Impossible
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I enjoyed this... Very Good read. I was unable to put this book down.
This story tells of how two people fall in love even though the odds are strongly against them. Recommended.
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Not her usual standard
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It's not her best novel and I was really disappointed.
This time her novel takes us on a journey with a father and daughter who both love art. She meets and marries a wonderful guy, and then she loses both men in her life.
After the deaths, we are introduced to an artist which is to become Sashas love interest; this is where the novel starts to lose my interest. Danielle draws the next part out far too much; it gets really boring and starts to get to be a turn off. I didn't want to stop reading, even though it was boring the hell out of me, I wanted to find out what happened to Sasha.
This has got to be one of her worst novels, I'm really sorry I read it, even "Sunset in St. Tropez" was better then this and even then I was disappointed with that.
If Danielle doesn't start to get back on track with her novels she's going to start losing readers. I'm just about to start reading a more recent novel of hers, which I really hope is better then the last two novels I've reviewed of hers.
One thing I have noticed, her novels from the last couple of years are getting to be hit and miss, at one point they were always fantastic, but I'm beginning to wonder if Danielle's flame is beginning to burn out!! :-(
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IMPOSSIBLE (to enjoy) !!
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This is the first Danielle Steel book I read. It was good to start with and very moving when Sasha lost her beloved husband. Then it went progressively downhill from there. Her involvement with Liam was completely ridiculous. From the description the author had built up of Sasha, she would NEVER have got involved with a man like him. I thought it was awful and had to force myself to keep reading to the end. The book could also have been 1/4 shorter if she stopped repeating herself. Danielle Steel is such a well know author but I will think twice before reading any of her other books, unless they are recommended.
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Impossible - unreadable
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This has to be the worst Danielle Steel book I have ever read. I have read others and enjoyed them as an easy reading fantasy love story but this irritated me beyond belief. Everybody was 'crazy' about each other from mothers to sons to work colleagues to lovers is there not another word to describe their feelings. How many times could I be told that Liam has long blonde hair worn in a pony tail and Sasha has dark hair tied in a bun after about the 20th time I really didn't care. The contradictions were unreal the first night Sasha and Liam spent together he began the night in a suit and in the morning put on jeans and a t-shirt, they were in a hotel where did they come from. Anytime anything sad happened to Sasha we were told that she had never in her life been hurt as much, except when Arthur died. So she had been hurt that much!Please try different ways to express her feelings. So in case your not sure this is not a book a would recommend.
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Fairytale for grownups
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This is a typical Danielle Steel book, one of those light, entertaining slightly unlikely stories where everything seems possible.
Rich, successful female gallery owner and much younger poor genius artist fall in love. Age difference causes huge problems but nothing can stop the two lovebirds. They scatter around the world overcoming every obstacle. When the heroine is working at her gallery in Paris, the poor artist still manages to pop over from his small apartment in London every other weekend, send huge bouquets of red roses and finally buy his beloved a little cocker spaniel puppy they have seen in a pet shop in Paris.
Little "Socks" is, by the way, a most unusual 3 months old puppy. When mom goes away on business to her gallery in New York, on holidays with her lover to the South of France, Rome or wherever, Socks stays alone in the Paris home (which is not staffed when mommy Sasha is away), and seems to manage just fine. Food, walks, whatever!! And when mom and her boyfriend happen to be in Paris, they walk with Socks in Bois de Bologne, and mom does not know what she would do without her beloved pet. In other words, Socks literally jumps conveniently in and out of the manuscript, just like so many other things in Miss Steel's books; money, opportunities and all sorts of co-incidencies.
And yet, I enjoyed this book immensely. For all its unlikeliness, the fairytale quality, it does still have something warm, real, human, honest - even likely - about it. Miss Steel manages to make her characters come alive, a wonderful story come true. She makes me believe it's all possible.
This is not a literary work of the depth and insight as for instance "Letters from Nam" or "Accident", which are examples of books by Danielle Steel I would recommend to more "serious" readers.
"Impossible" is just what I loved about it, a wonderful fairytale for grownups.
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