Nice start to the series ( )

Corrine was a narcissistic, materialistic girl who fancied herself a woman of the world and learned the hard way that she was a gullible fool. "It was simply my destiny to draw the admiration and desire, most assuredly the lust of every man who stepped within the radius of my beauty. I had the power, the glow. To pretend I could stop it or even moderate it was as silly as pretending I could prevent the sun from rising"
A bit over the top with her delusions of grandeur? Yes. Do I think this is the Corrine the real V.C. Andrews would have written about? most likely not. Quite honestly I was in the mood for something mindless and trashy that wouldn't take long to read and that I didn't have to give a whole lot of thought to and this fit the bill.

I received a complimentary copy for review. ( )

The writing is poor, the story doesn't work, sigh.
My biggest beef with this is the author chooses to set this in 1890 but doesn't research the period. The main character is given way too much info about sex and birth control. That's just not how things were handled during this time period, especially with the upper middle class.
She seemed upset that upper class married folks don't share a bedroom when that was a class marker at that time. Couples living in large houses tended to not share bedrooms. Even if they mostly slept together in practice ( )

I won this book in a giveaway. I loved Flowers in the Attic, so I was excited when I won this. However, I was very disappointed. It just seems like it was thrown together just to put out a tie-in book. ( )