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: great book gets your attention.
Review: I like this author a lot because she uses lots of detail when she explains anything. I liked this book a lot because it was the kind of book where i couldn't put it down because each page made you want to keep going. During every scene you could imagine a picture because she explained everything so good. I hated it when the Eloise beat Gabrielle. I think that this book deserved 4 stars because it used lots of detail and figurative language and it would have been five stars but it was too long.

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Summary: The Long Road Home is a very short read.
Review: I read this book in 2 days. It is not a typical Steel story. This narrative developed current issues prevalent in our society. The typical Danielle Steel book is a way to escape the trials of everyday life, and lose yourself in romantic fiction. The Long Road Home delves into child abuse. It emphazises the fact that it is a hidden secret in our society, and how it affects the individual throughout his/her adult life. The only fault I found with this book was the overbearing and frequent description of the beatings. I got the point quickly that the child was beaten. The description of each encounter did not enhance the plot.

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Summary: The Long Road Home
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I felt like I could relate to Gabriella in some way even though I haven't been treated like she had. Just for some reason I did.
Danielle Steel wrote a good one. I think this is the best book I have read so far.

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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.

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Summary: You've gotta read this book.
Review: The Long Road Home By Danielle Steel

The book The Long Road Home takes place in New York. There is a preppie family that consists of a mother, a father, and one child. The mother is abusive to her daughter. She beats her up every time she turns around. She beats her for everything whether she does anything or not. Her father does not beat her, but he doesn't put his foot down and stop her. He just gets drunk and cheats on his wife and eventually leaves them. It takes a lot to make me cry, but I bawled through that book. I give it a five star rating. I recommend this book for adults and older kids because it might be too disturbing for younger kids.

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Summary: So good, you'll wish it never ends!!!
Review: The Long Road Home is a wonderful book. All of DS books are good with the exception of one or two, but this one was one of my favorites. Gabriella is a beautiful child who is beaten repeatedly by her mother while her father watches. He father leaves her mother, and her mother decides to remarry. She sends Gabrielle to a convent to be taken care of. Gabrielle decides that being a nun is her calling until a young priest captures her heart. This book is so good. Make sure you have a lot of time to read when you start it, because you'll never put it down. DS deserves a ten for this one and also The Ranch.

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Summary: The secrets of the past
Review: This book follows the character of a young girl called Gabrielle and is set in New York. At the beginning of the book she is constanly abused by her cruel mother, while her father stands by and is seemingly powerless to stop it.

When her father finally leaves Gabrielle, her mother becomes involved with another man and runs off with him, leaving Gabrielle at a convent where she is 'adopted' by the Mother Superior, who loves her very much. At the convent she meets a priest and they fall in love, but their love brings disastrous consequences, and two lives are lost.

Now Gabrielle has disgraced herself she is forced out of the convent, and has to face the world on her own for the first time. She finds a home at a boarding house, where a kind Professor befriends her, and becomes like a father to her. She also comes close to death once more at the hands of a trusted friend.

Gabrielle now has to live with the crimes she believes she has committed, and embarks on a journey to unlock the secrets of her past and her parents.

This is a brilliant book, and I would recommend it to everyone.

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Summary: Great book...blah ending
Review: This book was a definate page turner, I had a very hard time putting it down. This could have turned out to be so much more though. I would have love to have seen Gabrielle make it on her own utlizing her talents and degree from Columbia. I had to roll my eyes when she came into money and met the handsome young doctor. Kind of underminded the whole triumph over tragedy plot.

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Summary: A Great Read!
Review: This is a good book by romantic standards, and a decent book by my standards. The abuse that Gabriella suffered was realistically written and so was the way Steel described the scars that it left on her character. I liked most of the characters and the book was fast paced. However, I find a sexual relationship between a priest and an almost-nun disgusting. I didn't like the priest and found him to a weakling. I also didn't like that through out the book Gabriella was constantly leaning on a man to give meaning to her life. It would have been nice to see her be more independent. All in all I say this book is worth reading.