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The Casteel Series is the second Generational Saga from V. C. Andrews, published after Seeds of Yesterday. Andrews completed the first two books in the series shortly before her death from breast cancer in 1986. The series was completed by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman. Among Andrews' fans, this series (or at least the first two books) is held in particularly high regards, with some saying that they're Andrews' best work.When she is ten years old, Heaven Leigh Casteel, a girl living with her extremely poor family in a mountain range called the Willies, learns from her grandmother of her father's first wife Leigh, a Boston socialite and teenage runaway who married Heaven's father Luke and died giving birth to Heaven. Heaven receives her late mother's few belongings, the most precious being a one-of-a-kind doll that is identical to Heaven's mother (and, aside from the hair color, to Heaven herself). by V.C. Andrews Heaven (1985) Dark Angel (1986) by the ghostwriter (see Casteel Series (ghostwritten)) Fallen Hearts (1988) Gates of Paradise (1989) Web of Dreams (1990)NOTE: Unmarked spoilers ahead. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite their constant disputes, Heaven and Fanny have moments like these, particularly in the first and third book. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Heaven is sexually abused by Cal, whom she had come to see as a father figure. In the backstory, Leigh is raped by Tony, which is her main motivation for running away. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: Luke is much more affectionate towards Fanny than Heaven, the fact which Fanny revels in. Leigh was also much closer to her father than her mother even though he actually wasn't her father. | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Heaven and Fanny have had this since childhood, starting with Heaven's resentment of Fanny's loving relationship with their father, even as he ignores and outright abuses Heaven. It continues as Fanny's reputation at school tars Heaven with the same brush, leaving Heaven to fight off accusations that she's as easy as her sister. Meanwhile, Fanny envies Heaven's ability to win genuine love and tries to seduce Heaven's high school sweetheart away from her. Later, Fanny resents that Heaven's fallen into the lap of luxury while she lives just above poverty; she demands Heaven support her financially as proof that Heaven really cares about her. Later still, an adult Fanny successfully seduces Heaven's husband and becomes pregnant by him. | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: Web of Dreams begins with Annie and Luke attending Troy's funeral. Annie wanders around Farthy one last time and ends up in Jillian's old room, where she finds Leigh's diary and the story proper begins. | |
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Byronic Hero | |
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Byronic Hero: Troy. He's born sickly, orphaned early, gains a sister-in-law that's more of a Wicked Stepmother, loses his sisterly figure, is never able to be with his true love though they do have a child together, has pessimistic thoughts about dying by the time he's thirty. He also appears to suffer from severe seasonal depression that makes him take self-destructive risks (sleeping with the windows open during a bitter-cold rainstorm even though he has chronic lung issues; riding an uncontrollable horse into the sea). In spite of all this, he outlives his parents, brother, sister-in-law, niece-in-law/sister, and niece/lover. | |
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Hidden Heart of Gold | |
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Hidden Heart of Gold: Fanny is loud, selfish, and opinionated but cares very deeply about the people she loves, even from a young age. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: Tony was in his early 20s when he met and Jillian, who was 40. | |
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Maternal Death? Blame the Child! | |
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Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Luke treats Heaven like crap because he blames her for Leigh's death. | |
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Generation Xerox | |
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Generation Xerox: The ur-example for the series is Heaven's resemblance to her mother Leigh. Other than Heaven's dark hair, they're said to be doppelgangers, and the fact that stubborn, determined Heaven is not the innocent, pliable Leigh fuels much of the first half of the series. Heaven's daughter Annie looks extremely similar to her mother; so much that the sanity-challenged Tony mistakes Annie for Heaven (along with Leigh and Jillian). She even compares her relationship with her half-brother Luke to Heaven's relationship to Troy. A minor case: Leigh, Heaven, and Annie (mother, daughter, and granddaughter) have at least one thing in common not related to their appearance: not a single one of them was raised by their biological father. And all three of them fled Farthingale after being assaulted by Tony. Luke Casteel sold his children, and in Fallen Hearts Fanny only agrees to give custody of Drake over to Heaven when the latter offers her one million dollars. When Heaven reunites with a healthy, teenage Our Jane, she is stunned to realize that Jane looks just like her grandmother Annie Casteel, who was said to be the local beauty in her youth. Likewise Keith grows up to resemble his grandfather Toby. | |
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Practically Different Generations | |
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Practically Different Generations: When first met, Tony is around his 40s while his brother Troy is in his 20s. The age gap is farther emphasized in the prequel, where Tony is a married man in his 20s while Troy is only five. Much later, Drake is born when all of his siblings are well over a decade older than him, some even being married and having kids themselves. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Cal Dennison takes advantage of his adopted daughter Heaven's loneliness in order to rape her. Poor Heaven is so confused by her affection for him that she briefly convinces herself that their relationship is consensual and feels guilty over it. Tony ends up going this route, having not only raped Leigh but almost doing the same with his respective daughter and granddaughter Heaven and Annie. The Reverend Wise deserves a mention given that he molests Fanny shortly after adopting her. Unlike other examples in this series, Fanny is not seen as a victim and is slut-shamed by nearly everyone, despite the fact that she was a preteen and he was a married man (at one point in the first book, the Reverend keeps Fanny locked in the house and forbids her from making any contact with her family!). Heaven and Fanny seem to be the only characters who see the Reverend as this. Even worse, it's implied from the start that Luke Casteel sold his daughter to the Reverend with the knowledge that he lusted after her. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kitty Dennison acts nice on the outside, but she puts Heaven through some awful abuse. Not that her husband Cal is any better, acting like a father figure for Heaven only to end up molesting her. Tony seems like a charming guy, but not only is he strict towards Heaven, but he turns out to be a rapist and an ephebophile. | |
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Good Victims, Bad Victims | |
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Good Victims, Bad Victims: Fanny's notorious promiscuity makes it easy for the Reverend Wise to practically make himself look like the victim regarding his and Fanny's liaison (even though at best, it would still be statutory rape), claiming she seduced him when for once, it was the other way around. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Luke (who isn't the best father when he is around) disappears for a time during Heaven, rarely returning home. Justified in Troy's case as Annie was conceived in infidelity and Troy was believed to have been dead. Leigh turns out to not actually be Cleave Van Vorreen's daughter. She never learns who her real father was, only that he was an artist of some sort. | |
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Sucky School | |
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Sucky School: Winterhaven is a boarding school meant for prestigious young ladies but it's full of snobby rich girls who try to run things and isolate those who don't kowtow to them and a dorm mother that is sweet to the parents but rude to the girls she's in charge of along with confiscating their belongings. It's not as bad for Leigh who manages to make a group of friends and a best friend but it's downright miserable for Heaven, especially after she slips up and reveals that she grew up in poverty. | |
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Potty Emergency | |
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Potty Emergency: A rare played-straight example. The girls at Heaven's Boarding School of Horrors spike Heaven's punch with laxatives, then lock all the bathroom doors. Heaven later gets a little indirect revenge on the lead prankster. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Jillian is in her 60s by the time Dark Angel starts off, but still looks absurdly young. When she has her Freak Out near the end of the book she loses her youth and finally starts to look her age. Kitty is a youthful-looking forty, but it still isn't good enough for her; she's obsessed with looking twenty. | |
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Dead Guy Junior | |
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Dead Guy Junior: A downplayed example is Heaven herself, who got her middle name 'Leigh' from her mother. Heaven's daughter Annie was named after her paternal grandmother. Fanny's son Luke was named after her dad Luke, and his middle name came from her grandfather Toby. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Out of all the characters in the series, it's Fanny Casteel who winds up going through the most development in the series. From the beginning, she seems like the typical jealous sibling and a foil to Heaven's pure nature but has a Hidden Heart of Gold buried underneath. After quite a few mistakes, Fanny manages to grow up and become not only a good mother to her son but chews out Tony Tatterton himself and helps get Annie out of Farthiggale Manor as well as be her and Luke's biggest supporter for their relationship along with Troy. | |
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Important Dyejob: Having been told by everyone that she looks exactly like her mother except for her dark hair, in Dark Angel, Heaven dyes it her mother's shade of ash-blonde as a symbolic gesture of reclaiming her Tatterton heritage. It ends tragically when her hair distracts her father Luke at a critical moment, leading to the death of her beloved brother Tom. She remains a blonde until the end of Fallen Hearts, when she renounces the Tattertons and goes back to her natural color after Tony's betrayal. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For as self-centered and spiteful as she can be in early books, Fanny has her moments. Notably in Heaven, after initially seething with envy when her two younger siblings are sold to strangers, she eventually breaks down crying on Heaven's shoulder and begs for reassurance that the little ones will be alright: "People love all little children, even ones not their own, don't they?" | |
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Big Fancy House: Farthinggale Manor or Farthy for short. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: Very common. | |
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Happily Adopted | |
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Happily Adopted: Keith and Jane got the best of the lot when they were sold: their adopted parents turned out to not only be wealthy but genuinely caring and gave them better lives than they could ever hope for back in the Willies. When Heaven finds them, they're actually afraid she will take them back to the old cabin. Heaven treats Drake very well after taking him in, much better than anyone ever raised her. | |
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Love Father, Love Son | |
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Love Father, Love Son: Tony Tatterton takes this further with four generations of women in the same family — he was initially married to Jillian Tatterton but fell for her daughter Leigh, granddaughter Heaven and great-granddaughter Annie. | |
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Likes Older Women | |
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Likes Older Women: Played with in Tony's case; he believed that Jillian was only 30 when they met, but was surprised that she was actually 40. Though of course he doesn't care about age, especially underage. | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Heaven often takes care of the family and the house while Fanny slacks off and runs off with boys. | |
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Surprise Incest: Heaven and Troy, who are actually niece and uncle. This is V. C. Andrews we're talking about, after all. | |
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Named After Somebody Famous | |
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Named After Somebody Famous: Heaven named Sarah's youngest daughter Jane after a glamorous starlet she once saw in a magazine. Tom gets to name his youngest half-sibling, the son of his father's new marriage. He chose the name Walter Drake Casteel (or just Drake) after explorers Walter Raleigh and Frances Drake. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Fanny makes a major one after Heaven's death, totally reforming from her wild, selfish ways and becoming a confident Mama Bear without losing any of her characteristic brazen, brassy fearlessness. Upon learning that Annie is in danger, she storms Farthinggale Manor to rescue her and tells off Tony Tatterton to his face. Toward the end of Dark Angel, Luke Casteel straightens out his life, becomes a devoted husband, father, and provider for his new family, and feels enough remorse to attempt a reconciliation with Heaven. When she (justifiably) refuses to forgive him, he still helps her fulfill her dream of finding her Boston family. | |
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Parent with New Paramour | |
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Parent with New Paramour: Heaven is (justifiably) upset to learn that after selling off his children, Luke remarried and started another family. Even more of a slap in the face, Luke put his life back together, has a steady job, and his new family lives with a degree of luxury and security that Heaven and her siblings never had. Leigh is taken aback by her parents' sudden divorce, and is even more surprised to learn that her mother has been having an affair with the much-younger Tony Tatterton and intends to marry him immediately. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Jillian in Dark Angel after about 20 years worth of denial come crashing down. Tony's sanity starts to fall apart after Jillian's suicide, and only got worse by the time Annie came to Farthy in Gates of Paradise. | |
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Replacement Goldfish: When Heaven dyes her hair blonde, she is mistaken for her mother Leigh by several people, most notably by her father Tony, who raped and impregnated Leigh and eventually tries to do the same to her. Then in the next book her daughter Annie is sent to live with Tony (though she's unaware that he's her grandfather) after she is paralyzed in the car accident that killed her parents. He convinces her to dye her hair blond like the other women and subsequently tries to mold her into his image of Leigh. Much like with her mother Heaven, the resemblance and his worsening dementia cause him to repeatedly confuse her with the other two, to the point where he virtually imprisons her, sabotages her attempts at recovery, and eventually tries to force himself on her late one night. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Tom dies while saving a lion tamer from some circus cats. | |
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Rich Bitch | |
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Rich Bitch: Jillian, and the girls from Winterhaven that torment Heaven. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Heaven's biological mother Leigh died in the backstory, and then her stepmother Sarah runs off after delivering a stillborn child. Speaking of Leigh, while Jillian was physically present, she was too self-absorbed to take an active role in her daughter's life. | |
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Child Naming Request | |
| Casteel Series / int_66f6abd0 | comment |
Child Naming Request: As a reconciliatory gesture, Luke asks Tom, his estranged son from a previous marriage, to name his new son. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: Heaven Leigh Casteel. Tom even nicknames her 'Heavenly' to combine both her names. Pun value doubles as Heaven's mother Leigh was nicknamed "Angel." | |
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Reclusive Artist | |
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Reclusive Artistinvoked: Troy is a very talented toy maker, but his belief that he will die before he is 30 caused him to shy away from people. | |
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Henpecked Husband | |
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Henpecked Husband: Cal barely gets better treatment than Heaven from Kitty, though he proves himself to be far less sympathetic than most examples, and even emotionally manipulates Kitty to an extent. | |
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Cute, but Cacophonic | |
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Cute, but Cacophonic: Our Jane. To paraphrase Heaven, "Our Jane was a dear, darling doll, but she could wear on your nerves with her caterwauling." | |
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THeUnfavorite | |
| Casteel Series / int_7c9dcc1 | comment |
The Unfavorite: Luke treats Heaven like garbage and blames her for Leigh's death. They don't fully reconcile but it's heavily hinted that Luke really did care about Heaven; he just had a hard time seeing her as someone other than Leigh. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Heaven, having had enough of Kitty's abuse, attempts to tear her a new one: | |
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Expository Hairstyle Change | |
| Casteel Series / int_7efd2e30 | comment |
Expository Hairstyle Change: Heaven bleaches her hair in an attempt to resemble her dead mother, but then has it dyed back to its natural color when she discovers that she doesn't need to try to be someone else. Annie is coerced into doing this by Tony in an effort to make her a Replacement Goldfish for Leigh and Heaven. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
| Casteel Series / int_81ae2774 | comment |
Evil Matriarch: Kitty is younger than most examples (being in her 30s at most) but is no less cruel to Heaven. | |
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Satellite Love Interest | |
| Casteel Series / int_835d1cd2 | comment |
Satellite Love Interest: The only thing really notable about Logan is that he is supposedly the love of Heaven's life. | |
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| Casteel Series / int_8370a793 | type |
Mature Work, Child Protagonists | |
| Casteel Series / int_8370a793 | comment |
Mature Work, Child Protagonists: The novel sees the heroine, Heaven, sold by her father to an abusive foster family whose father commit statutory rape on her. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: Jillian, possibly of the 'unstable' variety. When Heaven confronts her about Leigh's rape she goes mad and spends the rest of her life under constant psychiatric care, along with losing her youth. | |
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Brainy Brunette | |
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Brainy Brunette: Heaven is ambitious, does well in school, sets out to become a teacher (which she does), and successfully runs the Winnerrow toy factory. And she's a brunette (barring her bleaching her hair, which she keeps from the end of Dark Angel to towards the end of Fallen Hearts). | |
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Parental Favoritism | |
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Parental Favoritism: Heaven resents that Pa ignores her at best and abuses her at worst in spite of the fact that she is the more responsible and trustworthy sister, while he openly favors her conniving sister Fanny. (Tom and Fanny also have this dynamic to a lesser degree, but as the oldest boy, Tom still gets more positive attention from their father than Heaven does.) Reversed with Sarah, who, while not the most affectionate of parents, recognizes that Heaven and Tom have more potential and contribute more to the family than Fanny and treats them accordingly, even going so far as to call Fanny "trash" and give her up as a lost cause while being more encouraging of Heaven's schooling. | |
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Gentleman Snarker | |
| Casteel Series / int_89ed9b94 | comment |
Gentleman Snarker: Troy is always unfailingly polite, however he does have his snarkier moments; usually when Heaven is regaling him with tales of the hills. | |
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Posthumous Character | |
| Casteel Series / int_8b568cb7 | comment |
Posthumous Character: Leigh died years before the main story begins, but she is still a major part of the series even before Web of Dreams told her own story. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Logan comes across as this at times, especially in the first book when Heaven is trying to reunite with her family but is constantly harassed by Logan who insists that she doesn't need her family because she has him. At one point he even outright states "there's no where you can run where I won't find you". Whilst Heaven doesn't feel threatened, she does (understandably) wish he would leave her alone. | |
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Child Prodigy | |
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Child Prodigy: Troy showed artistic talent when he was very young (coincidentally or not, so did Andrews), and then graduated college when he was still a teenager. | |
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InspirationallyDisabled | |
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Inspirationally Disabled: Annie was on her way to becoming this but then she miraculously learned to walk again. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Logan is Betty and Troy is Veronica to Heaven's Archie. | |
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Boarding School of Horrors | |
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Boarding School of Horrors: After coming to stay with Jillian and Tony, Heaven is sent to the all-girls private school Winterhaven and is promptly isolated and bullied by the other students. | |
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Tragic Keepsake | |
| Casteel Series / int_97d54bb0 | comment |
Tragic Keepsake: Leigh's identical 'portrait doll' (later named Angel in Web of Dreams), which Heaven's grandmother gives to her at the beginning of the series. Kitty destroys it. | |
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Caught in the Rain | |
| Casteel Series / int_9e64cd1f | comment |
Caught in the Rain: After being caught in a violent thunderstorm while out riding, Heaven and Troy take shelter in an abandoned barn, where one thing leads to another. Subverted when Heaven is trapped in a mountain cabin with Logan during a violent week-long storm. It seems as if being forced together might rekindle their old feelings, but Heaven is too ill and too much in love with Troy to be tempted, while Logan is too much a gentleman to take advantage of her delirium. | |
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Generational Saga | |
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Generational Saga: The series goes from Heaven to her daughter Annie and finally to her mother Leigh, mostly dealing with the effects Tony, Jillian, Troy, and Luke had on their lives (ill or good). | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Reverend Wise never gets his comeuppance for committing statutory rape against Fanny, even after it was publicly revealed. | |
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What Beautiful Eyes! | |
| Casteel Series / int_adf84dea | comment |
What Beautiful Eyes!: Heaven's "cornflower blue" eyes frequently get a mention from almost every character at some point or another. Its significant due to the fact that she inherited them from her mother. Andrews never lets us forget this as characters who have never even met Leigh will gush over the similarity. To a lesser extent Fanny's "black eyes" are also stated to be very beautiful. | |
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Religious and Mythological Theme Naming | |
| Casteel Series / int_ae6adc36 | comment |
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: "Heaven", "Angel", "Paradise". | |
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Abusive Parents | |
| Casteel Series / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: The Dennisons, with a mother bordering on a younger version of the Evil Matriarch and a father heading toward the Dirty Old Man route. Luke's parenting, or lack thereof leaves much to be desired, especially in regards to Heaven. During her fifth pregnancy, Sarah becomes outright abusive not only towards Heaven but her own children. Jillian let her own daughter get sexually assaulted by her new husband. | |
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Gilded Cage | |
| Casteel Series / int_b51128fa | comment |
Gilded Cage: Farthingale Manor becomes this for almost every young woman who lives there. It's lavish and wealthy beyond all imagining, but the price for living there is always tragic. The Settertons' suburban home. While it's no more than comfortably middle-class, Heaven comes from conditions of extreme poverty, so a home with running water, television, her own room, and adequate food and clothes seems like the height of luxury to her until it becomes clear that her new mother is abusive and that she was brought to there to be a housemaid. Fanny's situation with the Wises was similar to Heaven's life with the Settertons: while the Wises provided her with much greater material security than she had ever known in her life, Reverend Wise also sexually abused her and eventually got her pregnant. Fanny was then confined to the house and not allowed to have visitors, so that the town would later believe that Fanny's baby belonged to the Reverend's wife When she finally escapes, the Reverend even calls her "ungrateful" for all he's given her. | |
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Understanding Boyfriend | |
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Understanding Boyfriend: Troy, whom Heaven confides to about her past. | |
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Child by Rape | |
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Child by Rape: Heaven is the product of Tony Tatterton's rape of his stepdaughter Leigh. Fanny's daughter Darcy from the Reverend Wise. | |
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Incest Subtext | |
| Casteel Series / int_bdc453a0 | comment |
Incest Subtext: Tom and Heaven nudge right up to the line of sibling appropriateness, with both of them gushing about how attractive the other is. Tom states that if Heaven weren't his sister, he'd marry her. Likewise Heaven has a lot of uncomfortable observations about how handsome Luke Casteel is, including a description of his well-muscled bare back as he chops wood. Heaven, that's your dad. Later on, it's revealed that she's not related by blood to either one of them. This being an Andrews novel, the rest of the incest subtext does not remain subtextual and so does not fall under this trope. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Tony and Troy Tatterton, with an added bonus that Tony's first name is Townsend. Jillian's maiden name is Jenkins, making her and her mother Jana an example as well. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Fanny, starting in elementary school. | |
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? | |
| Casteel Series / int_c1d1d6ad | comment |
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Kitty makes fun of Heaven's name, hinting that it's not only dumb, but a little sacreligious. Later, on Heaven's first day at Winterhaven, a teacher invites her to explain to the entire class why she was given such an unusual name, to Heaven's embarrassment. Even Heaven sometimes wonders how she got stuck with it. (On the other hand, the men in Heaven's life tend to gush over how perfectly the name suits her.) | |
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Evil Redhead | |
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Evil Redhead: Kitty is a liar, an abuser and an animal killer. She also happens to be a redhead. | |
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Nice Guy | |
| Casteel Series / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: Tom Casteel, who cares strongly about his family and even smiles when his mother smashes a jar of honey on his head, is one of the few characters who manages to stay kind no matter what. Of course he's Too Good for This Sinful Earth to stay past the second book... Troy likewise is a gentleman through and through so naturally the happiness he finds with Heaven is short-lived. | |
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Strong Family Resemblance | |
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Strong Family Resemblance: Jillian, Leigh, Heaven, and Annie all look extremely alike (except for the latter two, who have dark hair rather than blonde). Tony, after losing his mind, even mistakes Heaven for the former two, and later Annie for the other three. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Heaven's name may be a reference to the 1945 Film Noir thriller Leave Her to Heaven, and her dark wavy hair, delicate features, and cornflower-blue eyes strongly resemble those of the film's star, Gene Tierney. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
| Casteel Series / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: Dark Angel reveals that Tony is actually Heaven's real father, and in fact him raping and impregnating Leigh is what caused her to run away in the first place. Annie is Troy's daughter, rather than Logan's. However the reader learns this long before Annie does. It was revealed in Web of Dreams that Leigh's real father was an unknown artist. | |
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Slut-Shaming | |
| Casteel Series / int_c972d624 | comment |
Slut-Shaming: Happens multiple times. To the series' credit, in each case, it's made clear that whoever's doing the shaming is in the wrong. Both her mother Sarah and most of the town writes Fanny off as a slut, even though Fanny starts behaving promiscuously before she even hits puberty, which would normally be a big red flag that something's wrong. Later, when Reverend Wise rapes and impregnates teen Fanny, her earlier promiscuity is used as proof that she seduced him. Heaven confronts the reverend over it. Logan slut-shames Heaven when he learns she lost her virginity to Cal, even though—yet again—the act was the result of Heaven being groomed and abused by her foster father. Jillian essentially sets Leigh up to be her sexual substitute for Tony, then blames Leigh when she comes to her mother for help after Tony assaults her: "Nice girls don't go all the way!" | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist | |
| Casteel Series / int_cf6541ad | comment |
Social Services Does Not Exist: Some social services would have existed at the time the series begins (early-to-mid-1960s), and the region of the Appalachians in which the Casteels lived had dedicated government agencies specifically to intervene on behalf of "poorest of the poor" families like the Casteels. Yet even Heaven's teacher Miss Deale chooses to give charity directly to the children rather than reporting their plight to authorities. | |
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Seduction as One-Upmanship | |
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Seduction as One-Upmanship: Heaven's trampy sister Fanny repeatedly makes advances to her boyfriend Logan, eventually not only outright seducing him after they've gotten married, but getting pregnant as well—this is the key thing that she taunts Heaven about when she tells her about it. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Luke calling Sarah "heartless" for abandoning her children is a little much coming from someone who deserts his family for long periods of time, only occasionally stopping by to leave them some basic necessities and later even sells his children to fund treatment for his syphilis (which he got because of all the unprotected and adulterous sex he was having with prostitutes)! That's not even going into the fact that Sarah might not have run away if he'd ever supported her or helped her with the kids and the house and his parents once in a blue moon! | |
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Horrible Housing | |
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Horrible Housing: The Casteels' pitiful mountain shack is described in painful detail: a one-room building made of thin wooden planks with gaps between the floorboards, there is no electricity, no running water, and no indoor toilet. Though the house is only a little bigger than a standard suburban living room, nine people share the space, with the adults sharing the only bed while the children and two elderly grandparents sleep on the floor. | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Affectionate Nickname: 'Heavenly' for Heaven, 'Angel' for Leigh (to the point that that name is on her grave rather than her real name), and 'Our Jane' for Jane.note "Our Jane" earned her nickname after Heaven cuddled her so much as a baby that none of the other children got a chance to hold her, causing Fanny to proclaim that the new baby belonged to all of them, not just to Heaven: "She's our Jane, not yours!" Even Farthingale manor has a nickname: 'Farthy'. | |
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Battleaxe Nurse | |
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Battleaxe Nurse: Annie's nurse. Completely insensitive to Annie's discomfort and so incensed when Annie insists on eating what she wants rather than what the nurse has planned that she spikes the food with a laxative, then refuses to help her until she has a Potty Failure. | |
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Settle for Sibling | |
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Settle for Sibling: In a particularly gross example, it's implied that Reverend Wise lusted after teenage Heaven and wanted to purchase her from her father, and that the only reason Luke refused was because he wanted to sell Heaven to strangers so that he would never have to see her again. Because of this, the Reverend buys Heaven's younger sister Fanny instead. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Heaven and Fanny's relationship, at times that of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood i.e. the whole Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling trope they play, not to mention that like Marianne, Fanny is the favorite whereas Heaven isn't. Given that one of the authors Heaven is fond of is Jane Austen, it probably wasn't that unintentional. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Leigh and Luke, who despite being happy together only had a short time being married before Leigh's death. Heaven and Troy, due to a combination of Troy's emotional issues and them being related. Subverted with Annie Stonewall and Luke II, who fell in love while growing up but couldn't act on it because they're half-siblings, but jump at the chance of being together after it is revealed they aren't related at all. | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp: Fanny. | |
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Shrine to the Fallen | |
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Shrine to the Fallen: Annie is rather unnerved when Tony takes her to the suite of rooms that was Logan and Heaven's and sees how well maintained they are, in contrast to the rest of the house, which is showing its age and has signs of disrepair. | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth | |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Leigh "Angel" Casteel dies of childbirth at the age of fourteen. Tom Casteel, who has been nothing but kind and understanding to Heaven, dies after being mauled by a lion that would have killed his father had he not intervened. Can be applied to Luke's third wife Stacy, who dies in a car crash alongside him in the third book; she is described as being similar to Leigh in both looks and personality. | |
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The Lost Lenore | |
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The Lost Lenore: Leigh to Luke. | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
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Promotion to Parent: Heaven and Tom in Heaven. Tony practically became Troy's father after their parents died, and their relationship is sometimes more parental than sibling-like (helps that Troy was born when Tony was in his late teens). | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: Heaven and Logan are killed in a road crash. When Troy dies, likely of natural causes since he becomes a grandfather, he's finally able to be buried next to Heaven. | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gold Digger: Fanny is briefly married to a rich old man named Mallory. Before he can kick the bucket, they divorce because Fanny refuses to bear his children. | |
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Faking the Dead | |
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Faking the Dead: Troy faked his death twice so that Heaven could marry Logan without Troy being a burden on her happiness. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Celestial—"Heaven", "Angel", "Paradise", etc. | |
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Ephebophile | |
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Tony seems like a charming guy, but not only is he strict towards Heaven, but he turns out to be a rapist and an ephebophile. | |
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Old Maid | |
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Old Maid: In the first book, Heaven wishes to be one, and says that she has no intention of getting married until she's at least thirty although she eventually marries at a much younger age. In the Willies, where the locals marry very young, Heaven is considered this at fourteen. Granny advises Heaven to hold off from marriage until she's at least fifteen, so as to get her schoolin' in. | |
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold | |
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Luke seems to hold this belief, as he nicknamed the golden-haired Leigh 'Angel' and his third marriage was to the also blonde Stacie, who seems to be a nicer person than the redheaded Sarah. | |
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