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Summary: You'll be a Danielle Steele fan after reading this one!
Review: This incredibly well written novel is so moving! It will make you wince in pain for Gabby. You feel to your very core for this little girl as we watch her triumph again and again in the face of adversity. Such a fast read I could not put it down. You are so intrigued with all the characters you can hardly wait to turn the next page. This book is a real eye opener to the horrors of all kinds of abuse. I'ts a must read!
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Summary: The Long Road Home is a very short read.
Review: I read this book in 2 days. It is not a typical Steel story. This narrative developed current issues prevalent in our society. The typical Danielle Steel book is a way to escape the trials of everyday life, and lose yourself in romantic fiction. The Long Road Home delves into child abuse. It emphazises the fact that it is a hidden secret in our society, and how it affects the individual throughout his/her adult life. The only fault I found with this book was the overbearing and frequent description of the beatings. I got the point quickly that the child was beaten. The description of each encounter did not enhance the plot.
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Summary: This Is A 10 star Book
Review: When I saw this book at first I didn't know what to think about it, but then I began to read it, and to tell the truth I could not put it down even though I was crying the whole way through it, by far this is the best book I have ever read, I have reccommended it to all my friends and anyone I encounter that wants a good meaningful book to read. I tell you this, if you want a book that you will never forget, then this is the book for you. I promise you that you will love this book and finally realize that there is actually an author that can truly write, capturing you mind and touching your inner most soul. This is a book that I definetly will put in my collection and I believe you will too after you read it, guaranteed!!!
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Summary: Depressing yet Inspiring...
Review: I read this book three or four months ago yet the story is still vivid in my mind. This is the kind of book that would leave a mark on your heart after reading it, perhaps on your soul too. Gabby Harrison is a product of bad luck. Her strings of bad lucks started from when she was born by a selfish, wicked & heartless mother who continuesly abused her ( as in physically-brutally & mentally & emotionally- the WORKS!). She blames her daughter for every unsatisfaction she had with her life. Gabby's father, a coward, was no help whatsoever, he might as well be dead in my opinion. He sees this abuse happening in his very nose yet says nothing, do nothing to stop it & worst, when he couldn't take it anymore, he simply left Gabby with her mother, went ahead to marry someone else & continued with his life. What a jerk! He was described as a weak person even in the beginning of the book yet I was hoping he would take Gabby with him. He said he loved her daughter & D.S did wrote details of his confusions & horror for his poor daughter, so I had the impression that in the end, he would simply turn around & saved his little girl. I was devastated when this didn't happend. Made me cry & hateful. I really do not like hearing or reading children being abused... let alone by their own parents, so this book was somehow a bit difficult for me to read. Yes, the description in the back of the book did emphasized Gabby's ordeal with her mother but I didn't think the abuse would be so detailed, it ached my heart & made me squirm. However, I continue reading it for hope that Gabby would grow up and would find the happiness & good luck she long deserved but the book just gets sadder & sadder... Is there no end to her tragedies? The poor thing. She was left to grow up in a convent, fell in love with the wrong person, who I might add was also a coward like his father ( he left her-by killing himself, a priest-i may add, all by herself to deal with an ugly situation they both started). She was force to leave the convent after that "incident", living in the real world, no longer in the protection of the convent for the first time in her life. So you can imagine her fears! She then again met a wrong person... just her luck. Who used her, abused her, etc. It's all overwhelming, frustrating & depressing! Now, as you can see, despite my above comments, I still rated this book 4 stars. The reason is simple... I admired Gabby's strength in all this bad lucks she keeps getting. Her heart & spirit remained intact despite all this hateful, difficult circumstances she keeps getting herself into. Her innocence & her capabilities to love & trust despite it all makes this book heart warming. Her friendship to all the people in the boarding house, esp. the proffessor is also heart warming. She inspires me by never giving up! Her courage to lived her life the best way she know how was impressive. Everytime she fell, she gets right back on her feet. However tired & broken hearted she may be, she always manage to gather her strength & spirit to move on. The ending of this book was not as what I expected. I expected a more happier ending. A reconciliation or perhaps the parents asking for her forgiveness - I know its kindda impossible but i wished it that way anyway. Yes, there was a closure to a lot of questions Gabby had for a long time in regards to her parents. Her meeting with her father was heart quenching. He's still a jerk! Gabby's new found love in the end also brought good to her life, though, i wished their relationship was more detailed & developed. I know this book isn't totally a romance, love story so it is understandable that it didn't concentrate on their relationship much. The reason why I didn't rate this book 5 stars was because it was too heavy for me. Too dramatic perhaps. Too sad. Even if it was a happy ending, I still found it too depressing. I prefer a dreamy, romantic-comedy book. Story that sores up my heart & makes me dreamy in the end. I prefer Historical romances. However, if you are the kind of person who prefers sad, tear jerker, true-to-life story, then this is definitely the one for you. I didn't regret reading this one though. It's different from my usual book picks but... Overall, it was a good book.
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Summary: Insightful and therapeutic
Review: I have read many of her books and have enjoyed all of them, this was no different. It was difficult to get through the begining of the book, but it is neccesary for people to understand that though the book is fiction the abuse is all to real and all to common. People who disliked the book because of the difficult begining, I believe did so, because of their inability to face what truely happens to so many children. The fact that she was able to live in the convent and find God is the most fictional aspect of the book. All to often children of abuse continue a life of heartache and hardship. They never learn to love or let themselves be loved. But D.S. allows the reader to have hope for the victims. I believe that this book is theraputic for survivors of child abuse.
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Summary: One of her most inspiring stories
Review: This is one of Steel's most inspiring stories EVER. What you'll read in the pages of this book will make you cringe & cry. You'll feel exactly as this young girl does, confused as to why her mother seemingly hates her. However sad this story though, it's truly about survival & making a life for yourself beyond your past abuses. I think this is an excellent story & I'd really recommend reading it!
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Summary: A Great Read!
Review: I read this book as a project for my english class and i beleive that this is a great book for people who do not like to read because it will keep them wanting to read to find out what happens. Everything that went on i could relate to and it was so real. This is an awesome book to read!
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Summary: This actually gets 3 1/2 stars from me
Review: This is a good book by romantic standards, and a decent book by my standards. The abuse that Gabriella suffered was realistically written and so was the way Steel described the scars that it left on her character. I liked most of the characters and the book was fast paced. However, I find a sexual relationship between a priest and an almost-nun disgusting. I didn't like the priest and found him to a weakling. I also didn't like that through out the book Gabriella was constantly leaning on a man to give meaning to her life. It would have been nice to see her be more independent. All in all I say this book is worth reading.
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Summary: The Long Road Home
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I felt like I could relate to Gabriella in some way even though I haven't been treated like she had. Just for some reason I did.
Danielle Steel wrote a good one. I think this is the best book I have read so far.
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Summary: What do you think?!
Review: ... I think that Danielle Steel did do research on child abuse, or she knew someone who had been through the same abuse as the character. Gabriella went through some situations in the book that make you ask if all this can happen to one person, but that is not to say that it isn't possible. There have been many cases of abused children where one parent doesn't want to stop the other from the abuse, or they just didn't know how, which is one of the situations that Gabriella went through. I think that Danielle Steel wrote this book to prove that people who have been abused can still go through life, they might be scared for a while, but eventually they will find someone who will help them and that they will learn to trust. That is the purpose of the title of the book, The Long Road Home. To me, the title symbolizes that this one little girl had to go through life not trusting anyone and blaming herself for everything that happened to her, she had been betrayed or she had lost the person she had cared about, so she was just trying to find someone in the world that she could trust.
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