Das Parfum vs Flowers in the Attic: Which Should You Read?

Das Parfum Patrick Süskind · 1985 ★★★★☆ 3.9 289 pages · ≈ 5 h 21 m · Moderate

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to…

Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews · 1979 ★★★★☆ 4.3 411 pages · ≈ 7 h 37 m · Moderate

“Truly, when I was very young, way back in the Fifties, I believed all of life would be like one long and perfect summer day.”

Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. In 1993, Flowers in…