The Long Road Home

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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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Summary: The Long Read Home
Review: Oh, my God! I have never read Danielle Steel before, and I certainly expected more than what I got from this bestselling author. The story was full of pathos and grabbed my attention all right, but much of the horror came from the poor quality of her writing and research. Such stories of abuse do exist, but I don't think Steel has a clue about the real impact that the (unrealistic) conditions she set up would have on a young girl like Gabriela. The dialogue was pedestrian and she continually "told" us what emotions her characters were having, rather than "showing" us through skillful storytelling. I will run rather than walk if I see another book by this author coming my way.