Daddy

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Summary: Not just a tawdry romance
Review: "Daddy" is about Oliver Watson who thinks he has everything. He has a great life with the quentissential American Dream: wife, kids, house, dog. That is, until his wife Sarah decides that she wants to go back to school...away from him and the kids.

Everything in Oliver's world starts to fall apart: his oldest son gets a girl pregnant and his mother with Alzheimer's is in an accident and dies.

Through watching his family cope with the obstacles in their lives and watching his father fall in love again, Oliver realizes that he too must move on with his life.

This was the first Danielle Steel novel that I read and I was impresses. It wasn't just a tawdry romance novel.

There was also a made-for-TV movie based on this book. It starred Patrick Duffy (Oliver), Linda Carter (Charlotte) and Kate Mulgrew (Sarah). Ben Affleck played the oldest son.

Rating:
Summary: Very good... with a different spin on the normal...
Review: I really enjoyed this book, and the movie, too. Danielle Steel put a different spin on this one, showing us the life through the eyes of the man... and showing what a dedicated father can accomplish, when his own world falls apart. When his wife goes back to school, Oliver must take care of the house and children, as well as his own career. Unfortunately, his wife continues to pull away... leaving us a great deal of emotions to read through of the children and the parents. Pulling the family together may be an impossible feat, however, Oliver does his best and finds an outcome he can live with. Danielle Steel is very talented, and in this story she dug deep into a problem that has routinely been made into stories about mothers... but this time the story is told about the father.

Rating:
Summary: Daddy in Review
Review: This book was interesting. At first I didn't get the title because all it talked about in the beginning was Sarah. I thought they should have called the book Mommy. Finally after I read on further I realized why the book was called Daddy. Oliver had to go through his wife going back to school and raising three kids on his own. Ben, the oldest son, had to deal with his girlfriend and their soon to be child. Oliver's father had to deal with the death of his wife and the finding of a new love. You need to feel bad for the fathers because of all the hardships they went through with their wives/girlfriends. It is somewhat of a tear jerker. I give it four stars!