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Summary: Best Danielle Steel book that I have read so far.
Review: "No Greater Love" written by Danielle Steele is probably the best book I have ever read. I kept thinking about it for days afterwards. I read this book in the spring of '95 and afterwards I had to find out every possible fact I could find out about the actual sinking on the Titanic. I was so happy when the movie Titanic came out last year. It added to what I had already learned about the actual incident. I think a movie over this story would be an excellant idea. It has been four and a half years since I read this book and I still regard it as one of the best books ever. I average reading one to two books per week so I've read a lot of stories and this one remains my all time favorite. Great job Danielle!
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: A great historical novel, expecially now with the "Titanic" craze. I would recommend it to any Titanic fan. Heart-wrenching during the sinking, and very touching afterwards when she has to raise her siblings. I'm glad she was finally able to let herself love someone.
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Summary: Danielle Steel's best book ever!
Review: After her mother, father, and fiance die on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, Edwina Winfield must raise her younger brothers and sisters. This is an amazing book about love, life, and death
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Summary: Boring, Prolific, Dry Book
Review: Classic Danielle Steel style saga...plenty of historical reference, courtesy of the TITANIC tragedy and the Edwardian age. A breezy and highly readable novel to enjoy and pass on to friends who might be staying in your summer cottage!
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Summary: Fun vacation read with historical overtones!
Review: Classic Danielle Steel style saga...plenty of historical reference, courtesy of the TITANIC tragedy and the Edwardian age. A breezy and highly readable novel to enjoy and pass on to friends who might be staying in your summer cottage!
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Summary: May be Danielle's best book
Review: Danielle Steel breaks away from her cookie cutter books and writes a very engrossing story of a girl who survives the sinking of the Titanic and must now care for her younger brothers and sisters since both of her parents perished with the Titanic. Heartbreaking right at the beginning but does get happier as the book progresses.
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Summary: Danielle Steel Has Done It Again!
Review: Danielle Steel has done it again! In her 28th best-selling novel, No Greater Love, she relives through the swirling emotions and the agonizing pain that many people had gone through during one of the most momentous event in history: the sinking of the Titanic. Edwina Winfield is a daughter of two dear, loving parents. She has six brothers and sisters whom she all loves dearly. Edwina is left to take care of them when her parents and fiancé drowns in the terrible sinking of the Titanic. Edwina decides to dedicate and give up her life to raising her siblings. Edwina struggles to keep her family together and for twelve years, she commits her entire heart and soul into her family. Through many moments that make you laugh and cry, you will experience, as if you were right there with the characters, the growth and pains of the family as they learn to adjust and live with the huge tragedy that they had experienced and survived through. No Greater Love is one of those books that you can't seem to put down. I enjoyed it tremendously. The story plot is remarkably realistic, and you will actually feel as if you are living in that era and witnessing the sinking of the Titanic. The hardships that Edwina and her family endure throughout the story will pull at your heart and the tears will fall freely. The book makes you feel a range of emotions. There will be moments when tears of sadness and pity will fall, but there will also be times when the talents of Danielle Steel will make you sit back and laugh. No Greater Love is one of those rare books where you will be interested throughout the whole story, from the first until the last page of the book. This book is an extremely emotional and sensational book. Through her many talents, Danielle Steel helps you feel the reality and contiguity that the catastrophe of the sinking of the Titanic brought. The shock and impact of the disaster that the survivors must have felt are shown clearly and you could just feel the pain and sorrow each character from the story experiences. No Greater Love is a book I recommend to all. It gives many people a chance to go back to the sinking of the Titanic and see exactly how significant the event was. It is a book you definitely should read, and I'm telling you, it would definitely be your loss if you don't!
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Summary: Torturous Reading...
Review: For some reason the person whose turn it was in our Reading club chose this book and I was forced to read it. Not even Chinese water torture could be worse. I feel sorry for all Danielle Steel's faithful readers - eventually their minds will turn to Jello. And why disgrace the memory of Titanic - the ship of dreams with this nightmare of a book. I would not recommend this book to anyone looking for reading that is above a 3rd grade level.
