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Legacy
This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women—a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
At the age of thirty-eight, Brigitte Nicholson has a job she likes, a man she...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
September 28th 2010
by Delacorte Press
(first published January 1st 2010)
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This book was given to me as a gift by my staff.I have never bought a Danielle Steel book or read one as I didnt think it was my kind of book. But my fellow gift givers thought "women my age" like her books *scatches head here* not sure what they meant by that. So I started to read this book the day after Christmas ( afraid I may get a quiz or something ) and it was pretty good. It starts off with the main charcater Brigitte at the age of 38 being dumped by her boyfriend of 6 years and getting s...more
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The story was fantastic, the writing was not. You have two stories in one novel here. Present day and past. Brigitte is the present day main character. She is a wishy-washy, educated but unambitious woman who has nothing to show for her education or her choices in life. She is unmarried, nearing 40, no kids, a mediocre job at a university and writing an uninteresting novel for several years that she is bored with. She has invested 6 years with a guy who dumps her, she gets layed off after 10 yea...more
I really liked this book but struggled between giving a rating of three or four. It has a great plot in which the current day character, Brigette, finds her comfortable world turned upside down by the loss of both her long time boyfriend and a job she has held for 10 years. At her mother's urging she agrees to delve into some research in her mother's longtime passion, the family's genealogy, which had always bored her to death in the past.
Her research starts with the Mormon Library in Salt Lake,...more
Her research starts with the Mormon Library in Salt Lake,...more
Nov 19, 2011
Lynette
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Any reader who likes romantic nice flowing easy relaxed reading books.
Recommended to Lynette by:
My husband
I really love this author to begin with when I need a mental break. For me they are fillers and rest my mind even from the daily chaos.I do get aggravated with the author at times. This book repeats itself over and over which does irritate me. I liked how she brought a historical romance with a modern self discovery together in this book though.. This story of a strong Sioux woman of the 1700's and her current counter-part Bostonian is actually a pretty good/plot story. As this book had a Native...more
Another typical Danielle Steel novel, where the heroine finds love and happiness in the end, and never deals with such mundane realities as health insurance, how to make the next mortgage payment, or gaining weight. Instead, Brigette is most concerned about explaining why she stayed in a comfortable (read BORING) relationship and job for so long, and dealing with not having had a kid or two.
The plot is rather thin, as Brigette is canned from her job, and dumped by her boring boyfriend. And alth...more
The plot is rather thin, as Brigette is canned from her job, and dumped by her boring boyfriend. And alth...more
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A tale of love, courage and family, interweaving the lives of two extraordinary women - a writer working in the heart of modern academia, and a daring young Sioux of an unforgettable journey in the eighteenth century.
Someday is Brigitte Nicholson's watchword. Someday she and the man she loves, Ted, will clarify their relationship. Someday she'll have children. Someday she'll finish writing her book. Someday she'll stop playig it so safe...Then something happens that changes Brigett...more
A tale of love, courage and family, interweaving the lives of two extraordinary women - a writer working in the heart of modern academia, and a daring young Sioux of an unforgettable journey in the eighteenth century.
Someday is Brigitte Nicholson's watchword. Someday she and the man she loves, Ted, will clarify their relationship. Someday she'll have children. Someday she'll finish writing her book. Someday she'll stop playig it so safe...Then something happens that changes Brigett...more
This book was very interesting to me because it is the story of a woman, Brigette, who is searching for her ancestory. Her first stop is the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The entire book is very complimentary of the Library, Mormons and the tremendous help she received there. She discovers that her 4th Great Grandmother was a Dakota Sioux who somehow ended up in France. Brigette goes to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris to continue her search, where she determines that the employee...more
It is only because of the Transworld Book Group Reading Challenge that I find myself reading Danielle Steel again as just over two years ago I read and reviewed Sisters claiming that ‘Although I have been reading the novels of Danielle Steel as light relief for over thirty years I am now seriously wondering why I continue to do so. She may be a prolific and popular author but I think the time has come to remove her novels from my wishlist and spend more time reading other authors that I enjoy mo...more
Mar 22, 2011
Shellie
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommended to Shellie by:
Ruth J.
