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Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)
Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)
V.C. Andrews | 1980 | Romance
4
7.7 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
I enjoyed reading Flowers in the Attic. Unfortunately, I can't really say the same for Petals on the Wind. I was disturbed by Cathy's behavior. Honestly, after finishing the second book in the Dollanganger series, I'm not sure if I want to read the rest.
  
Woodshock (2017)
Woodshock (2017)
2017 | Drama, Thriller
Kirsten Dunst's 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. Something about plants or some shit idek, trees haven't made this little sense since 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 but by God would you *look* at it? At its best unbelievably emotive and ethereal, you could even call it fragile by the way its temperamental existence unendingly slips in and out of consciousness. At its worst the same mopey, stupid, meandering indie trappings that A24 had an intolerable fetish for that year but still done wildly better than the likes of shittier 2017 fare such as 𝘈 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘐𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘵 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, and 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦. Kind of wish this just dropped the subpar 10% of a story that leeches onto the otherworldly artistic bouts of pot-fueled dainty chaos but it honestly doesn't get in the way too much. Too many gorgeous frames to even count. Spent the last half hour of this with watery eyes and mouth agape not only for its sheer beauty, sheer singularity in spite of genre trope reusage... but for how commandingly it bats for the fences and doesn't let up even a little bit. Not concerned for a second about being coherent or restrained at all beyond one feature length bad, trippy, fully immersive high. Pretty much a live action Nicole Dollanganger music video.