Rating: 4-Would recommend it to everyone
PLOT
The four Dollanganger children had such perfect lives -- a beautiful mother, a doting father, a lovely home. Then Daddy was killed in a car accident, and Momma could no longer support the family. So she began writing letters to her parents, her millionaire parents, whom the children had never heard of before.
Momma tells the children all about their rich grandparents, and how Chris and Cathy and the twins will live like princes and princesses in their grandparents' fancy mansion. The children are only too delighted by the prospect. But there are a few things that Momma hasn't told them.
She hasn't told them that their grandmother considers them "devil's spawn" who should never have been born. She hasn't told them that she has to hide them from their grandfather if she wants to inherit his fortune. She hasn't told them that they are to be locked away in an abandoned wing of the house with only the dark, airless attic to play in. But, Momma promises, it's only for a few days....
Then the days stretch into months, and the months into years. Desperately isolated, terrified of their grandmother, and increasingly convinced that their mother no longer cares about them, Chris and Cathy become all things to the twins and to each other. They cling to their love as their only hope, their only strength -- a love that is almost stronger than death.
Certainly, the book that started it all: Dollanganger Saga. It puts soap operas and telenovelas to shame. VC Andrews was said that the story was based on a true one just so you know
Anyways "Momma" here is Corrine, her story could be read in Garden of Shadows (i know right? so greeny), but i will just spoil just the same, we need some background when we want to discuss Flowers in the Attic. The prequel was about how Corrine grew up in a wealthy family, being the only girl and a beautiful one too, her father was possessive of her to the point of chasing away any potential friendships and suitors, seeing them as unworthy of his daughter's time. But then came Corrine's half uncle (get it? half brother of his father) whom she fell in love with.
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| Oh the novel was really mainstream that time, they made a movie, but it was shit so don't bother |
Her parents, religious fanatics as they were, disinherited their daughter for marrying the man she loves. So the couple went their way and able to have four -ok here's the annoying part- charming, physically perfect children, an almost perfect life. but POOF dad was killed in the car wreck.
Corrine being brought up in wealth and splendor is not used to work and hardship and made the decision to go back to her parents and ask for forgiveness.
Cathy the narrator of Flower in the Attic, was still twleve when the four children was first locked up in there, with their mother promising of coming back and finally be able to introduce them to her father after she is forgiven.
And it seems it took Corrine a long time to be forgiven since the children were stuck in the attic for years right? Nasty Grandmother + Nasty House + Nasty mother + Hormones + Melodrama
The tale goes on a twisted route, with Momma Corrine drowning in the evilness of money, having boyfriends and poisoning her children. Yep literally poisoning her children. I wont hold that information to myself, hate her,people hate her. Also Cathy and Christopher were having trouble with lust and their twins brother and sister are deteriorating.
The end I m happy to tell you they escaped, its up to you to know how, but they escaped.
But their story doesn't end there
It is for the other books in the series and they are should we say, also filled with misery and hardships. Want me to elaborate? suicide, death, betrayal, adultery, miscarriage.
So I just want to talk about this one, its not a walk in the park reading this, but its not boring.
But of course this novel is such that couldn't be accepted as good literature, this is just for gothic entertainment purposes, I Rated this as 4, because macabre and ugly as it is, I still want people to know their story, I don't know why, but beneath all the absurdly narration, there lies a simple kind of sad truth: Evil comes in many ways
btw I read this in wiki " In episode 21 season 4 of Gossip Girl, Serena's cousin Charlie says Flowers In The Attic was her favorite book as a child."
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