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* OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby: Lucky is in the habit of taking a large amount of bourbon in her tea. When she gets pregnant, Damian warns her to stop drinking (and even beats her in an effort to make her stop) but she doesn't. [[spoiler:Subsequently, when Lucky dies in childbirth and Sylvia is born severely disabled, Audrina is convinced that this is partly because of Lucky's drinking.)
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* OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby: Lucky is in the habit of taking a large amount of bourbon in her tea. When she gets pregnant, Damian warns her to stop drinking (and even beats her in an effort to make her stop) but she doesn't. [[spoiler:Subsequently, when Lucky dies in childbirth and Sylvia is born severely disabled, Audrina is convinced that this is partly because of Lucky's drinking.)
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* GlamorousSingleMother: Billie was one until she became ill, and is still described as being very beautiful even now that she's older and disabled.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Audrina, and once or twice Lucky, are described as wearing purple dresses which highlight their femininity and [[PurpleEyes match their eye color.]]
* OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby: Lucky is in the habit of taking a large amount of bourbon in her tea. When she gets pregnant, Damian warns her to stop drinking (and even beats her in an effort to make her stop) but she doesn't. [[spoiler:Subsequently, when Lucky dies in childbirth and Sylvia is born severely disabled, Audrina is convinced that this is partly because of Lucky's drinking.)
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* WomanInWhite: Audrina often wears white to highlight her childlike innocence. [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Arden who chooses her clothes for her after they're married and buys her white dresses.
* WomanInWhite: Audrina often wears white to highlight her childlike innocence. [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Arden who chooses her clothes for her after they're married and buys her white dresses.
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Seven-year-old [[AlliterativeName Audrina Adele Adare]] lives in isolation in a OldDarkHouse with her AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Lucky, her OverprotectiveDad Damian, her [[DoesNotLikeMen Aunt Ellsbeth]] and Ellsbeth's daughter [[TheVamp Vera]]. Audrina suffers from a strange inability to sense time passing and is forbidden to go to school, make friends, or [[DontGoIntoTheWoods visit the woods behind their house]] where nine years before Audrina's birth, her elder sister ([[LegacyVesselNaming also named Audrina]]) was [[RapeAsBackstory raped and murdered]]. Now Damien wants the second Audrina to sit in her dead sister's rocking chair until she absorbs all the First and Best Audrina's [[GhostMemory memories]], so that she can become [[TheDutifulSon as loving and special as the First Audrina]].
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Seven-year-old [[AlliterativeName Audrina Adele Adare]] lives in isolation in a OldDarkHouse with her AbsurdlyYouthfulMother mother Lucky, her OverprotectiveDad Damian, her [[DoesNotLikeMen Aunt Ellsbeth]] and Ellsbeth's daughter [[TheVamp Vera]]. Audrina suffers from a strange inability to sense time passing and is forbidden to go to school, make friends, or [[DontGoIntoTheWoods visit the woods behind their house]] where nine years before Audrina's birth, her elder sister ([[LegacyVesselNaming also named Audrina]]) was [[RapeAsBackstory raped and murdered]]. Now Damien wants the second Audrina to sit in her dead sister's rocking chair until she absorbs all the First and Best Audrina's [[GhostMemory memories]], so that she can become [[TheDutifulSon as loving and special as the First Audrina]].
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** [[spoiler: Vera]] is set up to be a horrible person throughout the entire story, but her rage is portrayed as justified and even sympathetic due to her long-running status as TheUnfavorite. The moment we learn that [[spoiler: she set up Audrina to be gang-raped]], [[MoralEventHorizon all that goes out the window.]]
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-->''"So Audrina goes round and round the mulberry bush, wondering exactly how Arden could have known the First and Best Audrina, and space aliens from 20000 light years away shout, and tiny one-celled organisms deep within prehistoric lakes shout, and you shout, and I shout, and Bastian from The Neverending Story shouts, [[spoiler: "THERE IS ONLY ONE FUCKING AUDRINA, YOU BRAINLESS MORON, AND THAT AUDRINA IS YOU!"'']]
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-->''"So Audrina goes round and round the mulberry bush, wondering exactly how Arden could have known the First and Best Audrina, and space aliens from 20000 light years away shout, and tiny one-celled organisms deep within prehistoric lakes shout, and you shout, and I shout, and Bastian from The Neverending Story ''TheNeverendingStory'' shouts, [[spoiler: "THERE IS ONLY ONE FUCKING AUDRINA, YOU BRAINLESS MORON, AND THAT AUDRINA IS YOU!"'']]
