"I firmly identified with the spunky, long-suffering Cathy back then, but for this adult reading I found myself, to my utter dismay, identifying more with the selfish, greedy, clueless mother, simply because 'mother' is such a huge part of who I am now."
~ Cheryl Wischhover
"On Reading (and Being Freaked Out by) 'Flowers in the Attic's as an Adult"
https://www.elle.com/culture/books/reviews/a13950/rereading-flowers-in-the-attic/
"I am angry at V.C. Andrews for making me think about whether or not I could ever do to my kids what Corinne did to hers, all for money and a hot, young new husband. No, surely not, right? To my mind, locking your children away and letting some psychotic old lady torture them is a hundred times worse than a brother and sister getting it on. From the wise vantage of adulthood, I can now see what victims those kids were, and all because their mother was incredibly weak. I cried much harder this time around when poor little banjo-playing Cory died than I ever did during my pubescent readings. Even though this is a work of pulp fiction, human beings do terrible things, and it's not something that's pleasant to contemplate."
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