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Summary: All About Friendship
Review: Danielle Steele is a master artist at slowly piecing a book together, such as one of her better novels, The
Cottage. This book consists of amazing characters that are split from the lives they once knew, and later
are puzzled back together for a friendly meeting. Each main character, Jimmy, Mark, and Coop, are so
different in their personalities but yet so much alike in their experiences. They cry, laugh, and just simply
have fun when they are finally together. These three men share many similar situations throughout the
novel and in the end, they all meet and talk about those certain happenings in each of their lives. How
woman have left, cheated, and even passed away but they dealt with it and moved on. Luckily, they all
found each other in their differences and similarities to be best friends. The capturing way Steele writes
activates your emotions and slams your reality-way of thinking. She has a "happily-ever-after" touch to
her writing and it takes your breathe away. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this selection and would
reccomend it to anyone! Danielle Steele is truly a romantic genius.
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Summary: Kept you guessing to the very end
Review: Excellent book with a ending that will touch your heart. Very unexpected. 3/4 through we jumped to the end because we couldn't take the suspense anymore.
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Summary: Agree with previous reviewers...
Review: First of all, and importantly, the romance in the story is really, really bogus. I won't get into that, but the story isn't as bad as it sounds. It reads rather easily, but the second bad thing in the story is the grammar. The Cottage - and previous Steel novels - have so much comma splices in it, it's enough to last someone a lifetime counting them.
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Summary: So-so
Review: For me, I didn't care for this one very much. It seemed to lack some of the talent I've seen in her other novels.
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Summary: The Cottage by Danielle Steel
Review: Good book. Was very interesting reading. I wanted to continue reading every day and not stop to see what would happen next. Keep them coming Danielle.
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Summary: Mixed Reviews
Review: Hmmm, don't know which way to go, based on the previous reviews, I agree with all of them. I don't think it's the best book, but I think it's the best book she has written in a few years. Has kept me interested, wanting to read more; but at the same time it's kind of corny. Her best novels are still her first dozen or so.....I guess I am glad I didn't buy it, just borrowed from the library.
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Summary: I've Read Better
Review: I admit to being a die-hard Steel fan. I gladly purchase every book Danielle Steel puts out, but I have to admit I was disappointed in The Cottage. For me, the problem is the ending. It doesn't seem to flow right. Cooper Winslow sleeps with 20-somethings and is a self-centered man, yet at the end of the book Steel shifts gears out of nowhere and he falls for an older woman. This throws the reader in the opposite direction and the story is thus unbelievable. The cardinal rule of writing fiction is to make your story believable. But in The Cottage this reader isn't buying the ending. I was disappointed. I also thought of purchasing Summer in St. Tropez, the new small book that is currently out by Steel, but it seemed like a short knock-off of The Cottage so I think I will pass.
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Summary: Nice But Not Overwhelming
Review: I agree that while this is nice compare to her other novels. I wasn't impressed by this one. The plot was not the best and it was also unrealistic. I did like the character of Coop. The other characters were underdeveloped. I like you Danielle Steel but I'm afraid you are losing your touch.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I am a devoted reader of Danielle Steel that is why when I finished this book I was truly disappointed. She chose to have Coop as the main character, a character that I found extremely selfish and way to old (70 to be percise)to be able to change so drastically. She then hooks him up with a 29 year old doctor,Alex. Okay Ms. Steel I can understand 10-15 years difference but 40 that is just [not right]!
The book did not hold that much substance and this is why she is constantly repeating the same scenarios and doubts. I was expecting a lot more from such a great author. Hopefully her next one will be better.
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Summary: Not All Bad
Review: I began reading this book and felt like I was walking in quicksand. Next, I felt like I was going round and round in circles. I said "I've been here before". DS kept telling the same thing over and over about the characters and each of the different life styles.I would have rated the book a 3 but the story got better after "the accident" which takes place about midway the book. I started enjoying the book at that point. The main character,Cooper Winslow, leaves a lot to be desired by most women.Cooper has one relationship after another with women young enough to be his granddaughters. His relationship doesn't last very long with any of them. Cooper refuses to acknowledge that he is not a young man any longer.He will not take movie roles that don't portray him a leading man. Cooper doesn't realize he should be playing the roles of a father or a grandfather. Cooper's poor management of money and his vanity threatens his financial future.His self-centered,egotistical,selfish personality made me gag. It took two special mature women in his life to turn him around.
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