Ah, young love.

[slemslempike]

What better way for the Guardian children's book section to celebrate valentine's day than with a review of Flowers in the Attic?

"When I read the book I experienced many different emotions: at times I was laughing, conversely at other times I was angered or sad."

"I guess one negative aspect of the book is that the plot seems to be quite unrealistic"

"it is an excellent book for many people: romance-lovers [...]"

I do wish I'd read Flowers in the Attic when I was a teenager, I feel I would have appreciated it much more than as an adult.

Comments

[cellardor.livejournal.com]

I read it when I was 10, and it was like, the best thing I had ever read ever. And the last book in the series devastated me. I don't think I could reread now.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

What happens in the last book?

[cellardor.livejournal.com]

Chris gets knocked down by a car and killed (I believe in pretty much the same way as their father was - stopping to help someone involved in a car accident and hit crossing the road). I remember being in my room and rushing down the stairs sobbing and trying to explain to my mum what was happening. And then Cathy goes up into the attic of the rebuilt Foxworth (?) Hall and creates another paper garden and dies there of a broken heart.

I did mean I don't think I could reread now as it wouldn't be the same, as I'm sure they're terrible, rather than I'm too traumatised to revisit. In case it came across that way. :)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh, that does sound very sad!