I saw it as her running from Chris. Julian wore her down. As for Bart that was all about revenge and I get that. I do believe she did truly come to care about Bart.
I still love that artwork, I think the artist captured the book's soul so well. But yeah omg, cathy was so horny and vengeful in this book. 😂 My deepest wish is that the director Sofia Coppala would make a series of this, because her film The Virgin Suicides had the perfect feel and atmosphere.
This is my favourite book series, I have read these books at least ten times. 😄 I was a ballerina too and probably that's why so enchanted by the story. In my eyes Cathy could do no wrong when I was a child, and even now I still understand her in so many ways. However I think she made many mistakes, first was marrying Julian. Also she could have shown their birth certificates to the attorney and demand their share of inheritance. That was a legal way, this way they got nothing.
Great review. I read the series years ago and you pulled off this video without cracking up is amazing. The series is definitely as ridiculous as it sounds.
The Seductions of Cathy Dollanganger indeed! Your book reviews on this series inspired me to finally dust mine off and read them. I’m currently halfway through this one and just...WOW. It’s 100% campy; such a guilty pleasure, and I can’t get enough. Have you read the two new prequels that were released for the fortieth anniversary? The third comes out in June, I believe.
I'm going to eventually re-order the whole set of both series. I'm not too crazy about the books by the ghost writer. not that's bad, I just like V.C. Andrews' style, and can tell the difference. V.C. Andrews wasn't all doom and gloom in some parts. She could be entertaining.
@AreYouIntoHorror? Ha-ha. I know, I know....it's true. 🤦♂️ It IS foolish of me. Flowers in the Attic came out when I was in high school and was EXTREMELY popular. I saw copies all over the campus!
I noticed Bart Winslow in the Lifetime series didn't look too much like the description in the book. He was very 70s then, of course. Thick, dark, hair, and full mustache with sideburns.
Bart was 28 when he married Corrine, and 41 when he died. Which means that he and Corrine were married in 1959, and he died in 1972. The whole mustache and sideburns look was circa 1975.
I love and despise this book and know it inside and out/front to back. I love how it manages to pull me in time after time after time, despite having read it too many times to count. Then I read Cathy's words and I hate that I can't reach into the text and slap the bat snot out of her! Her dad was a decent, loving, faithful family man who loved his children with all of his heart (like Dr. Paul Sheffield), so it does not make sense that she would be so attracted and hung up on a sexist, misogynistic, pedophile/child molester-rapist like Julian Marquet, and then sell her soul to him. "My young, beautiful dancing husband, who took advantage of me when I was drunk, then forced me into marriage, isolated me from my friends and family, beat me up and raped me when I brought up his transgressions with underage girls, who brutalized me, threatened me, injured me, sodomized my little sister, and held me a virtual hostage... Oh, if only I could have loved him when he needed me to, he would have been a good guy who could treat me decently." Yeah, that was Cathy's wah-wah-wah for the second and third part of the book. And while she was defending Julian, seducing Bart, and fighting off Chris, poor little Carrie languished. The child Cathy vowed to protect with her life, was left alone and friendless, reliving every moment of those years in the attic because she had no one to talk to. If there were any good, redeemable people to emerge from this story it would be Paul, Henny, and Carrie--two out of three who were screwed over by Cathy wanting revenge. Out of curiosity, did anyone else notice the men Cathy most pined for were the ones who treated her horribly and had started out the relationship by raping her? And for the record, Carrie was 4'8", which would only put her 7 inches shorter than Cathy, not a whole foot, as the picture shows. Also, Carrie didn't have a fever when Henny met them, she had thrown up all over the bus and passed out. Cathy had her dress professionally made so she could look exactly like Corrine did that Christmas night. Bart was three when Paul died (he and Cathy were married and he gave Bart his last name on the birth certificate). Henny had a massive stroke, Paul had a heart attack trying to save her. There was no baby; that was a lie made up by Paul's hateful sister Amanda. Henny had a congenital birth defect that prevented her from speaking, but she was fluent in sign language.
It’s nice to see someone else who feels the way I do. It was such a shock from the first book that I hated it. But I’m beginning to see that maybe I was too harsh on it.
Deep down, Cathy's feelings regarding her mother were similar to Carrie's, she just dealt with it differently. Cathy was also competing with Corrine because of her deep feeling of insecurity. She fixated on Bart and that was why she sought relationships with Paul and Julian because something about them reminded her of Bart. She spent so much of the book fighting her feelings for Chris, but her obsession with her mother's husband wasn't exactly healthy either. Of course, she used him for revenge but she did fall in love with him. It's also hinted that Cathy may have inherited generational madness. I do find this book fascinating even though I disliked Cathy at times. Toward the end when she goes back to Foxworth Hall, revisits the north wing bedroom and the attic and Christmas party reveal are my favorite parts. I have to replace my copy since it's getting so worn out LOL.
the book uses rapes as a tool for drama and nothing more. Wich i found really disgusting, the fact that cathy actually mentions that "Bart finished before she could feel any pleasure" is just surreal and gross... moreover, he still has the chance to win her back because the next time he showed all of his skills... is like raping is the same as saying "screw you"... not that bad... makes no sense
Loved VC Andrews Nice they doing the movies love everything about her writing in all her books she kept you reading I loved the artwork starting reading flowers in the attic by 8 or 9 n kept it going lol was that intrigued on each book release
I really enjoyed the Dollanganger series as a teeneagaer and its great to see people reviewing these books! I have donated many books before but always kept my v.c. andrews books. I think I am going to reread them again after I am done with my "Open Book" the jessica Simpson Biography.
Although I feel you did a good job with describing how the book went there are a couple of facts that kind of inaccurate, for example, when Kathy and Paul make love for the first time, it is for her setting up a birthday dinner for him which included her getting herself dolled up, setting her hair applying makeup getting the right dress. It was then once he came home late they had a brief argument which culminated in both of them having sex then there was the part where you said that Kathy went back to Foxworth Hall borrowed one of Corinth dresses that is inaccurate. Kathy had a dress designer design the exact same dress that Corrine had, which included the high neckline but made up for the low back part of the dress being open enough to show the buttocks having some type of a cleavage showing, the other thing you left out was during Paul and Kathy's brief affair there was talk of them going to get married however Amanda I believe that's his sister went and spoiled everything for them saying that she had miscarried and that Paul kept Kathy's dead fetus in a jar or something to that fact and something about Paul's first wife still being alive in a psych wsrd that soured the relationship between them which gave her the reason or the I'm not sure what for that she ended up choosing to marry Julian and then there was that other girl that was completely obsessed by Julian and they both were in that car accident she died instantly, and Julian ends up killing himself once he overhears his mother saying that he will never dance again and he has no life. Maybe you ought to reread the book again.
@@ReginasHauntedLibrary that has happened to me many times. Example, in the original cover of the book HEAVEN, I clearly remember the doll that Heaven us holding has black hair, but my bestie says it was blonde. The mind remembers what we think is real. But seriously, you did a great job. Hope you do more.
Hi, happy Good Friday! So, here's V. C. Andrews' Petals on the Wind (1980) translated in other languages that I could find: Bulgarian: Разпилени от вятъра ("Razpileni ot vyatŭra") Chinese: 風中的花朵 ("Fēng zhōng de huāduǒ") Czech: Lístky ve větru Dutch: Bloemen in de Wind Finnish: Koston terälehdet French: Pétales au vent German: Wie Blüten im Wind Greek: Λουλούδια στον άνεμο (“Louloúdia ston ánemo”) Hebrew: עלי כותרת עפים ברוח Hungarian: Virágszirmok a szélben Italian: Petali di tenebra Japanese: 炎に舞う花びら ("Honō ni mau hanabira") Korean: 바람에 흩날리는 꽃잎 ("balam-e heutnallineun kkoch-ip") Latvian: Ziedlapas Vējā Lithuanian: Žiedlapiai Vėjyje Polish: Płatki na wietrze Portuguese: Pétalas ao vento Romanian: Petale în vant Russian: Лепестки на ветру ("Lepestki na vetru") Slovak: Lupene vo ventre Spanish: Pétalos al viento Swedish: Blomblad för vinden Turkish: Çatıdaki Rüzğar
I'm reading Flowers, now, when I should be reading The Tale of the Body Thief, and have been watching the Lifetime adaptations. I've got one more film left in that series.
