Web of Dreams

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Summary: Similar to DARKEST HOUR; Lack of Listening
Review: This story is a very good eye-opener. Like DARKEST HOUR, it shows what happens when people fail to listen to each other. It was bad enough that the people whom Leigh knew as her parents divorced. Leigh was shocked to know that a man named Chester was her birth father instead of Cleave. It was slimy of Cleave to bail out on Leigh when she needed his help the most. It was beastly of Tony to assault Leigh. What was worse she became pregnant. To top it all off Leigh's mom Jillian refused to listen to her (L)! A CAT'S A BETTER MOTHER THAN JILLIAN! It was noble of Luke to take Leigh in, but Luke should have brought Leigh to the right authorities. That way Leigh would have survived giving birth to Heaven.

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Summary: The prequel to Heaven
Review: This story of Leigh Van Voreen Casteel"Angel", mother of Heaven. Leigh's mother has divorced her father and married a man named Tony Tatterton, who is much younger than her mother. Her mother tells Leigh to spend time with Tony and keep him occupied so he won't bother her. Then Tony betrayes Heaven in a way that she can never forgive..............

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Summary: how sad
Review: this was a very dark book, but also really good. Leigh was so unhappy when her mother married Tony (ugh). I felt so sorry for her. And Jillian, never have i heard of a woman who was so obsessed with her image, i mean how can you blame Leigh for running away, her mother wouldn't even listen to her. Anyway, this book was really good, so anyone who is reading this review YOU MUST GET THIS BOOK.

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Summary: Wonderful, Dark Story
Review: This was the 1st V.C. Andrews book I ever read (though I'd seen the FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC movie when I was a kid) and I loved it. It was unlike most of the other novels I'd read & the twists were absolutely wonderful. When I reread this book after I'd read the rest of the Casteel series in order, it was all the more better coz it made me understand the characters and their complexities more. I strongly recommend this novel to anyone looking for an emotionally detailed and realistically frightening read. I admit that I stopped reading V.C. Andrews when I noticed the difference between her works and those of the ghostwriter's, but books like WEB OF DREAMS make me remember how much I loved the works produced under the Andrews name and I just bought 2 new V.C. Andrews books 2day because of the memories.

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Summary: the best out of this series
Review: this was the first book i read out of this series unaware that it indeed was a series because i grabbed it out of my moms collection and i was hooked this book shows how even though you may live in a big huge house and have anything your heart desires it isn't all peachy keen and great what leighs stepfather tony did to her and how her mother blamed her for everything that happened just surprised me i never thought jillian could be that curel to her daughter and be so cought up in her self like that was something else like i said this was the first book i read unaware that there was a series but i ran out and bought heaven after i got done reading this. i thnk this book was well written you can feel what leigh was going through and they go into such detail that you can pic the surroundings this bood is worth the money if you like reading v.c andrews books

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Summary: Phenonemal
Review: This was the greatest book in the casteel series, and Heaven had a pretty hard act to follow. This book has the greatest examples of betrayal in all it's power, greed, lust, and just plain psycoticness. Never had I felt such empathy for a character as Leigh, never had I cried so much, and became a character as much. The greatest showdown I have ever read is included in this book as well.

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Summary: Not quite up to par...
Review: Though it's a step up from the plotless let-down that was Gates of Paradise, there's a marked difference between Web Of Dreams and the first 3 books of the Heaven series. This book benefits from an interesting Nabokov-inspired story with a riches-to-rags twist, which works as a direct contrast to Dark Angel. The characters, however, read as 2 dimensional generalities, not as people. Luke, especially, was inadequately drawn considering the multidimensionality of his character hinted at in Heaven and Dark Angel. Unlike the Garden of Shadows prequal to the "Flowers" series, which gave the reader a fresh angle, a protagonist whose originality hasn't been seen since, and detailed background information, this prequal didn't validate itself in terms of enriching the reader's idea of the larger story. You'll find very little in Web of Dreams not told in the other books. But if you're a fan of the rest of the series, you're going to want to get as much of Troy Tatterton as you can.

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Summary: COOL
Review: Umm...It was a great book but don't let children under the age of 13 read it.

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Summary: Web of Dreams
Review: V.C Andrews is the best.. I love all of her books. Every book/series is full of mind addicting drama, once you start you cannot put it down until its finished. All V.C Andrews books are in series so you cannot wait to finish to read the next book.

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Summary: Web of Dreams
Review: V.C Andrews is the best.. I love all of her books. Every book/series is full of mind addicting drama, once you start you cannot put it down until its finished. All V.C Andrews books are in series so you cannot wait to finish to read the next book.