Heaven - Virginia Andrews > Reviews

Advantages: A wonderfull well written story
Disadvantages: similar to Flowers in the attic

...an area called The Willies, Heaven lives a hard life with little food and less money, she shares this tiny cabin with her grandparents Annie and Toby, parents Luke and Sarah, 2 sisters Fanny and Jane and 2 brothers Tom and Keith. Its not long before Heaven finds out that the mother she has always known is not in fact her birth mother, her true mother died giving birth to her at the tender age of 14 and is buried on the mountainside. When she learns ... Read review

Advantages: easy to read
Disadvantages: none

...on a young girl called Heaven Leigh Casteel and the story is told from her point of view. Heaven and her family live in a cabin in the mountains of West Virginia, and area caller the Willies. It's a small shack for the about of people living in it, there's Heaven, her parents, two grand parents, her brothers Tom and Keith and her sisters Fanny and our Jane. The cabin only has one bed, so the majority of them sleep on the floor. There is no running ... Read review

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Heaven is the first book in the “Casteel Family Saga.” It is basically just a story about a girl (Heaven) growing up although she definitely doesn’t have a normal childhood. Her family is very poor and as a last resort Heaven’s father decides to sell his children. This book is totally captivating and as a reader it is hard not to get attached to the characters. Heaven’s family history is intriguing and we find out a little about it in this book. The ... Read review

Advantages: Compelling
Disadvantages: Too similar to the Flowers in the Attic sequel

...a little bit disappointed. Although the Heaven sequels are good they are quite a bit the same to the Flowers in the Attic books. There are lots of incestuous feelings amongst the characters and after a while you begin to feel like the characters of both sequels have blended into one. For example Heaven is very much like Corinne, and her brother is very much like Christopher. Heaven is about a girl who is brought up in the mountains with her ... Read review

Advantages: 1st Book of the Casteel Family Saga
Disadvantages: None

Heaven This is the first book in the Casteel Family Saga. Living in the steep mountainside of a range called the Willies, Heaven's fourteen year old mother dies giving birth to her and from that moment her father turns against her. He leaves his children to fend for themselves and they survive the hard cruel winters by stealing food. Heaven loves her four half brothers and sisters and on the day that her father returns home he informs her that ... Read review