Great synopsis - I can't imagine how to encapsulate everything that happens in these books. However I think you're mixing a lot of the movie and book story points together, which kind of works but the nuance between some of the relationships and details about the characters (ie. Chris, specifically in the books) are more flushed out than what is being described. Again there is so much to these books and honestly the whole series could have been a 10 season HBO or Netflix series. Keep up the good work!
Her father gave her a ring & said to her in "Flowers In The Attic " that she'd always be loved a little more than any other daughter (as long as she kept that herself )
I have such conflicted feelings about Paul. He's a genuinely kind man who was good to Carrie and Chris and seemed to honestly love Cathy, but let's face it...he's a child molester. Cathy was only 15 or 16 when they started sleeping together, and Paul was in his 40s. He was supposed to be a parental figure (he had legal custody of them) and Cathy was an extremely vulnerable young girl. That being said, hell, I wanted Paul myself when reading this series as a teenage girl. 😂
After Foxworth Hall burns down, Cathy returns to Paul & marries him. They were happy for a short time, however he realises he will die, so he convinces Cathy to marry Christopher so the kids can have a father. She wasn’t carrying Bart years later, Lol- Also, she doesn’t exactly get involved with Julian. He wanted her, but she only liked dancing with him. FYI, she gets engaged to Paul & keeps it a secret. It’s Paul’s sister that creates a wedge between them & she marries Julian impulsively out of anger. She never had a miscarriage in the book. Paul’s sister lied to her that the jar Paul has is her baby. You forgot, she smacked granny Olivia’s as# & poured candle wax on her. Julian was extremely controlling, abusive & violent. Bart was also abusive as well as their first sexual experience was him raping her although she wanted to believe she was in control. This description sounds off as the actual journey in the book is much more complex. Even after making love to Paul for the first time (early in the book), she cries & says goodbye to Chris.., so clearly she was running from Chris & her love towards him. I can go on & on, but basically this review is way off. You seemed to have skimmed over the book.
I also really liked garden of shadows bc it establishes possible motivations behind why the evil grandmother was the way she was. And you can almost begin to see why and have empathy for her. Malcolm was the true villain and there is a crazy thing in that book (no spoilers) reveals things about Corrine and her husband Christopher that they didn’t even know!! And changes why the incest was worse than we thought throughout the first 4 books 🫣
hello , i never read any books , but have seen flowers in the attic . thank you for review of the book , i would like to read the books soon . 2022.07.29
This probably sounds rude but can u make a video of Jane Eyre cuz u said it in the video 😂 And also if u haven’t read it, a book from Oscar Wilde “the picture of Dorian grey” it’s awesome and pretty wild and “weird” tension between characters 😂
Not rude at all. I actually did a video on Jayne Eyre last year in one of my wraps-up. It's one of my favorite books of all time, as is Wilde's great novel.
I really admire Olivia Foxworth in Flowers, not because of her viciousness, but because of how she became this way. I just read Garden of Shadows and have a better understanding, but also a respect of Olivia. Malcom was such a jerk for treating her like this, as she wanted a husband, Malcom was a narcissist person who honestly never loved her. I'm a big Louise Fletcher fan and wish they would have made Garden of Shadows into a movie. I'm re-reading Flowers now and will eventually read Petals.
Yes. I absolutely admire how she invalidated a rape victim, imprisoned her & took away her baby. And then turned around and gaslighted her as if she asked to be raped. I love her low self confidence, insecurities & low self esteem. And although she had her fathers money 💰 & could have left Malcolm at any point, she chose to stay as it was more important to her of how society views her instead of her own self respect. She’ld rather stay in toxicity & harm all others to feel powerful. Control was more important to her. She also knew that no man would accept her, nor even look at her due to her personality & how she carried herself. Instead of working on herself, adjusting to new styles.. she chose to hate feminine “dainty” women. She wasn’t will to change her style, nor put any efforts into self. She never actually tried at her marriage either. Only to assert control & dominance. Why stay if there will be no humbleness? For control? Cringe. Corrine The 1st (Malcolm’s Mother) faced everything Olivia did. She too was raped, cheated, slept in a separate rooms & was treated more like a possession. She chose to leave. She had dignity & strength like Alicia. She married a man that truly loves her, had two more children & lived a good life in Paris. Olivia could’ve chose a better life. Instead, her choices caused destruction to all those around her.
I saw it as her running from Chris. Julian wore her down. As for Bart that was all about revenge and I get that. I do believe she did truly come to care about Bart.
I still love that artwork, I think the artist captured the book's soul so well. But yeah omg, cathy was so horny and vengeful in this book. 😂 My deepest wish is that the director Sofia Coppala would make a series of this, because her film The Virgin Suicides had the perfect feel and atmosphere.
That would be awesome!
Thanks, I have another movie to look up from Sofia Coppola. I did like, Marie Antoinette.
This is my favourite book series, I have read these books at least ten times. 😄 I was a ballerina too and probably that's why so enchanted by the story. In my eyes Cathy could do no wrong when I was a child, and even now I still understand her in so many ways. However I think she made many mistakes, first was marrying Julian.
Also she could have shown their birth certificates to the attorney and demand their share of inheritance. That was a legal way, this way they got nothing.
Cathy is a wonderful character, for all her flaws. :)
Great review. I read the series years ago and you pulled off this video without cracking up is amazing. The series is definitely as ridiculous as it sounds.
Ha-ha!
The Seductions of Cathy Dollanganger indeed! Your book reviews on this series inspired me to finally dust mine off and read them. I’m currently halfway through this one and just...WOW. It’s 100% campy; such a guilty pleasure, and I can’t get enough. Have you read the two new prequels that were released for the fortieth anniversary? The third comes out in June, I believe.
I wasn't even aware of these prequels. Now I'll have to read them. :0!
I'm going to eventually re-order the whole set of both series. I'm not too crazy about the books by the ghost writer. not that's bad, I just like V.C. Andrews' style, and can tell the difference. V.C. Andrews wasn't all doom and gloom in some parts. She could be entertaining.
I'm thinking it's time I give these a re-read.
I'm almost certain that I'll never read these books; but I DO enjoy your discussions of them! 🌼
Ha-ha! Thanks. Love the daisy. :)
@AreYouIntoHorror? Ha-ha. I know, I know....it's true. 🤦♂️
It IS foolish of me. Flowers in the Attic came out when I was in high school and was EXTREMELY popular. I saw copies all over the campus!
I noticed Bart Winslow in the Lifetime series didn't look too much like the description in the book. He was very 70s then, of course. Thick, dark, hair, and full mustache with sideburns.
Too bad they couldn’t have used Burt Reynolds for Bart Winslow😂
True, or Tom Selleck back in the day.😄
Bart was 28 when he married Corrine, and 41 when he died. Which means that he and Corrine were married in 1959, and he died in 1972. The whole mustache and sideburns look was circa 1975.
I love and despise this book and know it inside and out/front to back. I love how it manages to pull me in time after time after time, despite having read it too many times to count. Then I read Cathy's words and I hate that I can't reach into the text and slap the bat snot out of her! Her dad was a decent, loving, faithful family man who loved his children with all of his heart (like Dr. Paul Sheffield), so it does not make sense that she would be so attracted and hung up on a sexist, misogynistic, pedophile/child molester-rapist like Julian Marquet, and then sell her soul to him. "My young, beautiful dancing husband, who took advantage of me when I was drunk, then forced me into marriage, isolated me from my friends and family, beat me up and raped me when I brought up his transgressions with underage girls, who brutalized me, threatened me, injured me, sodomized my little sister, and held me a virtual hostage... Oh, if only I could have loved him when he needed me to, he would have been a good guy who could treat me decently." Yeah, that was Cathy's wah-wah-wah for the second and third part of the book. And while she was defending Julian, seducing Bart, and fighting off Chris, poor little Carrie languished. The child Cathy vowed to protect with her life, was left alone and friendless, reliving every moment of those years in the attic because she had no one to talk to.