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''My Sweet Audrina'' is a novel published by VCAndrews in 1982 significant for its liberal use of [[SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes rape tropes]]. It is the only standalone novel of her career. The book hinges on one big {{Spoiler}}, which some readers guess right from the beginning and others don't realize until TheReveal.
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''My Sweet Audrina'' is a novel published by VCAndrews in 1982 significant for its liberal use of [[SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes rape tropes]]. It is the only standalone novel of her career. career and is currently under development as a MadeForTvMovie with the Lifetime Network. The book hinges on one big {{Spoiler}}, which some many readers guess right from the beginning and others don't realize until TheReveal.
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Seven-year-old [[AlliterativeName Audrina Adele Adare]] lives in isolation in a OldDarkHouse with her AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Lucky, her OverprotectiveDad Damian, her [[DoesNotLikeMen Aunt Ellsbeth]] and Ellsbeth's daughter [[TheVamp Vera]]. Audrina suffers from a strange inability to sense time passing and is forbidden to go to school, make friends, or [[DontGoIntoTheWoods visit the woods behind their house]] where nine years before Audrina's birth, her elder sister ([[LegacyVesselNaming also named Audrina]]) was [[RapeAsBackstory raped and murdered]]. Now Damien wants the second Audrina to sit in her dead sister's rocking chair until she absorbs all the First and Best Audrina's [[GhostMemory memories]], so that she can become as [[TheDutifulSon as loving and special as the First Audrina]].
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Seven-year-old [[AlliterativeName Audrina Adele Adare]] lives in isolation in a OldDarkHouse with her AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Lucky, her OverprotectiveDad Damian, her [[DoesNotLikeMen Aunt Ellsbeth]] and Ellsbeth's daughter [[TheVamp Vera]]. Audrina suffers from a strange inability to sense time passing and is forbidden to go to school, make friends, or [[DontGoIntoTheWoods visit the woods behind their house]] where nine years before Audrina's birth, her elder sister ([[LegacyVesselNaming also named Audrina]]) was [[RapeAsBackstory raped and murdered]]. Now Damien wants the second Audrina to sit in her dead sister's rocking chair until she absorbs all the First and Best Audrina's [[GhostMemory memories]], so that she can become as [[TheDutifulSon as loving and special as the First Audrina]].
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** Lucky is implied to have upheld it to, though to a lesser extent. [[spoiler:The scalding-hot bath and the rather vicious cleaning strongly imply that she viewed the First Audrina as defiled, though Damian later says that she occasionally agreed with Ellsbeth and wanted Audrina to cope properly with the trauma, rather than gaslighting her the way they were]].
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** Lucky is implied to have upheld it to, though to a lesser extent. [[spoiler:The scalding-hot bath and the rather vicious cleaning strongly imply that she viewed the First Audrina as defiled, though Damian later says that she occasionally agreed with Ellsbeth and wanted Audrina to cope properly with the trauma, rather than gaslighting her the way they were]].
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** Lucky is implied to have upheld it to, though to a lesser extent. The scalding-hot bath and the rather vicious cleaning strongly imply that she viewed the First Audrina as defiled, though Damian later says that she occasionally agreed with Ellsbeth and [[spoiler:wanted Audrina to cope properly with the trauma, rather than gaslighting her the way they were]].
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** Lucky is implied to have upheld it to, though to a lesser extent. The [[spoiler:The scalding-hot bath and the rather vicious cleaning strongly imply that she viewed the First Audrina as defiled, though Damian later says that she occasionally agreed with Ellsbeth and [[spoiler:wanted wanted Audrina to cope properly with the trauma, rather than gaslighting her the way they were]].
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* PsychicLink: Audrina shares one with Sylvia. In spite of some UnfortunateImplications, this is the one aspect of the book that is played surprisingly casual.
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[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mysweetaudrina-2727_png_1263.jpg]] ''"So Audrina goes round and round the mulberry bush, wondering exactly how Arden could have known the First and Best Audrina, and space aliens from 20000 light years away shout, and tiny one-celled organisms deep within prehistoric lakes shout, and you shout, and I shout, and Bastian from The Neverending Story shouts,[[spoiler: "THERE IS ONLY ONE FUCKING AUDRINA, YOU BRAINLESS MORON, AND THAT AUDRINA IS YOU!"'']] --Erin Callahan, Forever Young Adult's [[http://foreveryoungadult.com/2011/06/10/a-review-of-the-worst-book-in-history/ review]].
