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A review by aleronx
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
2.0
Jesus Christ.
I was recommended this by a friend, and the only thing I went in knowing was that there was incest, because it is notoriously about that. I thought “it’s critically acclaimed though right? I hear about it all the time and how people had to read it in school, so it must have a lot to it to overlook the incest”
No. No it did not. Not only was this boring as hell, with little to no tension to keep me going, but in fact it is barely more than torture porn of children. I want to say that it had a good message of resilience and survival by seeing the beauty in a terrible situation, and I know we had dozens of pages of just children interacting as they would, but that is far overshadowed by everything else.
I give it two stars for its criticism of religion and its apt exploration of the psychological consequences of child neglect, and the way that siblings become a pseudo family to cope. Plus the “twist” that Chris discovers in the end, although predictable, still managed to hurt me despite it all.
It loses 3 stars for being boring, the dialogue unbelievable even for the time it was set and written, and of course due to being garishly fetishist in nature.
I was recommended this by a friend, and the only thing I went in knowing was that there was incest, because it is notoriously about that. I thought “it’s critically acclaimed though right? I hear about it all the time and how people had to read it in school, so it must have a lot to it to overlook the incest”
No. No it did not. Not only was this boring as hell, with little to no tension to keep me going, but in fact it is barely more than torture porn of children. I want to say that it had a good message of resilience and survival by seeing the beauty in a terrible situation, and I know we had dozens of pages of just children interacting as they would, but that is far overshadowed by everything else.
I give it two stars for its criticism of religion and its apt exploration of the psychological consequences of child neglect, and the way that siblings become a pseudo family to cope. Plus the “twist” that Chris discovers in the end, although predictable, still managed to hurt me despite it all.
It loses 3 stars for being boring, the dialogue unbelievable even for the time it was set and written, and of course due to being garishly fetishist in nature.