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Summary: An extraordinary woman's story
Review: "Malice", from Danielle Steel, is the third book I've read from this internationally best selling author. It is the story of a seventeen year old girl and a secret to horrible to share with anybody. Even at the night of her mom's funeral she was attacked, and that was not the first time it happened. She decided that night would be her last one, and later on she pays the price for being brave. Grace Adams is a true survivor, a beautiful and shy girl that captivates people wherever she goes. The only thing she cannot forget is her past and those terrible years she lived. She has to carry her past wherever she goes.
I recommend this book; it was well written and tells a story that I will never forget.
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Summary: Malice
Review: Danielle Steel writes about a difficult topic: an incestuous relationship between a father and a daughter. She brilliantly describes the painful fictional story and in the end there is a happy ending filled with hope and healing. Grace is a young teen-age girl who was repeated molested by her father beginning when she was 14years old. Her mother, a debilitated cancer patient, enabled and fostered the sick relationship in order make her husband happy. Her mother was also a physically and emotionally battered wife who felt like she could not stand up for herself and was terrified of her husband. Because Grace loved her family and because her father was so popular in the community, she kept the family's secrets as long as possible... The night her mother died, Grace was brutally raped by her father in her parent's bedroom. Grace had to stop him, so she pulled out the gun that was stashed in her mother's nightstand, aimed and then accidentally and shot her father. He died... Grace was sentenced to prison for murder... In prison, Grace got an education from a couple of inmates who teach her how to defend and believe in herself. As the story progresses, Grace is able to turn tragedy into triumph and is slowly able to overcome difficult situations and grow to be a stronger person. Each step of the way she is able to heal and find hope. This is a very inspirational story.
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Summary: How much more...
Review: How much more can one person survive?? I don't think I could survive what this woman went through....It really makes you stop and think, and be grateful for what you have!
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: I believe this novel is truly Danielle Steel's best works.
Grace Adams is a loner. She hardly has any friends when she graduates high school. Yet, everyone who admires her father thought that he has a perfect family. See, Grace's father is a sucessful and wealthy lawyer in town. Her mother dotes on her family.
But, what everyone did not know is that the Adam's family harbor a dark secret--a secret that was deadly which ends with shocking and scaring effects. When Grace's mother dies, Grace believes it is the end. She does not have to deal with her father anymore. Yet, on that fateful night you find out that Grace's father is a horrible, selfish, disgusting and cruel monster. On the surface, everyone believes he is the honorable man in their community, but behind close doors, he is evil fiend who rapes his daughter. What is worse is Grace's mother is so sickly in love with her husband, she sacrifices her daughter to keep her husband sexually satified.
When her mother dies, it is the end of Grace's father sexual abuse to her. In self-defense, Grace shoots her father after he brutally rapes her. The naked and frighten young woman is scared when the police officers come, but what do they do? They believe that Grace was the one who tried to have sex with her father, became angry and shot him. Instead of Grace defending herself, explaining that her father had raped her--had been raping her for all these years, to protect his image and her mother's image, she keeps silent as she is arrested and put in jail.
Molly and David find out Grace's secret and try to help her, yet it is too late. Grace is sent to a women's prison for two years, and she is about to endure the same kind abuse as her father did to her until two cellmates decided to place her under their protection. They want Grace to succeed in the world. When Grace leaves prison, she sets out into the world--believing she will be granted a fresh start--even then, the world betrays her with its cruelty as her father did all those years ago.
Yet, Grace keeps haboring her secret. She is too ashame of her past until she meets Charles McKenzie. Until then, she realizes she wants to try to live the rest of her life as functional as possible, and she does. Charles gives her what she wants--a full functional life with children and a family. Grace is very happy being a mother, wife, and advocating for abuse children. Years later, Charles decided to run for Congress, and Grace is behind him 100% until...malice starts to taint their lives. This time Grace will not like it escalate!
In this profound and inspiring story, Grace Adams learns not to be the victim--she learns to fight back and reclaim her life and what is important in her life. As she struggles to confront all her past demons, once and for all, she learns that people are malicious...and sometimes, you have to be malicious in return.
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Summary: Amazon Customer Review
Review: I Loved This Book--One Of The Best I Have Ever Read!! I Highly Recommend It!! But Warning--You Will Not Want To Put It Down Once You Start Reading It!!
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Summary: Great book....
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It reminded me so much of my life. It seems like a lot of people who have bad lives, really do keep on having the bad things keep on happening to them, and the ones with the easy lives, have easy lives forever!
