Romance Books > Virginia Andrews Romance Books

Advantages: Very well written - fantastic gripping storyline
Disadvantages: dragged a tiny bit in the middle

****Book Synopsis*** Flowers in the wind centres around the children of Dollanganger family - 4 children Chris 15 Cathy 12 Cory and Carrie 4. The book starts off with the most perfect idealistic family - the family everybody wants. The mother who stays at home and looks after the children - she is naturally beautifuly in every way and the father who adores the ground his family walk on. Until one failthful day. The mother prepares a party in preperation ...
...police officers. The father is dead, and they are now in financial ruin having not prepared for either of them to die at such a young age. The mother informs the children of their situation and also that they are going to live with their grandparents who up to now the children have been led to believe were dead. The mother looks worried and the daughter becomes suspicious - but out of their love for their mother they agree to do anything in their ... Read review

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 ...
...are torn from her arms Heaven vows to some day reunite the family. Tom is sold to a farmer and Fanny to the preacher of the near by town, Heaven herself is sold to a couple from Atlanta. Kitty and Cal Dennison seem a nice couple to begin with but soon Heaven is drawn in to a world where her new stepmother treats her like a slave and beats her mentally and physically, Cal who she had hoped would give her the fatherly love she has always wanted seduces ... Read review

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Dark Angel is the second book in the Casteel Family Saga. I don’t think it is quite as good as the first book, Heaven although it is still entertaining. In my opinion the best book in the series is the last one, the prequel “Web of Dreams” and it is definitely worth reading the whole series just to get to that one - although all the books are good. I would recommend reading the books in order because the plot and the family history and relationships ...
...all of it. In Dark Angel, Heaven goes to live with her grandparents in the luxurious Farthinggale Manor where she tries to start a new life for herself. The book is very exciting in places, especially as some of the secrets are revealed and it is gripping throughout. Part of an excellent series, and well worth reading. ... Read review

Advantages: being the story to an end and helps understand the other 4 books
Disadvantages: none

web of dreams is the last book of the 5 casteel.tatterton saga by vigina andrew. the story begains when annie casteel(hevens daughter)returns to fathingggale manor, to burie troy tatterton her real father by this time tony tatterton is dead and the great house its self look as if it has died to fianley annie will put the past to rest. when in the house and gose to jillian suite and in her desk find a book call leigh book . this book is annie granmother ...
...ther mother relationship with tony and her own relatioship with tony and how heven leigh was conseverd . web of dreams may have been the last book in the saga but is more like a prequal to the saga which includes heaven ,dark angel, fallen hearts and gates to pardise ... Read review

Advantages: passionate
Disadvantages: I hate it when they kill off the main character!

The first book i read by Virginia Andrews was 'Into the Garden', and i was hooked from there. I got the Casteel Family Saga for about 1.69 each from the local charity shops, and they are, in my opinion the best books i have ever read. 'Gates of Paradise' is the 4th book in a 5 part series. The writing changes point of view from Heaven to Heavens daughter, Annie. This put me off a bit, I was even upset, because after about 2 weeks of reading about ...
...shows how good Virginia Andrews is at writing. It starts when Annie is approaching her 18th birthday. Her and her cousin, Luke, dream about going to Farthinggale Manor, her great-grandfathers home where her Great-Grandmother, Jillian, Grandmother, Leigh, and mother lived. After a party at her Aunt Fannys', and maybe one too many drinks for her father, Logan, a car crash that kills both her parents and leaves her crippled, lands her in the care of ... Read review