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Book Reviews of Amazing Grace
Book Review: Amazing Grace
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazing Grace When the book did not come on time, I contacted the seller, and she sent another copy which just arrived.Book Review: Amazing Grace by Danielle Steel
Summary: 5 Stars
Four people's lives will be changed drastically when a earthquake hits San Francisco during a benefit charity dinner dance. Sarah Sloan, Melanie Free, Everett Carson and Sister Maggie Kent experience a severe earthquake damaging the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton hosting the event that evening.
Once they emerge from the rubble and devastation left behind by the earthquake their lives will start to cross paths and intermingle in ways they did not think possible and in different ways as well. They realize that the whole city is in shambles and a couple go out to try and help others to get patched up or get to the make shift shelter.
Melanie Free Grammy winning singer is one of those people along with Sister Maggie Kent. Melanie breaks away from her mothers smothering clutches to help Sister Maggie who is a nun and a nurse with the homeless and the hurt at the field hospital. During the day she is happy helping the homeless and at night she then deals with her mothers nagging and complaining at night about the conditions that they must deal with.
Sister Maggie's Path also crosses with Sarah Sloan took her son to the field hospital because he was sick and the normal hospital emergency room wouldn't take him. Maggie asked her if she was ok because she looked upset she just said it was her husband but that she couldn't go into it at the moment. Maggie told her that she new where she was if she needed her there by adding Sarah into the vast equation that was Maggie's life.
The Journalist Everett Carson has been taking pictures from the start of the benefit on he has even given his jacket to Melanie because she was only wearing the dress she preformed in on stage. After the earthquake he was still taking pictures even of Melanie and Maggie helping in the field hospital. Everett and Maggie talked quite a bit including about Everett's past life and about him being an alcoholic and missing his son. Maggie helped him set up an AA meeting there in the makeshift shelter area since he hadn't been to one in a while and he ran it while the shelter was there until the planes were able to get anyone out of the area.
Meanwhile Sarah Sloan and her husband Seth are having a terrible time as the world as they know it is falling down around them because he is in trouble with the SEC for Money Fraud. Maggie becomes the person that Sarah needs to talk to and Melanie as well after she returns to LA. Melanie is still trying to deal with her mother and realizes that she must start running her own life and career and must make her mother see that, and to do that will take something drastic.
Meanwhile Maggie is dealing with her own demons as her love from Everett comes to light and that he loves her as well. Everett at Maggie's suggestion goes to find his son and to see him for the first time since he was a child he learns that he is a man that is married and has children and that his son goes to AA as well.
While sitting in his Hotel room he calls Maggie to thank her for telling him to go and find his son. Each person that has been affected by the earthquake has their own demons to fight and extinguish but each will be dealt with over time.
Danielle Steel's Amazing Grace is a wonderful book each character is full of depth and emotion you feel as if you are right there with them in the midst of all the earthquake has caused. She really shows you exactly what different people can think and on what levels they think on in a situation like this and why they would think it. She never does cease to amaze with each novel she turns out.
Book Review: Another Disappointing Read
Summary: 2 Stars
This book had a promising start. The introduction promised a compelling storyline, but like Steel's most recent books, I got to the end and wondered what happened to the great story I was promised?
I have been an avid fan of Danielle Steel since I was about 14 years old and started reading my great-aunt's romance novels when I ran out of my own literature to read. I've been hooked ever since. Her books invoke every emotion under the sun. They've made me laugh, cry, angry, frustrated, joyous...you name it.
Her new books just aren't cutting it anymore. They've left me feeling disappointed and wanting more. I'd even go as far as to say it doesn't even feel like it's one of her novels. I love her older novels, and I will read them over and over because they are that amazing. And I will be a fan of her's forever, because when Steel was good, she was THE best. But her recent novels have been an utter disappointment.
Book Review: Danielle Steel
Summary: 2 Stars
It looked like it would be a good read, the title and the description sounded good, however it just got bogged down in massive details in the first chapter. Also the characters didn't really have a specialness about them. I haven't read past the first chapter.Book Review: Entertaining start but sloppy finish.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been a fan of Steele's for years, and consider her books a guilty pleasure. I don't pick up one of her novels in hopes of reading great literature. With that said I have to agree with the other reviewers that this is not her best effort. I give it three stars as if you're a fan you'll still want to read the book but it is going to leave you a little hungry. This time out the story revolves around a San Francisco bay area earth quake and how it effects the lives of three successful, and of course beautiful woman. The story starts off strong and quickly pulled me in, but I thought it lost focus towards the end. The typical Steele Romance is there but I did not feel connected to the characters. This is one you may want to wait for paperback.
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