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PART 1: "To Make a Garden Grow" - "The Long Winter & Spring & Summer"
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AHHHHHH!
I've never been more uncomfortable in my entire life! Even if I didn't have an inkling of what was coming from the film, there would be no denying it now. BIG YIKES. It almost feels extra cruel that the Grandmother has locked the kids up in that room and is constantly implying to Cathy and Chris that they are participating in "sinful behavior" and yet.....they're locked away from the world and hitting puberty. WTF does she think is going to happen? It seems like a set-up to me.
Speaking of set-up, I'm fully convinced that the kids' father and Corrine's brothers were murdered. They all died so young and in vehicle-related accidents in such a way that they're bodies couldn't be properly autopsied....something is seriously wrong with that.
So far, I'm fully hooked at yet at the same time I don't want to keep reading because I know it's about to get very uncomfortable.
I've never been more uncomfortable in my entire life! Even if I didn't have an inkling of what was coming from the film, there would be no denying it now. BIG YIKES. It almost feels extra cruel that the Grandmother has locked the kids up in that room and is constantly implying to Cathy and Chris that they are participating in "sinful behavior" and yet.....they're locked away from the world and hitting puberty. WTF does she think is going to happen? It seems like a set-up to me.
Speaking of set-up, I'm fully convinced that the kids' father and Corrine's brothers were murdered. They all died so young and in vehicle-related accidents in such a way that they're bodies couldn't be properly autopsied....something is seriously wrong with that.
So far, I'm fully hooked at yet at the same time I don't want to keep reading because I know it's about to get very uncomfortable.
Pretty much agree with everything you've said! Super uncomfotable, but you have to find out what's next.I can't imagine how psychologically damaging it would actually be for teenage kids to be locked up like that. The grandma seems to be purposely turning them into what she's accused them of being from the start.
I hadn't thought about the idea of murder you brought up. Very interesting to think of it in that way!
I never thought about the murder possibilities! Great thought! I do think it is crazy that the incest thing is inevitable...There was weird stuff in the family before getting locked up...Chris was so obsessed with his mother...glad she's not in the attic with him....Gross
Yeah, even Cathy is obsessed with her father, as well. She keeps mentioning how any an she marries would have to measure up to her father and her brother. It's all very strange.....
This is the first time I’ve read this book, but I watched the Lifetime movie version when it came out about 5 years ago, so in my head I pictured Heather Graham as Corinne the entire time reading this 😂 I would definitely be a realist in this situation, like Cathy. I feel like the grandmother has a really shady past. I like that the grandfather is mentioned a lot, but only briefly seen once, so they can’t really know if what they’ve heard about him is true.
