V.C. Andrews

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

What does everyone think of her stuff?

When I was a kid I used to love the movie Flowers in the Attic. Yes, it's a horrible movie, but not then, not to my 4th and 5th grader poor taste mentality. My half sister Jill, who I hardly see (It's been over 15 years now since I saw her last time), had some of the Dollanganger books on her bed. Already being a big book buff, my eyes about popped out of my head. I started collecting and reading these.

Admittably, when I reread some now, the writing is too melodramatic. I need to sit down and re-read some of her series that she wrote under her own name before the ghostwriter.

It's odd that Andrew Neiderman of all people was her ghostwriter (is he still?) I liked his cheesy horror stuff in the 80s, 90s.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

As a side note, they remade the Flowers in the attic cover to be a disgrace after the lifetime movie. I know YA is in and huge right now, but this cover is wrong on so many levels.




Misleading - It is a dark, depressing, Gothic, melodramatic, horrific story. The cover makes it look like a rosy, young adult novel. It makes it look like a romance novel.

Inappropriate - Beyond just misleading, the book's cover has the gal to mislead, but also mislead serious stuff. That makes it climb into the completely inappropriate level. I mean, come on, this is about children and siblings being tortured, starved, and there is death in this book. It's tragic, it's sad, it's haunting. The romantic angle of the siblings is bizarrely twisted.