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“You will get less than you desire and more than you deserve” works so well for Slowgot with a yearning Julian and a Margot who keeps him at arms length. Maybe she gives him something, something small. A hand press, a glance not full of scorn and hate. A SMILE. Every new bit feeds him but it’s never enough, yet after everything he’s done the fact he gets it to begin with is a miracle.

Tbh I think Flowers in the Attic deserves better than being dismissed as trash. It's a rather accurate, if not extreme, depiction of parentification of older siblings, the repetition of generational trauma and the incest is depicted as wrong and a tragedy instead of something sexy. Yeah, it's melodramatic but at least there's a little more depth than in some of the booktok 'dark romance' books