Could've been better This book has Heaven's daughter Annie as the main character. You think that Heaven would have a stronger, more likeable daughter, but it's anything but that. Annie is childish, immature, and I didn't care for her at all. What 18 year old calls their parents "Mommy" and "Daddy?" The story is rehashed from all the other Casteel books, and the ending just lacks emotion. It could've been so much better.
The sun never comes out for Annie Though not as bad as some of the ghost writer's latest, it is still not very good. I don't understand how Annie and Luke could fall in love. It's a pretty trashy notion, not to mention, unrealistic. It's about as tragic as an episode of Jerry Springer. The whole thing with Heaven and Logan plunges an already pathetic plot into melodrama. Annie has a few fainting spells, and when she is conscious, she's bemoaning her lost childhood. One thing I have to give GW, though, he must know that writers are not supposed to demonize the bad guys. He tries to make us sympathize with Tony, but he fails. Perhaps he tries to compensate by demonizing the good guys. Huh? He pulls that off, I must say. I come away from the book liking no one, sad that the writer couldn't have killed off the whole cast of characters while he was at it. It worked for Shakespeare. The ghostwriter's laughable first attempt I have two problems with this book. The first one is that the ghost writer did not use one single line of original dialogue throughout the entire story. He just rehashed the whole plot with Heaven again. If you read Fallen Hearts, you won't miss anything in this book. All the elements are there, and back again. Annie dies her hair blond, hmm....Somebody decides to go for a midnight walk and ends up in someone else's bed in the middle of the night. Sound familar? Tony completed deteoriated, the ghostwriter didn't even get the color of his hair right. And, he wasn't the strong, dangerous and intriguing character from the first book, he became a cookie cutter villian that spouted whole lines of dialogue from the previous books back at Annie when he was having a "moment". The ghostwriter blames this on senility. That sounds like an easy way out. The second thing is, as numerous other reviewers have pointed out, Annie is the most moronic, whiny, little fool. I guess Heaven and Logan really messed up there. I personally didn't care about what happened to her, especially since the same things from every other book VC wrote were just transferred onto her simpering, crybaby little head. What a horrible end to a genuinely touching series. This is one of the few VC Andrews books I never reread back when I was really gung ho for all these books. This is also the ghostwriter's ghastly debut. The good news is that he gets better. It would be hard to outdo this book with it's pure lack of everything. With this book, he could have just handed you a piece of paper directing you to the various pages numbers of previous VC Andrews books that he directly ripped off, instead of wasting more paper. A six year old with mad libs and a list of adjectives could have been more creative. But to give him credit, like I said, he does do better in some of his later series. So anyway, you probably don't want to buy this book. Get it in the library, before you go on a long plane ride.
