Carrie

Carrie
By Stephen King

Anchor Books, 2002. 305 pages. Fiction. 

A repressed teenager uses her telekinetic powers to avenge the cruel jokes of her classmates.

Fast paced and disturbing, King's debut novel starts with blood (menarche) and ends with blood (pigs and otherwise). It is told from multiple points of view, giving insight into the minds and motivations of its' characters not easily deduced in its' many movie adaptations. As a bonus if you listen to the fiftieth anniversary audiobook as I did with the foreward by Margaret Atwood and King himself, you'll be able to grasp even more societal nuance and get a peek into his motivations for writing this tragic story.  

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Flowers in the Attic

By V.C. Andrews

Pocket Books, 1979. 411 pages. Fiction.

Chris, Cathy, and the twins are to be kept hidden until their grandfather dies so that their mother will receive a sizeable inheritance, however, years pass and terrifying things occur as the four children grow up in their one room prison.

House of Reckoning

By John Saul

Ballantine Books, 2009. 291 pages. Fiction.

Outcast by an injury sustained from her father, foster child Sara Crane befriends a former mental patient and her art teacher and soon creates paintings of long-ago violent crimes committed by the inmates of a local asylum, a situation that is complicated by brutal attacks on two of Sarah's enemies.

RBL