The Long Road Home

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Summary: Her best book yet! I loved it!
Review: This has got to be the best book she has written and I've read them all. I laughed, cryed, and couldn't put the book down until I finished it. I had to recommend it to everyone I know, and they all agree.

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Summary: True depliction of child abuse - how to overcome low esteem.
Review: I found this book very hard to get into at first. The first 6 chapters described the child abuse in such detail that I found it hard to keep reading. This book does not seem like a regular Danielle Steel book to me, but it was a great read after all.

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Summary: It made me want to jump into the pages to help Gabby.
Review: As I read Steele's latest work I wondered how many children are out there that need our help as adults. I am a long time fan, and have now recommended this book to several other moms on our bay. Everyone just wanted to jump in and save this little girl, and love her as she deserved.

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Summary: it was moving,sad wonderful and written extremely well.
Review: Child abuse knows no barriers,(social standings, having two parents, single parent household) illness and out right selfishness of parents who clearly should not have children is the key to child abuse. It is amazing how some children prevail and learn how to become decent human beings despite their trouble upbringing .This book was wonderful and truly explained how an abused child thinks and feels.. Alot of people should read this book and learn from it.

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Summary: Very uncomfortable reading
Review: The abuse both as a child and as an adult were very difficult to get through. I forced myself to finish, it is a subject we should all be aware of. But the ending left me feeling empty - this serious problem does exist and there is no 'happy ending'.

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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful!!! A must read for Steel fans!
Review: I had just finished reading Ghost when I read The Long Road Home and although I did like Ghost very much, this book has definitely got to be her best yet. Keep some tissues close by.

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Summary: Sorry I bothered
Review: I have been a long-time reader of Danielle Steel and was happy to read her last book The Ghost which I thought was wonderful. The Long Road Home, though, has me wondering if I will ever read another Steel novel. This book was so very grim and of course Steel wrapped it up into a neat package where her readers are to assume that Gabriella will lead a happy and normal life after her horrible tale of woe. But the world doesn't work this way and in the hands of a better writer one would have felt the abuse without Steel's resorting to sensationalism. Perhaps Steel would have made this reader happier if instead of Gabbie going off with the perfect doctor to a perfect life she would have had her use the money she inherited and set up a faclility for other abused children, learned to take care of heself and then meet a man who will walk alongside her in all of her endeavors. Finally, if one wants to see Steel at her best, read her earlier books and forget the more recent ones except for The Ghost.

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Summary: Steel's best book yet.
Review: I stopped reading Steel because all her books were so predictable. My friend insisted that I read this one and I am glad I did. Once I picked the book up I could not put it down. It was amazing to see how much one person and endure and still find happiness. I recommend this book to everyone.

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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: Steel gets better and better. It's hard to believe that someone could survive this abuse. Very thought provoking

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Summary: Another heart warming story from Danielle Steel
Review: From the moment I picked this book up and started to read I was hooked. I have read all Steel's writting, but this had to be the best yet. A story which many people have experiance, in real life.. Your heart goes out to Gabrille seems like the convent was the only place where she fround happiness. Her love for Joe was so real she was starved for love and he gave her all he could but couldn't face relality. I loved the book.