The girls at Heaven's boarding school are terrible, although there's this truly epic revenge prank involving a garment bag filled with diarrhea that was especially satisfying. Logan is terrible (I knew it, though- you can't trust boys). This book was basically an exercise in reminding me why I hate all these characters. The only new "relative" she likes is her step-uncle, Troy, who lounges around in his cottage wearing puffy shirts. Heaven's new guardians are the parents of her birth mother and rich but flawed: Jillian is narcissistic and vapid, Tony is controlling and creepy. If you think things couldn't possibly get any worse from there, pull on your big girl pants (or big boy pants) and take a seat, because they sure do. :tear:īy the end of the book, Heaven's siblings have been auctioned off like cattle, she's been groomed by a predatory hebephile, and rejected by the man she thought she loved. HEAVEN sets the stage for the series by introducing us to the super-poor Casteel family who live in a shack by the mountains, are basically trailer trash (except they live in a shack, so shack trash), and cursed with tragic beauty. More often than not, they end on a cliffhanger, so you have to dive right into the next one. These books are like potato chips, in that you can't stop at just one. Nobody ever accused me of having good taste in books, and I think that my enjoyment of classic V.C.
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