Ron’s Reviews > Flowers in the Attic > Status Update

Chris definitely comes off as creepy and predatory at times. Maybe it's just natural adolescent curiosity and a lack of outside partners, but there also feels like some grooming going on, like he tries to steer Cathy toward situations where she'll be undressed.

The kids have now spent a year in the attic, mostly without incident, but Cathy is really starting to question whether Mom's actually doing all she can to get them out.

[I didn't finish this before year end. I'll keep going and count it toward my general 2018 reading goal, but not for Mount TBR since I'm more than halfway through.]

Chapter Two, wherein the family leaves home in the middle of the night to go to Corinne's childhood home. When they get there, they're silently whisked up to the attic and locked in with clear instructions to leave no evidence of their existence. The kids' life so far has been so idyllic that although they see all the bad omens, they can't imagine what it all means.

Chapter 1, Goodbye Daddy: The writing is definitely more hammy than I remember it, with dialogue like "I had to see it for myself. For, you see, I found it hard to believe too." Also, the state troopers break the news of Cathy's father's death by describing the accident in great detail in front of dozens of onlookers. Not what I would have done.

Earlier this year I revisited a book from high school that I hated, A Separate Peace. This time I'm revisiting a book that I loved as a teen to see how it holds up. I expect it'll still be entertaining if I can resist the urge to nitpick it to death.