the other reviewers... this book is by far the worst of the series. This book was probably necessary, as everyone would have been wondering, "what happened next?" after "If there Be Thorns," but I think that the Dollanganger pond had pretty much been fished dry by the time this book came around. There was so much stuff that was just repeats of things that happened in the previous books. It was like the author was thinking, "well, that worked before, let's try it again." Jory is paralyzed, just like his father Julian was; Bart is once again under the control of an older, evil man, just like in the previous book; Cindy is basically a regeneration of Cathy; along comes a set of blond boy-girl twins, just like in the first book. The only good reason to read this book would be to get closure follow the whole story through to the end. The best book of this series by far is the prequel, "Garden of Shadows."

Just like every other book in the Dollanganger series this one was full of pulse pounding tension, angry siblings, and of course, tight storytelling. I loved this book, but I wish Chris and Cathy didn't die. I cried so hard near the end and couldn't get the book out of my head for days. I rejoyced when Bart finally forgave Chris and pushed those poisonous ideas out of his head and found love in his black heart for his sister. Too bad tragedy always brings us together....

By the time I read this installment I was getting bored. I was so in love with Cathy in 'Flowers'. But I cannot believe she died in that damn attic while making a purple paper worm. A terrible ending. But on the other hand, she never really escaped the attic did she? But then again on the OTHER hand, why would she agree to live in that mansion in the first place after the dreaded estate was rebuilt? When it was announced that it would be rebuilt, she should have had a fit and refused to see it through.
You can only take so much from these books; Uncle Joel, learning to paint in bed while paralyzed. Oh boy I'm glad the series is over. All in all, 'Flowers' and 'Petals' were the only two that really moved me.

In this book, Cathy and Chris have agreed to stay in the re-built Foxworth Hall untill Bart's 25th birthday when he inherits it. What a mistake.........for Bart's mind is now being filled with evil ideas by his butler, Joseph Foxworth. Who had been thought dead after an avalanche in Switzerland. He is Corrine's older brother and thinks that he should have inherited Foxworth Hall. What will Bart do to them?

I give this book three stars because it was well written for the most part and I loved revisiting these characters, but the ending was just terrible. Bart becomes an evangelist? Totally not believable. This ending was rushed. It's like what should have been four or five chapters all squeezed in to one. I absolutely hated the ending. Perhaps if it had be stretched and I had learned the details leading up to the way things turned out, it wouldn't be so bad but instead I was left feeling no closure. It made me pretty angry after spending so much time with this series and getting to know and love the characters. I felt cheated.

Seeds of Yesterday had me enthralled for short passages and kept me interested in its suffering characters for most of its length. Although I do have to question why someone would put up with the abuse that Bart dishes out, I mean come on.
However, when I reached the end I had to scream with frustration and rage. Clearly the author (Andrew Neiderman and NOT the late V.C. Andrews) had reached some sort of deadline and had to wrap the book and fast. All the plotlines are tied up so quickly that it was insulting! I wanted a stronger sense of closure, especially after all the suffering these characters had gone through. [....]Not recommended at all.

I read this book in paperback when it first came out, but I still remember reading the entire series. Great books and I thinnk anyone would enjoy reading any of the books by this author. I gave this 5 stars and I think it deserves every one of them.

Why is it that so many of you want another book in this series? The series ended the way it should have and apparently no one has an imagnation anymore. DO you really want another book, this time written by the GW after he's given us lame, unreadable novels starting with the Logan family series and onward. Stop asking for a another book in the series. SOY was an excellent book that concluded this sad saga and there are no need for anymore.

I think thýs book is too tragic when I was reading the end of the book ý couldn't stop my tears.At last Bart understands that Chris is the one who loves him too much as his child but I think he was too late because Chris was death when he understands that.After Chris's death Cathy do away with lefting to his childrens a letter.It worths to read.

I just got done reading the fourth book in the Dollanganger series. It seemed to me to be very much like "Petals on the wind". The irony of it was really interesting. The fact that Chris and Cathy built lives that were so much like their parents, Bart being controlled by and old man, twins with blond hair and blue eyes (that Cathy mistook many times to be Cory and Carrie). Everthing was so interesting. This book was so sweet. Ever since I began to read "Flowers in the Attic", I have thought the love between Chris and Cathy was so genuine and sweet. I know that morally, incest is wrong. But if you just kinda block the fact that they are brother and sister out of your mind, it is very sweet and romantic. Throughout this entire book, I kept on waiting to see if Cathy or Chris would go back up to the attic. I wondered why the entire book why they didn't. It got very annoying to see the spiritual battle of Cathy going in the wrong directions. I can understand why she didn't want the twins being taught that they were the Devil's issue and such, but one minute she would thank God as a God of love, but then one minute later, think Him a God of wrath. Which He is not. But all in all i fell in love with the story of Chris and Cathy. I would have liked to see them die together, but all in all it had a very sweet ending that made me cry. I can't wait to read the next book.

