Download Fallen Hearts Casteel Audible Audio Edition VC Andrews Candace Thaxton Simon Schuster Audio Books

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Fallen Hearts Casteel Audible Audio Edition VC Andrews Candace Thaxton Simon Schuster Audio Books Reviews

• This book seems a major betrayal of its predecessors, "Heaven" and "Dark Angel", perhaps because it was the first one written by the ghostwriter. The plot revolves around 1) Troy not "really" being dead, 2) Logan cheating on Heaven with Fanny, 3) Heaven and Logan moving into Farthy 4) Heaven trying to resolve her issues with Luke by adopting his son with his third wife.
  
  None of these four things should ever, ever have happened. For one thing, reviving Troy is so soap-opera and so ridiculous it strains credulity. "Dark Angel" ended with Heaven realizing she wanted to marry her childhood sweetheart, Logan, who loved her back when she was hill scum and not an heiress. It was a sweet realization and we were all happy and content that her saga ended well. Now, she's presented again with her Troy, the silly, girly character from Dark Angel who we wished really was dead.
  
  Second, why did Logan sleep with Fanny? That was so unnecessary. Andrews makes it clear in "Heaven" that he is uninterested in her exhibitionism and avoids her. It seemed such a betrayal of their marriage and of the sweet relationship between the two which had been previously established. There was another unfaithful husband created by Andrews herself-Arden in "My Sweet Audrina"-but in Arden's defense, Audrina wouldn't sleep with him. Logan wasn't that sort of character and had more inner strength besides.
  
  Third, why would Heaven, knowing Tony raped her mother and is a crazy old pervert, move into Farthy? Why would sensible Logan? They were asking for problems.
  
  Fourth, why did Heaven need to adopt Luke's son? I thought that was out of character for her, odd, and unattractive. Her "buying" the kid from Fanny didn't reflect well on her, either.
  
  A big, big failure. Stop after "Dark Angel" because this book will really disappoint. Its sequel is even worse, and I made the mistake of reading that, too. Stop while you're ahead!
• 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.