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Summary: Love Story at it's best
Review: A great love story has to have a bit more in it than just the couple falling in love & working to be together. It has to have another element, and that's what the horses are to this book. It's not just the horse ranch, but the passion the characters have for the horses & their determination to use that passion for good. This is one of Steel's classic books, I recommend it, I think you'll enjoy every mintue as I did!
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Summary: Love Story at it's best
Review: A great love story has to have a bit more in it than just the couple falling in love & working to be together. It has to have another element, and that's what the horses are to this book. It's not just the horse ranch, but the passion the characters have for the horses & their determination to use that passion for good. This is one of Steel's classic books, I recommend it, I think you'll enjoy every mintue as I did!
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Summary: Nice romance, lousy horsemanship
Review: Although the heroine of this book is reasonably likable, and by the end of the story I was kind of attached to her, I had to laugh at the author's repeated descriptions of her as a wonderful horsewoman. There isn't a single incident in this cute little romance that indicates Samantha knows a thing about horses, or has any sense at all where they are concerned. Just look at her first encounter with the attractive-yet-arrogant ranch foreman: she's supposed to be riding out with a group of hands, and he asks if she can have her horse ready to go in ten minutes. Samantha irately replies that she can be ready in less than five.No, she can't. Not if she plans to introduce herself to her new mount, groom him, clean his feet, and tack up in a sane manner. Ten minutes might cover it if you're good but less than five is impossible. Then her cranky, obnoxious, take-advantage-of-a-new-rider mount, Rusty, demonstrates the annoying habit of trying to drop his head and graze all the time. Any sensible horsewoman would have put that horse to work, but Samantha simply sits there like luggage and reacts to his disobedience, instead of getting ahead of him and preventing. THEN she actually lets him graze, in a typical novice effort to "placate" him, and wonders why the attractive-yet-arrogant foreman isn't impressed. Well, since she's just let the horse know that if he nags long enough he'll eventually get his own way (reinforcing his bad behaviour) it makes sense for a knowledgeable person to be annoyed at her. (Horses can be very much like small children this way.) Aftr all this I was not surprised that when she finally gets to ride the ranch's dream horse (a black thoroughbred stud horse named Black Beauty -- have we hit ALL the cliches yet? ), Samantha proceeds to gallop this unknown horse all over unknown terrain, at grave risk not only to herself, but more importantly to the horse. Her defense for this selfish and dangerous behaviour is that it "made her feel alive." If she'd run that horse into a drainage ditch or a chuck hole and broken his legs, Black Beauty would not have felt very lively. (And after all this, she STILL has to be forced, by the attractive-yet-arrogant foreman, to cool out and othrwise look after the horse she endangered for her own fun.) Samantha as a rider is the sort of person who ought to stick to dirt bikes. At least then she's the only one in danger. In real life I could have predicted her eventual accident, which later in the story is described as the result of her taking a stupid risk on a wild horse. The trouble with that explanation is that it doesn't reflect what happened: Samantha once again gets on a horse she doesn't know and gallops wildly over terrain she doesn't know. She was indeed taking a stupid risk, but the horse's level of training in this situation is irrelevant. This time the angels are not on her side: she charges her horse (imaginatively named Gray Devil) straight at a ravine the horse knows about and she doesn't. Since she's riding too fast to see what's ahead of her, she puts the horse in the situation of having to decide to save himself, which he does by hitting the brakes. Samantha's resulting fall and injury can't be blamed on the horse, who actually showed himself to be an honest mount, obeying her until it became clear that he couldn't trust her to look after him. In real life I would have felt sorry for Samantha, but in a book I ended up relieved that she couldn't endanger any more trusting horses. As I say, the romance in this story was quite sweet, but in real life nobody would have marvelled at Samantha's horsewomanship as they do in the book. In fact, her friends would have banned her from riding their valuable (and presumably beloved) horses long before the accident. By the end of the story I looked at the author photo of Steele posing with a cute little gray Arab and hoped Danielle knows more about horses than she demonstrates in her writing, for the sake of that horse. This was decidedly not a book I'd recommend to anybody who likes horses -- the cringe factor was much higher than the romantic bits could salvage.
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Summary: Gee, Love is great!
Review: Danielle Steel, you sure can fool me. I am questioning myself now as whether I read your book or did I see the movie and also read the book. Whatever, I sure loved the story line. Love prevails against all odds--it sure makes a girl think that there still is a chance for her. Sam was such a high-powered person that Tate thought that he could not please such a high-powered person. He took too long to learn that he had underestimated himself. Have many of us have done the same thing at one time or another. But, as life should move-on, it did for him and he learned that he could, and in fact, had pleased Sam. They eventually lived happily everafter but not until some serious changes took place in Sam's and Tate's life. Sam lost the most of the two. Sometimes life cannot always be explained or sometimes it does not work out the way you or I would have liked for it to be. --Beverly C. Sanders
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Summary: Gee, Love is great!
Review: Danielle Steel, you sure can fool me. I am questioning myself now as whether I read your book or did I see the movie and also read the book. Whatever, I sure loved the story line. Love prevails against all odds--it sure makes a girl think that there still is a chance for her. Sam was such a high-powered person that Tate thought that he could not please such a high-powered person. He took too long to learn that he had underestimated himself. Have many of us have done the same thing at one time or another. But, as life should move-on, it did for him and he learned that he could, and in fact, had pleased Sam. They eventually lived happily everafter but not until some serious changes took place in Sam's and Tate's life. Sam lost the most of the two. Sometimes life cannot always be explained or sometimes it does not work out the way you or I would have liked for it to be. --Beverly C. Sanders
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Summary: You will fall in love with this one!
Review: I liked this book from page one. It doesn't start out slow like some. This poor woman (the main character) goes through one tragedy after another and still survives,,, and ends up with everything she wants and happy as can be
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Summary: I love stories that have ranches in them!
Review: I'm a huge DS fan and I absolutely loved this book it was a heart warming romance what Tate and Sam had was great and it took some separation to make it greater. I also loved the realtionship between Sam and the little boy she adopted she loved him very much and he loved her back just as much great read. All DS fans should read this one and if you are a fan this book will make you a fan.
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Summary: I love stories that have ranches in them!
Review: I'm a huge DS fan and I absolutely loved this book it was a heart warming romance what Tate and Sam had was great and it took some separation to make it greater. I also loved the realtionship between Sam and the little boy she adopted she loved him very much and he loved her back just as much great read. All DS fans should read this one and if you are a fan this book will make you a fan.
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Summary: Absolutely fantastic!
Review: It never had a dull moment. Sam overcame some very hard obstacles. When everything seemed to go wrong she kept her head up and went on fighting. It is a tearjerker so bring a hanky.If you liked this I think you will like Kaliedoscope by Danielle Steel.
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Summary: Absolutaly Fantastic!
Review: It was a wonderful book! I just could't put it down untilI was finished with it! I re-read it about every month,and I still love it!
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