Shelves:
friend-recommended
Ms. Steel pumps out a novel almost as often as some of us fill our cars with gas and choosing to read one is saying you need mindless drivel for a day or so, that way you're not so disappointed by the lack of genius. This story of a strong Sioux woman of the 1700's and her current counter-part Bostonian is actually a pretty good/plot story and I would love have read it as told by or Sarah Gruen (Water for Elephants) or Jane Hamilton (Map of the World) or Jonathan Hull (Losing Julia)or David Wrob...more
I loved the story about the Sioux girl. I found it interesting and I love reading about the early lives of the different natives. Even if it's all fiction. Like most books that have two time eras to them, I pick one over the other. And the present day story was dull and lacking. What I found especially difficult to read in this novel is the repetitive writing that Danielle Steel does. When she was writing about the past, there was less so because it was more on what happened than on feelings. In...more
Jun 07, 2011
Kay
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Someone interested in genealogy
Shelves:
fiction
I am not a fan of Danielle Steel despite reading all her books. For me they are fillers and rest my mind even though I get aggravated with the author a lot. Yes, this one repeats itself over and over which does irritate me and her female characters, are in her mind's eye at least, are perfect when the reader knows they aren't! And lucky reader we have 2 main characters in this book.
Having said that--- this book hit one of my favorite hobbies-- genealogy!!! It was so entertaining to read about a...more
Having said that--- this book hit one of my favorite hobbies-- genealogy!!! It was so entertaining to read about a...more
My complaints with this book are all technical. I read it because my mother-in-law gave it to me (thinking I would like the genealogical parts) and she promised that it was "a sweet story." That part was all true: it was a sweet story and I liked the genealogical parts (it was also a pretty clean read). The rest was hard to swallow. The writing is simplistic at best, redundant regularly, and grammatically confusing at worst (so many paragraphs with flipping POV--it's the mother's voice, now the...more
I thought I would proudly go through life being able to say I had never read a Danielle Steel book. Alas, she made the mistake of writing one that showed up in the genealogy-related fiction section of our library and now, although I'm only on page 83, I absolutely must finish it to see how it turns out. Yes, she is ridiculously redundant, and yes, I feel like I'm reading a grade-school level work. However, I'm a family history buff, curious of late about the fiction works based on a genealogy th...more
It has been many years since I have read a Danielle Steel novel, so when I started Legacy I was in for a great surprise. Ms. Steel has always been a good author, but with this book, I feel she has transformed into an amazing author.
I loved how the story started with Brigitte, and the changes and that she was facing after a ten year slump. (I don't want to ruin the book for anyone by giving anything away) After a visit with her mother she is guiltily asked to help research some of their family h...more
I loved how the story started with Brigitte, and the changes and that she was facing after a ten year slump. (I don't want to ruin the book for anyone by giving anything away) After a visit with her mother she is guiltily asked to help research some of their family h...more
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I read a lot of DS books mainly because English is not my mother tongue and Mr. Steel does not use a lot of complex words. I would say that I really like some of them, such as A Good Woman and Coming Out. But most of them just help you killing time, with relax. Legacy is about the average, I mean, to me it's much better than Honor thyself or Rogue. I like that the heroine is put into the academia, which I am familiar. But for the same reason, I can easily find some plots are not very convincing....more
This was another great book by Danielle Steel. Brigitte Nicholson is a woman who despises change. For ten years, she has been in the same job position without wanting to be promoted, assuming that her boyfriend Ted will marry her and hoping that some day she will get her book finished. But after getting dumped and fired within the same week, Brigitte realises that her love of certainty has not taking her anywhere. When her mother asks Brigitte to complete the family tree, Brigitte finds out that...more
This was the first and most likely the last Danielle Steel novel I've read and ever will read. My mother gave it to me, thinking I would like the genealogical aspect. I'll admit, the concept was alright, if a bit overdone (I've read several other novels based on a similar premise), but the execution was just lackluster. I can't understand why this woman is so successful as an author, if this is the level of artistry in all her books. I won't say Steel is a bad writer, but I feel, compared to mos...more
I enjoyed this book much more than her last, Family Ties. Danielle Steel's historical fiction novels seem to be much more interesting, although very predictable, than her regular fiction. Legacy intertwines the story of Brigette, a modern woman who has lost her longtime boyfriend and job in the same week, with that of her ancestor Wachiwi, a Sioux Indian. Brigitte decides to assist her mother with researching her family history firsthand in Utah and eventually France. Alternating sections fill i...more
I think the book would have been so much better if it had just been about Wachiwi in the late 1700's. The parts with Brigitte were so boring and repetitious and took away from the best part of the book. Although I loved the first part of the Wachiwi story with Jean, I didn't feel anything between Wachiwi and Tristan, although their love was supposedly so real and deep. I feel the book was way too repetitious and poorly developed. Danielle Steel has been my favorite author for more than 20 years...more
I read a lot of reviews about this book saying stuff like.
"This is a typical Daniel Steel novel."
