Review Flowers In The Attic

Andrews novel falls flat by youyoung lee ask any girl in her thirties and she ll likely have an inexplicable soft spot for flowers in the attic that chilling v c.

Review flowers in the attic.

Andrews book of the same name may protest. Andrews it is the first book in the dollanganger series and was followed by petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday garden of shadows christopher s diary. Flowers in the attic review. Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary.

The acting is stiff the dialog stilted and production values are low. When their father is killed teenagers cathy kristy swanson. Fans of author v c. Flowers in the attic by virginia andrews review.

Audience reviews for flowers in the attic. Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary. Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c. Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v.

Join the site and send us your review. I loved this book series growing up and needless to say i was disappointed in the 1987 version. Children s books children and teenagers friendship books for children and teens. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in.

The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation. Finally this movie got made properly. Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower. Based on the popular novel by v.

It keeps much of the key details but eliminates completely the themes that made the book a bestseller. Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale. Lifetime s gamble on the v c. Parents need to know that flowers in the attic is a drama based on a very popular 1980s pulp novel about a family whose children are locked in an attic by a scary mother and grandmother incest is a major theme since the children are a product of it and the older siblings eventually become intimate though only kissing is visible.

Andrews novel passed around like a dirty secret at slumber parties and middle school playgrounds. Andrews flowers in the attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity.