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Betrayal

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In Danielle Steel’s thrilling new novel, a successful woman’s seemingly perfect world is shattered when she faces embezzlement by the last person she would ever suspect.

BETRAYAL

At thirty-nine, Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. Her work as a film director is her passion and the center of her life; one after another, her award-winning productions achieve the rare comb...more

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Published March 27th 2012 by Delacorte Press (first published March 2012)

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May 31, 2012 Melody rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I've been a fan of DS for a long time, and there's been very few books of hers that I haven't liked, and this book will definitely go on the "like list"

At thirty-nine, Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. Her work as a film director is her passion and the center of her life; one after another, her award-winning productions achieve the rare combination of critical and commercial success. With no interest in the perks of her profession or the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, Tallie maintains close...more

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Jun 22, 2012 Gayle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

{library-kindle book} Pretty good. Heartbreak and happy ending. Fun times.

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Apr 13, 2013 Clare rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Okay, this will likely be the ONLY review comparing William Shakespeare to Danielle Steel, but here goes...

The classic lesson of Shakespeare is that romantic love is for fools, but male friendship is what you should value. The message here from Danielle Steel is that true betrayal comes from your friend, and not your lover.

So when Tallie Jones finds out she's missing over a million dollars on the same day she discovers her boyfriend of four years has impregnated the woman he was also seeing on t...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Indiabookstore rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The first time I read a Steel, after a string of Dan Brown’s and Jeffery Archer’s, it was on my aunt’s recommendation. I was on vacation and Danielle Steel fit my mood to a T. I do admit, I was on the last hundred pages, and I still was wondering when the plot would set in!! Only when I was through with the last chapter, did I realize that the story was not progressing any further. It was a bit of an anti climax actually! But, that’s the best part of a Steel novel. All you have to do is flow wit...more

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Sep 23, 2012 Monique rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Aug 21, 2012 Julie Barrett rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Betrayal by Danielle Steele
Tally Jones is a director, highly successful.
Her assistant Bridget is a saint and does all kinds of jobs for her.
Tally keeps up with her father and her daughters lives.
Hunt is her current living partner.
Victor is in his 60s, his girlfriend after 2 marriages was Brianna who's in her 20's. Brianna wants 5 million or she's leaving him.
She loves to spend his money. He was to promote her career but she's got no talent.
Investor audits and missing $25,000 a month is not accou...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Marya Kowal rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Danielle Steel has been my guilty pleasure of choice for decades. I love her characters, the settings, and that even their struggles are simpler and more beautiful than real life. It's vacation pleasure reading; easy, light, pretty, and undemanding intellectually. She's gotten a little grittier over the years, but that essential beauty of her fictional universe remains the same. It's one of the reasons I keep returning.

This was a quintessential beach read: Exciting enough to keep you reading dur...more Danielle Steel has been my guilty pleasure of choice for decades. I love her characters, the settings, and that even their struggles are simpler and more beautiful than real life. It's vacation pleasure reading; easy, light, pretty, and undemanding intellectually. She's gotten a little grittier over the years, but that essential beauty of her fictional universe remains the same. It's one of the reasons I keep returning.

This was a quintessential beach read: Exciting enough to keep you reading during your precious vacation days/hours, but light enough to take to the beach, pool, or cozy up with in front of a roaring fire. I'm not looking for life-changing messages from Steel, just mental junk food that won't kill my vacation mood...and that's exactly what I got. Thank you!

Tallie Jones is a typical Steel heroine, a gorgeous blonde with a perfect life. A successful movie director with a daughter in college and a live-in business and life partner, she's riding high in career and personal success. Over the course of a few weeks, it all changes. A routine audit shows some odd expenses and a betrayal is exposed. Concerned that she may be over-trusting on many fronts, Tallie seeks more truth and sets fire to her life in the process. But, being a Steel heroine, she brushes her long blonde hair into a chignon, pulls up her designer bootstraps, brushes the dust off her size 4 keister, and puts her whole life back together in two short chapters.

If you're looking for a totally unique and surprising adventure romance, look elsewhere. If you want a tried-and-true formula that leaves you in a better mood than when you began...this is your book. I've seen other readers complaining about her repetition. They're right...there is way too much. The beauty of that though, is that you can put the book down and pick it back up and never have to re-read a page or two to get back into the story and mood...it's all right there. Sure, if you read straight through on a normal Saturday it's mind-bendingly annoying...but for the pick-up-put-down reading of a vacation week...ahhhhh, perfect!

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Aug 19, 2012 Debbie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you want an easy read, Danielle Steel never fails to hit the mark, and this one doesn't disappoint. While sometimes the plot can be a bit confusing, still fun to read.

Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend, a film director who's job is the center of her life. She maintains a great relationship with her aging father and college-aged daughter and trusts two other people in her life, maybe a little too much. Her co-director and live-in-lover, Hunter Lloyd and her personal assistant and friend since...more

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Apr 26, 2012 Kathy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have been reading Danielle Steel's books for years, although I haven't enjoyed them as much as I once did during the last few years. She seemed to have lost the fine art of writing an exciting book. Many of the plots were basically the same. Many of the characters were basically the same. In fact, I had decided she was just writing the novels using the same basic plot and characters. Then, this book comes along, and I realized she hadn't lost it. This is one her best, if not her best. Tallie J...more

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Apr 05, 2012 Kay rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This may be the highest rating I've given a Steel book, but I confess I really enjoyed this one. I started reading her books when she first started writing them- and wow was that a long time ago. They lost my interest [same old thing- or perhaps her writing went downhill] years ago but because I am a compulsive addict I kept plowing through them. Sometimes it would be years before picking one up and a trip to the used bookstore would catch me up.

Why did I enjoy this one??? Good question - but I...more

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Mar 15, 2013 Carol MacInnis rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tallie Jones is a young and beautiful movie director who is box office hit. Although Tallie has had two failled marriages behind her, she has a beautiful daughter that looks strikingly like her and she loves her dearly. Maxine (i.e. Max) is 18 years old and is at school studying law and will hopefully follow in her grandfather's footsteps back when he was at the top of his game.

Although Tallie has trust issues with men since her ex's both cheated on her, she is currently living with Hunt Lloyd w...more

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Apr 14, 2012 Lynn rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is probably the lowest rating I've ever given to a Danielle Steel book, and I've read every book that she's ever written - I've been reading her books for over 30 years.

The story was engaging, the lead character was likable, but the entire premise was unrealistic. That anybody smart enough to be this successful would be so gullible and BLIND to what was going on was far-fetched. This isn't my main gripe with the book, though. My main gripe is that this 320-page story could have been told i...more

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Mar 25, 2013 Cindy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If ever I’m in the mood to read the equivalent of a feel-good rom-com, I know I can count on Danielle Steel to appease. It's been a while since I read something from her, but from what I remember, and this is true of Betrayal, her stories are populated by only a handful of characters, making it really easy for the reader to follow the plot, but also really obvious where it's headed. In Betrayal, DS introduces the main character, Hollywood director, Tallie Jones, Tallie’s assistant and best frien...more

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Jul 11, 2012 Libby Chester rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Steel's breezy style of narrative is fluid, and I clipped along at a fantastic pace while reading this book. However the plot seems formulaic, and the way Steel describes the action of the book is mostly a turn off. Steel seems to talk about the action that is occurring without really entering into descriptions that involve the reader's senses. While reading, I kept comparing her style with that of mostly unknown authors or authors of freebie books I've gotten from pixelofink.com, and it's diffi...more

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Nov 29, 2012 Urszula rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A great example of Danielle Steel’s book written to a well known formula. The characters a little bit realistic and overall likeable. Tallie is an acclaimed movie director who is so involved with her work that she has an assistant Brigitte to take care of all the details of her life. Tallie is also quite well of, but is very down to earth. So down to earth in fact, that she doesn’t brush her hair and wears old, ripped t-shirts and jeans. In my opinion everyone should have some self respect, espe...more A great example of Danielle Steel’s book written to a well known formula. The characters a little bit realistic and overall likeable. Tallie is an acclaimed movie director who is so involved with her work that she has an assistant Brigitte to take care of all the details of her life. Tallie is also quite well of, but is very down to earth. So down to earth in fact, that she doesn’t brush her hair and wears old, ripped t-shirts and jeans. In my opinion everyone should have some self respect, especially a movie director would like to show a good image and be well presented. You don’t need much money to achieve that. So the fact that Tallie was a unkept dag , which was described on many occasions drove me crazy. Especially as a good mother (as described also on many occasions), Tallie would know that she is a role model for her daughter. In spite of her daggy looks and sloppy presentation, men still found her attractive. Really? On what planet would you find a man, who likes his woman sloppy and unkept? Not in Hollywood that’s for sure.

Brigitte on the other hand is the glamorous one. The smart beauty with very expensive desires. While the story unravels, we learn that Brigitte betrays her friend by taking a million dollars from her account. This was happening over at least the last 4 years , if not longer. She does it because she wants to be just like Tallie – yup.... that explains it! Not really – to achieve this goal all she needed is to dress in rags and not brush her hair for a week! She didn’t need any money for that!

At the beginning of this story, Tallie is happy living with the producer of her latest movie - Hunt. He does the cooking and pampering in their relationship. Yet it does not come as a shock that he was unfaithful to her with the glamorous Brigitte Let me see – on one hand we have daggy, massy Tallie – and on the other beautiful Brigitte with her designer dresses and fantastic body from head to toe. Let see, which one would I choose?

It was good to see that Tallie has grown quite a lot, throughout this painful journey. At the end she was much more independent and self efficient. She learned not to rely on others us much.

I thought, that Victor’s character was very weak and since he was eliminated from the list of suspects very early, was useless and it was annoying to read about his younger wife over and over again. I had a suspicion that he was used as a page filler.

I liked how her romance with Jim was not that important for this story. That is was a secondary and the book did not focus on them. The ending was good, because all the issues were solved and closed.
Overall it was not one of Danielle Steel’s best works. It was enjoyable, but it contained lots of repeats of emotions, feelings, frustrations and descriptions of the characters.
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Oct 10, 2012 C.j. Hines rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the second Danielle Steel book I've read in a few weeks. She ties things up all nice and tidy at the end-no surprises, no twists, just what you expect will happen. While there were still more than 100 pages left, she had already told us who the antagonist was-I kept expecting something to change the outcome, but it didn't. Predictable.

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Apr 29, 2012 Shelly Itkin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was enjoyable but not much different then her others and rather predictable. Unfortunately Tallie Jones a 39 far old producer who seems to have it all a live in lover, a daughter attending college and a best friend of 17 years who is her assistant who could want for more.
When they decide to produce a movie and need money the investors require a very strict audit and then it comes out that Tallie has been the victim of some embezzling about a million dollars. The big question is who do...more

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Apr 18, 2012 Teri Wilson rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The pacing was excruciatingly slow. :( Bummer, because I really like some of her other books - HRH, Message from Nam, Palomino and The Ring are all great. But skip this one. The romance literally starts 50 pages from the end and moves with the speed of a glacier after that. All in all, a disappointment.

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Aug 06, 2012 R.T. Wolfe rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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For whatever reason I felt I wouldn't be a true romance writer if I hadn't read a book from the time-honored and respected Danielle Steel. I may have picked a bad choice, as I have to be honest and say that I was disappointed. She described the main character, Tallie, as disheveled and sloppy quite literally dozens of times. Her lover and best friend were given their descriptions over and over, also. Possibly, if a reader has a difficult time focusing, this might be the book for them. However, I...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Lynda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another formula book from the popular author. The characters are likeable though and it is slightly different from her usual setting/plots. Tallie is an acclaimed movie director who is so involved with her work that she has an assistant Brigitte to take care of all the details of her life. Brigitte takes of her bill, budget, banking, appointments. shopping etc. Having had two bad marriages, Tallie is happy living with the producer of her movie - Hunt. He does the cooking and pampering in their r...more

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May 18, 2013 Lisa rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the second Danielle Steele book I have read and it will be the last- it baffles me how she has sold so many copies of her novels and is so highly acclaimed. The storyline in this novel was okay - although she pretty much gave the story away halfway through. The main problem with the novels I have read from her is that she is so repetitive. I found it so irritating that she seemed to be filling space by saying the same thing several times but in different ways - and sometimes not even in...more

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Aug 28, 2012 Sandy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Audiobook: Over 20 years ago I stopped reading Danielle Steel books, not because I didn't like them, but because she always had major characters in her books die. For whatever reason, it pissed me off and I stopped reading her books. Recently, while looking at one of my numerous newsletters about new books, I came across her name. I thought, oh what the heck, it's been a long time, I'll check it out. Well dammit, two major characters died!! And not only did they die, but she goes on and on and o...more

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Apr 15, 2012 Patsy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Very predictable and slow. No sex or passion. My copy has her name as Danielle Steel (not Steele). I wonder if she changed it.

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Jul 04, 2012 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another great Danielle Steel book. The issues of this story deal with who you can trust. I really felt bad for Tallie Jones and what the other characters in this book did to her. From the main theme of this book, it is clear that you shouldn't trust anyone. The people that are closest to you will be the ones to let you down and the heart break to follow will hurt tremendously later. I do think that Victor's story in the book was irrelevant to the story and was just thrown in to waste time. I lov...more

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Sep 06, 2012 Francesca rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Okay, it's been some decades since I last read a Danielle Steel book. I can't believe her older books are this bad or I never would have read another one. This book reads more like a description of a novel someone planned to write than an actual novel. A particular statement will be repeated three times in slightly different ways, only to be reiterated again in another couple of paragraphs. Characters come across flat and emotionless.

This woman sells a lot of books. I'm thinking if this is wher...more

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Sep 08, 2012 Karla rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I didn't like this book. It was very disappointing for Danielle Steele. Tallie was portrayed as very dependent on Brigitte to the point of stupidity. No wonder she got embezzled. She also had an uncanny magnet for loss and disappointment - Brigitte's theft, Hunt's cheating, and her father's death.

The plot was very predictable, and the story-telling was repetitive. Of course Jim will come into Tallie's life to save her. I felt like the pages were being stretched just to fill up a whole book. Oth...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Andrea rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Once again, Danielle Steel wrote a page-turner that I could not put down. The story built like a mystery with clues being found here and there, and me tyring to figure out who done it. I can't remember the last time Steel wrote such a mystery story, and it was a nice change having a bit of that mystery mixed in with romance. There were a couple of scenes that seemed to drag a bit, but for the most part, the booked moved along at a great speed, with the supsense building chapter after chapter. I...more

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Sep 04, 2012 Sandy added it · review of another edition

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A wonderful story that is befitting the title. A middle aged film director gets the shock of her life during a routine audit of her finances, while preparing for her next film. Her assistant, her live in companion and producer, both seem to have no scruples or morals about themselves. One is a thief, the other is a louse and a liar. Thankfully, she meets someone that she feels that she can actually trust after all the dust finally settles. Thanks Ms. Steel for another wonderful story. Looking fo...more

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Mar 21, 2013 Eddy Allen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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At thirty-nine, Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. Her work as a film director is her passion and the center of her life; one after another, her award-winning productions achieve the rare combination of critical and commercial success. With no interest in the perks of her profession or the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, Tallie maintains close and loving relationships with her college-age daughter and her aging father, and has a happy collaboration with Hunter Lloyd, her respected producing p...more

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Jan 09, 2013 Chris rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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About Danielle Steel

Since 1981, Ms. Steel has been a permanent fixture on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists. In 1989, she was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having at least one of her books on the Times bestseller list for 381 consecutive weeks. But Guinness was premature. The fact is that one or more of Ms. Steel's novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for...more Since 1981, Ms. Steel has been a permanent fixture on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists. In 1989, she was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having at least one of her books on the Times bestseller list for 381 consecutive weeks. But Guinness was premature. The fact is that one or more of Ms. Steel's novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks.

Twenty-one of Ms. Steel's novels have been adapted for television, each earning high ratings and critical acclaim, including two Golden Globe nominations for JEWELS, a four-hour mini-series that starred Anthony Andrews.

In addition, Ms. Steel is the author of the "Max and Martha" series of books for young readers. They are ten illustrated storybooks written to comfort the young as they face problems, such as a new stepfather, new baby, new school, loss of a grandparent, and other crucial dilemmas in a child's life. She has also written the "Freddie" books, four of them, about real-life situations in children's lives, like a visit to the doctor and the first night away from home. Ms. Steel has also written nonfiction, HIS BRIGHT LIGHT, about the life and death of her son Nicholas Traina, released by Delacorte Press in September 1998 and immediately jumped to the New York Times Non-Fiction bestseller list and "Having a Baby." She has also written a book of poetry entitled LOVE: POEMS BY DANIELLE STEEL.

In 2002, Ms. Steel was decorated by the French government as an "Officier" of the distinguished Order of Arts and Letters, for her lifetime contribution to world culture. She was awarded the second highest rank of the Order.

Ms. Steel also has a passionate interest in emerging contemporary artists. She has had an art gallery for several years, and and continues to sponsor and organize free lance art shows and events to show the work of emerging and mid-career artists. She has a degree in design herself. In addition to her writing, Ms. Steel has varied philanthropic interests. She founded and runs two foundations, one named in honor of her late son, The Nick Traina Foundation, which funds organizations involved in mental illness and child abuse. The second was established to assist the homeless. She has won numerous awards for her personal work with mentally ill adolescents and children. Ms. Steel maintains a passionate interest in the welfare and well-being of children, particularly those in jeopardy. She has raised nine children of her own. And they continue to keep her busy, as she juggles writing and family. Her family is her first priority, despite her many interests.

From an education in New York and Europe to a professional background in public relations and advertising, and teaching, Ms. Steel moved on quickly to her literary career and has been hard at work writing ever since. She wrote her first book at nineteen. Often, she works on five books at a time — researching one storyline, writing another, and editing the third. Still, she often spends two to three years researching and developing a single project. In the heat of a first draft, it is not uncommon for her to spend eighteen to twenty hours a day glued to her 1946 Olympia manual typewriter.

Family, children, and young people are the central focus of her life, and her passion, which frequently shows in her writing. She deals with the themes that touch on the most pressing issues of real life, which makes her books universal, and touch so many people. She is fascinated by the pressing life situations that affect us all, how people handle them and are often transformed as a result. And her novels have explored subjects such as kidnapping, incest, mental illness, suicide, death, divorce, adoption, marriage, loss, cancer, war, among others. She also frequently writes about historical themes, shedding new light on familiar historical events with meticulously accurate research.

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