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Summary: An extraordinary woman's story
Review: "Malice", from Danielle Steel, is the third book I've read from this internationally best selling author. It is the story of a seventeen year old girl and a secret to horrible to share with anybody. Even at the night of her mom's funeral she was attacked, and that was not the first time it happened. She decided that night would be her last one, and later on she pays the price for being brave. Grace Adams is a true survivor, a beautiful and shy girl that captivates people wherever she goes. The only thing she cannot forget is her past and those terrible years she lived. She has to carry her past wherever she goes.
I recommend this book; it was well written and tells a story that I will never forget.
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Summary: Malice
Review: Danielle Steel writes about a difficult topic: an incestuous relationship between a father and a daughter. She brilliantly describes the painful fictional story and in the end there is a happy ending filled with hope and healing. Grace is a young teen-age girl who was repeated molested by her father beginning when she was 14years old. Her mother, a debilitated cancer patient, enabled and fostered the sick relationship in order make her husband happy. Her mother was also a physically and emotionally battered wife who felt like she could not stand up for herself and was terrified of her husband. Because Grace loved her family and because her father was so popular in the community, she kept the family's secrets as long as possible... The night her mother died, Grace was brutally raped by her father in her parent's bedroom. Grace had to stop him, so she pulled out the gun that was stashed in her mother's nightstand, aimed and then accidentally and shot her father. He died... Grace was sentenced to prison for murder... In prison, Grace got an education from a couple of inmates who teach her how to defend and believe in herself. As the story progresses, Grace is able to turn tragedy into triumph and is slowly able to overcome difficult situations and grow to be a stronger person. Each step of the way she is able to heal and find hope. This is a very inspirational story.
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Summary: Amazon Customer Review
Review: I Loved This Book--One Of The Best I Have Ever Read!! I Highly Recommend It!! But Warning--You Will Not Want To Put It Down Once You Start Reading It!!
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Summary: VERY TOUCHING!!
Review: This is the first Danielle Steel book I've read. It was really easy to "get in touch" with the characters in this book. Great plot, great characters, GREAT WRITING! For some people, the subject matter may not sit well - some parts of the story are graphic in content. You'll definitely need to keep a box of tissues next to the bed while you're reading this one. It brought tears to my eyes. Very touching story but sadly, some people are like Grace Adams in the real world. It really makes you step back and take a look at things like child abuse and domestic violence. The message this book gave to me was, "If Grace Adams can make it through what she's been through, so can I!!"
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: I believe this novel is truly Danielle Steel's best works.
Grace Adams is a loner. She hardly has any friends when she graduates high school. Yet, everyone who admires her father thought that he has a perfect family. See, Grace's father is a sucessful and wealthy lawyer in town. Her mother dotes on her family.
But, what everyone did not know is that the Adam's family harbor a dark secret--a secret that was deadly which ends with shocking and scaring effects. When Grace's mother dies, Grace believes it is the end. She does not have to deal with her father anymore. Yet, on that fateful night you find out that Grace's father is a horrible, selfish, disgusting and cruel monster. On the surface, everyone believes he is the honorable man in their community, but behind close doors, he is evil fiend who rapes his daughter. What is worse is Grace's mother is so sickly in love with her husband, she sacrifices her daughter to keep her husband sexually satified.
When her mother dies, it is the end of Grace's father sexual abuse to her. In self-defense, Grace shoots her father after he brutally rapes her. The naked and frighten young woman is scared when the police officers come, but what do they do? They believe that Grace was the one who tried to have sex with her father, became angry and shot him. Instead of Grace defending herself, explaining that her father had raped her--had been raping her for all these years, to protect his image and her mother's image, she keeps silent as she is arrested and put in jail.
Molly and David find out Grace's secret and try to help her, yet it is too late. Grace is sent to a women's prison for two years, and she is about to endure the same kind abuse as her father did to her until two cellmates decided to place her under their protection. They want Grace to succeed in the world. When Grace leaves prison, she sets out into the world--believing she will be granted a fresh start--even then, the world betrays her with its cruelty as her father did all those years ago.
Yet, Grace keeps haboring her secret. She is too ashame of her past until she meets Charles McKenzie. Until then, she realizes she wants to try to live the rest of her life as functional as possible, and she does. Charles gives her what she wants--a full functional life with children and a family. Grace is very happy being a mother, wife, and advocating for abuse children. Years later, Charles decided to run for Congress, and Grace is behind him 100% until...malice starts to taint their lives. This time Grace will not like it escalate!
In this profound and inspiring story, Grace Adams learns not to be the victim--she learns to fight back and reclaim her life and what is important in her life. As she struggles to confront all her past demons, once and for all, she learns that people are malicious...and sometimes, you have to be malicious in return.
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Summary: very wonderful book, with an interesting story...
Review: This book was very good, and it probably deserved more stars that five.
This story is about a girl named grace who was molested by her father while her mother was very sick, for many years. Then when her father trys to rape her on the night of her mothers funeral, she gets very scared and shoots him.
She is then sent to prison for murder, and has to deal with all this other hard things, and then even after out of prison, she still has to deal with her slimeball probation officer, and the troubles with her work.
She finally meets the right man, and settles down and has a family. Then years later, she is confronted by her past, when all these horrible lies and photos of her come out, it almost destroys her.
This is a very intense book , and i recommend it to any DS fan.
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Summary: Malice: keeps you interested
Review: Malice, by Danielle Steel, was such an awesome book. It was recommended to me by one of my friends when I was taking a best sellers class, where all you do is read. I wasn't a big reader before hand, so this was definitely a good book to get me started. I kept turning the page to find out what was going to happen next because it was so interesting and unpredictable. The plot was basically about a girl who was abused by her dad when she was younger and her mother died when she was only 13. She ended up shooting her father while he was raping her, and gets convicted of murder. She spends time in prison, and has to start a whole new life when she is released. She goes through her new life trying to cover up her old one, and it is extremely difficult for her. The main points were backed up by a lot of detail, and I just felt like I was in the book. The characters were also well-developed and interesting. This book can be very graphic and disturbing, so I don't recommend it to those who don't like that. Overall though, this was an excellent book.
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