Flowers in the attic is one of those books I felt I knew before I read it. The story of the four children locked in the attic is famous for its tragedy and the many trigger warnings that come with it. 
 
 Usually I am a bit weary for books that are so widely read, and so popular with a plot that is so disturbing. Nevertheless, I went in with an open mind, hoping this book would also give me some gothic, creepy house vibes, with fascinating but unreliable narrators.  
 
 I'm afraid it wasn't. It's bad, it's just really bad. 
 
 The premise on which the whole story builds is  incredibly flimsy, things that would make the whole plot crumble are conveniently explained away.  The protagonist is annoying, (it didn't help that in the audiobook she was shouting half the time), the characters flat and  onesided and unrealistic, for all the tragedy that befalls them I didn't care for them one bit. The tools that used to make the plot move forward are so blatantly obvious. It is overwritten, overdescribed and no detail left to discover, nothing left to the imagination.  It is one thing to use foreshadowing in a book, another to use floodlights and neon signs to show the signs of where this book is going. 
 
 I mean, in the end I was almost entertained by how bad it was?