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-->''"So Audrina goes round and round the mulberry bush, wondering exactly how Arden could have known the First and Best Audrina, and space aliens from 20000 light years away shout, and tiny one-celled organisms deep within prehistoric lakes shout, and you shout, and I shout, and Bastian from The Neverending Storyshouts,[[spoiler: shouts, [[spoiler: "THERE IS ONLY ONE FUCKING AUDRINA, YOU BRAINLESS MORON, AND THAT AUDRINA IS YOU!"'']] --Erin Callahan, YOU!"'']]
--->-- '''Erin Callahan''', Forever Young Adult's [[http://foreveryoungadult.com/2011/06/10/a-review-of-the-worst-book-in-history/ review]].
-->''"So Audrina goes round and round the mulberry bush, wondering exactly how Arden could have known the First and Best Audrina, and space aliens from 20000 light years away shout, and tiny one-celled organisms deep within prehistoric lakes shout, and you shout, and I shout, and Bastian from The Neverending Story
--->-- '''Erin Callahan''', Forever Young Adult's [[http://foreveryoungadult.com/2011/06/10/a-review-of-the-worst-book-in-history/ review]].
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* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: Vera catches Audrina changing from bathing suit to normal clothes and manages to snag both sets.
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As Audrina grows up, she begins to break away from her father and her home, but her life is still overshadowed by memories that don't belong to her, memories that threaten to ruin her marriage and destroy her sanity. Finally she decides it is time to learn the truth that everyone everyone[[note]]including the reader[[/note]] already knows.
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: After being hit with a blood-clot [[spoiler: flung by her hemorrhaging, hysterical daughter in the throes of a miscarriage]], Ellsbeth calmly returns to the kitchen, changes her bloodstained apron, and goes back to rolling pie crusts.
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* [[ShrineToTheFallen Shrine to the Fallen, Western Edition]]: The First Audrina's playroom is kept exactly as it was the day she died.
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* TheUnfavorite: Audrina to the First Audrina, and Vera to both.
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* DaylightHorror : The first Audrina's rape happened while she was walking home, in broad daylight. And the second Audrina is terrified...of reflective crystals.
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* ShowerOfAngst : Bath, in this case. After the rape, The First Audrina's mother takes a [[AbusiveParents scrub brush to the girl's skin]] and scrapes it raw.
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* SouthernGothic : DysfunctionalFamily? Check. CreepyChild? Check. TheSouth? Check. A mix of horror and romance? Got it. UnreliableNarrator? Yep. OldMaid? Aunt Ellsbeth and, to a lesser extent, Billie...until Damian gets his hooks into both. Decaying mansion/old money? Check. And probably several other examples of the genre.
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[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mysweetaudrina-2727_png_1263.jpg]] "So Audrina goes round and round the mulberry bush, wondering exactly how Arden could have known the First and Best Audrina, and space aliens from 20000 light years away shout, and tiny one-celled organisms deep within prehistoric lakes shout, and you shout, and I shout, and Bastian from The Neverending Story shouts,[[spoiler: "THERE IS ONLY ONE FUCKING AUDRINA, YOU BRAINLESS MORON, AND THAT AUDRINA IS YOU!"]] -Forever Young Adult's [[http://foreveryoungadult.com/2011/06/10/a-review-of-the-worst-book-in-history/ review]].
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[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mysweetaudrina-2727_png_1263.jpg]] "So ''"So Audrina goes round and round the mulberry bush, wondering exactly how Arden could have known the First and Best Audrina, and space aliens from 20000 light years away shout, and tiny one-celled organisms deep within prehistoric lakes shout, and you shout, and I shout, and Bastian from The Neverending Story shouts,[[spoiler: "THERE IS ONLY ONE FUCKING AUDRINA, YOU BRAINLESS MORON, AND THAT AUDRINA IS YOU!"]] -Forever YOU!"'']] --Erin Callahan, Forever Young Adult's [[http://foreveryoungadult.com/2011/06/10/a-review-of-the-worst-book-in-history/ review]].
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* ConvenientMiscarriage : Actually, a very inconvenient one, because it was supposed to be Vera's ticket. Another [[{{Squick}} memorable scene]] happens when Vera crawls around on the floor in blood and throws one of the clumps.
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* ConvenientMiscarriage : Actually, a very inconvenient one, because it was supposed to be [[spoiler: Vera's ticket. Another [[{{Squick}} memorable scene]] happens when Vera crawls around on the floor floor]] in blood and throws one of the clumps.
