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Summary: tear jerker
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I told all my friends to read it. Any one who has ever lost a loved one knows how hard it is and to move on is even harder. Although this is fiction. I was touched by this book. This book is just another great one from Danielle Steele...
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Summary: This book was a very good book
Review: I really liked this book because it was different from the normal Danielle Steel books that she rights. I've never read a book like this and i thought that it was very interesting. The way that everything ended was very good, I don't like it when books end sad so this book was a very good book to me. It kept me reading and up at night, and I didn't even fall asleep! This book over all gets a 4/5 stars.
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Summary: anti climatic
Review: I was dissapointed with this book. I kept reading it in hopes that something really incredible was going to happen but unfortunatly never did. The characters were vague and the story line redundant and ends without closure.
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Summary: Interesting topic ... TERRIBLE delivery
Review: I was interested in this book due to the topic of a person returning to earth as an angel. I haven't read many of Danielle Steel's books, and after reading this one, I will NOT read another one. How many times can a writer repeat themselves? If you're Danielle Steel, WAY too much. She repeated conversations verbatim, she told and re-told situations and plot devices ad nauseeum (for example, father drinking, Bobby's accident, father ignoring Charlie's sports because she's a girl, Johnny's reactions to all of these events, etc). This was an extremely sketchy book. For example, Johnny would perform miracles, but he didn't know how and we weren't told, either. They just happened. Fine, you might say that miracles do 'just happen', however, if Johnny is the instigator of all these miracles, more thought and description should have been given as to how he accomplished them. DS could add a lot more depth and detail to her story telling. The ending was SO predictable. Someone earlier said the ending was an unpredictable "plot twist". I figured it out less than half way through the book. It's hard to believe that she is a best selling author. I read this book in less than 2 hours. Check it out from the library (as I did) if you really do want to read it.
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Summary: Miracles Really Do Happen
Review: In Danielle Steel's latest novel, number 58, she tells the story of a 17 year old boy who seems to have it all: a girlfriend he loves very deeply, a scholarship to a college, a family that loves him, and people who look up to him. Then hell breaks loose on prom night. Johnny and and his girlfriend, Becky, are involved in a traffic accident while on their way home from the prom. Riding in the car with Becky and Johnny is another couple. When the accident happened, the car got pinned between a big truck and a highway divider. at first, everything seems ok, but as we find out, things are not what they seem. The couple in the back seat are more stunned and shaken than anything, Becky has a gash on her cheek, and Johnny is dead behind the wheel with a broken neck. Things are going as smoothly as possible after a traffic accident occurs until Becky turns and sees the paramedics putting Johnny's body in the ambulance. She then goes into hysterics and has to be dragged away from the scene of the wreck. For months, all the people who Johnny was close two are inconsoloable, especially his mother and Becky. However, his mother gets sick one night and has to go to the hospital for a short stay. While there, she recieves a vision of Johnny and that the two of them are having a conversation. Thinking that it is all a dream, his mother does not want to wake up. However, he makes her and then she sees Johnny standing in her hospital room. At first she thinks it is the drugs the doctor gave her, but she is later convinced, by Johnny himself, that he is back because he has some work that he needs to finish. By the end of the book, Johnny has gotten quite a few miracles to happen, and everything turns out for the best.
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Summary: Touching Story - about Life and Death
Review: Johnny Angel by Danielle Steel is an interesting story. A teenage son is killed by a drunk driver, leaving the family to deal with their situation. The father has a drinking problem and can't communicate with the daughter. There is a younger son who has his own problems.
The teenage son comes back as an angel to help guide his family. It is especially touching that his mother can see his spirit and talk to him about what is going on. The relationship between the mother and the spirit of her dead son is very moving.
It is also interesting to see how Johnny Angel deals with his girlfriend moving on with her life after his death. This to me was a very interesting part of the story.
But the rest of the characters and events weren't really developed. Johnny comes back as a spirit to help his family, but the story is not told with any depth. I would have like to have read more about what the father was going through as he dealt with his issues. Instead, the story is focused on the relationship between the mother and dead son.
I did enjoy reading it, but I just felt the character development and plot were somewhat "light" and situations could have been dealt with in a more in depth manner. But it is still a very touching story dealing with life after death.
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Summary: Two words...JUST AWASOME
Review: Johnny Angel gives you a look at how hard it is when a family member dies. It also teaches you not to drink and drive. This book is all around awasome and i reccomend it to every body, young and old. At some point in your life you have to read tihs book. It is that good. I think i might read it again. Danielle Steel You did an AWASOME job with this one!
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Summary: Johnny Angel by Danielle Steel
Review: Johnny Angel is a touching story about a young man's unexpected death. Johnny Peterson was valedictorian of his class, star athlete of both the track and football teams, had a beautiful girlfriend, and was getting ready to graduate highschool. Then on prom night he was hit by a drunk driver suddenly ending his life and causing grief and pain amongst his friends and family. Johnny's mother was hospitalized due to an ulcer caused by stress from Johnny's death. Just when his mother didn't know how she was going to live without him he appeared to her just like he was when he was alive. The miracle didn't end there he stayed with the family on earth only visable to his mother and little brother Bobby. From then on he would change all their lives for the better.
I felt that it has a touching story that woke the reader up to the harsh realities of drunk driving. Many of the family tradgies in this book could've beeen avoided by not consuming alcohol and driving. I also thought this was a good book to read if you had recently or ever lost a loved one. From the story you get the understanding that those who have passed on are always with you in your heart and our watching over you. At times the book can be a real tear jerker so be prepared with a box of tissues if your one of those emotional types.
I liked the story, but I thought there were some things that could've been better. On a postive note the ending had a little twist to it that took away from the predictability of it. Some parts in it I found very predictable, somewhat like a Disney movie. I also liked the whole purpose of the story and how it touched you. What I didn't care for was that it was not challenging at all to read and in some parts I think she could've used a more descriptive style. She used many passive verbs.
Overall it had a nice plot that was easy to follow and that the reader could easily relate to. I would only recommend this book to those who would find interest in it. It is a good choice to read if you like LifeTime movies or if you become absorbed in emotional novels.
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Summary: A quick but far-fetched read!!!
Review: Johnny Angel is one of those books you can read in one sitting......quite the good read.....definitely a bit far-fetched, but good nonetheless. The end was not what i was expecting and some excerpts were repeated over and over....which happens alot in most DS books.I was truly delighted with Bobby's progree.. i would recommend this book to any die-hard DS fan.
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Summary: Johnny Angel
Review: Johnny Angel was a Wonderful book! I laughed, cried, got angry and all of the above. It is a short book but great! I do belive in Angels but as far as them coming back and talking to us no. I do believe they come back and help us out when we need it though.
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