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Reader reviewed by Natalie

This book is very hard to explain because of all the details this book contains. there are sequels to this book and throughout the series you find out shocking family secrets.

Catherine, her older brother Christopher and twins Carrie and Cory are forced to live in the attic of their estranced grandparents mansion.
their grandfather disowned thir mother for marrying thir father who happens to be her half uncle(their dad is their maternal grandpa's half brother). now 14 years later their father dies leaving them in debt forcing their mother to beg her parents for help.

their grandmother lets them stay in the attic under the condition that no one know that they are there. if their extremely religious grandfather finds out they exists he will kill them.

at first they were only going to stay there a few weeks but then weeks turned into months and months into 3 years! Little by little their mom stopped visiting them and their grandmother mistreated them telling them that they are the devil's spawn and beating them(cathy and chris). there came a time that the grandmother stopeed feeding them causing them to starve for a week.
in order to survive they had to eat mice and chris, who want to be a doctor, cut himself so he could feed his blood to the twins.

throughout this torture chris and cathy becom like parents to the twins. they are growing alone and going through puberty. Because of that chris starts feeling things for cathy and vise versa. those feelings get strong causing chris to rape cathy. felling llike they bothe have sinned and their grandmother if ever she found out they decide to escape.

eventually they escape and cathy vows to get revenge on her mom and grand mother thus the 2nd book, petals n the wind, begins.

there alot more details to this book that i couldnt write abut but i definetly recommend it!!