As people Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this enduring gothic masterpiece Flowers in the Attic—the unforgettable forbidden love story that earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fan base and became an international cult classic, and at one stage was actually banned, This is my first book to have a revisit
At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden—blond, innocent, and fighting for their lives… They were a perfect and beautiful family—until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother.
A suspenseful and thrilling tale of family, greed, murder, and forbidden love, Flowers in the Attic is the unputdownable first novel of the epic Dollanganger family saga.
The Dollanganger series includes: Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, Garden of Shadows, Beneath the Attic, and Out of the Attic.
Flowers in the Attic is most famous for the fact that Cathy and her brother fall in love. It's a wonderfully weird, strangely old-fashioned love story (and is Chris ever the stuff of teenage dreams: handsome, brilliant, extravagantly chivalrous), but it's not what originally hooked me. What kept absolutely enthralled was the evil and such wicked grandmother and the terrible mother. It felt so raw and too close to home for me, I snuck this from my mother who at the time didn't want me to read it, I was all of 14 she didn't think I was mature enough. Coming from a home of abuse, my heart hurt for all the children in a way so much more the horrors than any of the incest that was going on, yet people got stuck on that part more than anything else, which is probably why it got banned in the first place, happily it is not banned anymore. Through fresh eyes I have read it again, this time I still get the feelings of pain and heartache but also coming through is the resilience the bravery of the kids, but what is more startling is just how tedious and boring it is, my how my reading habits have changed, it took me some doing to finish it, I was completely bored and if not for the fact that I needed to finish it, I would have given it up as a bad job, is it because I have become more sensitized to the evils of mankind or is it just not that good. I believe only the reader can answer that. Question is, do you want too ?
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