This book could use a little spicing up don`t you think? Cathy was pretty noisy. Bart is still confused. Joel the long lost uncle gives me the creeps. Chris and Cathy need to learn that what their doing is not right. Jory is to be pitied. Melodie is ssssooooo WEAK! (...)

If you have read the first three books by V. C. Andrews in this series, you MUST read this one! It is the last of the series and a very great book. I have been trapped in these books from the very beginning. I dont think that I have ever read so quickly or so much in the time that I have throughout these books; I could not put them down. I am not a person who cries over movies or books, but this book was an exception. I was skeptical about Seeds of Yesterday and its content because Cathy and Chris have both aged so much, however It turned out to be one of the best. I definitely would reccomend reading this last book, and if you dont you really are missing out on something wonderful!

This book is so good, it is the best one out of the series, I personally think. I, a dry eye person, cried at the last few pages, but happy that she finally found peace. Though it makes you wonder what happened to Toni and Jory and the twins and most of all their unborn child. They should write a book that tells what happened to Toni and Jory. I tell you one thing though, Joel did everything, the wet sand, the pranks, the clipper ship, the invitations, all to see Bart go crazy and so that he would get the money, he did it all.

Not the same item as what I used to buy in SAMs club box looked the same in picture however when it arrived it came in clear plastic packaging not red box size in Denison was different size says same but edges are different pad itself absorbs differently not happy with quality or new consistency or price for that matter item is definitely made different

this book was just as good as the others in its series
of course certain characters such as Cindy dissapoint you with thier actions
but as usuall VC Andrews provides a good reason for this
the ending is as tragic and heart breaking as all the other books in the series except this ending provides closure
and belive me
it will make you weep and think about it for days
i recommend you read this book
and for anyone who wants to know what is invloved in the ending here are some hints
paper flowers
car crash

the book seeds of yesterday was not what i thought it would be. i have every other book in the series and this one was a big letdown. i thought it would have been a more exciting ending. And i did not like barts attitude and how he used his brothers wife. I understand that cathy favored jory.....but bart was just plain evil. But what did sadden me however was how cathy and chris died. I was clearly intruged with their "realationship" and i did want to cry when cathy died as she died a sadder way than chris. I hope to read more VC ANDREWS books in the near future

Of course you have to read this book if you want to complete the final book of this series but it took me a month to read it because of how bad it is.

I can't believe how they make Bart in this book. As strong as Cathy was in the others I am surprised at her reactions to her own son. I would have killed him or sent him away for life regardless if he was my son or not.

The ending seems very rushed and horribly done.

I first read the flowers series in 10thgrade, i have just reread them now being almost 22, i love these books.i cried so hard at the end of this book, because i felt like i was there and really got to know and love the characters, sad to see taht the original dollangangers were all gone...but finally reunited with each other. All books by vc andrews are excellent but this will always be my favorite series.

This was the dopiest book I've ever read. I had read the others in the series and slogged through this one just to see how it all ended. The dialog was incredibly bad - NO ONE talks like that! And why did this amazingly disfunctional family keep on living together when every encounter led to bickering, hurt feelings and family secrets revealed? And everyone continued to "love" Bart even though he kept the family in constant turmoil and was downright mean. Plot lines from other books in the series were repeated. We never find out who was responsible for all the mysterious things that happened. And the ending! Simply awful. Who wrote this thing?

Seeds of Yesterday is a must-read for anyone who has read the previous four books in the Flowers in the Attic series. This book takes us back to Bart's restored Foxworth Hall, causing poor Cathy to relive her childhood. The foreshadowing and symbolism throughout the series comes together in this conclusion of "The Dollanganger Saga", and rest assured the emotional turmoil will get to you.

This series is excellent. I must say I became a little uncomfortable with the first book and the relationship between brother and sister, but you quickly look past it because of the way VC Andrews portrays her characters. Fantastic book!

I loved the first two books, however, after that she should have stopped. By the time I got to this book I was so unbelievably sick of hearing about how she was guilty about her past and so on. I just wanted to say, 'get over it!' I also found it very depressing, one bad thing happens after another, there is no hope ever! I was so sick of it it gave me a headache. I don't think I will continue to read Gardens of Shadows.

I hated this book. I was so disappointed after I was done reading it. It was very boring and nothing happened. No crazy twist or anything. I had all these ideas on how the story could have came out so I was so excited when I started reading it but it turned out to be a huge waste of time. I know for a fact V.C. Andrwes(the real one) would have done the story justices.