[ SECRET POST #3909 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3909 ⌋

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Comments

Re: To anyone who read the book when it first released

[(Anonymous)]

Hell no, you're talking about the decade that gave us Flowers in the Attic. Problematic shit was all the rage in the 80s.

Re: To anyone who read the book when it first released

[mimi_sardinia]

Though Flowers in The Attic itself did not have much questionable content in itself, other than the off-screen fact that the parents of the main characters were close kin. More questionable stuff would come up later in the series (with the elder son and daughter ending up married by the latter books), and I do know it was the bread and butter of Virginia Andrews' writing as I did read the "Heaven" series which had it's own dose of incestuous relationships.

The ghost writer who took over after Virginia Andrews died probably just echoed all the same themes she'd written, over and over again.

What book did you read?

[(Anonymous)]

The grandmother physically and emotionally abuses them, they're kept locked in the attic, there is blood drinking because they're starved, and they're slowly poisoned, leaving one of the younger kids, Cory, dead. Chris Sr., the kids' father, was their mother's, Corrine's, half-uncle and that's in the book, pretty early in, too. Cathy and Chris, the older sister and brother, become physically attracted to each other. Chris later rapes Cathy after she kisses the man their mother married one night while he's sleeping, but Cathy forgives him because she wanted it too. Chris confesses his love for Cathy.

Re: What book did you read?

[mimi_sardinia]

How explicit was the rape? It has been years since I read them but the most explicit sex scene I recall was in the first Dawn book (which may have been at the start of the ghost written era), and it was not all that detailed.

I think my point is on a whole the Virginia Andrews books were very light on detailed sex scenes, despite the other adult themes that came up in them. I have read far more explicit novels than VC Andrews along the way.

Re: What book did you read?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Not very, but then the scene in It isn't actually all that explicit either. Fun fact: both books are right next to each other on one of my book shelves.