I didn't really like the ending when she brought a gun to scare Marcus, the photographer, though!!! I thought that was completely out of nowhere and did not match with the character's "meek, sensitive, victim" personality. It also did not make sense because she should have known that Marcus could have even gone to the cops after she did that, and made herself look even WORSE.
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Summary: One Woman's Struggle to be Free...
Review: I was impressed with the way Ms. Steel developed the character of Grace Adams. She was deep and real. I was a little bothered by what she went through and at times I winced and shook my head in pity.
A sad tale about a young girl named Grace Adams who is abused savagely from when she was 13 until her mother's death when she turned 17. Four long years of abuse and the night of the funeral she is once again attacked brutally and then knows for certain it will never end. Doing the unthinkable, she ends her torture and finds herself on trial.
Thinking things can't get worse, they do as she is convicted of murder and is sentenced to prison. Once a weak girl she becomes a strong woman in those years and wants to start her life over and she does.
Taking a job in Chicago for a modeling agency Grace is thrown into the seedy world of drugs and backstabbing. Beautiful enough to be a model herself, Grace finds that men want her but she wants nothing to do with men. She can't, she has a terrible secret.
After disaster in Chicago she moves to New York and takes a challenging job where she meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer. He wants nothing from her, just to be her friend, heal her wounds and listen to her. Can she trust him? He's an older man...reminds her of her horrible secret.
Throwing caution to the wind she grasps love and embraces it. Years go by and she is happy with a husband and three children when he goes into politics and a tabloid digs up her past for all to see...
Old enemies, her prison time, a man she saw once in Chicago has some revealing photos of her and Grace feels the pressure. Can Malice detroy what she worked so hard to heal and build? How can she and Charles get past this? Will he ever look at her the same way?
A look into the stark reality of domestic abuse and how children are swept into it. Grace was such a strong character and she never gave up. I wanted to cry when she revealed the horrors she went through. Superb writing Ms. Steel, very intelligent reading... Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: Malice: keeps you interested
Review: Malice, by Danielle Steel, was such an awesome book. It was recommended to me by one of my friends when I was taking a best sellers class, where all you do is read. I wasn't a big reader before hand, so this was definitely a good book to get me started. I kept turning the page to find out what was going to happen next because it was so interesting and unpredictable. The plot was basically about a girl who was abused by her dad when she was younger and her mother died when she was only 13. She ended up shooting her father while he was raping her, and gets convicted of murder. She spends time in prison, and has to start a whole new life when she is released. She goes through her new life trying to cover up her old one, and it is extremely difficult for her. The main points were backed up by a lot of detail, and I just felt like I was in the book. The characters were also well-developed and interesting. This book can be very graphic and disturbing, so I don't recommend it to those who don't like that. Overall though, this was an excellent book.
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Summary: Not a typical Steele novel
Review: Read this book. It's about a woman who's sexually abused by her parents for years. She kills her father, goes to prison and pays the price, then works hard to lead a healthy and meaningful life. In this book, the main character is a woman with a secret. Unfortunately secrets can often be exposed AND expounded on to the point they don't actually mirror the truth. After reading this book, I actually started questioning all the bad rap President Clinton's gotten by the press regarding his sexual exploits. Maybe he's just like the woman in this book, dealing with Malice from the press??? I hope DS continues to write books of this quality. It was the best of her's so far!
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Summary: The greatest modern book by Danielle Steel - unforgettable!
Review: That was the first book by Danielle Steel I read, and one that I'll remember until the day I die, since his influence in me was so huge. The story of Grace Adams is wonderful from beginning to end. You cry, you laugh, you be afraid... but most important, you FEEL. It seems that you are there with her, suffering with her when she has problems and celebrating with her when she wins. But what's really interesting is the suspense of the book. It never stops. When Grace is escaping from a problem, another one comes and grab her... until she finds herself in love. But you will see that love doesn't means end of problems, much to the contrary, that they are only beginning. Since I read MALICE, I could never forget Danielle Steel. I discovered that she's not an author only for women. Through her books I discovered all kinds of emotion, good or bad, but everytime I finish reading one of her books, one thing is certain: the sensation of having read another excelent piece of writing. Long life to Danielle Steel! She really deserves all her success she has. Most of her books are unforgetable. MALICE is one of them. Get emotional you too through this book. You'll be another one to find this book one of her best! Marco Aurelio
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