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** She then becomes a DisabledLoveInterest for [[spoiler: Audrina's father]]. Audrina finds this repulsive.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Vera has one. On the living room sofa. In the middle of the day. In front of Audrina. Who is nine or ten at this point.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Sylvia is clearly developmentally challenged, but we are not told exactly what is wrong with her, and the book strongly implies she may be [[ObfuscatingDisability exaggerating]] (even though it would be difficult for a profoundly mentally disabled child to do this).
* CreepyChild: Sylvia is originally presented as profoundly mentally challenged, but there's evidence [[ReplacementGoldfish she may be able to imitate Audrina to an uncomfortable degree]].
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* GhostMemory: [[spoiler:Subverted]]. Damian wants Audrina to gain the memories and talents of the First and Best Audrina, [[spoiler:but the two Audrinas turn out to be the same person]].
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* GhostMemory: [[spoiler:Subverted]]. Damian wants Audrina to gain the memories and talents of the First and Best Audrina, [[spoiler:but the two Audrinas turn out to be the same person]].
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Billie was a former ice-skater who lost both legs to diabetes just as she was about to hit the big time.
** Lucky was a gifted pianist who gave up her stage career to marry Audrina's father. She's never let him forget it.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Billie was a former ice-skater who lost both legs to diabetes just as she was about to hit the big time.
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Damien does his damndest to keep Audrina this way by essentially confining her to the house and keeping her emotionally and financially dependent upon him. When she manages to elope behind his back, he simply takes up where he left off when she returns--and starts to work on putting her new husband in the same position.
**Arden may be guilty of this too. It's implied that he picks out her clothes for her, choosing white dresses so that she will look more childlike.
* PsychicLink: Audrina shares one with Sylvia. In spite of some UnfortunateImplications, this is the one aspect of the book that is played surprisingly casual.
**Arden may be guilty of this too. It's implied that he picks out her clothes for her, choosing white dresses so that she will look more childlike.
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* TheVamp: Vera, to the point that it becomes somewhat hilarious. To adequately sum up Vera would require employing most of the SexTropes list. What follows are some of her highlights:
** Seducing her seven-year-old cousin's twelve-year-old boyfriend (when she herself is only about fifteen).
** Seducing her twentysomething-year-old piano teacher while imitating said seven-year-old cousin.
** Straddling said cousin's torso while describing said seduction, in detail, to said cousin, while naked from the waist up.
** Flashing her vag at said cousin in a completely separate encounter.
** Going out of her way to find reasons to flash her boobs (including claiming that a bee stung the underside of her breasts and that she needs help "pulling the stinger out").
** Public masturbation (again, in front of the cousin)
** Seducing her seven-year-old cousin's twelve-year-old boyfriend (when she herself is only about fifteen).
** Seducing her twentysomething-year-old piano teacher while imitating said seven-year-old cousin.
** Straddling said cousin's torso while describing said seduction, in detail, to said cousin, while naked from the waist up.
** Flashing her vag at said cousin in a completely separate encounter.
** Going out of her way to find reasons to flash her boobs (including claiming that a bee stung the underside of her breasts and that she needs help "pulling the stinger out").
** Public masturbation (again, in front of the cousin)
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* Gaslighting: In addition to The Big Spoiler, the entire family (plus Audrina's future husband, his mother, her teachers, and more than a few townsfolk) conspire for years to both convince Audrina that she has a mental illness.
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* Gaslighting: {{Gaslighting}}: In addition to The Big Spoiler, the entire family (plus Audrina's future husband, his mother, her teachers, and more than a few townsfolk) conspire for years to both convince Audrina that she has a mental illness.
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** [[ClockDiscrepancy All the clocks]] in the house are set to different times, and there are no calendars. No one will tell Audrina how old they are, and Damien stuffs the mailbox with [[NewspaperDating old newspapers]].
** Audrina is told that tranquillizers are aspirin for her frequent headaches, so that she often [[AsleepForDays sleeps for days]] without realizing. Conversely, Audrina takes naps and is told upon waking that it's a whole other day.
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** [[ClockDiscrepancy All the clocks]] in the house are set to different times, and there are no calendars. No one will tell Audrina how old they are, and Damien stuffs the mailbox with [[NewspaperDating old back-dated newspapers]].
