Flowers In The Attic Virginia Andrews Book Review

I re read this book having first read it a year or so ago and every plot twist was as page turning as enthralling as captivating as it was the first time i read it.

Flowers in the attic virginia andrews book review.

Flowers in the attic author virginia andrews nigel honeybone 08 12 2010 book reviews although she passed away in december 1986 virginia andrews name lives on as one of the world s biggest selling novelists with over seventy million copies of her books and stories in print. Until i read the book. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase. One in 1987 by the director jeffrey bloom and another in 2014 for the lifetime channel.

A major lifetime movie event the novel that captured the world s imagination and earned v c. Nonetheless the official v. Andrews literary career it also had not just one but two film adaptations produced around it. Flowers in the attic.

Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale. Flowers in the attic. Andrews website claims to have contacted one of andrews relatives. Omg this is one of those stories where you don t want to believe that something like this could ever occur to four innocent children but occur it did and with one humongous impact.

Reviewed in the united states on july 24 2014. I have always heard so much about flowers in the attic and i never quite understood what the hoopla was all about that is. 5 0 out of 5 stars little jewels in the attic. The book has much more of an icky cringe factor than jerry or jeremy where the salacious details are part of the entertainment of fifteen minutes of the tackiest loudest and most violent people on tv.

Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower. With such a legacy around it it s easy to see why andrews became so popular as a. Book one of the dollanganger family series. This unidentified relative claimed flowers in the attic was loosely based on a faintly similar account.

Flowers in the attic by virginia andrews review when i read the book i experienced many different emotions. For many years there was no evidence to support this claim and the book was passed off as fiction. I went through a flowers in the attic phase years ago lots of people did a guilty guilty pleasure. I think it is.

This book is very special. The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation.