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Fallen Hearts

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I was suprised when I first read virginia andrews books, I thought they'd be like the bold and the beautifull or something. I was really suprised to find that they were actually very well written with complex characters. I read the flowers in the attic series when I was 13 and the casteel seies at 15. I'm now 25 and picked up the casteel seies again, I really enjoyed heaven and dark angel but didnt even bother finishing fallen hearts! I was unsure until I looked here if it was written by her but was pretty certain it wasnt as the characters are completly different and the writng style is more suited to something you'd read in a romance book you'd pick up at the supermarket.

I liked Heaven in the 1st 2 books but she was stuck up and annoying in the 3rd. And when did it make any mention of Tony having feelings for her other then as a father in 1 and 2, all of a sudden in fallen hearts he became enamoured with her!

Poor Virginia Andrews having her name associated with such bad work, it would have been better to have left the series as it was. This book and the ones following it were obviosly written purely to cash in on the sucess of the earlier stories.

This is the third installment in the Heaven series, and excellent as always. Heaven is such a strong character, and faces challenges unimaginable. You just ache for Troy and her to be together knowing that they can't. Pick up a copy and get ready to read this in one sitting.

Heaven and Logan had a beautiful wedding. Heaven wanted to have a good relationship with Luke, whom she had known as her dad when she was little. Shortly after she got reacquainted with Drake Heaven discovered this ugly fact: Tony had forbidden Luke to have any contact with her. I would be very angry if somebody told anybody I wanted to hear from not to ever speak to me at all. What's worse was Tony assaulted Heaven again. Fanny did stoop low to try to turn Drake against Heaven. The truth eventually came out when it came to the hearing about Drake's custody. Fanny needed to learn the hard way that a relationship shouldn't be started with lies. I believe that Heaven is a more competent guardian for Drake than Fanny would be.

The Fallen Hearts by V.C. Andrews is one of the most romantic novels I have ever read. Once you start reading, you'll never want to stop until you are finished. In the novel, the main character, Heaven, has to leave and forget her tragic past of the death of her love and regain her strength to live again. She finds happiness when she puts her fate into the hands of a man named Logan whom she falls in love with. The story deals with scandal and jealousy, passionate, and dangerous dreams. Overall, this is a very interesting novel, I highly recommend.

I have just finished reading this book along with the prequels. I was compelled to read these books so I could understand the life behind Farthinggale Manor and the lives it disrupted. It is a touching series that made me cry and laugh but mostly understand the cruel but realistic ways that nature deals out to unforunate others such as Heaven and her generation. Unlike many books, this series brings out more surprises during the story and keeps you guessing what the future holds for Farthy. I was disappointed by the heartache caused to Troy and Heaven, but realise the manner in the book wasn't just about a love story but more about a girl whose whole life has been so unfair but who finally finds peace within herself after the truth is revealed. Virginia Andrews is an amazing writer whose books are addictive and I look forward to reading Gates of Paradise.

I really like this book! Fanny plays an important role, and she is a really good character. Heaven, thinking Troy is dead, marries Logan. But then she finds out Troy IS alive. She is torn. I love V.C. Andrews! I am only 15, but I read all her books!

I really loved this book. I felt sorry for Heaven, she has it rough. Really rough, I couldn't imagine having a sister like Fanny, she's a little witch. Now I'm off to 'Gates of Paradise'!

V.C. Andrews, one of the most gifted and talented writers of our time only penned seven of the books bearing her name: Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, If there be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, My Sweet Audrina, Heaven, and Dark Angel. I read Fallen Hearts as a teenager many years ago and felt this book did not have the same writing style and spark to it, which I felt in her other books (the original seven she wrote). This book is a lame attempt by a ghost writer to continue the Casteel series...the attempt is embarrassing. There are huge discrepancies between Dark Angel and Fallen Hearts that should not have occured...one being, the fact that Tony states that Troy lost control of Adulla Bar and both went into the ocean. Adulla Bar came back unharmed, but Troy WAS FOUND DEAD by the Coast Gaurd, he had DROWNED. In Fallen Hearts, Troy says he purposely rode the horse into the ocean and waited to die but was pushed onto shore again. He states that he traveled the world afterwards and did not let Tony know he had died. He says he returned to Farthy a while later and finally told Tony....These two scenarios make absolutely no sense! Dark Angel states that Troy's body was found. This was never addressed in Fallen Hearts. The story would be more believable if Tony had falsified the story about his brother's death to keep Heaven and Troy apart, but that story line is never used. Instead, they say that Tony believed Troy was dead...but if that is the case, Troy's dead body being found should never have been mentioned in Dark Angel.

Another problem is the age of Troy when he died. He was almost 28 in Dark Angel, but was mentioned as 29 in Fallen Hearts. I mean, geez, if you are going to ghost write a book at least get the previous book's facts straight, right?

I always wonder what book the "real" V.C. Andrews would have written after Dark Angel. I believe she may have brought Troy back to life, but with a different story line...something more sinister and dark...like Tony lying about Troy's death....in Dark Angel, they never said anything about a funeral or about Heaven seeing his dead body...I think Andrews left that in the air to be explored in another book, but NOT the way it was explored by the new writer.

