Review Flowers In The Attic

For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me.

Review flowers in the attic. Secret brother the novel is written in the first person from the point of. When their father is killed teenagers cathy kristy swanson. Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary. Children s books children and teenagers friendship books for children and teens.

I loved this book series growing up and needless to say i was disappointed in the 1987 version. It keeps much of the key details but eliminates completely the themes that made the book a bestseller. Andrews it is the first book in the dollanganger series and was followed by petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday garden of shadows christopher s diary. Flowers in the attic by virginia andrews review.

Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower. Based on a popular pulp novel flowers in the attic is a strange bird despite the story s iconic status. Andrews novel falls flat by youyoung lee ask any girl in her thirties and she ll likely have an inexplicable soft spot for flowers in the attic that chilling v c. Audience reviews for flowers in the attic.

Fans of author v c. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. Parents need to know that flowers in the attic is a drama based on a very popular 1980s pulp novel about a family whose children are locked in an attic by a scary mother and grandmother incest is a major theme since the children are a product of it and the older siblings eventually become intimate though only kissing is visible. The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation.

Join the site and send us your review. Lifetime s gamble on the v c. Andrews flowers in the attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity. Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v.

Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary. Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c. Flowers in the attic review. Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale.

Finally this movie got made properly. Andrews book of the same name may protest.