Lone Eagle

Rating:
Summary: Not Recommended for Lovers of Love
Review: I enjoyed this book until just before I was half-way through. The love connection is amazing, the behavior is bad. If you like conflict, you'll like this book. As a woman who works very hard at being married and getting your man to commit... this book infuriated me to no end. I love the way she writes, but she is duplicitous and negative. She portrays a troubled relationship as a good one. It is a contradiction of true love.

Rating:
Summary: stuck in repeat cycle
Review: Have so enjoyed dozens of Danielle Steel novels, but unfortunately not so with this one. Far too repetitive, it harps on information, feelings, and the inner thoughts of the characters already vividly portrayed. So much so, that I found myself asking, "Did Danielle forget she's told us that (several times) and why didn't Editors notice?" Also, didn't too much care for, believe, or respect either of the main characters, (Joe, too completely self-involved with no real personality flair to keep him interesting, and Kate, altogether too willing to be used and then use others). Wanted to like them both more. Read it through, and ended with the thought... good story line, but could've been written in half the pages.

Rating:
Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I have read every Danielle Steel book and own most of them. This can't be written by Danielle Steel. This book is slow, with very dull spoiled characters. I couldn't stand the "hero". He was childish, selfish and cowardly. I hated the beginning. I hated the end. I hated the middle. I think Danielle Steel needs a long vacation. Don't bother with this book.

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Summary: Can't believe it was Steel
Review: I read some of the other reviews and I have to agree with the ones who believe that someone else wrote this for her. I have read most all her works and this one is at the bottom. Not only does the prologue tell you ending before you get started, but the book could have been written in a 100 pages if she wouldn't have repeated herself over and over and over.

If she did, in fact, write this, then I suggest she takes more time and writes one great book every six months or year instead of trying to have her own book-of-the-month club.

Rating:
Summary: Good book
Review: I thought that this was a good book. I couldn't put it down. I finished it in 2 days. As you'll read, Joe was a very selfish person, but there was something there, which made you understand Kate's love for him. There were many emotions in this book. A good reader if you like Danielle Steel. Thumbs up.

Rating:
Summary: Steel not up to par on this one.
Review: Although the story line is good, the writing is repetitive. The reader is constantly reminded of what he/or she has already read. It tends to drag out and is a long book as it is. I have read almost all of Steels book through the years and this one disappoints. Each time this star-crossed couple gets a set back in this book, it starts over again... the best thing about it was the ending when it finally came was anti-climatic. Not the usual for Steel, one wonders if she actually did the writing. Maybe I have outgrown Ms. Steel as I have been reading a lot of Barbara Delinsky and Luanne Rice and think their style of writing is superior to what is in Lone Eagle.

Rating:
Summary: Major snooze
Review: I've only read a few of Danielle Steel's books and some, like The Gift, I've liked and others, like this one, I thought were terrible.

This book breaks a cardinal rule of romance novel writing. It gives us an unlikable hero. Joe is a first class jerk. And that's one of the cleaner terms I use to describe him. He can't commit to Kate and she finally leaves him. She marries Andy and has a baby. That's when Joe waltzes back into her life and busts up her marriage. When she finally gets her divorce and marries Joe he let's her know in no uncertain terms that he does not want children. When she gets pregnant he treats her horribly.When she gets into a car accident and loses the twins she's carrying, Andy is the one in the hospital with her. Joe is nowhere to be found. Despite her depression over losing the babies he let's her know he does not want her getting pregnant again. He constantly leaves her alone while building up his company and when she complains he gets mad at her. He doesn't even try to meet her halfway. He basically tells her to live with it.

The reader has to have some idea of what motivates the hero and heroine to act the way that they do during the course of the story and we have no idea why Joe treats the supposed "love of his life" the way that he does. He's happier with his planes. Kate should have left him to them. I can understand how hard it is to be without the person that you love, but Kate should have learned to love herself just a little bit more. She put up with Joe's crap for years and I found it very irritating.

And I agree with a number of the other reviews that DS repeats things over and over. I've noticed that in her other books.

Rating:
Summary: Mild, easy, typical DS...
Review: This story is difficult to believe. I wanted to believe anyone could be so naive as we follow this young woman from her late teens to 50 something, carrying a torch for this spineless man. If anyone could make you believe it, it's DS. Kate wants marriage and a family; Joe wants Kate, minus the commitment. Kate got a life, but kept thinking about Joe. It has good moments and bad memories. I was surprised at the ending!

Rating:
Summary: Just so, so
Review: I, too, have read every one of her books. This was clearly a "you need to get another book published for your fans now" and it didn't really have the thought and research of so many of her other ones. It seemed that this one came from the research done on Silent Honor, which was one of her best books. Sorry, but I'm not even sure that she actually wrote Lone Eagle. A little of her style but not the real "Steel" mix and feel. It must being getting hard after 50plus books. If you're a fan, you'll still read it as I did.

Rating:
Summary: very disapointed by Lone Eagle
Review: Do not waste your money on this book. I am usually a big reader of her books but this one was slow,boring and the guy for his age needed to grow up . There is no good part in this book sorry to say. I hope her next book is better. Maybe she needs to take a long rest between writing her books. I'm glad my sister lent me this book.