Dark Angel
Written by V.C. Andrews
Narrated by Candace Thaxton
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About this audiobook
In her grandmother’s fine, labyrinthine Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreams of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes, and most important, love. She is determined to make the Casteel name respectable, find her long-lost brothers and sisters, and have a family again.
But even in the world of the wealthy, there are strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. And as Heaven reaches out for love, she is slowly ensnared in a sinister web of cruel deceits and hidden passions.
V.C. Andrews
One of the most popular authors of all time, V.C. Andrews has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of Flowers in the Attic, first in the renowned Dollanganger family series, which includes Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. The family saga continues with Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth, Christopher’s Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger, and Secret Brother, as well as Beneath the Attic, Out of the Attic, and Shadows of Foxworth as part of the fortieth anniversary celebration. There are more than ninety V.C. Andrews novels, which have sold over 107 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five foreign languages. Andrews’s life story is told in The Woman Beyond the Attic. Join the conversation about the world of V.C. Andrews at Facebook.com/OfficialVCAndrews.
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Reviews for Dark Angel
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very good story, horrible narrator. I first read this series 30 years ago, but an really enjoying reading it again after watching the Lifetime series of movies made of the books.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I liked the book but the audio quality was terrible and kept playing missing pieces,worst audio I’ve listened to,very disappointing
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved it although Heaven got on my nerves alot
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the second book of the Casteel Saga, Heaven is reunited with her maternal grandparents and goes to live at Farthinggale Manor, Tony Tatterton's ancestral home. There she learns how the very rich live and is sent to a posh girl's school, where she has considerable trouble fitting in and misses her family. Drawn to Tony's brother, Troy, Heaven begins a secret love affair with him to fill the void left by being uprooted from her brother, Tom, and boyfriend, Logan. After Troy helps her get in touch with her past, she learns the truth of her paternity then suffers several losses, which help lead her back home where her future lies. I found this book fairly well written and full of the drama expected from V. C. Andrews.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5"Dark Angel" has Heaven going off in search of her mother's Bostonian relatives and finding out they're fabulously rich (there is always a pattern like this in Andrews' books, God love her) but very twisted. Turns out her step-grandfather was the one who got her 13 year old mother pregnant, and that's why Leigh ran away from her wealthy Boston home and ended up with Luke Casteel. Awesome. Of course she found out after she had fallen in love and decided to marry Tony's younger brother Troy, who is her uncle. Whoops. He's kind of annoying, all doom and gloom and "oh my God I just know I'm going to die before I'm thirty" blah, blah, blah. Dude! You're fantastically wealthy, a talented artist who gets to spend his whole day doing whatever he wants, and gorgeous. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO BE DEPRESSED ABOUT?? Seriously? Anyway, Heaven graduates from college and returns to Winnerrow, the little town in the valley of the Willies, to teach school there to the poor hill children like she always planned.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is a continuation of the Casteel family & I feel it is the last 5 star worthy one. We start with Heaven moving into her grandmother and step-grandfathers home on a temporary basis, this becomes permanent and Heaven is finally happy...but soon enough she finds out a chilling secret that changes everything she thought she knew.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pretty darn trashy. I read it when I was very young though, so I loved it. Troy and Heaven were awesome, even with the weird incest twist and dramatics. Still, it made my pre-teen heart flutter.
I was a weird child, but it wasn't that unusual -- there were a lot of us under-aged V.C. Andrews readers back in the day. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another amazing book by my favorite author. This was the first book I ever read by V.C. Andrews and it's amazing. The story line is great and the characters are definitely interesting. These books aren't my usual genre but they're still absolutely amazing. I noticed a constant theme though, which is that a lot of her books somehow have an incestuous twist and always have something to do with a mansion. I think my least favorite character in this book was Jillian. I didn't like her very much at all.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I don't remember this story very much, but I suppose it was good if I read the rest of the series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The last of the V. C. Andrews books actually written by her and not the current ghost writer. This series was not my favorite of Andrews but this was probably my favorite of the series. Don't bother reading after this book though; you can immediately tell its not the original author anymore.