VC Andrews Out of the Attic

The ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman, for the highly-anticipated Out of the Attic, a prequel to the original Flowers in the Attic series. made the novel into a sham. I'll bet poor. V.C. Andrews is spinning in her grave right now...or not depending on how scandalous you prefer it to be.

In this book, it shows how Corrine takes a stand for herself. In Flowers in the Attic, she is so self-assured and domineering, but in this book, she shows how she becomes the mistress of Foxworth Hall by asserting her authority as both mother to Malcolm Foxworth and wife to Garland Foxworth, which she fails terribly at.

She never seems to trust her own son because she thinks her little boy is a midget version of her husband, conniving and manipulative. She wants to care for him on her own, but her husband ells her she should care about her beauty ( what beauty? more like her ugliness-her personality is ugly)  before her son, so he grants her a nanny. Whenever her son wants her attention, she treats him harshly, not with kindness or compassion. No wonder he prefers his nanny more over his own mother.

Not only does she not trust her kid, she  doesn't  even trust her own husband due to idle gossip around Charlottesville, the town Foxworth Hall makes its home. It has been seen and talked about  in town that he has been seen at Caroline House with a widow, Mrs. Catherine Francis. Upon hearing this news, she goes right home to her parents, but her parents are not supportive at all, so Surprise! Surprise! when she gets home she sees Mrs. Catherine Francis loaded with fancy clothes from London, where Garland has also been. Garland comes home that day when Corrine confronts him, he made up some business excuse. Garland knew what Corrine has been up to whilst he has been away, which included attending the Halloween costume party as a nun that Corrine has found in one of the trunks in the Foxworth Hall attic. Later when he found out about her going to the party alone, he was incensed because women during that period (1850s) weren't allowed to go out in public alone unless with a  male chaperone.  He makes her put on a negligee he has just purchased from France and he has rough sex with her.

Corrine also finds out that the nanny/personal assistant has been in Garland's mother's nightdress in her bed and Garland has been going in there, thinking she's her mother, confessing to her like a little boy. Corrine tells her the next time she sees a nightdress on Garland's mother's bed. come tell her, so she does. She put it on and Garland comes in and was so mad; Corrine thinks she has the upper hand. Another time after Corrine, Malcolm and his nanny goes to Virginia Beach together, Garland was so mad when they arrived that he had rough sex with her again. But it was confusing... Malcolm, Corrine and his nanny took a picture in Virginia Beach and they said it will arrive in Foxworth Hall in  2 days, but they didn't even mention it after it was taken. Not ever again.

A while after that, Corrine wanted her portrait to be drawn by an male artist she first met at the Halloween party, then at Virginia Beach. She asks permission (!) from Garland to have her portrait drawn and he greenlights it before he goes on his business trip and it gets finished on the day he comes home. On the last day the artist finishes, Malcolm barges into his mother's room and sees her kiss the portrait artist. Malcolm keeps the Kiss to himself until they talk about boarding school. Malcolm spills the beans to his father about the Kiss, which ensues in the most roughest sexual intercourse as payback for her cheating on him; there is blood everywhere. She runs away to where the portrait artist is staying without ever looking back.

After a while, she finds out she is pregnant with Garland's son but the portrait artist and Corrine raised it as their own and they also have their own daughter


The book is okay. It is modernized when it should be more classy.It is filled with today's slang like Halloween costume party when it olden times it was called Halloween Masquerade Ball. They mixed up descended with ascended. They have a lot of loose ends. I hate the book from beginning to end.

Where is the assertive and self-assured Corrine Foxworth from Flowers in the Attic? This Corrine Foxworth is so... insecure and self-conscious.She always cares about what others think of her.  Corrine Foxworth in originial series is ugly, not beautiful. She is no-nonsense.

This book is filled with sexism. Why does the lady get to ask the guy's permission to do stuff? How come the men don't get permission from the ladies to do stuff? She gets in trouble for being an adulteress, but not the guy. I get that man have more power back then but it shouldn't have to be.