V. C. Andrews - Heaven

Pros: The story, characters, atmosphere, writing, etc.
Cons: None.

I was completely enthralled by this novel from the very first sentence. The storyline was suitably tragic, and contained the typical Andrews macabre, twisted plot and heavy drama that characterizes her early works before the ghostwriter. Although, ...

Pros: Easy to Read,Hard to Put Down,Real Connections to Characters
Cons: The Series Ends

Heaven is the first novel in the Casteel series. I believe this to be the best V.C Andrews book written.
The setting for this book is the poverty stricken hills of West Virginia. The reader meets Heaven Leigh Casteel on the most important night of...

Pros: Stands on its own AND makes you want to continue the series
Cons: Too much (sometimes incorrect) dialect

HEAVEN is probably best when taken by itself. Yes, you do want to know if she gets to Boston and it was actually worth everything she had to go through from the night she found out about her real mother, but the deeper into a V.C. Andrews series you go, ...

Pros: wonderfully written book about the rough life of a poor family
Cons: none

The first in the series of the Casteels. This book is great to say the least!! The series unfolds with this book telling of the youth of Heaven Leigh Casteel, a young girl being raised by a mean, stubborn mother, and a father who wants nothing to do...

Pros: Captivating
Cons: none

Heaven....the life of a young girl from the backwoods of West Virginia, better known as 'The Willies'.
Heaven Casteel lives in a small shack with her mother and father, her brother's Tom and Keith, her sister's Fanny and Jane, and of course we...

Pros: A fantastic reading
Cons: one of her last great books

This is my favorite of VC Andrew's books and truly shows her unique storytelling that her predecessor fails to mimic. Heaven is about a young girl growing up in a dirt poor home with less than perfect parents. Heaven is a strong, very human...

Pros: my favorite
Cons: troy isn't in this one

Heaven is my favorite book. The Casteel Series is my favorite series. In Heaven, we find her living in a rotten cabin with the rest of her family, in the Willies. She is extremely poor, mal-nourished, wearing rags for clothes, and having the burden of...