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Summary: The House on Hope Street
Review: Anyone who is familiar with the practice of law would find this book garbage. No woman with five children can practice law full time, much less trial law, even if she has a woman to help her at home. Then suddenly that same woman is alone with a growing practice which would require her full attention. In addition, she has a mentally handicapped child who requires her full attention plus four other teenage children not even mentioned in the book who must need mentoring! When does she find time for that? This is probably the worst book Ms. Steele has written. It's completely unbelievable. She's getting hard up on subjects!
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Summary: Very predictable and Repititious
Review: House on Hope Street was the first Danielle Steel book I have ever read and probably the last. As I was standing in the book store trying to choose which one to buy, I quickly discovered that all of her books followed very similar story lines.Man and woman are deeply in love, man dies, and she is left trying to pick up the peices. While, I did enjoy this book, I will not read another Danielle Steel book. I don't really like her syle.
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Summary: Heart- warming and Compassioniate
Review: Danielle Steel's "The House on Hope Street" is an awesome book that gently touches the heart. It is filled with suprises that leave you crying in the inside and out!
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Summary: Lacking
Review: I don't like reading a book, and finding myself looking back to clarify details. I found some details in this book that did not agree with each other in latter chapters. I feel that Ms. Steele writes too fast now, and the stories race to an end.
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Summary: Made me cry
Review: Good book but the family was a little bit too perfect. I did enjoy reading this story because it was more than a romance. I really liked the personality of the doctor, it was very realistic. This book was interesting right away and was very hard to set down. The sadness of the sudden death of a loved one on a holiday made this book a tear-jerker at times.
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Summary: Blah, Blah, Blah
Review: This was the worst book I have ever read. It is the first time in 28 years that I have ever not finished a book. The main character is made out to be so strong through adversity, yet she is heartbroken by a man who is down-right evil to her. The only way this book gets 5 stars is if at the end (which I never read) she tells the good doctor to get lost! But somehow I doubt that happened.
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Summary: Hope prevails
Review: The House on Hope Street is a fitting title for this book on hope, love and a family determined to weather the storm after a terrible tragedy tears their father and husband from them. Danielle Steel creates warm characters that you feel for, though it took her until almost the end to make a new romance for Liz, but the book is, as usual, par for Steel and perfectly enjoyable.
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Summary: Simple and Poignant
Review: Don't be fooled by the apparently simple theme of this book. You might be thinking "been there, done that," but Danielle Steele's story of a woman's struggle to put her life back together after her husband's death is both realistic and compassionate. I think this book differs significantly from similar stories in that Liz and Jack's marriage is distinctly contemporary: they are partners in both marriage and business, and seem to be friends as well as lovers and parents. We all know a couple like this, which renders the story very poignant and personal to the reader.In a relatively short book, Steel is remarkably thorough in dealing with Liz's conflict over moving forward or holding on to her husband's memory. In addition, her children push her in all directions, forcing Liz to confront the consequences to them of her new romance. Her daughters' characters do seem a little shallow/formulaic, but, in the overall context, it works to show that putting her life back together after her husband's death (1) won't be easy, and (2) involves her kids as well. Finally, the lesson of this book rings true for anyone who has ever had to deal with the loss of a family member. While you would like to dwell in the past for just a little while longer, eventually, life has it's own rhythm and will get you moving forward somehow. For Liz, it took another crisis before she got going again.
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Summary: It was great!
Review: I thought that the book was very good. I did not want to put it down. I felt sorry for the mom because her kids gave her a really hard time about having a boyfriend and they did not treat the boyfriend right. The girls thought that he was trying to take the place of their dead father. The two boys liked him though because they had saved Peter's life. Peter is the oldest son that they have. Jamie the youngest son also liked him. Jamie was a little slower then other kids his age and was in the Special Olympics. He got first place in one of his competitions. He was so happy because he had never gotten first place before. The mother had her boyfriend over for Thanksgiving and things did not turn out like she was expecting them to. The girls were very rude to him and the mother and the boyfriend ended up not seeing each other anymore. Until one day Jamie broke his arm and when she the mother went to the hospital the doctor was her ex-boyfriend. The ended up talking again and getting back together. The mother is really happy with the boyfriend that she has, and towards the end the kids finally learn to like him. He spends that Christmas with the family.
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Summary: Much Better!
Review: It's an old, but good story. I actually like the characters. Give me more at the end, though...what happens??? Give it a try!
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