Brother–Sister Incest: Corinne and Christopher believe they're half-niece and half-uncle.Break the Cutie: What happens to Alicia in the attic.Bond Villain Stupidity: Malcolm dives into this repeatedly in the film series ranging from threatening and hurting everyone with his rages that he's barely able to fully comprehend the consequences of his actions, until Olivia points them out.Months later, Alicia is pregnant with Malcolm's Child by Rape, and Olivia still resents her for it, making it a serious case of victim blaming. Malcolm's father has a fatal heart attack when he catches his son trying to force himself on Alicia. Alicia doesn't reciprocate Malcolm's feelings even slightly, not that he cares. Rather than point her anger at Malcolm, Olivia resents Alicia for being young, beautiful, vibrant, and fertile. Blame the Paramour: Olivia discovers that her husband Malcolm is deeply obsessed with his teenage stepmother Alicia, who is several years younger than he is.The fact that she's smart and independently wealthy seals the deal for him, since he knows she wouldn't be a Gold Digger and can run his household efficiently.
Beauty Is Bad: Malcolm distrusts beautiful women, hence he deliberately seeks out the homely Olivia.Awesome, but Impractical: The swan bed, originally made for Corinne Sr., which requires custom sheets.Awful Wedded Life: Poor Olivia never gets her Happily Ever After.Adaptational Sexuality: In the made-for-tv mini-series, Joel is explicitly gay.Garden of Shadows contains the following tropes: The mini-series sticks closely to the book for the most part, with many major characters getting considerably expanded screentime and additional backstory. In 2022, Garden of Shadows was adapted as a sprawling, four-part Lifetime mini-series under the title Flowers in the Attic: The Origin. After witnessing Malcolm's lust, violence, and incestuous passion destroy their family, Olivia grows to believe that the entire Foxworth bloodline is tainted, and that God has brought her into Foxworth Hall to purify the sin. But soon she realizes that her husband is a cold, ruthless, and cruel man unable to love anyone, even his own wife and children. Olivia enters Foxworth Hall as a young and hopeful bride newly wed to handsome millionaire Malcolm Foxworth. It acts as a Prequel to the events of Flowers in the Attic and tells the story of Olivia, the wicked grandmother in the first novel.
Published in 1987, the novel was ghostwritten by Andrew Niederman through a collaboration of Andrews' estate and her publishers. Andrews (until Secrets of Foxworth happened). Garden of Shadows is the final book in the Dollanganger Saga by V.
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