The GLORY GAME : THE GLORY GAME

Rating:
Summary: Terrible
Review: Could not have cared less for any of the characters. They were by no means likable. Don't waste any time reading this bore.

Rating:
Summary: I loved it
Review: I just looked up this book to find out the author's name so I could find another one by her. I read this book a year ago, but it stays with me. I could not put it down. She not only painted a picture of Luz, but the world around her. I could see the house, hear the clink of the dishes, smell the flowers. Dailey opened up a world wholly unfamiliar to me, yet I related to Luz on a very personal level. It was brilliant. I can't wait to read another book by Dailey.

Rating:
Summary: Not Janet Dailey's best
Review: This book tells about Luz Kincaid Thomas's life after her lawyer husband, Drew, leaves her for a younger woman. She eventually finds a new love, Rauol Buchanan, a polo player.

Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this book. I felt that there was not a single believable character or situation in it. Luz is a proud woman, but she has almost too many strikes against her. Her husband, Drew, seems initially devoted to her, so it's difficult to understand why he leaves her for another woman, even though the other woman is a lawyer and Luz is not. The "other woman", Claudia, is a cardboard character; it's hard to see what the attraction is, beyond her and Drew's shared profession. Luz's son, Rob, is not an unsympathetic character; but he is also mixed up in promiscuity and drugs, which lead to scandal and tragedy for the family. And Luz's daughter, Trisha, is the worst character in the bunch: she is so rude and disloyal to her mother --even openly preferring Claudia to Luz-- that I was ready to slap her!

Also, it bothered me that the children addressed their mother by her first name, "Luz". I may be old-fashioned, but I felt this seemed disrepectful. But, on second-thought, maybe it's a family custom as Luz addresses her own mother as "Audra".

Janet Dailey is a delightful writer. Her "Harlequin Presents" romances were charmingly and beautifully written; and most of her longer books were good, also. (Particularly "Silver Wings, Santiago Blue".) But I guess even a good writer can come up with a clinker every now and then. Read any one of Janet Dailey's other books, and you'll see that she can be an entertaining author.