Leap of Faith by Danielle Steel Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Leap of Faith
Book Review: Leap of faith
Summary: 5 Stars
As a child Marie-Ange Hawkins has the perfect childhood, but when she is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. She is sent from France to America to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa, where she is forced to work for her keep for her aunt, who makes it pretty obvious that she has no time for a child. Only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope. When She inherits 30 million dollars she leaves Billy and returns to France and meets the new owner of her family home. She falls in love with him but he's now what he seems.
I really enjoyed this story. A must read.
Book Review: Modern Day Cinderella Story
Summary: 4 Stars
Leap of Faith, a fictional novel written by Danielle Steel, is a compelling example of how a person can succeed in life, regardless of betrayal and hardships. The story vividly describes each character to the extent that the reader is able to feel a part of the situation. When the first chapter approaches to an end, and the storylines turning point comes forward, it becomes a book you will not want to stop reading.Marie-Ange is the main character, and the novel revolves around her growing up and making it through all of the challenging obstacles she had to overcome by herself. The beginning of the book shows Marie-Ange living with her family in their Chateau de Marmounton in France. Life was perfect. They were an incredibly wealthy family, until something devastating happens and Marie-Ange's life is forced into a whole new direction causing her to leave everything she has ever known behind. She leaves France and moves to Iowa, where her Great-Aunt Carole lives.
The book carries on with how life was like living with Carole, which was far more different from what Marie-Ange was used too. Marie-Ange was fairly miserable due to the way Carole treated her and she had aspirations of someday returning to her family's Chateau de Marmounton to get away. Her dreams didn't seem like a reality given the circumstances she was under, until one day a knock on her front door changed everything.
This knock meant a new life for Marie-Ange, and a chance to live out her dreams of returning to France. Once she went back to France, her life picked up in speed greatly. She met an astonishing man who was prosperous, and coincidentally, lived in her childhood house. They fell in love, got married, and even had two children together. However, her newly found perfect life takes a startling turn. Marie-Ange is forced to find courage and faith to save her life and her children's lives.
Leap of Faith is a true Cinderella story with many more twists. These little changes in the book's plot cause the reader to become more and more involved with what the next page brings. This was a wonderful book that shows that things aren't always what they seem and that good things really do happen to good people in the end.
Book Review: 1 Stars
After reading "Leap of Faith" I wanted to leap, all right, through a plate glass window for having wasted my time with such boring trite material. I am so sick and tired of this woman writing about insipid, brain dead, ignorant but beautfiul heroines who need to be smashed over the head with a 40-ounce before they recognize what is going on around them. I am sick and tired of these women being perfect little angels while everyone else around them are villians who ruin their perfect little lives. Marie-Ange was supposedly a genius, doing well in school, but she displays rampant stupidity when it comes to her husband's obviously deceptive nature. Did Marie-Ange need a telegram or something? ...Book Review: Very good
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought this was one of the better Danielle Steel books I've read. I really enjoyed it.Book Review: nice sad story
Summary: 4 Stars
marie-ange at eleven years of age is living an ideal live in france as the youngest of 2 children. everybody just dotes on her and she thinks that life is just grand. but when her parents and older brother are killed in a car accident, she is left an orphan and sent to live with her only living relative in iowa.
her aunt carole is a bitter old lady who works poor marie day in
and night and her only joy is in a young boy she meets at school.
then on her 21st birthday, an attorney comes to see her and tells
her that she is in fact a very rich woman. she moves back to france where she meets the owner of her childhood home. they have
a short romance and are married and have 2 children in less than
a year and a half. but all is not as it seems. her husband is running up huge debts and being naive she is paying for them with
her trust. when she starts digging into his affairs, she finds
out that her life and her children's may be in grave danger and
will she have the courage to do what she must to save her children and her fortune?