I have never read a Danielle Steel novel and for some reason when I saw this in the free books bin at my local used book store I thought, "why HAVE I never read one of her books? She's published like a billion novels, surely she has to be somewhat readable" and I took it home. It sat on my shelf for months until I found myself between books and in need of something very unchallenging and remembered it was there. Well...I have now read a Danielle Steel novel. The story wasn't awful. It would have made a great chick flick or Lifetime movie, which is the stuff of a Steel novel right? But the writing...oh the writing. It was horrible. Just horrible. If Danielle Steel were in a middle school English class and I was her teacher, she would have failed. Just very basic grammar and rules of writing were completely dismissed. There wasn't a single page that didn't have at least one sentence beginning with the word "and." She changes perspective, sometimes mid-sentence. At times it was painful. But I could have really enjoyed it as a fluffy movie.

(oh, and as a side note, there was exactly none of the steamy sex she is known for. Maybe one sentence of spicy.)