** Audrina istold that given tranquillizers are aspirin for her frequent headaches, so that she often [[AsleepForDays sleeps for days]] without realizing. realizing and wakes thinking it's been only a few hours. Conversely, Audrina takes short unmedicated naps and is told upon waking that it's a whole other the next day.
** Audrina is
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** Ellsbeth even gets a turn when she calls Damien out on his daughters' behalf, both for his scornful treatment of Vera and his attempts to turn Audrina into a [[ReplacementGoldfish]].
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Many readers recall this book only for the huge amount of sex and TheReveal.
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Seven-year-old [[AlliterativeName Audrina Adele Adare]] lives in isolation in a OldDarkHouse with her AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Lucky, her OverprotectiveDad Damian, her [[DoesNotLikeMen Aunt Ellsbeth]] and Ellsbeth's daughter [[TheVamp Vera]]. Audrina suffers from a strange inability to sense time passing and is forbidden to go to school, make friends, or [[DontGoIntoTheWoods visit the woods behind their house]] where nine years before Audrina's birth, her elder sister ([[LegacyVesselNaming also named Audrina]]) was [[RapeAsBackstory raped and murdered]]. Now Damien wants the second Audrina to sit in her dead sister's room until she absorbs all the First and Best Audrina's [[GhostMemory memories]], so that she can become as [[TheDutifulSon as loving and special as the First Audrina]].
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Seven-year-old [[AlliterativeName Audrina Adele Adare]] lives in isolation in a OldDarkHouse with her AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Lucky, her OverprotectiveDad Damian, her [[DoesNotLikeMen Aunt Ellsbeth]] and Ellsbeth's daughter [[TheVamp Vera]]. Audrina suffers from a strange inability to sense time passing and is forbidden to go to school, make friends, or [[DontGoIntoTheWoods visit the woods behind their house]] where nine years before Audrina's birth, her elder sister ([[LegacyVesselNaming also named Audrina]]) was [[RapeAsBackstory raped and murdered]]. Now Damien wants the second Audrina to sit in her dead sister's room rocking chair until she absorbs all the First and Best Audrina's [[GhostMemory memories]], so that she can become as [[TheDutifulSon as loving and special as the First Audrina]].
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As Audrina grows up, she grows stronger and begins to break away from her father and her home, but her life is still overshadowed by memories that don't belong to her, memories that threaten to ruin her marriage and destroy her sanity. Finally she decides it is time to learn the truth that everyone already knows.
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As Audrina grows up, she grows stronger and begins to break away from her father and her home, but her life is still overshadowed by memories that don't belong to her, memories that threaten to ruin her marriage and destroy her sanity. Finally she decides it is time to learn the truth that everyone already knows.
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* CainAndAbel: Vera and Audrina.
* DaddysGirl: Audrina
* DaddysGirl: Audrina
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* CainAndAbel: Vera and Audrina.
Audrina. The comparison becomes even more apt when we find out that the two are not cousins, but half-sisters, and that [[spoiler:Vera set Audrina up to be gang-raped in order to spoil her in their father's eyes so that Vera would look like the better daughter.]]
* DaddysGirl:AudrinaThe First and Best Audrina was one before her rape. [[spoiler:After the rape, she feared all males, including her father, hence Damien desperate need to reprogram the "second" Audrina.]]
* DaddysGirl:
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* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Lucky]]
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** When we first meet Audrina, she doesn't know her sister died after being raped and only "remembers" it after a session in the rocking chair.
** Vera is Damien's daughter by Ellsbeth. It's played as a dark secret, but it's pretty obvious to everyone, including the audience. Only Audrina is unaware.
** [[Spoiler: Arden witnessed the First Audrina's rape and ran without helping her. As an adult, Audrina finally recalls this detail and infers that Arden only married her out of guilt.]]
* DeathByChildbirth:[[spoiler:Lucky]][[spoiler:Lucky dies giving birth to Sylvia.]]
** Vera is Damien's daughter by Ellsbeth. It's played as a dark secret, but it's pretty obvious to everyone, including the audience. Only Audrina is unaware.
** [[Spoiler: Arden witnessed the First Audrina's rape and ran without helping her. As an adult, Audrina finally recalls this detail and infers that Arden only married her out of guilt.]]
* DeathByChildbirth:
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* CallingTheOldManOut: The climax of the novel is Audrina finally doing this.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Audrina and Arden.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Audrina and Arden.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: The climax of the novel is Audrina finally doing this.
this. She goes on to call ''everyone'' out, including Arden and Vera.