If there were any good, redeemable people to emerge from this story it would be Paul, Henny, and Carrie--two out of three who were screwed over by Cathy wanting revenge. Out of curiosity, did anyone else notice the men Cathy most pined for were the ones who treated her horribly and had started out the relationship by raping her?
And for the record, Carrie was 4'8", which would only put her 7 inches shorter than Cathy, not a whole foot, as the picture shows. Also, Carrie didn't have a fever when Henny met them, she had thrown up all over the bus and passed out. Cathy had her dress professionally made so she could look exactly like Corrine did that Christmas night. Bart was three when Paul died (he and Cathy were married and he gave Bart his last name on the birth certificate). Henny had a massive stroke, Paul had a heart attack trying to save her. There was no baby; that was a lie made up by Paul's hateful sister Amanda. Henny had a congenital birth defect that prevented her from speaking, but she was fluent in sign language.
It’s nice to see someone else who feels the way I do. It was such a shock from the first book that I hated it. But I’m beginning to see that maybe I was too harsh on it.
Deep down, Cathy's feelings regarding her mother were similar to Carrie's, she just dealt with it differently. Cathy was also competing with Corrine because of her deep feeling of insecurity. She fixated on Bart and that was why she sought relationships with Paul and Julian because something about them reminded her of Bart. She spent so much of the book fighting her feelings for Chris, but her obsession with her mother's husband wasn't exactly healthy either. Of course, she used him for revenge but she did fall in love with him. It's also hinted that Cathy may have inherited generational madness. I do find this book fascinating even though I disliked Cathy at times. Toward the end when she goes back to Foxworth Hall, revisits the north wing bedroom and the attic and Christmas party reveal are my favorite parts. I have to replace my copy since it's getting so worn out LOL.
the book uses rapes as a tool for drama and nothing more. Wich i found really disgusting, the fact that cathy actually mentions that "Bart finished before she could feel any pleasure" is just surreal and gross... moreover, he still has the chance to win her back because the next time he showed all of his skills...
is like raping is the same as saying "screw you"... not that bad... makes no sense
@@MuirmaidenShe didn't love Bart. Cathy was too self-centered and fixated on revenge to truly love anyone.
Loved VC Andrews Nice they doing the movies love everything about her writing in all her books she kept you reading I loved the artwork starting reading flowers in the attic by 8 or 9 n kept it going lol was that intrigued on each book release
So true. They're hard to put down once you start.
VC Andrews are high camp for sure! It's why they're such guilty pleasures.
I really enjoyed the Dollanganger series as a teeneagaer and its great to see people reviewing these books! I have donated many books before but always kept my v.c. andrews books. I think I am going to reread them again after I am done with my "Open Book" the jessica Simpson Biography.
I want to read Jessica Simpson's book. Celebrity bios-ah, nothing like 'em. :)
Although I feel you did a good job with describing how the book went there are a couple of facts that kind of inaccurate, for example, when Kathy and Paul make love for the first time, it is for her setting up a birthday dinner for him which included her getting herself dolled up, setting her hair applying makeup getting the right dress. It was then once he came home late they had a brief argument which culminated in both of them having sex then there was the part where you said that Kathy went back to Foxworth Hall borrowed one of Corinth dresses that is inaccurate. Kathy had a dress designer design the exact same dress that Corrine had, which included the high neckline but made up for the low back part of the dress being open enough to show the buttocks having some type of a cleavage showing, the other thing you left out was during Paul and Kathy's brief affair there was talk of them going to get married however Amanda I believe that's his sister went and spoiled everything for them saying that she had miscarried and that Paul kept Kathy's dead fetus in a jar or something to that fact and something about Paul's first wife still being alive in a psych wsrd that soured the relationship between them which gave her the reason or the I'm not sure what for that she ended up choosing to marry Julian and then there was that other girl that was completely obsessed by Julian and they both were in that car accident she died instantly, and Julian ends up killing himself once he overhears his mother saying that he will never dance again and he has no life. Maybe you ought to reread the book again.
