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Summary: How did I read the entire book?
Review: Leap of Faith is the first DS book that I have read. For her to be such a popular author I thought the book was crap. I didn't get to involved with the characters because of the lack of description. I wouldn't reccomend this book to anyone. I don't think I will be reading another DS book. Geez, what a waste of time.
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Summary: How did I read the entire book?
Review: Leap of Faith is the first DS book that I have read. For her to be such a popular author I thought the book was crap. I didn't get to involved with the characters because of the lack of description. I wouldn't reccomend this book to anyone. I don't think I will be reading another DS book. Geez, what a waste of time.
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Summary: Modern Day Cinderella Story
Review: Leap of Faith, a fictional novel written by Danielle Steel, is a compelling example of how a person can succeed in life, regardless of betrayal and hardships. The story vividly describes each character to the extent that the reader is able to feel a part of the situation. When the first chapter approaches to an end, and the storylines turning point comes forward, it becomes a book you will not want to stop reading. Marie-Ange is the main character, and the novel revolves around her growing up and making it through all of the challenging obstacles she had to overcome by herself. The beginning of the book shows Marie-Ange living with her family in their Chateau de Marmounton in France. Life was perfect. They were an incredibly wealthy family, until something devastating happens and Marie-Ange's life is forced into a whole new direction causing her to leave everything she has ever known behind. She leaves France and moves to Iowa, where her Great-Aunt Carole lives. The book carries on with how life was like living with Carole, which was far more different from what Marie-Ange was used too. Marie-Ange was fairly miserable due to the way Carole treated her and she had aspirations of someday returning to her family's Chateau de Marmounton to get away. Her dreams didn't seem like a reality given the circumstances she was under, until one day a knock on her front door changed everything. This knock meant a new life for Marie-Ange, and a chance to live out her dreams of returning to France. Once she went back to France, her life picked up in speed greatly. She met an astonishing man who was prosperous, and coincidentally, lived in her childhood house. They fell in love, got married, and even had two children together. However, her newly found perfect life takes a startling turn. Marie-Ange is forced to find courage and faith to save her life and her children's lives. Leap of Faith is a true Cinderella story with many more twists. These little changes in the book's plot cause the reader to become more and more involved with what the next page brings. This was a wonderful book that shows that things aren't always what they seem and that good things really do happen to good people in the end.
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Summary: nice sad story
Review: marie-ange at eleven years of age is living an ideal live in france as the youngest of 2 children. everybody just dotes on her and she thinks that life is just grand. but when her parents and older brother are killed in a car accident, she is left an
orphan and sent to live with her only living relative in iowa.
her aunt carole is a bitter old lady who works poor marie day in
and night and her only joy is in a young boy she meets at school.
then on her 21st birthday, an attorney comes to see her and tells
her that she is in fact a very rich woman. she moves back to france where she meets the owner of her childhood home. they have
a short romance and are married and have 2 children in less than
a year and a half. but all is not as it seems. her husband is running up huge debts and being naive she is paying for them with
her trust. when she starts digging into his affairs, she finds
out that her life and her children's may be in grave danger and
will she have the courage to do what she must to save her children and her fortune?
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Summary: Readers need a leap of loyalty
Review: Once upon a time there was a woman named Danielle Steel who burst onto the "literary" scene. She wrote about the stuff which dreams are made of, about fairytale people with lots of money and power. She also wrote about the not so wealthy and powerful who by the end of her books always seemed to have a happily ever after ending. And she wrote about famous cities and fairytale places and her books always dripped with designer names, famous hotels and restaurants and great descriptions of the clothes and jewelry worn by the main characters. Steel wrote about single women, divorced men and women, abused women, women orphaned by the Titanic, women who covered wars and women who had to start all over after WWII or the Russian Revolution. She wrote so many books so quickly that her loyal readers could look forward to at least two meaty books a year from her. And I was one of her most loyal readers who just had to buy and read each of her books as soon as they hit the shelves. Sad to say but now after almost 30 years of reading Steel I must admit that I think twice before picking up one of her books. It's not that some of the plots of her books are all that bad for a fast read, although her writing which was never great is still the same, its just that it seems to be same old, same old. Change the names and the places and you think you've been there before. And to be very honest, I continue to hope that I will enjoy one of Steel's newer books as much as Season of Passion, Legacy of Silence, The Promise or Ghost. With that said I picked up Leap of Faith and read it in a matter of an hour during a recent plane ride. Once again I was looking forward to a good read but Leap of Faith, again fell short. And if I thought same old, same old about Steel's books, she did try introducing a new element to her books, suspense, but even this attempt didn't do much to the enjoyment of my read. Once again in Leap of Faith, we have a young woman living an ideal life with her parents and brother in France. Suddenly she is orphaned, her beloved home is sold and she is forced to live with an aunt on a farm in the middle of the United States. The aunt is straight out of Cinderella, forcing the young girl to live a meager life with hardly encouragement or love. But when the she turns 21, the young woman learns that she is a millionaire leaving readers to ask why her aunt never used any of this money for her. Immediately the young woman leaves for Paris to find out what happened to her beloved home all these years later. What happens next is most improbable and for sure there is some happily ever after at the end of the book, but by this time one doesn't seem to care too much what happens. This is a short read which once again left me wondering if Steel will write another one as enjoyable as her older titles. And if you still must read this book, I suggest doing it either on a plane or at the beach when you're a captive audience. Sign me STILL WAITING -----
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Summary: Strength and Endurance
Review: Sadness for this little girl who so quickly found herself without
the love and security of her family was what grabbed me. And then, she was deceived so grandly that I just had to keep reading to be certain that she found her way "home". This was just another great book in Danielle's ever growing list of titles.
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Summary: A quick and easy read
Review: Steel's recent novels have left much to be desired, so I was pleasantly surprised with "Leap of Faith." The ending is predictable, and could be expanded.
I read it in about 3 hours- I think the time was well-spent.
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Summary: Review: Danielle Steel, Leap of Faith
Review: The main character, Marie Ange is loveable as a child, but I felt rather indifferent to her through the rest of the story.
I was highly disappointed in the ending of the story. Though her husband was obviously a villian, you never really saw much of a strength in Marie Ange that I had grown used to reading in the older books. There were a lot of unsatisfied questions left when I put this book down. I would not recommend it. It seems to me that many of her more recent stories are just the same basics with different names and locations. I'd like to see some more of the variety that she used to have in her work.
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Summary: Not her best work
Review: The main character, Marie Ange is loveable as a child, but I felt rather indifferent to her through the rest of the story.
I was highly disappointed in the ending of the story. Though her husband was obviously a villian, you never really saw much of a strength in Marie Ange that I had grown used to reading in the older books. There were a lot of unsatisfied questions left when I put this book down. I would not recommend it. It seems to me that many of her more recent stories are just the same basics with different names and locations. I'd like to see some more of the variety that she used to have in her work.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: This book had a really good story line but I had to push myself to keep reading. If you push yourself it is really good, especially if you like endings where you have to predict what happened. I think I will be extreamly nice to all the people I meet from now on, in hopes that maybe one day someone might give me a Porsche!
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