Flowers in the attic

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Flowers in the attic (1983, G.K. Hall)

572 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1983 by G.K. Hall.

ISBN:
9780816134281
OCLC Number:
9111545

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5 stars (1 review)

Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror!

It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake--a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.

So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic.

Just for a little while.

But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work--children who--one by one--must be destroyed....

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5 stars

After a long break, I finally sat down and binged through the rest of Flowers in the Attic. Hard to believe I started this in 2018, but I am happy to say I didn't need to reread anything. I remembered everything that had happened when I read it prior which is always a sign of a good book.

Now that I've finished it, I have to say I sort of wish I had been able to experience this book without knowing the general story, or all the spoilers, or what made it so infamous. For example, I already knew the donuts were poisoned. It had the benefit of allowing me to notice all the foreshadowing in the book, but I'll never know if I would have picked up on what was coming if I hadn't already known.

Either way, I loved the writing style and the characters. It was a …

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