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Summary: Great Book
Review: Heaven thinks her days will be happy after she meets her very rich grandparents,but she is not.
She can't ring her brothers or sisters EVER again.
She has no friends at her new school and her very vain grandma rejects her.
Then she meets Troy,Tony-the step grandpa's-brother,they fall in love,but he is a drepressed person,over all in my option-BORING!
The book just tells about her and Troy,but at the end of the book,Heaven finds out that Tony and Leigh-Heaven's Angel mum-did it and that Tony is her step-grandpa and her father!
Tom her brother dies and Heaven turns to Logan after Troy drowns.
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Summary: All good things come to an end
Review: This book was better than all the V.C. Andrews books that followed it (it was the last one she wrote before she died, I think). Therefore, the writing is witty and the characters are fun. It's a great book, though the ending is horribly sad. It is well-written with good depth to the characters. The perfect ending for a unique writer, though this series cannot compete with the Dollangangers (no series can).
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Summary: Change of family image
Review: Heaven Casteel is an outstanding woman. She showed determination and persistence pay off if anybody is determined to accomplish a goal. It made me sad that the girls at Winterhaven made fun of her and ruined her nice clothes. I, too, had been made fun of at school. It was account of my receiving special services. Hence I belong to the Autism Society of America (ASA) to ensure nobody especially those with autism is pick on at school or anywhere else. For information about ASA call 1-800-3-AUTISM. Recently at an ASA conference, I met another VC Andrews fan.
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Summary: One of the Best!!!
Review: I adored this book, as well as the first one. I was sad when Troy and Heaven could not be together, and Heaven's schoolife at Winterhaven is very interesting. Tony is horrible, and Jillian is not much better. I would read this book if you haven't before, because you won't be able to put it down!!
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Summary: Book #2 in the Casteel Series
Review: Leaving her foster home in Candlewick, Georgia, 17-year-old Heaven Leigh Casteel has come to visit her rich grandparents, Tony and Jillian Tatterton, in Boston, Massachusetts. Farthinggale Manor has now become her new home, the same place where her long-since-dead teenage mother lived and fled from in fear. It is now Heaven's turn to discover the sordid secrets this family has hidden for almost 20 years.But first, Heaven is lured to give up her freedom to Tony in return for all the opportunities his money can buy, including an education at an exclusive private school for girls called Winterhaven. His money can't buy the student's opinion of her, however, and, once again, Heaven feels like an outsider. The girls are extremely cruel to Heaven and, in one incident, they slip laxatives in her drink at a party. The prank backfires on one of the girls when Heaven dares her to slide down the laundry shoot--and into a pile of... well, human excrement, to put it nicely, courtesy of Heaven. Very gross, I know, but I couldn't help but laugh. Anyway, on the romantic side of "Dark Angel", Heaven meets Tony's younger brother, Troy, who later becomes Heaven's longtime, brooding lover. (Troy is, so far, the sexiest male character Andrews has ever come up with. I absolutely love Troy.) Heaven does meet up with Cal Dennison once in this book, but not as a romantic gesture. There's obviously no chemistry between those two, but Cal seems to think so and tries to rape her. And, as for Logan Stonewall, Heaven tries to rekindle their childhood romance (this is before she gets involved with Troy), but he's still hurt and angry by her relationship with Cal and pushes her away. Now, although Heaven promised Tony she would exclude her family from her life completely, she does try to contact her four siblings: Fanny who, of course, has gotten herself into trouble by giving birth to the reverend's child in return for $10,000, but she later changes her mind and insists Heaven do everything she can to return her baby; Keith and Our Jane are terrified of Heaven because they think she's trying to take them back to the Willies; and Tom has joined the circus with their father and seems content enough. By the end of this book, several secrets are unearthed (including the truth of Heaven's biological father), some relationships are rebuilt (Logan and Heaven; Our Jane, Keith, and Heaven) and others are destroyed, and death and madness follow suit for several characters. "Dark Angel" is the second book in the Casteel series, preceded by "Heaven" and succeeded by "Fallen Hearts", "Gates of Paradise", and "Web of Dreams". I highly recommend reading all five books in this series. In my opinion, this is the best series V. C. Andrews has created so far. A must-have for all V. C. Andrews fans.
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Summary: The Sequel To The Beautiful "Heaven"
Review: I've read this book long ago, and i noticed that amazon.com was constantly wanting me to review it, so I decided to go for it. I think that this novel is very romantic, very decietful and very joyful. Just like any V. C. Andrews books, they all seem to contain all of the above, which In my opinion is an amazing gift. In this book, Heaven is growing into a mature young woman, trying to forget a past that had betrayed her, and looking into the future with her eyes wide open. This is a great novel, and one of her more successful ones at that.
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Summary: Good plot, sad ending...
Review: I have to admit that I only went on reading this book because of the character Troy. He was different but why does Ms. Andrews had to make his character so... feminine? I realized a lot of you people out there fell in love with Troy, but he was so GIRLISH in some ways. Funny... The love between Troy and Heaven was so sad. They couldn't be together at the end, because, well, it was forbidden. I don't want to burst this story to anyone who haven't read this book yet. I noticed that V.C. has a thing with "incest", which totally screws up her books for that is *DISGUSTING.* Overall, I really enjoyed this book, and it was unfair of what happened to Troy at the end, even though he couldn't be with Heaven. I'm just wondering... why does almost everyone dye their hair blond these days? Can't you go with your natural hair color? You'd know what I mean when you read this book. Toodles! :D
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Summary: The second book in the Casteel series
Review: In this book, Heaven goes to live with her grandmother, Jillian and her step-grandfather, Tony Tatterton, in Boston. There Heaven attends an all girls boarding school. Heaven meets Tony's younger brother, Troy, who lives in a cottage on Tony's estate. Heaven falls in love with Troy only to find out that their love is forbidden...............
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Summary: I SAW THE CLIMAX COMING
Review: On the hole, it was a really good book. The only problem I had with it was that I saw it coming when Tony confesses to Heaven that he is her father. The hints were really good, but I wasn't as shocked or suprised and I hate when that happens in a book. Other than that, I though it was well done. I especially liked the character of Troy. He is someone that everyone can relate to. Everyone has know someone in there lives that is self destructive. It also just breaks your heart to watch them slowly butsurely kill themselves. I am looking forward to the next book. They just keep getting better and better.
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Summary: Not the Greatest Love Story
Review: I have not read this book for awhile, but upon reading these reviews I feel it is necessary to put my two-cents in. I give it 5 stars mainly because it is classic VCA and coninued one of the greatest plots with the greatest characters in novel history. But I must say, I am not as in love with this book as much as others. Maybe part of the reason is that I already knew that Tony was her father (I had read Web of Dreams first-- don't do that) so that was a big spoiler, but I just don't see the intensity that Heaven and Troy's love had. Sure, they were good together--but to compare them to Romeo and Juliet? Absoluteley not. I liked her and Logan together...their love was cute and innocent in Heaven... I also didn't enjoy Ms. Andrews phrasing of certain situations. she totally over dramatized and almost romantisized the incident with Pru, and it was totally disgusting! Nevertheless this book is grand. I love Heaven (even though she is a bit wavering in this book,)so read it. but I still think that Jimmy and Dawn's love was the greatest in all VCA books.
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