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Summary: Amazing. A real tear jerker
Review: The characters are unbeleivable. It's a real honest story, full of action and surprises
Rating:
Summary: Definantly one of the top 5!
Review: This book moved me in many ways. I actually cried throughout most of it.
The story starts out in the 1940's with a man named Sam Walker who is in the war, and in the war he falls in love with a beautiful french woman named Solange Bertrand. They eventually get married and have three kids.
Sam is a big time movie star, and one night out of pure madness, he kills his wife Solange, and then Himself, leaving his three daughters orphaned, and separated to different families.Hilary, the oldest, was treated the worst. She had to move in with her aunt and uncle who treated her horribly and was in and out of homes and Juvinile.
Alexandra, the middle, was adopted by a great family and when her father died, her mother moved to France to greeve, and remarried a french man, leaving her in France to grow up and eventually marry.
Megan, the youngest, was adopted by a family, and then she grew up to become a doctor.
This book is so wonderful, and shows what trials that these women had to go through, expecially Hilary. I would DEFINANTLY recommend this book to anyone! It was so good and truly shows that Danielle Steel is a great and wonderful writer. Please read, you wont regret it!
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Summary: Definantly one of the top 5!
Review: This book moved me in many ways. I actually cried throughout most of it.
The story starts out in the 1940's with a man named Sam Walker who is in the war, and in the war he falls in love with a beautiful french woman named Solange Bertrand. They eventually get married and have three kids.
Sam is a big time movie star, and one night out of pure madness, he kills his wife Solange, and then Himself, leaving his three daughters orphaned, and separated to different families. Hilary, the oldest, was treated the worst. She had to move in with her aunt and uncle who treated her horribly and was in and out of homes and Juvinile.
Alexandra, the middle, was adopted by a great family and when her father died, her mother moved to France to greeve, and remarried a french man, leaving her in France to grow up and eventually marry.
Megan, the youngest, was adopted by a family, and then she grew up to become a doctor.
This book is so wonderful, and shows what trials that these women had to go through, expecially Hilary. I would DEFINANTLY recommend this book to anyone! It was so good and truly shows that Danielle Steel is a great and wonderful writer. Please read, you wont regret it!
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read.
Review: This book was very moving. Some of the text drove me to tears. This was one of the best books I have ever read. I could not bring myself to put it down. Ms. Steel is truly a brilliant author. She captured in print the eldest daughter's pain: her abuse when she was growing up and trying to find her sisters. I cried when she was finally reunited with her family. I applaud Ms. Steel for writting a great book
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Summary: Nature Versus Nurture Steel Style
Review: This is actually the first Danielle Steel novel I'd ever read and since there was no synopsis on the book anywhere I had no idea what I was reading about. After finishing the story I sorta came to the conclusion that it is almost an exploration of nature versus nuture in terms of how people turn out.
The story follows two generations of a family, starting with two friends that meet in WW2 and their interactions with a young frenchwoman named Solange. In the end one of them marries Solange and they lead a nearly perfect life with a tragic ending, leaving their children orphaned and eventually seperated. The story picks up again in bits and pieces about each childs life and how they progress based on their new living conditions, and when the other friend - the one who wasn't married to Solange - is near death he wishes to seek them out again and make sure that each child is ok. Romance, breakups, disturbing sequences, and questions of self and ones place in the world arise and the ending of the story comes somewhat full circle to the beginning but overall it is a bit cheesy. Regardless of which the story itself is captivating, and if this is typical of Steel's work then you should be satisfied. The story is well connected, if not particularly well stylized, it is written in very generic form where everyone is gorgeous and the world is nearly perfect, even the 'bad' people in the story are perfectly bad. While the book doesn't send out any major messages to its readers, it is a fun intriguing read for the summertime. And if you are wondering about the title Kaleidoscope, it refers to how with each turn of said toy, even though you have all the same pieces on the inside you see something completely different in the little window. Just like with each of the children in the story, while they all started out in the same living conditions, each of their lives took a different turn and produced different images...yet Steel is quick to point out they share certain mannerisms, hence the nature versus nurture question.
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Summary: A good book
Review: this is my first danielle steel book,and i really enjoyed it. The only thing i disliked were the rape scenes at the beginning, but after thet it was pretty good
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Summary: My first of many...
Review: This one started it all...my journey to reading all of DS books.
That was over 10 years ago. Man, it's hard to pick a favorite, her earlier works though are on the top. A sad story, but it keeps the pages turning. A great ending too.
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Summary: My first of many...
Review: This one started it all...my journey to reading all of DS books.
That was over 10 years ago. Man, it's hard to pick a favorite, her earlier works though are on the top. A sad story, but it keeps the pages turning. A great ending too.
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Summary: should be no stars
Review: Uninvolving and unbelievable (especially the ending). I've tried several of Steel's books so this isn't a single dud. She can't write to save her life.
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Summary: Good book!!!
Review: What a beautiful story!!!! The tree sisters are separated after the death of their parents, and the only one who remembers anything is the oldest. The story tells of how Hillary gets her sisters back together after so many years apart.
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