Read It Wednesday: My Sweet Audrina

MySweetAudrina.jpgV.C. Andrews brings us into the terrifying life of Audrina Adare in My Sweet Audrina. Audrina Adare is kept from the world around her. Named after her sister who was raped and murdered in the woods her mother and father forbid her from leaving the family grounds. Sadly, tragedy strikes leading Audrina to explore the outside world that she has been kept from with the help of Arden, who eventually becomes her husband. However, with a overprotective father and vindictive cousin Audrina begins to learn that there is something about her that was kept from her all of her life.

Read It Wednesday: Flowers in the Attic

Dollanganger01 FlowersInTheAttic.jpgV.C. Andrews created a master in family ties gone wrong in a Gothic horror style book. Flowers in the Attic follow the four Dollanganger siblings as their seemingly perfect life takes a terrible turn. When their father dies, their mother takes them to live with their grandmother. However, their grandmother is cruel and vicious as she disowned their mother for marrying their father. The four children learn that they must live in the attic until their grandfather passes away. But, as time goes on, the two oldest Cathy and Chris, start to suspect that there is something more sinister when their mother becomes more distant than ever before.