Flowers in the Attic

The V.C. Andrews series books are so very interesting and so intense once you start reading each and every book of hers in each series set you get so into the different stories that each book is trying to tell you that just reading them makes you get that one feeling that you don’t want to stop reading the books and you don’t want to put them down like you want to keep reading until you have completely read all and every single last book of every series same thing with the movies that goes along with her books based off of the movies too. I love reading the books my most favorite character so far is young girl name Heaven Stonewall.

I read this book because I saw the 1987 movie, and I liked it. Still do. As good as the movie was, however, the book was not only quite different, but better. Actually, the movie was very faithful, but the filmmakers were forced to edit certain scenes and possibly change a few details before the movie was released to theaters(if, in fact, it was) after test audiences were disturbed by a certain plot element from the book that had been included in the original cut of the movie. Anyway, I really enjoyed the book! I love horror novels, and I had heard about how popular this book was when it was published in the early 80s, partly because of the controversial subject matter. A strong recommendation to fans of the movie: If you like it, you’ll love the book! The premise is the same: After the accidental death of a woman’s husband leaves her broke, she takes her four children and desperately returns to her super-rich parents who, long ago, disowned her. The children’s grandmother, locks them in a secret room which leads to the attic, and also sometimes abuses and mistreats them, all because of sins committed by their mother before they were born. Because of their mother’s supposed sins, the grandmother considers them evil. What did their mother do that their grandparents thought were so horrible? She told them she came back to her parents to win back their love so she could inherit their fortune after her sick, bedridden father died, but why are her visits becoming fewer and fewer? Could she, like her children, have become a prisoner? Could greed have turned her against them? What is their mother’s secret? Will they ever escape? While that controversial subplot that made this book so popular(among teenagers) is intriguing to read about, the real focal point that made this book so intriguing and frightening to me was that it was about the grandmother’s cruelty and mistreatments of her grandchildren, and her motives. Even though this book didn’t turn me into a V.C. Andrews fan, it’s a book I really enjoyed reading because I found it to be a terrifying tale of the strange, nightmarish family dynamics of an estranged family. If you want to read a horror-suspense story about a family’s unusual beliefs, and the unfortunate consequences of any family members who turn against those beliefs, even for their innocent children, read this book! It just might be eye-opening and horrifying! A great read! If you like this book, check out the sequels! Unlike one of the other reviewers, I don’t know of any other sequels besides these: Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and a prequel to the series entitled: Garden of Shadows. In recent years, the movie was remade for, and probably BY Lifetime Television. Subsequently, thanks to considerable success, most of the sequels were also adapted, all for Lifetime. Want some good advice? AVOID these movies! Yes, they are good movies; the first was a more faithful adaptation of the book. The bad news: They don’t hold a candle to the 80s classic! Anyhoo, read this book if you’re looking for a quite a different kind of horror novel or thriller!

I was extremely intrigued when I read the storyline and other readers reviews. The beginning of the book was interesting and the middle was filled with a lot of unnecessary details that seem to be dragged out just to add more pages to the book. Towards the end you started to think that there would be some more excitement other than the kids being locked in the attic the entire book. I was really expecting a lot more from this book especially because the storyline was so interesting. I was hoping for some revenge on the mother and the grandmother but after the kids escaped the story ended. I would have to say it was disappointing to spend all that time reading something that ends so abruptly. I don’t think it was worth the $11.99 that I paid to read it.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14 (2020)

THIS BOOK IS ENTERTAINING BUT IS VERY, EVVVIL!!!!! DO NOT TOUCH THIS IT HAS HERPES AND IS STUP I LOVE JESUS CHROTOVLOSFB NIGHT HAHA

So disturbed yet this book is so beautiful the way this story unfolds is amazing. I love vc Andrews and her work!!!!

I absolutely love this book and series. In total there are 8 books in the series Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, If there be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, are all about The 4 Children mainly Cathy, Christopher, and Carrie. Garden of Shadows covers the Grandmother and reveals deep family secrets. There are two books covering a diary written by Christopher during his time in the Attic Christopher’s Diary Echoes of a Dollenganger and Secrets of Foxworth. The eighth book is called Secret Brother and is about wait for it......... Cory after he supposedly died.

This was such a good book. I saw the movie first, but I think the book is better. This book will leave you in tears and angry at the characters. There are moments in this book that you won't expect. You have to read this book, it will leave you shocked.

This book is a great book I recommend reading it.

This book had me on the edge of my seat, it had me smiling, crying, gasping, held my interest till the last page! Great book!