Flowers in the Attic ⭑⭑⭑

Genre: Horror

US Publication: 1979

Print: 390 pages

Audio: 15 hours

Confetti Rating: 3 stars

REVIEW:

Good gosh golly GROSS!

First of all, kudos to my parents for somehow keeping me from reading this when I was a kid. Thanks Mom and Dad!

Wowza, I’m almost without words here. Is this 1-star trash? Or a 5-star masterpiece? I’m going with a 3 and splitting the difference.

1 star - This is the vilest, most stomach-turning book I’ve read in awhile. I can’t believe it was ever published.

5 stars - This is the vilest, most stomach-turning book I’ve read in awhile. I can’t wait to read the next in the series.

Trigger warnings: ALL OF THEM!!! Incest (x2), rape, animal cruelty, child abuse, torture, need I go on???

PUBLISHER SYNOPSIS:

At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden — blond, innocent, and fighting for their lives…

They were a perfect and beautiful family — until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother. A suspenseful and thrilling tale of family, greed, murder, and forbidden love, Flowers in the Attic is the unputdownable first novel of the epic Dollanganger family saga.

The Dollanganger series includes: Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, Garden of Shadows, Beneath the Attic, and Out of the Attic.