Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the devil's issue so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews.

Joining us for this episode are our returning guest, librarian and recovering V.C. Andrews fan, Stacy.

And world chess champion, Sophie.

Welcome, guys.

Hi.

Hi.

All right.

And this was a book that I had never read before.

And I know that Stacey had read it when she was a child because she references it a lot in just day-to-day life, as you do.

And Sophie had just read it fairly recently and was anxious to discuss it with the world.

So here we are. It's weird because I also, well, maybe a child. I probably read it when I was a freshman or

sophomore in high school. And it was one of those things where I had always heard people talk about it as being like super racy.

And I saw it on the shelf in my high school library where I would go at lunch instead of having friends and took it off the shelf and was like, well, I'm too embarrassed to take this out.

But I'll read it on my lunch breaks.

And overall, at the time,

ended up being really disappointed that it was not actually as racy as I had imagined it to be.

I'm like 99% sure that was because I had discovered fan fiction when I was like 10. And around the age of 13 had started clicking the yes I am over 18 button on all of the

websites.

So I had read much worse things by that point.

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