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Summary: Not meant to be a history lesson
Review: From the tone of some of the other reviews, it's apparent that the reviewers didn't check the publication date of this book -- written LOOOONG before Leo and Kate jumped on board the "Titanic" and made a little movie. When I read the book all those years ago, I didn't know much about the "Titanic" or the historical details that may be inaccurate in this novel, so in fairness perhaps that's why my enjoyment wasn't diminished at all. The sinking of the ship occurs very early in the book, and the reason for that is that it is a story about how this disaster affected one family long-term. I found Edwina to be a very realistic character -- more realistic than most of Ms. Steel's heroines. She was concerned with keeping the family together and due to the selfishness of her mother (going down with the ship and her husband), she is forced to grow up too soon and be a mother to 5 children. She does the best that she can but they are only children for so long -- then they grow up and want to live their lives independently, leaving Edwina feeling abandoned and proud at the same time, and realizing that it is finally "her time" to live life. I've read this several times and I always enjoy it.
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Summary: great story of surviving family after titanic disaster
Review: I enjoyed reading the book No Greater Love, by Danielle Steel. It was about a girl who lost her parents and fiance in the Titanic disaster and then had to raise her five younger brothers and sisters. Many people are interested in the Titanic's first voyage. However, some people think only of that one night and not of the nights that followed for those who survived. This book showed how Edwina Winfield and her younger siblings had to cope, not only with that fateful night, but also with the effects that the sinking of the Titanic brought them. One problem I did have with the book was the relationship between the members of the Winfield family. When Edwina's parents and her fiance, Charles, were alive, it seemed that every other word in the book was "happy" or "content". She constantly wrote of the love they had for each other. They never fought or argued and they had only love for their family. That is hard to believe. I have yet to see a family that is perfect-without bickering, fighting, or yelling. I know I love my family very much and we have a great relationship but we still argue. Every family has their problems. I believe Danielle Steel wrote of the Winfields like this to express the drastic change they met after the sinking of the Titanic. However, it was almost impossible to relate to the Winfields because of their unreal relationship with each other. My favorite character was Alexis. Steel described her as special and different from the rest of her family. She was six years old when her parents died and ,of all the Winfield children, she was effected the most. She had a very special bond with her mother. She rarely left her side and she hated strangers. When she returned home after her parents' deaths, she was always looking for them, expecting them to just show up. She would often go into her parents' room and sit in her mother's dressing room. The actions of Alexis helped me to understand how the Winfield children felt after their parents had died. One of the most touching scenes in the book was when the Titanic was sinking. Alexis had ran away from her parents and had gone back to their stateroom. Her parents had no idea where she was. They finally decided to put the other children on a lifeboat and they planned to come later with Alexis. When the lifeboat was being lowered, Edwina saw the golden curls of a girl she thought to be Alexis in her boat. She motioned to her mother on deck and pointed to the little girl. Assuming this was Alexis, her mother stopped looking for her. However, Alexis was playing with a doll in her room while the agony was going on above her. The reader does not know if she will survive and is kept in suspense until a man finds her and takes her to a lifeboat. Another very touching scene was when Edwina received her wedding veil from Charles's mother. She received it a day before her and Charles's wedding was supposed to be. All the emotions came back to Edwina and the description of the scene helped me to feel for Edwina. I think this is a wonderful story that shows how family should stick together above all else. Edwina was there for her younger siblings because she loved them and knew that was what she needed to do. Accept for Steel's depiction of the Winfield family before the disaster, I think she did a great job of making the reader relate to Edwina and feel for her siblings. There was not one day that went by that Edwina did not think of how her life would have been different if there had been enough lifeboats or if the Californian had heard their distress calls. I think Steel wanted to show people that there was more to the Titanic disaster than one night. The effects of that night lasted forever-not for the fictional Winfield family, but for the real survivors of the Titanic.
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