I knew I'd gotten the dress part wrong. Thanks for the corrections.
@@ReginasHauntedLibrary that has happened to me many times. Example, in the original cover of the book HEAVEN, I clearly remember the doll that Heaven us holding has black hair, but my bestie says it was blonde. The mind remembers what we think is real. But seriously, you did a great job. Hope you do more.
I just finished it! The drama and the tea in this book kept me on the edge of my seat. Thank you for the review
The drama was intense! Thanks for watching. :)
@@ReginasHauntedLibrary I love your channel so much! I have become a fan.
@@violetteray4403 Thank you, Violette! xoxo
Loved this review! And the cover of the book is so great!! Xx
Oh, what a burden to be so beautiful and irristable to every man! lol 😆
Ha-ha!!
I hope you know you’re like the only review I could find on this book and you killed it❤️ thanks for the vid!
Hi, happy Good Friday! So, here's V. C. Andrews' Petals on the Wind (1980) translated in other languages that I could find:
Bulgarian: Разпилени от вятъра ("Razpileni ot vyatŭra")
Chinese: 風中的花朵 ("Fēng zhōng de huāduǒ")
Czech: Lístky ve větru
Dutch: Bloemen in de Wind
Finnish: Koston terälehdet
French: Pétales au vent
German: Wie Blüten im Wind
Greek: Λουλούδια στον άνεμο (“Louloúdia ston ánemo”)
Hebrew: עלי כותרת עפים ברוח
Hungarian: Virágszirmok a szélben
Italian: Petali di tenebra
Japanese: 炎に舞う花びら ("Honō ni mau hanabira")
Korean: 바람에 흩날리는 꽃잎 ("balam-e heutnallineun kkoch-ip")
Latvian: Ziedlapas Vējā
Lithuanian: Žiedlapiai Vėjyje
Polish: Płatki na wietrze
Portuguese: Pétalas ao vento
Romanian: Petale în vant
Russian: Лепестки на ветру ("Lepestki na vetru")
Slovak: Lupene vo ventre
Spanish: Pétalos al viento
Swedish: Blomblad för vinden
Turkish: Çatıdaki Rüzğar
Happy Easter!
@@ReginasHauntedLibrary Thanks, you too! Have a happy Easter!
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I'm reading Flowers, now, when I should be reading The Tale of the Body Thief, and have been watching the Lifetime adaptations. I've got one more film left in that series.
This is my favorite too! You can't beat the payoff on this book.
Great synopsis - I can't imagine how to encapsulate everything that happens in these books. However I think you're mixing a lot of the movie and book story points together, which kind of works but the nuance between some of the relationships and details about the characters (ie. Chris, specifically in the books) are more flushed out than what is being described. Again there is so much to these books and honestly the whole series could have been a 10 season HBO or Netflix series. Keep up the good work!
Thanks. You're probably right. They do blend together in my mind. LOL. Thanks for watching.
Didnt Cathy also have a seductive-ish relationship with her father as well?
Maybe a bit as I recall. She certainly does with a lot of other men. LOL!
Her father gave her a ring & said to her in "Flowers In The Attic " that she'd always be loved a little more than any other daughter (as long as she kept that herself )
I never realized how strikingly white and blonde everyone is!
Anna Pedroso That’s true. The Dresden dolls.😍
I love paul sheffield hes a good soul kathy hurt him badly
I have such conflicted feelings about Paul. He's a genuinely kind man who was good to Carrie and Chris and seemed to honestly love Cathy, but let's face it...he's a child molester. Cathy was only 15 or 16 when they started sleeping together, and Paul was in his 40s. He was supposed to be a parental figure (he had legal custody of them) and Cathy was an extremely vulnerable young girl.
That being said, hell, I wanted Paul myself when reading this series as a teenage girl. 😂
i have read the first four when i was a teenager during the 80s. i havent read Garden of Shadows yet.