I mean the writing is shallow...and borrows descriptions and phrases from Dark Angel...Also, why would Logan have a meaningless dalliance with Fanny? And why weren't there deeper repercussions...it was as if Heaven found out and was like "Oh, well you had an affair, but hey it's okay. Hooray, now you are going to be the father of Fanny's child...blah blah blah.

THIS BOOK WAS AND IS A TOTAL LETDOWN....I'M 24 NOW AND READ IT WHEN I WAS IN MY TWEENS....TOTAL LETDOWN...GET A BETTER WRITER OR STOP WRITING BOOKS!

This book was very good but you noticed the differences and where the ghostwriter took over. For one a few plot holes were here. For one Troy died in Dark Angel and I agree with one reader; perhaps it was meant for Tony to lie to Heaven about Troy's death just to keep her and Troy apart but what didn't make sense here, was that Tony didn't know when in reality I can't see that he didn't. But the biggest problem was that Tony mentioned Troy's body being found, and while Dark Angel left it in the way for Tony to have been lying (I mean Heaven didn't visit his grave and Tony mentioned no funeral in fact; I couldn't understand why Heaven didn't ask about that at least) I agree with one of the readers who pointed out that it could have been set up nicely for Heaven to discover that Tony had been lying all along it sure would have been far more emotional and a much better reason for Heaven to hate Tony even more. And why did Troy want people to think he was dead? That made no sense to me either. I mean why? He lived quietly in the cottage and it wasn't like people were beating on it all the time. I can understand him and Tony allowing Heaven to think it but oh well.

Another thing I didn't understand was Tony's lust for Heaven that did come out of nowhere. In Dark Angel Heaven does not mention that Tony was looking at her with desire, in fact nowhere is it written in Dark Angel that she felt that at all. In fact at the beginning of this book Heaven describes Tony's look of desire but she does not mention this during that scene in Dark Angel. I can believe that once Heaven returned to Farthy with her mother's blond hair, that Tony's old lust would be resurrected but that is when it should have happened not before. But these things aside this book was still very good for what it was. I still recommend it and found it to be an enjoyable read. I do wish we had V.C Andrews full vision for it though it would have been more awesome but being inspired by her it was still very good.

Another thing was the affair between Logan and Fanny. Why did that have to happen? I mean Logan always managed to turn down Fanny when he was younger, but he couldn't do it here when he was older and married? That too came out of nowhere as if they just needed an excuse to add something here maybe because of Heaven's one night with Troy. Funny how Heaven in the end of the book is saying that Drake's custody trial was the chance for everyone to cleanse themselves yet she sure didn't for she never told Logan the truth about her and Troy. But aside from these things I still recommend the book as a entertaining read.

I just re-read this book (actually the entire series) for the second time - the first being when I was 15 years old. Now that I'm older and married, I was able to judge the book in a different light. As a teenager, I loved it, but now, as an adult, I found the book flawed. Firstly, Heaven's overall disposition seemed to change by this novel. Based on much of Heaven's dialogue, it's clear that she slowly transitioned from the polite, humble and (occasionally) naive girl and into a more self-righteous and haughty adult. So yes, I definitely agree with others in that Heaven has become more snobbish by the third book (her comment to Amy Lucket that "you've gained weight...shouldn't you be concerned?" seemed so "not" Heaven to me...). At times, I didn't know what to make of our female protagonist. In a sense, Heaven has become too perfect, and the trilogy of males who continually worship and profess their love to the main character book eventually began to work my nerves. I also found that much of the story bored me with explanation, and I found my eyes skimming through many of these pages. In addition, Fanny's characterization as the troubled, envious younger sibling became way too exaggerated by this novel. We understand that Fanny has always been jealous of her older sister, but there was so much cliched jealousy and in-your-face melodrama that it almost seemed unrealistic. I don't know about you, but I found myself rolling my eyes during most of the "Fanny" scenes.

Troy's supernatural return defied logic and was most-likely a tacked-on approach to bring back a popular character. It was also a desparate attempt to add a twist to the storyline (don't want to spoil the paternity issue for anyone). Insofar as Logan, I was never fond of him throughout the series and found his precocious infatuation with Heaven in the first novel very unrealistic. The likelihood of a upper-middle class school boy instantly falling head-over-heels for a backwoods hillbilly girl like Heaven Casteel, depsite her winning "cornflower blue" eyes, was rather unlikely; but alas, that's the pathway that VC Andrews carried us. Logan's feelings for Heaven clearly stood the test of time. Therefore, his inadvertent slipup with Fanny in this novel was ludicrous and borderline implausible, regardless of his being drunk. Give me a break.

It was not a suprise that Luke and Stacie were both killed in this novel. As with several VC Andrews sagas, in order to make room for new characters (in this case, Drake), the quickest way to terminate others leads is to kill them off. I believe Heaven and Logan, Dawn and Jimmy, and several others in the VC Andrews congregation have endured similar fates in order to make way for their offspring. I just never realized how many parents (in unison) die so much!