Heaven

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Summary: Really touching....
Review: I've been reading 'Heaven' by V.C. Andrews since I was 12 and I must admit that I've learned a lot about love, how to fight for the one you love no matter how much that person has caused you grieve, misery and betrayed you....and I guess I realized that love conquers everything in this book, and I really feel sorry for Heaven who's been going through a hard time trying to gain attention and love from her Pa (Luke Casteel) who avoids her each time their eyes met... Poor Heaven, it seems that the world was blaming her for her Mum's death.. If this was for real, I'd like to be her friend, because I could really feel how it is like to be in her shoes.....How could the world be so cruel to an innocent girl who was to be blame for a 14 year old girl's death during childbirth? But really, this story has really touched my heart ...and I strongly believe that this novel will touch the hearts of readers from all over the globe too...

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Summary: Heaven Leigh Casteel
Review: This was the first V.C. Andrews book I read, but it wasn't my favorite. However, it was very good nonetheless. Heaven is a spirited character, and I like the description of the setting, as well as the cover. I have noticed that the real V.C. Andrews wrote great prologues and opening chapters. GW's prologues tend to be about an airplane ride into London or New York, or letters that begin with "Dear Mommy and Daddy" (ugh). Heaven has a wonderful beginning, and end. The characters have a lot of depth as well. I found Luke Sr. to be a very intriguing person. Tom was the most fun. I have read the whole series, and the first book is the best, followed closely by Dark Angel. The final installments are pretty awful, though interesting enough.

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Summary: Amazing book and series!
Review: I am a big fan of the late V.C. Andrews and out of all her books this one is my favorite. I highly recommend Heaven and the Casteel Series to anyone who knows a book when they read it. The rest of the books in this series (4 others) are as enjoyable to read as "Heaven." If you haven't already read V.C. Andrews books, any of them, but especially the Casteel Series!

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Summary: HEAVEN HELD MY ATTENTION LIKE NO OTHER NOVEL
Review: I HAVE READ MANY V.C. ANDREWS BOOKS SINCE THE TIME I WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD. BUT NONE OF THEM HAVE INTRIGUED AND FASINATED ME LIKE HEAVEN HAS. THE WAY THE WILLIES IS DESCRIBED THE PAIN AND THE HUNGER THE FAMILY WENT THROUGH CAN ACTUALLY PUT ME THERE IN MY IMMAGINATION. HEAVENS LIFE THROUGHOUT THE SERIES OF BOOKS IS ONE OF MANY STRUGGLES THAT ONE CAN HOPE FOR HER TO ACCOMPLISH. HEAVEN WAS THE FIRST V.C. ANDREWS BOOK THAT I HAD EVER READ AND I LOVED IT SO MUCH I JUST HAD TO READ MORE AND MORE OF HER NOVELS. NOW 27 YEARS OLD AND 4 WORN OUT HEAVEN BOOKS LATER I DECIDED TO NAME MY LAST DAUGHTER HEAVEN, AND I OFTEN WONDER IF MS. ANDREWS KNOWS WHAT AN EFFECT HER BOOK HAS ON PEOPLE TO MOVE THEM IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY WOULD WANT TO NAME A CHILD AFTER A BOOK COVER. JUST TO LET HER KNOW IF SHE WERE TO EVER READ THIS THAT I LOVE HER AND HER WORK AND WILL ALWAYS ENJOY READING HER NOVELS. THANK YOU

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Summary: Heaven..
Review: Even though this is the last series i've read,((i havent read celste yet, but i've read all the other books)), i truly believe it is one of the best...Just sum of the things she went through...it was really great..I recommend this for a summer read, definitely..

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Summary: Absolutely her best
Review: Undoubtedly this book and "Flowers In The Attic" are the best books of Virginia Andrews. I couldn't put it down 'til I read the last letter and then I wanted to get the sequel immediately. Heaven is a strong young girl and all the other characters and relationships are extremely well-written, especially the love-hate feeling between Heaven and her father. When reading this book you'll feel their joys and tragedies as if they were happening to you. If you haven't read any of Andrews' books then begin with this one.

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Summary: A stab of reality. A life of tragity. A world of fantacy.
Review: I feel this is the ideal book for the average life of a 'normal teenager'. You really don't know how bad life can be until you live it in someone elese's shoes. Heaven's character I use now as a rolemodel. She was forced to grow up faster than she wanted to yet she wouldn't let that take away her life long dreams. I strongly encourage anyone to read this novel. I found it amazing how V.C Andrews was able to put me in a daze of imagination and make me feel such emotion while reading the Heaven series. It was almost like creating a new dream world. If you continue to read on to other series of this novel you will find despite the grat tragities of Heaven's life there are some amazing things too. I am 14 years old and not a very big reader, but I promise you, if you read this novel you will agree it's the most brilliant, heart-throbbing story you will ever hear in your whole life!

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Summary: Great
Review: I liked this book , I found it very good and very Heavenly[lol] I recommend this book to any V.C. Andrews fan!

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Summary: Rubbish
Review: I suspect Flower's in the Attic was a lucky one-off. The rest of that particular series gradually worsened with each book. The 'Heaven' series is total trash. Tacky, trashy, and totally superficial. The name 'Heaven Leigh' makes me laugh, but is a good indicator of the dreamy storyline. It contains an absolutely unrealistic plot full of cardboard-cut-out characters. This C-grade 'soapie' is nothing more than a pathetic 'rags-to-riches' fantasy. It's full of 'beautiful' women with perfect figures and faces that 'ignite arousal' in any man. And 'dashing' men who are 'handsome', 'dangerous', and 'mysterious'. If you like your characters shallow and romantacised with no hints of reality or complexity than you'll enjoy the characters in these books. It contains as much depth as a puddle and is boring and predictable. Quite frankly, I'm embarrassed to have the series in my bookshelf but am not so cruel as to give them away to poor, unsuspecting victims.

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Summary: Revolting.
Review: From what I've read of her reviews, V.C. Andrews made a career of writing vulgar, sensationalistic melodrama. Soft-core porn might also describe it. All I know is that this is the only one I ever read, for good reason. I didn't consider it boring when I was 13, on the contrary, it was a regular page-turner of disturbing imagery and pure anger. It starts with a girl whose situation of poverty and suffering makes you want nothing more passionately than to see her triumph. Instead, she goes through experiences straight from the afternoon soaps, without so much as one lousy bright moment to make it worthwhile. You are left with a feeling not of closure or completion or even having learned a lot, but simply one of relief that at least it's finally over. Every meager hope that was created early in the book is systematically dashed. I think the author must have thought that this was the way to surprise the readers... "Oh, look, she meets a nice boy who might become a friend to her, oops, sorry, she's sent at the age of 16 to live with the smarmy couple and humps the husband, now the nice boy can't stand her. Surprise!" It was my understanding that you as a writer should manipulate the reader's emotions then deliver a payoff, or at least a surprise ending that makes SENSE. Also, it's clear how the author felt about men's sexual drives and behaviors, and I think all men should take it as an insult. The idea of women having to tolerate the discomfort or even pain while men satisfy their all-powerful member, and this is love as she sees it... It's the equivalent of saying all women max out their credit cards at sales and men have to buck up and cover the debt. If ever there was a pessimist, it was V.C. Andrews.

And these are the messages I got from this sex-and-death festival, when I was 13. Why did anyone encourage this hack?