Just not very interesting

I read this because it ended up in my room and I have no idea how. I think it was my Moms. LOL. I read the whole thing about 10 years ago, and I don't remember hardly anything so clearly its not something that sticks with you. :)

This book was such a conflict for me. I enjoyed it, despite the repetition and redundancy and repetition -- ahem. Seriously, where are the editors? When an author has been around as long as Steel, is the protocol to just let them write however they want? Does she have some kind of clause in her contract that they not edit her work? Do they just assume she knows what she's doing at this point? Because...wow. This book would have been fifty pages shorter, had they edited out all the times she used the exact same sentence, sometimes in back to back paragraphs, about the same topic. Having read much of her earlier work -- some of which I have absolutely loved, for what it is -- I've found her more recent work disappointing (at best) and painful (at worst). I almost question why I continue torturing myself with her newer books, when the last one I really enjoyed was Vanished, which was released in 1993. The bare bones of this story, though, sucked me in. I (mostly) liked the main character, Tanya. And while I guessed what the focal "twist" was going to be within the first twenty pages, I was wrong about how it played out, and I liked that it didn't play out exactly perfectly, as she often writes. She really nailed the emotions in this one, which surprised me how difficult this made it for me to put it down. I won't say it was possible for me to overlook the flaws in this book, but the story was engaging nonetheless and I can grant it a generous three stars for that.

The main character was awful to read the first half if the book. She got her act together by the end. But it was hard to get through it!
I wish she would have been a stronger lead. The men were ok, but her one daughter drive me nuts. I also wish the story on the husbands marriage would have been elaborated on. I would have love to see that fail.

Metade foi lido na diagonal, não é a história mais inovadora da autora. As duas estrelas são pelo final...

SPOILER...

I enjoy a good Danielle Steele after reading something heavy but this really started poorly. I would say I really loved the last third of this book but the beginning half was so repetitive. Over and over they drilled into your head the same things. I found myself skipping over parts which is totally not my style. If she had downsized this by at least a third I would have given it a much better rating. I got so tired of hearing everyone tell her she was going to stay and even more sick of her saying she wasn't going to. I really enjoyed the parts about her last two boyfriends but how predictable that she would end up with the director. I would have enjoyed more details about the other relationships instead they were kind of an after thought.