** Vera calls out Damien several times for never acknowledging her as his daughter.
** Ellsbeth even gets a turn when she calls Damien out on his daughters' behalf, both for his scornful treatment of Vera and his attempts to turn Audrina into a [[ReplacementGoldfish]].
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Audrina andArden.Arden Lowe. He was about thirteen. She was ''seven.''
* Gaslighting: In addition to The Big Spoiler, the entire family (plus Audrina's future husband, his mother, her teachers, and more than a few townsfolk) conspire for years to both convince Audrina that she has a mental illness.
** Lucky and Ellsbeth host "Tuesday Teatimes" twice a week to convince Audrina that time is passing faster.
** [[ClockDiscrepancy All the clocks]] in the house are set to different times, and there are no calendars. No one will tell Audrina how old they are, and Damien stuffs the mailbox with [[NewspaperDating old newspapers]].
** Audrina is told that tranquillizers are aspirin for her frequent headaches, so that she often [[AsleepForDays sleeps for days]] without realizing. Conversely, Audrina takes naps and is told upon waking that it's a whole other day.
** Vera calls out Damien several times for never acknowledging her as his daughter.
** Ellsbeth even gets a turn when she calls Damien out on his daughters' behalf, both for his scornful treatment of Vera and his attempts to turn Audrina into a [[ReplacementGoldfish]].
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Audrina and
* Gaslighting: In addition to The Big Spoiler, the entire family (plus Audrina's future husband, his mother, her teachers, and more than a few townsfolk) conspire for years to both convince Audrina that she has a mental illness.
** Lucky and Ellsbeth host "Tuesday Teatimes" twice a week to convince Audrina that time is passing faster.
** [[ClockDiscrepancy All the clocks]] in the house are set to different times, and there are no calendars. No one will tell Audrina how old they are, and Damien stuffs the mailbox with [[NewspaperDating old newspapers]].
** Audrina is told that tranquillizers are aspirin for her frequent headaches, so that she often [[AsleepForDays sleeps for days]] without realizing. Conversely, Audrina takes naps and is told upon waking that it's a whole other day.
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* ImAManICantHelpIt: Arden's excuse for pretty much everything. Gets a lot of play in most V.C. Andrews' novels, actually.
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* ImAManICantHelpIt: Arden's excuse for pretty much everything. Gets everything, including why he didn't remain a lot virgin until marriage even though he was engaged to Audrina, why he slept with Vera, why he raped Audrina on their honeymoon, and, of play in most V.C. Andrews' novels, actually.course, why he slept with Vera ''again''.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Damian in a rare male example of the trope.
* RapeAsDrama: The rape of the First Audrina is described, in detail, ''three times.''
* ReplacementGoldfish: Damian encourages Audrina to become her dead sister.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Audrina learns that she ''is'' the First and Best Audrina and that the rape happened to ''her.'']]
* [[PurpleEyes Violet Eyes]]: Audrina (and the First Audrina, natch). Since Billie is said to have eyes "like ElizabethTaylor", who famously had violet eyes, she can also be included in the count.
* WhatTheHellHero: Pretty much everyone but particularly Damien and Arden [[spoiler:and even Audrina in the final paragraph of the book.]]
* RapeAsDrama: The rape of the First Audrina is described, in detail, ''three times.''
* ReplacementGoldfish: Damian encourages Audrina to become her dead sister.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Audrina learns that she ''is'' the First and Best Audrina and that the rape happened to ''her.'']]
* [[PurpleEyes Violet Eyes]]: Audrina (and the First Audrina, natch). Since Billie is said to have eyes "like ElizabethTaylor", who famously had violet eyes, she can also be included in the count.
* WhatTheHellHero: Pretty much everyone but particularly Damien and Arden [[spoiler:and even Audrina in the final paragraph of the book.]]
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* MyBelovedSmother: Damian in a rare male example of the trope.
trope. He refuses to let Audrina leave the house, much less the property. When finally forced to send her to school, he gives her strict orders to always sit with her knees together and to never meet eyes with a boy.
* RapeAsDrama: The rape of the First Audrina isdescribed, described in detail, detail ''three times.''
'' The first time we are treated to listening to the rape of a nine-year-old girl described by another nine-year-old girl.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Damian encourages Audrina to become her deadsister.
sister, and later, [[FreudWasRight her dead mother]] (though thankfully not sexually).
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Audrina learns that she ''is'' the First and Best Audrina and that the rape happened to ''her.'']]
'' The entire family conspired to keep this from her until adulthood, and even then her father only revealed it when directly confronted.]]
