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

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

My friend Shannon had all the V.C. Andrews books and we passed them around for weeks until our parents found out. They were wildly addictive and really very terrible. It was another series, about a girl with a doll that looked just like her, that I remembered most. She had a father who was obsessed with her dead mother and so was her step-father, who was trying to seduce her. It was all very intriguing to a 12 year old. Can't imagine reading them as an adult, though - I'd probably laugh my way through.

[notmarcie.livejournal.com]

This was the Heaven series. The girl was called Heaven. It was all as equally ludicrous as Flowers...but with an added trashy adoptive mother.

[starfishchick]

I kind of feel like we should do a read-along of at least one, just for fun.