Flowers In The Attic By VC Andrews

This book was very, very good! It was very risque and creepy. One of the main reasons I think I really liked this book was there was a lot of action and not a lot of description. Books with a lot of description are very boring to me and hard to read. The plot of this book was very appealing to me because I like books that are creepy, disturbing, and depressing and this book definitely had all of those qualities. I loved all of the mystery in this book, like the mom's secrets and their family secrets. It made me want to keep reading. I also liked how everything came together in the end. Throughout the book, I had the feeling like I was in the story and that made the book even better. One thing that surprised me about this book is how they didn't end up completely kill each other after 3 years in a room together. I know that if I was locked in a room with my sister for a whole day, not even as long as they were, we would have gotten so irritated with each other by the end of the day. They had a few small disputes, put they were very insignificant and didn't change anything in the story. I also do not understand why after they figured out how to leave the room, they came back and even their rope was not very sturdy, they didn't try to improve over the next year they had. They never even tried. Overall, I really liked this book and want to read the sequels.

The Help By Kathryn Stockett

I really liked this book! I liked how there were three different narrators with very different opinions and approach to the same situation. I also liked that all of the stories were connected, even it was slightly confusing at times. That aspect of the book reminded of My Sister's Keeper By Jodi Picoult. That was one of my favorite parts of that book as well. The time period of this book was also interesting. It takes place in the 1960s right around when JFK was assassinated. I got to read about the difficulties Africans Americans faced during this time period from the perspective of two African Americans, Aibleen and her best friend ,Minny, and a white woman, Miss Skeeter. Each of the three women have very different ideas about the current social state of their home, Jackson, Mississippi. They all agree that it the way the help and other African Americans are treated is bad, but they approach it differently. I really liked how similar, yet different the women were. It made reading the book a lot more exciting because each section was very different. It was also different because each of the women's lives was different from the others. Overall, I really liked this book, but one thing I was very disappointed with was the ending. it ended so fast, I had to reread it a couple of times to understand how it ended.