Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews Reviews

This is one of my favorite books. I have an old copy and a new copy recently purchased because i love it that much. I think it is a fascinating story of how families can cause heartache and pain for their future generations. Basically without giving too much away a taboo relationship is hidden away from a strict family when the couple in question ...  Read the complete review

Flowers in the Attic is a book from the Dollanganger series from Virginia Andrews. It is followed by Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. If you read this book and find it interesting I would definitely suggest that you read the rest of this series. Flowers in the Attic is based around the ...  Read the complete review

'Flowers in the attic' is a book written by Virginia Andrews and is the first in a trilogy of books that she has written. I read this one when I was younger but found it on the shelf when we were on holiday. It was so compelling that I read the whole thing within 24 hours! The story tells of a fairy tale family, the Dollanganger's who ...  Read the complete review

When my friend told me that Virginia Andrews novel send chills through the spine, I had to laugh at the dramatic expression on her face. But when I finally picked up her first book, I have to admit that chilling is the rightful expression for this novel. This book is the first in the Dollanger Series, and the very first novel Virginia Andrews ever ...  Read the complete review

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. ...  Read the complete review

First book in the Dollenganger series available in bookstore and online for about £5. This book is narrated by Cathy Dollganger and tells the story of her fathers tragic demise in a car accident and how their mother lost their house and money. This sent her back to her parents who hide a secret that makes them treat Cathy, her ...  Read the complete review

When i first began reading this book, i must admit it took me a while to get into it, but when i was a few chapters in, the book hust grabbed hold of me and i couldnt put it down. The story line is so heartwrenching i finished the book within a few days and have read it a few times since as well. It begins with Dollagher family. A beautifully ...  Read the complete review

I remember when I was about fourteen. This book was the one slipped between girls in my class with the whispers and giggles of teenagers up to something that they weren't quite meant to be. Flowers in the Attic is a book about a family gone wrong. Disowned when she ran away with her first cousin, the mother suddenly finds herself in ...  Read the complete review

Normally I don’t have much time for reading books “for fun” as I’d put it, doing a degree in English Literature means that most of the books I read are for academic purposes and not always the most enjoyable. However over Christmas I decided to treat myself and read something simply because I wanted to and not because I had to! Being too lazy to ...  Read the complete review

flowers in the attic. this book is a heartbracking story. i have never read such a heart bracking story that makes me want to read more of it. i loved this book so much that i am reading it for the second time. The love, hate, compassion, the effort, that has made this book, which has been put into this book, and which is shown in ...  Read the complete review

Virginia Andrews, Queen of all things melodramatic and secretive, was sadly never the kind of author to gain much in terms of accolades. The intellectual snobbery so often present in literary circles has meant that her work has been deemed too trashy to merit any real praise. To that, I say ‘bollocks!’…‘scuse my French. ‘Flowers in the ...  Read the complete review

A stunning novel of love, evil, despiration and decite. The book begins with the perfect loving family, of the parents and 4 children (2 boys and 2 girls) nicknamed the Dresden dolls. The whole story is told by the first born daughter Catherine Dollanganger, who is 12 when it all begins with the death of the childrens father. The ...  Read the complete review

I am one of those people whose favorite thing to do is read. I'm ver intelligent for my age, and I think reading has a lot to do with that. I am 15 years old and I must have read the whole "Flowers In The Attic" book series within 2 months. I read constantly...in all of my free time! When I started reading it, I admit that it did ...  Read the complete review

This is one of my favourite book ever – once you start reading it you won’t be able to put it down until you have finished. The story is about a family who loose their father in a car accident. They move in with the grandmother who locks the children in the attic so that the grandfather won’t find them. The grandfather ...  Read the complete review

This book is apparently based on a true story and begins the journey of the Dollanganger family through the horror of the death of the father, to their move to Foxworth Hall (the home of the mother's family). For financial reasons the mother, Corrine, decides to relocate her 4 children, Christopher 12, Cathy 10 and twins Carrie and ...  Read the complete review

Flowers in the attic, is the first instalment of a four part series of books, written by Virginia Andrews and is based on a true story. It is a heart rendering story about four children Christopher, Cathy and their two younger twins Corrie and Carrie, the story is narrated by the oldest girl Cathy. The story starts about these ...  Read the complete review

Ok, so flowers in the attic is getting on in years, but to me, it's the best book ever written. I have read it 19 times (a bit excessive i know!) and never tire of it! This is based on 4 children who have to move to their dreadful rich Grandmothers house because their father died, but the grandfather doesnt know they exist because of an ...  Read the complete review

What a fantastic read. This is not the sort of book I would normally ready, but wow, it had me smiling in places, cry in places and made me desperately want to help those kids. The book is based on a true story, which makes it even harder to bear in place. How could a mother let such a thing happen to her children? I wont spoil the book for ...  Read the complete review

‘Flowers in the attic’. Written by Virginia Andrews. What an apt title for a very disturbing book. The first book in the set is based on a true story, which makes it all the more horrifying. This story is centred around a family who lose their father. The mother has no choice but to go and live with her grandmother, who is a very ...  Read the complete review

This is the story of the Dollanganger family, they start off as a perfect family, mother, father and four children. But when the father dies in an accident, the mother takes the children to live with her parents, the Foxworths, who she hasn't seen in years. The grandmother tells her that she cannot tell her father about the children so they ...  Read the complete review