I have to agree, but instead of finding that annoying like other reviewers. I found it nice. You know a chick lit book when you see one, so what do you expect?
This book was pradictable, at some moments but it wasnt too corny or something like that. It was well written (at some points, other times in rambled a bit). And had a gripping storyline. (Again i say at some points.)
This book was aimed at an...more
"This is a typical Daniel Steel novel."
I have to agree, but instead of finding that annoying like other reviewers. I found it nice. You know a chick lit book when you see one, so what do you expect?
This book was pradictable, at some moments but it wasnt too corny or something like that. It was well written (at some points, other times in rambled a bit). And had a gripping storyline. (Again i say at some points.)
This book was aimed at an...more
I really enjoyed reading this book, but I did not find it compelling nor deep. The story was about a young woman,Brigette, whose 6 year relationship with a man she loved ended and a week later she lost her job. The woman went home to visit her mother and became involved with her mother's search for her ancestry. While searching Brigette finds a very interesting family history involving a Souix Indian woman. To complete the research Brigette goes to Paris. I found this esp. fun because I could re...more
If you can make it through the first 80 or so pages, it's worth finishing. I enjoyed the 18th century chapters but the story that takes place in the present was whiny, at first. The genealogical discoveries were found much too easily, and being a genealogist, I cringed at that part of the story. The ending was predictable, but ok. I haven't read much Danielle Steel but much of the writing seemed very unpolished, or unedited or something. I read one paragraph aloud to a co-worker and every senten...more
"Legacy" was beautifully written, combining two stories into one. As much as I enjoyed Brigitte's story of reshaping a life that she suddenly found had changed overnight, I thoroughly enjoyed the background story of Wachiwi, the Sioux ancestor Brigitte discovered she had when doing some research into her family history. The story of Wachiwi was a beautiful one about a strong, determined young girl who made the best of a situation that was out of her control. Her story was far more touching to me...more
This was a good story with a main character and a secondary main character. Brigitte, the main character, learned alot about herself in the course of the story. What she thought she liked and the way she thought she liked to live was challenged, and she finally decided to take on the challenge. Wachiwi, the secondary main character, was a very distant relative to Brigitte, and she was quite the brave and amazing woman. Brigitte, who did the research to find out information on Wachiwi, felt like...more
I did enjoy reading this book. It's about a 38 year old woman who hates change and therefore has hung onto both her boyfriend and her job for way too long. When she loses both in the same week, she goes on an adventure to research her ancestors (her mother gives her this project to give her something to do). She finds that one of her ancestors was a Sioux Indian married to a French Marquis. And the story of the Sioux is told in parallel to the modern day woman. Pretty interesting. At the end, sh...more
Someone recommended this book to my sister, so I thought I'd give it a try--don't read much (any?) Danielle Steel--to let her know if I thought it was worth it.
So far I don't think it is.
I'm struck by Steel's terribly repetitive writing style. She cycles back again and again every couple paragraphs or pages with the same details written in the same way.
Also, at least in the first part of the book, before we get into the history of the main character's ancestors, Steel switches point-of-view ever...more
So far I don't think it is.
I'm struck by Steel's terribly repetitive writing style. She cycles back again and again every couple paragraphs or pages with the same details written in the same way.
Also, at least in the first part of the book, before we get into the history of the main character's ancestors, Steel switches point-of-view ever...more
Started out well and mildly intriguing, but quickly got redundant. Clearly, there was a page quota which had to be filled. Did I say redundant. Let me tell you again how I felt..and then say it again .. It went on and on like that. Only second DS book I've read. Clearly a very bad choice! Or maybe all her books are like this and I didn't see it the first time. I know I skipped pages then too. There were two parallel stories, which sounded intriguing and a good ploy, but it was not. One began thr...more
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I haven't read any of Danielle Steel's books for a very long time, but someone told me that this book was different and it was. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a story viewed by characters in the present and past and I like those. One is a young woman who is working on an advanced degree and living with her boyfriend who is an aspiring archeologist. Here life is like treading water only there is no shore even being looked for. Suddenly, the boyfriend leaves to direct a dig and she goes home with...more
I liked this book! It reminded me of some of Danielle Steel's earlier books. I liked the story within a story format.
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Did not think I'd find a Steel book that would become another favorite till this one. It is a story of a Sioux young girl and her journey in life. From being stolen by the Crow Indians to ending in France in the 1800's. Her story is told by her ancestoral great, great,----- great granddaughter as her family is researching their history and as her story is being told. Little slow to start getting through granddaughters start...but by 4th chapter did not want to put it down. Truly enjoyed. Would l...more
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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
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