I personally
think the Flowers in the Attic gets a bad rap. Whenever I have mentioned
I've read it, or how I am excited about the new movie lifetime is making, I get
odd looks and snarls, comments of how all that book is about is brother/sister
incest. Well I have news people, it's not. Yes, there is a moment with
Christopher and Cathy but it is horrible for both of them. I read this book the
first time when I was a sophomore in high school and went on a year long bender
on all things VC Andrews. This series is still my favorite though.
After the death
of their father, Cathy’s mother takes her four kids to their grandparents
house. Grandparents who haven’t spoken to their daughter Corrine since she ran
away with her husband, they don’t even know about their four grandchildren.
When they show up, their grandmother locks them in the attic.
There mother
comes to visit them, telling them that she just needs to make up with her
father first, then they can all live in luxury. After all, her parents are
loaded. She promises it will only be for a few days. And what is a few days
when a huge fortune is at stake?
But a few days
turns into weeks, into months, and now its been years the four children have
been locked in the attic. Cathy and Christopher aren’t children any more, but
teens with needs and desires they don’t understand. The two young twins have
only grown an inch in over two years, their limbs are weak and their heads are unproportionate.
Their mother’s visits have become fewer and far between. It seems almost as if
she no longer loves them, that she’s moving on with her rich life.
Then little Cory dies,
and their mother shows almost no remorse over the death of her youngest, who
had doesn’t the last two years trapped in a small space. Something is very
wrong, Cathy and Christopher know that they need to do something to get out and
save Carrie before she to dies. But things below their attack are not as they
appear, and Cathy is on the brink of discovering something terrible.
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