A wonderful book of terrible things (Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews)

Member Name: happypanda

Product:	Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews
Date:	29/06/09 (24 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Heartfel and interesting,

Disadvantages: Sinister and makes you feel sad

Flowers in the Attic, is a shocking tale of betrayal, murder and incest. I first picked up this book when I was about 13, I read it for a while, but didn't understand it, and my mother took it from me when she saw it, (can't imagine why). Years later I picked it up again and was drawn into the difficult life of the Dollanganger Children.

Virgina Andrews always wrote from the heart, perhaps sometimes her writing is a little too dramatic, but when you read Flowers in the Attic, you really feel as if you are getting to know the characters, it draws you in quickly, and painfully to the world of one of the Dollanganger Children - Cathy, as she relates her memories following her father's death.

Cathy, her brother Christopher and the twins Cory and Carrie go to live with their mother in their grandmother's house, we follow the saga as the children are locked in a room for years, while their mother forgets about them and remarries.

Without spoiling the ending, I can say I was enthralled by the end of the second chapter, and fully in tears by the end.

I have read a lot of books, several a week, and this still ranks as on of my favourites. I love Cathy, always so honest and petulant, I love Christopher, so down to earth and pragmatic, I love the twins, who are like every other five year old I've met, and I hate the mother and grandmother with a vengeance.

This book is wonderful and awful all at once, but it is a must for anyone that loves something a bit sinister. Not for the faint-hearted.

Summary: A book I'd recommend to anyone