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Summary: I was surprised how much i enjoyed it!!!!
Review: I was a bit skeptical of "Lone Eagle" when i picked it up. I was, however, pleasantly surprised. I didn't want to suffer through another version of "No Greater Love." I am not one for books written in the past instead of the present, but this book was extremely good and kept my attention for hours at a time. Kate was extremely loyal to Joe and I can identify with her in most instances. She never gave up hope and her dreams came true. I highly recommend this book to all DS fans.
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Summary: Lone buzzard
Review: I quickly finished this book in a bookstore. Danielle Steele is SOOOOO predictable. For all of you addicted to daytime soap operas, here's your book. Though why you would bother to read more than one is beyond me - just substitute different names and you have a "completely new" Danielle Steele novel. Where's her editor? She has a ton of spelling and grammar mistakes. It's a funny way to kill a half an hour. Just remember: Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
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Summary: Best Danielle Steel
Review: Lone Eagle is the best book Danielle Steel has written, and I have read all of them. It has all the elements Steel's fans like: romance, suspense, wealth, and surprises. It is very good reading, easy to read. The setting in this book is veryb fitting, and while reading, I couldn't help but think I was watching the entire book unfold, instead of my reading it. It is told in flashback style, "against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation. Danielle Steel breathes life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades. With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of love and sacrifice, of holding on and letting go, of survival in the face of unthinkable loss. It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller." I was amazed by this historical tale, all the facts were very real to the reader and not something an author would make up to make the story complete. For instance, Steel mentions something and you immediately think, "I can't believe that is happening, but I know it's true" for whatever reason. The storyline is one you won't forget. And, this book will be your favorite. Memories begin when a woman receives a phone call that her lover is dead. You will go back in time with her as she recalls the last 3 decades. Get this book. You won't put it down until you are finished reading. Steel's book couldn't get any better. --
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Summary: Trials of a special couple
Review: Joe Allbright and Kate Jamison have a love at first sight encounter which carries them off on a turbulent and passionate life mixed with joy and sorrow. The time frame of the book takes us through the war years and the fifties and beyond, beginning with the couple's fateful meeting in 1940.Steel's writing makes Joe and Kate memorable characters and Lone Eagle one of her better novels. At times, though, Joe and Kate seem somewhat selfish and clueless. For example (and I'm not revealing any plot specifics), Joe believes the worst about Kate when he should have understood the motives of the person talking about her; Joe could easily have discovered the facts. Joe's mentor is Charles Lindbergh, who does not appear as a character and is only described by others, but is still somewhat pivotal to the plot. Lone Eagle is recommended because of its complex characters (there are no easy solutions to their difficulties) and the historical setting.
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Summary: Repetitive & wishy-washy
Review: At first, I thought I was crazy when I couldn't get into this book, but found that others felt similarly. I couldn't get into it! Danielle Steele described the characters' feelings with the same words & emotions throughout the entire novel! All it seemed like was that Kate aged biologically, but not emotionally. At one point in the story, I was getting really annoyed at her for sounding like a nagging wife (though her concerns seemed semi-legit). Don't we have enough "nagging wives" across America? I really couldn't like Joe the way I could "like" other characters from Ms. Steele's other novels, probably because he admitted first and foremost that airplanes were his first true love. Yes, there are many men like that out there, but Danielle Steele novels are supposed to be an escape - and aren't supposed to be thinly veiled portrait of some man we all knew...
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Summary: unusual but lovely romantic novel
Review: I recommend everyone to read this book. It will have you gasping for air when you close the book because you want to know whats next. I love it and you will to.
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Summary: Lone Eagle
Review: Another great story by Danielle Steel... This time she writes a passionate love story between a pilot and a young girl. Joe is a handsome and successful pilot and businessman. He meets Kate when she is 17 years old and still in college. Even though her mother disapproves, she begins to date Joe and falls in love. They begin to live together, but eventually Kate finds out that he does not want to get married or have children. She decides to end the relationship and marry her good friend Andy, who is a stable and loving husband.
Kate soon discovers that she cannot forget Joe. Even though she is married with a child now, she realizes that she is still in love with him and will always be. Fate brings them together again one day in New York City and their lives are changed forever.
A powerful love story filled with all the sole searching and passion that makes live meaningful!
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Summary: Not your typical...
Review: ...love story ingredients.
I find it funny that people either loved or hated the style of this book. I've been on a Danielle Steele kick this summer and this is one of my latest reads.
I loved that fact that it was a story you couldn't get enough of and were just dying to find out if Kate & Joe would end up together in true love or not. I have to agree that there were many many MANY break-ups & make-ups but - you know... that made it more realistic.
Perhaps we DON'T want as much 'real'ness to our love stories... Perhaps we just want a fairy tale ending that we ourselves don't have or don't feel we'll ever find (me?~ yes, me *sigh*).
I do think it was a beautiful story. I couldn't put it down - even in a country auction I went to with my grandparents. (The auctioneer must have thought I was nutty! haha) It brought tears to my eyes twice. Now THAT doesn't happen very often.
It's easy to get into and very worth the read. Read it.. you'll know what we mean. =0)
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Summary: unpredictable
Review: I am an avid reader of Danielle Steele. In this book i was uncertain of the outcome till the very last page, it was amazing. She kept you in suspence if the long lost lovers would ever be together, if they would find true love once and for all. I won't go in to deatils of the story but if you enjoy her writings ,you will absolutly love this book it is now on the top of my list of favorites. I hope you give this book chance you will not regret it if you belive in true love!!!!
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Summary: Poor writing - poor content
Review: Definitely agree with the reviews regarding the repetition (it drives me crazy!) and the sentences beginning with "but" or "and". I know it's not grammatically correct, but I have no problem with it once in a while. However, Danielle Steele writes this book as if she never went to school.
As for the characters - she writes everyone to extremes. Kate's mother's genuine concern for her daughter gets turned into interference even though she's done her best to let her daughter make her own decisions. Andy's love and concern for his wife gets turned into manipulation. Worst of all, Kate's love for Joe is described as obsession even though she gave him all the freedom he could possibly want. Unfortunately she had the "nerve" to be upset when he spent most of 6 months away from her. "Poor" Joe couldn't take her neediness! What a joke.
This is not a romance - a romance has to have somewhere in it two people who truly love each other. This is a story of a young girl who can't give up her first love and a man who manipulates her. There are no redeemable qualities about Joe.
I've read nearly all of Danielle Steele's books and I keep buying them even when the writing gets tiresome. I keep looking for another of her good books and eventually one does turn up. This is not one of them. I'll keep looking.
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