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Summary: Peeeee-yoooooooooo!!
Review: After reading "Leap of Faith" I wanted to leap, all right, through a plate glass window for having wasted my time with such boring trite material. I am so sick and tired of this woman writing about insipid, brain dead, ignorant but beautfiul heroines who need to be smashed over the head with a 40-ounce before they recognize what is going on around them. I am sick and tired of these women being perfect little angels while everyone else around them are villians who ruin their perfect little lives. Marie-Ange was supposedly a genius, doing well in school, but she displays rampant stupidity when it comes to her husband's obviously deceptive nature. Did Marie-Ange need a telegram or something? ...
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Summary: a refreshing story from d.s.
Review: After the disappointment of LONE EAGLE, I nearly gave up on Danielle Steel, but when I finished LEAP OF FAITH, it gave me a LEAP OF FAITH for her buying her upcoming books.Marie-Ange Hawkins had a princess life in a chateau in France, but an event one day took her royal-like life away from her, becoming a Cinderella story. She is taken to the Iowa, where her great grandmother lives and takes Marie-Ange in. There Marie-Ange befriends Billy Parker, a red-headed, freckled boy; their friendship grows into one like that of brothers and sisters. Years later, she receives a chance to return to France, leaving behind her terrible farm-life-and her best friend. But she is lucky to find another man who befriends her like Billy did... Hmm... Danielle Steel's short novels tend to be good, in my opinion, and this is no exception.
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Summary: Unending agony
Review: Although I have read several good Danielle Steel books, this one really disappointed me. It is page after page of stomach knotting agony- one hard to read situation after the other for the entire book. The premature, unsatisfying, short ending does little to make up for the endless torture that preceded it.
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Summary: A quick read!
Review: Although this book read VERY fast,I liked it. If you only have an afternoon at the beach,then pick it up at the library and take it along. It's pretty light reading. I think the ending could have been expanded,but other than that,it was good.
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Summary: Another great read!
Review: Another one of Danielle's great stories. Different in style from her other books. This story reminded me much of a VC Andrews style of writing. A fairly quick and easy read which will make you fall in love with the main character- admiring her genuine personality, inspiration and most of all her strength.
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Summary: Excellent story and characters
Review: As I said above, this book is excellent. The storyline is great, and you feel like you are there with the characters. It is readable in one day, plus it is a keepsake. This book never leaves you hanging. It moves very smoothly.
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Summary: As much as I like D Steel....
Review: As much as I love D Steel, this isn't one of her better books. The problem lies in the fact that she is a novel-writer. She writes 500-700 pages to tell her story. Not 200. This is a outline really of a story. You have no chance to feel connected to the characters. It keeps you pretty much interested, but you are left feeling a little bereft, like there was so much more that could have been written about. I enjoyed the gift & special delivery much more.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Danielle Steel's "Leap of Faith" is definitely worth reading. Steel does a fantastic job of character development and moving the story along. Even by reading the first few pages of the book, I felt like I knew Marie-Ange. She is a strong and noble character. We have all gone through trials and tribulations during our lifetime, and we are easily able to empathize with her. Danielle Steel wrote this book very well. It is definitely worth reading if you have a few hours to spare!
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Summary: Leap of Faith
Review: Eleven year old Marie-Ange Hawkins had a tragic accident that changed her wonderful life that was in a beautiful French chateau. She had to go live her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Marie-Ange was treated poorly by her Aunt Carol. She has to work really hard. She goes to school and meets a red headed boy named Billy Parker. They become best friends. She referred to him as her brother because he was the only one who cared for her. Marie-Ange wants to go back to France so bad, and finally one day a gift comes to her and her dream comes true. When she returns to France, she finds out that where she used to live was a widower named Comte Benard de Beauchamp. After she has met him her life begins. She is so happy until a woman tells her a story that will change her life. Marie-Ange has to work very hard to save her children. The main characters in this book were Marie-Ange Hawkins, Billy Parker, Benard de Beauchamp, and Aunt Carol. My favorite character was Marie-Ange because she was a very strong person. She went through a lot and came out very strong. She never gave up even though she wanted to, she never gave up on the people she loved. I loved this book! I would recommend this book to the ladies that like dramas and love stories. I laughed and cried when I read this book. I loved every bit of it. Danielle Steel is a great author. I recommend some other books I read of hers like, The Promise, The House on Hope Street, and this one.
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Summary: Surely Steel
Review: Every so often, Steel comes out with a compact read that flows smoothly from one chapter to another; Leap of Faith is one of them. Even if you're tired of Steel's fairy-tale characters and overlapping storylines, you'll be finished with this story before you realize it. Marie is sweet, the plot has SOME depth to it, and the ending is predictable, however;it is one continuous monologue that you'll devour during an afternoon at the beach!
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