You're like Morticia Addams but with books. Damn. You are cool. Hi. I'm Dustin. I'm a short, fat punk rocker. Nice to meet you man
Thank you. I love Morticia. 🧛♀
After Foxworth Hall burns down, Cathy returns to Paul & marries him. They were happy for a short time, however he realises he will die, so he convinces Cathy to marry Christopher so the kids can have a father. She wasn’t carrying Bart years later, Lol-
Also, she doesn’t exactly get involved with Julian. He wanted her, but she only liked dancing with him. FYI, she gets engaged to Paul & keeps it a secret. It’s Paul’s sister that creates a wedge between them & she marries Julian impulsively out of anger.
She never had a miscarriage in the book. Paul’s sister lied to her that the jar Paul has is her baby.
You forgot, she smacked granny Olivia’s as# & poured candle wax on her.
Julian was extremely controlling, abusive & violent. Bart was also abusive as well as their first sexual experience was him raping her although she wanted to believe she was in control. This description sounds off as the actual journey in the book is much more complex.
Even after making love to Paul for the first time (early in the book), she cries & says goodbye to Chris.., so clearly she was running from Chris & her love towards him.
I can go on & on, but basically this review is way off. You seemed to have skimmed over the book.
I also really liked garden of shadows bc it establishes possible motivations behind why the evil grandmother was the way she was. And you can almost begin to see why and have empathy for her. Malcolm was the true villain and there is a crazy thing in that book (no spoilers) reveals things about Corrine and her husband Christopher that they didn’t even know!! And changes why the incest was worse than we thought throughout the first 4 books 🫣
hello , i never read any books , but have seen flowers in the attic . thank you for review of the book , i would like to read the books soon . 2022.07.29
You're welcome. Please let me know if you enjoy the books as much as I do. :)
This probably sounds rude but can u make a video of Jane Eyre cuz u said it in the video 😂
And also if u haven’t read it, a book from Oscar Wilde “the picture of Dorian grey” it’s awesome and pretty wild and “weird” tension between characters 😂
Not rude at all. I actually did a video on Jayne Eyre last year in one of my wraps-up. It's one of my favorite books of all time, as is Wilde's great novel.
Great review, Regina.
Thank you!
Did the mother end up in a mental institution in the book also or just the movie ??
Corrine does end up in a mental hospital at the end.
@@ReginasHauntedLibrary o ok thanks I read the books bt it was so long ago I forgot lol
@@caylatv1111 All the books kind of blend together in my mind. :)
The movie
I really admire Olivia Foxworth in Flowers, not because of her viciousness, but because of how she became this way. I just read Garden of Shadows and have a better understanding, but also a respect of Olivia. Malcom was such a jerk for treating her like this, as she wanted a husband, Malcom was a narcissist person who honestly never loved her. I'm a big Louise Fletcher fan and wish they would have made Garden of Shadows into a movie.
I'm re-reading Flowers now and will eventually read Petals.
I agree. Garden of Shadows really adds to the story by showing Olivia as a sympathetic character. I plan to review it soon.
Yes. I absolutely admire how she invalidated a rape victim, imprisoned her & took away her baby. And then turned around and gaslighted her as if she asked to be raped.
I love her low self confidence, insecurities & low self esteem. And although she had her fathers money 💰 & could have left Malcolm at any point, she chose to stay as it was more important to her of how society views her instead of her own self respect. She’ld rather stay in toxicity & harm all others to feel powerful. Control was more important to her.
She also knew that no man would accept her, nor even look at her due to her personality & how she carried herself. Instead of working on herself, adjusting to new styles.. she chose to hate feminine “dainty” women. She wasn’t will to change her style, nor put any efforts into self. She never actually tried at her marriage either. Only to assert control & dominance. Why stay if there will be no humbleness?
For control? Cringe.
Corrine The 1st (Malcolm’s Mother) faced everything Olivia did. She too was raped, cheated, slept in a separate rooms & was treated more like a possession. She chose to leave. She had dignity & strength like Alicia. She married a man that truly loves her, had two more children & lived a good life in Paris. Olivia could’ve chose a better life. Instead, her choices caused destruction to all those around her.
Oh! Mr. Sheffield!