* [[PurpleEyes Violet Eyes]]: Audrina (and the First Audrina, natch). It's brought up constantly, to the point that Arden gifts Audrina with violet dresses and hand-painted violet diaries to match.
** Since Billie is said to have eyes "like ElizabethTaylor", who famously had violet eyes, she can also be included in the count.
* WhatTheHellHero: Pretty much everyone but particularly Damien and Arden [[spoiler:and even Audrina in the final paragraph of the book.]]]]
** The entire family efforts to "protect" Audrina are a combination of drugs, brainwashing, electroshock therapy, and decades of convincing her that she is mentally ill.
** Damien's motivation is revealed to be his attempt to keep Audrina forever as his caretaker.
** Arden not only cheats on Audrina [[spoiler:while she's in a coma,]] he is later revealed to have run away while the First Audrina was being gangraped [[spoiler:as well as perpetuating the lie that there was a First Audrina.]]
** [[spoiler:Audrina is on the verge of leaving Damien and Arden forever and starting her own life when she is overcome with guilt and goes back to them in the very last paragraph.]]
* RapeAsDrama: The rape of the First Audrina is
* ReplacementGoldfish: Damian encourages Audrina to become her dead
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Audrina learns that she ''is'' the First and Best Audrina and that the rape happened to ''her.
* [[PurpleEyes Violet Eyes]]: Audrina (and the First Audrina, natch).
** Since Billie is said to have eyes "like ElizabethTaylor", who famously had violet eyes, she can also be included in the count.
* WhatTheHellHero: Pretty much everyone but particularly Damien and Arden [[spoiler:and even Audrina in the final paragraph of the book.
** The entire family efforts to "protect" Audrina are a combination of drugs, brainwashing, electroshock therapy, and decades of convincing her that she is mentally ill.
** Damien's motivation is revealed to be his attempt to keep Audrina forever as his caretaker.
** Arden not only cheats on Audrina [[spoiler:while she's in a coma,]] he is later revealed to have run away while the First Audrina was being gangraped [[spoiler:as well as perpetuating the lie that there was a First Audrina.]]
** [[spoiler:Audrina is on the verge of leaving Damien and Arden forever and starting her own life when she is overcome with guilt and goes back to them in the very last paragraph.]]
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''My Sweet Audrina'' is a novel published by VCAndrews in 1982 significant for its liberal use of [[SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes rape tropes]]. It is the only standalone novel of her career.
Seven-year-old [[AlliterativeName Audrina Adele Adare]] lives in isolation in a OldDarkHouse with her AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Lucky, her OverprotectiveDad Damian, her [[DoesNotLikeMen Aunt Ellsbeth]] and Ellsbeth's daughter [[TheVamp Vera]]. Audrina suffers from a strange inability to sense time passing and is forbidden to go to school, make friends, or [[DontGoIntoTheWoods visit the woods behind their house]] where nine years before Audrina's birth, her elder sister ([[LegacyVesselNaming also named Audrina]]) was [[RapeAsBackstory raped and murdered]]. Now Damien wants the second Audrina to sit in her dead sister's room until she absorbs all the First and Best Audrina's [[GhostMemory memories]], so that she can become as [[TheDutifulSon as loving and special as the First Audrina]].
It goes about as well as you'd expect.
As Audrina grows up, she grows stronger and begins to break away from her father and her home, but her life is still overshadowed by memories that don't belong to her, memories that threaten to ruin her marriage and destroy her sanity. Finally she decides it is time to learn the truth that everyone already knows.
Everyone except . . . [[TitleDrop My Sweet Audrina]]
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!!The book provides examples of:
* CainAndAbel: Vera and Audrina.
* DaddysGirl: Audrina
* DarkSecret: The fate of the First and Best Audrina, amongst others.
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Lucky]]
* DefiledForever: The First Audrina's opinion of herself after being raped, ''upheld by her father.''
* CallingTheOldManOut: The climax of the novel is Audrina finally doing this.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Audrina and Arden.
* GhostMemory: [[spoiler:Subverted]]. Damian wants Audrina to gain the memories and talents of the First and Best Audrina, [[spoiler:but the two Audrinas turn out to be the same person]].
* ImAManICantHelpIt: Arden's excuse for pretty much everything. Gets a lot of play in most V.C. Andrews' novels, actually.
* InspirationallyDisabled: Arden's mother Billie was a [[GloryDays ice-skating champion]] who [[ICouldaBeenAContender might have competed in the Olympics]] until she [[CareerEndingInjury lost both legs to diabetes]].
