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

[notmarcie.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I remember those books, they were addictively terrible. I also read the Heaven series and another one about a girl who lives in a mansion and there is a dollshouse or something. Essentially they all have the same plot but different names.

I did cry when the mouse died. The children not so much. I found the tarred hair scene frightening though.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I don't think I remember the tarred hair incident.

[notmarcie.livejournal.com]

After Grandmother catches Chris looking at naked Cathy she tells him to cut her hair off or they will starve. He refuses. Grandmother then drugs cathy in her sleep, covers all her hair with tar and leaves the scissors. Chris cuts the hair off. And then she starves them anyway which is when they eat two mice and drink Chris' blood.

It really was all very dramatic!