Hello All

This is an outstanding book written with Christian values. It will make you laugh, cry, get angry, and feel very sorry for the main Characters. At the same time this book will keep you on the edge of your seat, not wanting to put it down, even for a moment. The book reads very fast, and is so exciting.
The story is told from the point of view of oldest daughter in the family. It starts out with a young family parents are about 35 years old with 2 adoring children. The mother finds out she is pregnant again and the youngest child a 7 year old girl, begins to get jealous of the new baby, and feels even worse to find out her mother is having twins. Her loving father comes and reassures here there is enough love for them all.
The father travels all week with his work and the mother spends way too much money, trying to live in the style in which she had grown up accustomed to as a child. The mother plans a huge surprise party for the father's 36th birthday, Only he does not come home.
The mother sells the house and moves the children to her parents house...Only it is not all fun and riches like she promises. The now 4 children are locked in a second story room that has a closet that leads to an attic not able to open the curtains. The mother tells them that she will introduce them to their grandfather after she gains the love of her father back and is written back into his will..Her father had her written out of his will when she married the father of her children, because he felt she had committed the ultimate sin..Then later the mother tells them that she has to wait until her father dies to let the children out of the room...The grandmother tells them they are just shy of being the spawn of Satin...She gave them a list of things they cannot do, and things they must do. They can never see each other naked, they can never be in the bathroom at the same time, they must always keep them selves covered every inch...they must read the bible every day, the older children must teach the twins, and until the twins can read they are to read to them daily. The grandmother would come in twice a day and ask them what sins they committed and what evil have they done. She never gave them a chance, she never showed them any love.
In just a short time the Mother even began to avoid the children. The twins begin to call the older 2 children momma and daddy. She left for 2 months to go to Europe and never even told them she was leaving. All of the things that their grandmother did to the children while the mother was gone, would make you want to go and take her by the head and fill her hair full of hot black tar.
Even with all that the children went through, they managed to hold on to each other..After the one of the twins passes away, the two older children plan a very elaborate scheme to escape confines of the locked room... They get hold of their mother's key and make an impression of it in the soap, and then fashion a key out of hard wood from the attic. But that is only the beginning of the plan...Oh the things they do with that key....

I still have 1/2 of the last chapter to finish reading, so it is not possible to tell you how the book ends..You have to read it for yourself...

It has been made into a movie, But my mom says that the movie does not follow the book very well. This book Flowers in the Attic is the first book in a series of more than 20 books. My mom has the whole series and I plan to keep reading...I plan also to give a review just before I finish each book...I hope you will read with me...The next book in the series is Petals on the Wind.

Please do read it and tell me what you think...