Talk About My Favorite Authors: Flowers in the Attic

From completevca.com:

Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror!

It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.

So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic.

Just for a little while.

But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work--children who--one by one--must be destroyed....

'Way upstairs there are
four secrets hidden.
Blond, beautiful, innocent
struggling to stay alive....'

All right *breathes deep* This is the most beautifully horrifying series I have ever read. And I haven't even finished it yet. Got to the end of book 3 and couldn't go on knowing there was more. It's...too sad, too painful.

I loved it.

Read this book in particular during a thunderstorm and, boy, it gave me the creeps. Yes, it's beautiful. The word does not even capture the hopeful-turned-hopeless longing, the desperation, the disturbing love cycle, the vengeance that V.C. Andrews was able to weave in this old goodie that never gets old.

This is the start of a series that leaves you completely breathless, secretly hoping for the children's welfare, but knowing they won't get an ounce of it.

A perfect read.

The series continues with Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday and Garden of Shadows. You'll be enthralled. Wanting more. Feeling hurt. Wanting to soothe. Unable to.