CAT by V.C. Andrews
Pocket Books – October 1999
ISBN: 0671028030
Young Adult 

Reviewed by Carisa Weeaks, MyShelf.com
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CAT is the final book in the Wildflowers series. Cat’s story is different and darker than the other three girls’. She has a dark secret lurking in her story that has made her not want to share it with the others. Cat, like Jade and Misty, is an only child, but the difference is that she is adopted. Cathy, Cat’s real name, lives with her mom. She is really obsessed with her looks. Her mom is a control freak and makes it a point to make Cat into everything she wants her to be. She wants Cat’s room to be clean enough for her taste. She even went as far as to cut up a pair of underwear and lay the pieces on Cat’s pillow to make a point when Cat left them on her desk chair. Cat’s father is a stockbroker so she doesn’t get to see him much. This is a story of hate and bitterness that outweighs any of the other girls. 

This is probably the best book of the series. It has the emotion and “meaty” content that keeps a reader hanging on the authors every word. As a single book I would recommend CAT. I wouldn’t recommend the series as a whole because of the difference in story structure between the others and CAT. I must remind everyone that it is not VC Andrews writing these stories. They are ghostwriters under her name, and, in my opinion, they haven’t quite reached the edgy, suspenseful writing that VC Andrews wrote all of her books with.  I would recommend this book for older teens and college students. 

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