Fallen hearts is a book out of the Casteel series. I think the Casteel series is the best she ever wrote personally. This whole series are those kind of books you just cant put down. I find whenever I have read these books (ive read the series all the way through about 4 times) I never get anything else done. LOL. You cant help but get sucked into Heaven's world. Awesome books! Read them all!

For once, Heaven Casteel feels like she could be happy. But after she marries her childhood sweetheart, Logan Stonewell, and goes back to Farthy, her mother's childhood home, her fragile happiness is shattered.

After I read Dark Angel (the book leading up to this one), I knew I would have to read the next one in the series. However, I was slightly disappointed in this one. Though the plot was just as tragic, dark, and dramatic as the previous book, the writing in itself has gone down. There were phrases and phrases of the same thing over and over again. The descriptions of Heaven's thoughts and feelings seemed to be repetitive and dragged out. The romance aspect of the book was rather cheesy, and the characters were somewhat destroyed. But in the end, if you skip the details and only read the dialogue, this novel is actually pretty good. I liked how the relationship between Heaven and Fanny resulted in the end, and how they seemed to finally make peace with each other. Heaven also learned that "Pa" did love her some. All in all, it wasn't the best VC Andrews book out there, but considering that this book was written by a ghost writer, it came together nicely at the end and was rather enjoyable.

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'!

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 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!