* KaleidoscopeHair: Lucky, Audrina, and the First Audrina all have hair of "flaxen blonde, with [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold gold]], auburn, [[FieryRedhead bright red]], [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette chestnut brown]], copper and even some [[MysticalWhiteHair white]]."
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Vera and Arden [[spoiler: ''on the floor in front of Arden's comatose wife's hospital bed'']].
* MyBelovedSmother: Damian in a rare male example of the trope.
* RapeAsDrama: The rape of the First Audrina is described, in detail, ''three times.''
* ReplacementGoldfish: Damian encourages Audrina to become her dead sister.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Audrina learns that she ''is'' the First and Best Audrina and that the rape happened to ''her.'']]
* [[PurpleEyes Violet Eyes]]: Audrina (and the First Audrina, natch). Since Billie is said to have eyes "like ElizabethTaylor", who famously had violet eyes, she can also be included in the count.
* WhatTheHellHero: Pretty much everyone but particularly Damien and Arden [[spoiler:and even Audrina in the final paragraph of the book.]]
''My Sweet Audrina'' is a novel published by VCAndrews in 1982 significant for its liberal use of [[SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes rape tropes]]. It is the only standalone novel of her career.
Seven-year-old [[AlliterativeName Audrina Adele Adare]] lives in isolation in a OldDarkHouse with her AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Lucky, her OverprotectiveDad Damian, her [[DoesNotLikeMen Aunt Ellsbeth]] and Ellsbeth's daughter [[TheVamp Vera]]. Audrina suffers from a strange inability to sense time passing and is forbidden to go to school, make friends, or [[DontGoIntoTheWoods visit the woods behind their house]] where nine years before Audrina's birth, her elder sister ([[LegacyVesselNaming also named Audrina]]) was [[RapeAsBackstory raped and murdered]]. Now Damien wants the second Audrina to sit in her dead sister's room until she absorbs all the First and Best Audrina's [[GhostMemory memories]], so that she can become as [[TheDutifulSon as loving and special as the First Audrina]].
It goes about as well as you'd expect.
As Audrina grows up, she grows stronger and begins to break away from her father and her home, but her life is still overshadowed by memories that don't belong to her, memories that threaten to ruin her marriage and destroy her sanity. Finally she decides it is time to learn the truth that everyone already knows.
Everyone except . . . [[TitleDrop My Sweet Audrina]]
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!!The book provides examples of:
* CainAndAbel: Vera and Audrina.
* DaddysGirl: Audrina
* DarkSecret: The fate of the First and Best Audrina, amongst others.
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Lucky]]
* DefiledForever: The First Audrina's opinion of herself after being raped, ''upheld by her father.''
* CallingTheOldManOut: The climax of the novel is Audrina finally doing this.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Audrina and Arden.
* GhostMemory: [[spoiler:Subverted]]. Damian wants Audrina to gain the memories and talents of the First and Best Audrina, [[spoiler:but the two Audrinas turn out to be the same person]].
* ImAManICantHelpIt: Arden's excuse for pretty much everything. Gets a lot of play in most V.C. Andrews' novels, actually.
* InspirationallyDisabled: Arden's mother Billie was a [[GloryDays ice-skating champion]] who [[ICouldaBeenAContender might have competed in the Olympics]] until she [[CareerEndingInjury lost both legs to diabetes]].
* KaleidoscopeHair: Lucky, Audrina, and the First Audrina all have hair of "flaxen blonde, with [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold gold]], auburn, [[FieryRedhead bright red]], [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette chestnut brown]], copper and even some [[MysticalWhiteHair white]]."
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Vera and Arden [[spoiler: ''on the floor in front of Arden's comatose wife's hospital bed'']].
* MyBelovedSmother: Damian in a rare male example of the trope.
* RapeAsDrama: The rape of the First Audrina is described, in detail, ''three times.''
* ReplacementGoldfish: Damian encourages Audrina to become her dead sister.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Audrina learns that she ''is'' the First and Best Audrina and that the rape happened to ''her.'']]
* [[PurpleEyes Violet Eyes]]: Audrina (and the First Audrina, natch). Since Billie is said to have eyes "like ElizabethTaylor", who famously had violet eyes, she can also be included in the count.
* WhatTheHellHero: Pretty much everyone but particularly Damien and Arden [[spoiler:and even Audrina in the final paragraph of the book.]]
