Book Club: FITA week 4

[bonzo2012]

i hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes by starting this thread, but I'm just so antsy to discuss the last section of the book and didn't see a thread up yet.

is everyone ready to talk about the end? Should we take advantage of that new spoiler feature so people who are a bit behind can still participate without having the ending ruined for them?

[bonzo2012]

cambury108 jnerd

[cambury108]

Your fine starting the thread, I think any of us can do it. I don't think there is a "boss" LOL. I just logged in for the first time today its been CRAZY in my world. I am ready to discuss this book in its entirety as well.

Let me collect my thoughts and I will be back

[bonzo2012]

Jan 19, 2015 15:30:52 GMT -5 cambury108 said:

Your fine starting the thread, I think any of us can do it. I don't think there is a "boss" LOL. I just logged in for the first time today its been CRAZY in my world. I am ready to discuss this book in its entirety as well.

Let me collect my thoughts and I will be back

I know GuiltyPleasures used to do it, but since she isn't here I wasn't sure if anyone had stepped into her shoes.

And I mostly paged you just to bump up the thread, since no one else had commented yet and I didn't want it to disappear! I'll be watching and ready to discuss when you are!

[cambury108]

Jan 19, 2015 15:38:05 GMT -5 bonzo2012 said:

Jan 19, 2015 15:30:52 GMT -5 cambury108 said:

Your fine starting the thread, I think any of us can do it. I don't think there is a "boss" LOL. I just logged in for the first time today its been CRAZY in my world. I am ready to discuss this book in its entirety as well.

Let me collect my thoughts and I will be back

I know GuiltyPleasures used to do it, but since she isn't here I wasn't sure if anyone had stepped into her shoes.

And I mostly paged you just to bump up the thread, since no one else had commented yet and I didn't want it to disappear! I'll be watching and ready to discuss when you are!

I miss GP and I wish she would have come over here but I understand she needed to do what she needed to do for herself. I hope she joins us eventually though. 

This book by the end made me sick to my stomach and I shed a tear when Cory died. I don't think that the mother even cared. In that moment I thought the grandmother was going to step up and act right but I was wrong once again. 

I was so so happy in the end when they were free to start their lives over again. Its going to be a long/hard road for them. 

I have more but I am working, so I will keep thinking but this should start the discussion. 

Post your thoughts! 

[ceebug]

I also cried when Cory died, and then again when I found out how he died. I don't think I have ever hated a character as much as I hate the mother.

I was uncomfortable with Cathy and Christopher's relationship, but I guess that is the intended purpose. I do think that the storytelling matured from the beginning to the end signifying their childhood robbed and their subsequent adulthood.

For those who have read the rest in the series, are they all as dark and upsetting as this book? I am torn with wanting to find out the rest of the story or just inventing how I want their story to end without reading the rest of the books. I don't know if my heart can take the other books.

[bonzo2012]

I feel like I was in shock from Cory's death until the end. I pretty much read without stopping through this last section.

When Cory was sick, and Corinne didn't even seem to want to take him to a doctor, I began getting suspicious. She had already been horrid, and had been distancing herself from the children, but the hesitation about trying to save her son was a new low.

Then, as we learned more from what Chris overheard on his last trip downstairs, I couldn't wait for the kids to get out. That the powdered donuts they assumed were a peace offering from the grandmother were actually their death sentence...that was awful.

At first I was a little disappointed that they didn't take the mouse and the donuts to the police, but I also understand that to them, the most important thing now is staying together. With Chris 18, Cathy and Carrie would probably get put into foster care and separated from Chris.

I'm definitely going to read the other books to see where they end up.

[bonzo2012]

Jan 19, 2015 16:34:47 GMT -5 ceebug said:

I also cried when Cory died, and then again when I found out how he died. I don't think I have ever hated a character as much as I hate the mother.

I was uncomfortable with Cathy and Christopher's relationship, but I guess that is the intended purpose. I do think that the storytelling matured from the beginning to the end signifying their childhood robbed and their subsequent adulthood.

For those who have read the rest in the series, are they all as dark and upsetting as this book? I am torn with wanting to find out the rest of the story or just inventing how I want their story to end without reading the rest of the books. I don't know if my heart can take the other books.

I agree with the discomfort about Cathy and Chris's relationship, but I think it was also something that was always going to happen. You lock up two pre-teens in an attic and make them the parents of their younger siblings, what do you expect to happen as their bodies and hormones mature? 

[cambury108]

I have read the next book Petals in the Wind and 1/2 of the third. They are just as dark and disturbing as the first book yes. But it gives you such insight into these characters.

I agree that the relationship between Christopher and Cathy was a little unsettling but also as a PP said, what do you expect. They were thrown into the parent role and expected to act like adults an they had 0 outlet but themselves. I can understand how this could happen.

The whole donuts situation is horrible. I was sick when I realized what was going on. I was in a rage when Cory was sick and Corrine acted like she didn't want to do a damned thing about it. Sadly in the following book I learned more and it made me hate her character even more if that is even possible.

I loved the children's spirits in the book though and how they kept up hope and how the two oldest loved the little's and tried to make it an as normal environment as they could. They showed strength and courage much beyond their years.

[bonzo2012]

I didn't think it would be possible to hate Corinne even more! I'll have to pick up Petals in the Wind when I get Night Circus from the library

[cambury108]

Jan 19, 2015 17:23:56 GMT -5 bonzo2012 said:

I didn't think it would be possible to hate Corinne even more! I'll have to pick up Petals in the Wind when I get Night Circus from the library

Sadly, It is possible  

[olp920]

I read the second book, about to start the third. I'm still upset about Cory. I was so nervous they'd be caught getting out.

The end of the second book was nuts so I'm hooked.

I don't know if this is a spoiler or if I just missed something but...




I was on the FITA website and they said Corrine was adopted. Did I miss that in the book? I thought the whole point of the family being 'evil' was that Corrine and Chris were blood related. Is this something not referenced yet?

[cambury108]

Jan 19, 2015 17:33:27 GMT -5 olp920 said:

I read the second book, about to start the third. I'm still upset about Cory. I was so nervous they'd be caught getting out.

The end of the second book was nuts so I'm hooked.

I don't know if this is a spoiler or if I just missed something but...




I was on the FITA website and they said Corrine was adopted. Did I miss that in the book? I thought the whole point of the family being 'evil' was that Corrine and Chris were blood related. Is this something not referenced yet?

I somewhat have heard this but I don't think it makes sense. The whole thing was that her DH was her half uncle and that is why she was disinherited. So I don't buy that line of thinking at all.


The end of the second book was intense, as was the whole book I thought. It really showed how those years in the attic messed up long term those children.  

[anakah]

I couldn't finish the book. Halfway through I googled the series and wound up reading the wiki version of the books. It made me so sad that I just couldn't pick up the book again. Corinne was so terrible!!

[ceebug]

Jan 19, 2015 22:15:42 GMT -5 anakah said:

I couldn't finish the book. Halfway through I googled the series and wound up reading the wiki version of the books. It made me so sad that I just couldn't pick up the book again. Corinne was so terrible!!

I had to take frequent breaks when reading it, and I am relieved that it is over. It was a good book but just heartbreaking. 

[lostinfaith225]

I finally created a log in and am catching up. I now want to read the next book! I can see why they didn't turn in Corrine. I always wondered if the grandfather was as evil as she says or if it was all the grandmother.