Today at Book Riot...

...I've got a post up about reading V.C. Andrews' My Sweet Audrina:

I kind of can’t believe I’m going to say this, but compared to the Dollanganger books—Flowers in the Attic, etc.—My Sweet Audrina is almost RESTRAINED. I mean, there’s no doubt that V.C. Andrews should win a lifetime achievement award in OVERWROUGHT MELODRAMA, but I think her writing in this one was vastly better than in the others I’ve read.

YOU GUYS, WHY DIDN'T YOU WARN ME THAT READING IT WOULD SCAR ME FOR LIFE? (Not that I'd have listened. BUT STILL.)

Also. If you're sad that you weren't on Twitter while I was howling about it—because we all need a little more V.C. Andrews in our lives?—I Storified the experience: