Her hair was a sleek cap of pale shining gold, pulled back from her face to show a sculptured profile and unlined faceĭrink! I’m making the “sleek cap” and “sculptured profile” descriptors drinking rules as I am fairly certain they recur. Heaven marvels at Jillian’s youth and beauty.

That has to be a drinking game rule, so drink! Her grandparents.Īs is mandatory for all characters in the series who knew Leigh, they notice that Heaven is identical to her mother except for her hair. She is greeted by a gorgeous, richly dressed couple. We don’t get a description of the plane ride, but we pick the story up at baggage claim in Boston. Heaven was sitting in the airport, thinking about how men suck, and she’s going to just break hearts and kick ass. Oh, and Fanny is pregnant with the Reverend’s religious hypocrisy baby, conceived in holy statutory. If you recall, when we last saw Heaven, Kitty was dead, Pa was trying to have a redemption arc but she wasn’t buying it, and Cal is the worst. Dark Angel picks up almost exactly after the end of the last book. No one will look at her and see a hill scum girl ever again!īut then, she wonders, for possibly the first time, if this place is so great, why did my mother run away?Īfter this brief intro, our hardy heroine takes us back to her arrival in Boston. She thinks that now she will finally have a family that will love her, and that “the pearls of culture, wisdom, and breeding” will protect her from the scorn she is used to. I feel briefly as though we are back with our Cathy, as Heaven tortures and mixes metaphors for a bit. Gothic house! Heaven takes a couple pages to have feelings about finally being in her mother’s home before flashing back to her earlier meeting with her grandmother and step-grandfather.

Reading the book is not a requirement for cover artists or the people who approve covers.Īll about me the large house loomed dark, mysterious, and lonely Though, now that I think about it, on the first cover, Heaven has brown eyes, but they are supposed to be blue. And she’s only blonde for a little bit towards the end. When did Heaven ever wear a tank top? Definitely not during the dramatic silvery-blonde hair scene. While we are talking about covers, what the hell is this? Heaven clutches a family album to her bosom, feeling a vague menacing presence and a creeping horror! The creep is Tony Tatterton, the older and worst Tatterton brother. This is one of the only books where I obtained a copy like the one I had as a child. For earlier entries, check out the archive.

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