Irresistible Forces

by Danielle Steel

Editorial Reviews Having had 46 previous bestsellers, Danielle Steel knows a good plot recipe when she's got one--namely, take a smart, beautiful woman who is dissatisfied with her loving but stuffy husband, add a romantic, usually older man with a true appreciation of her inner soul, then sit back and watch the melodrama unfold. In this latest novel, our heroine Meredith Whitman is a career-driven investment banker, our husband Steve a sweet physician, and our other man, Cal Dow, a high-tech business Midas. When Cal offers Meredith the perfect job in San Francisco, Steve encourages her to move across country, and promises to follow her as soon as he can. Meredith and Steve's marriage begins to crack under the pressures of the distance, and soon "irresistible forces" come into play. Don't expect profundity, although Danielle Steel can make even the most sordid affairs seem romantic, or at least entertaining. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien--

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Chick Lit, Ebooks, Adult

532 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's bestselling authors, with almost a billion copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include All That Glitters, Royal, Daddy's Girls, The Wedding Dress, The Numbers Game, Moral Compass, Spy, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; Expect a Miracle, a book of her favorite quotations for inspiration and comfort; Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.

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Reviews

[Suzzie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good. A light, easy read that was quick and not big on intensity but still told a good story. The characters and the plots were entertaining enough to keep readers engaged and somehow even though this is a book about betrayal in marriage, the characters do no generally come off as intolerable to read about. Well done there by Steel. Easy, quick read.

[Mona · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have read quite a few Danielle Steels over the years and this one is a real disappointment plot-wise and character-wise. A couple well in love suddenly fall out of love, nothing to it. This book is pure fiction and fictitious. The author has tried too much and too hard to show that a marriage can break up by simple will of destiny without one of the spouses being necessarily wrong or at least more wrong than the other. All of the characters have been made out to be too likeable. People are flawed and they should be. Trying to pretend otherwise (or rather attempting to explain the behaviours of everyone so that the reader can relate) makes a pretty boring story.
I personally liked Steve (I mean who wouldn't) but even he gets boring. Too much perfect kills perfect. Cooking, doing the laundry, trying to talk his wife into having a baby for 14 years and agreeing and even persuading his wife to go after her dream job at the expense of his own..seriously?? And one thing that bothered me throughout and would have killed the book for me if it hadn't obligingly committed suicide: Why would the second in command in the trauma units of one of the best hospitals in NY get so little money?? And even if he does, why does Steel has to rehearse it every time you turn the page? I got it first time round, thank you very much. The book overall is kind of insulting to the common reader's intelligence. It tells you the same things over and over again.
This being said, a book I enjoyed by Steel was Message From Nam.

[Mar · Rating 2 out of 5]

-Adult
-Contemporary
-Fiction
-Romance
-a "perfect" marriage falls in love with other people because of the distance in their relationship due to their jobs, basically
-Personally, it seems strange to me that distance was not a problem for them to be happy and suddenly it began to be. That is loss of interest. It seemed that Steel just wanted to justify infidelity
-the characters were half ominous, especially the protagonist who says she doesn't know what she wants and still proceeds to make impulsive decisions
-The plot sticks around to the same thing, repetitive, boring, slow
-The relationship between the characters is sorta cliche? Nothing too exciting about it. just a couple of talking about themselves (not even that much), sex, and uh… yeah.
-The romance was kinda forced, very predictable ofc, and it wasn’t that outstanding. it’s supposed to be a “slow-burn” but everything seems so rushed still
-“You’re the best thing that’s happened to me in a long time, Meredith. And I hope you know that.”
-Plot twists/😱Moments: 0/5
-Characters: 2/5
-Plot: 2/5

[Catalina Méndez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un libro que te deja unos pésimos valores, los personajes se mienten, no dejan saber lo que realmente piensan cuando simplemente conversando se arreglan las cosas, jamás supieron porque se alejaron ambos, ya que prefieren no decir cosas que los dejen mal, me parece raro que tras 15 años de matrimonio no hayan tenido la confianza para decirse las cosas y fingir que son perfectos cuando obviamente no lo son.

Todos los personajes tienen muy pocos valores, promueven la infidelidad y les parece raro que una mujer no quiera tener hijos, es más, convencen a una mujer de que ella no es que no quiera tener hijos, sino que no encuentra a la persona correcta para tener hijos, porque claro ¿esa es su función como mujer no? y lo que más me sorprende es que ella cree pensar que es con esta persona (que le sugiere esto) con quién quiere en definitiva convertirse en madre, un hombre “ejemplar” que vive hablando mal de la madre de sus hijos, y de las mujeres.

No sé qué estaba pensando Danielle al momento de escribir esto, pero está muy bien escrito solo que la historia me dejó de mal humor y me dejo cuestionando el por qué normalizan la infidelidad ya que siento que así la están promoviendo, como si fuese lo más normal del mundo ser infiel y no contar nada, ósea puedes contagiar de enfermedades, virus a tu pareja, pero no pasa nada! mejor no les dices nada y ya está, asunto solucionado, qué horrible ejemplo deja este libro.

[Bai · Rating 1 out of 5]

Fair warning: This is more of a rant than a review, so people who liked the book should stay away. Also I didn't tag this review as a 'spoiler' because in my opinion, this book can not have a spoiler. To have a spoiler, one needs to have a story first. However if you are unsure, do not read on.

Irresistible Forces. Where do I start? At the outset, let me mention I had never read Steel before but had heard good things about the author. And well, this book started out well enough. The first few pages with the shootout at Harlem, the introduction of Dr. Steve Whitman - all plus points. And then it went down hill. Fast.

For 50 pages we get the same monotonous drivel. Steve is good. Meredith is hot. Both are busy. They are deeply in love. We get it already! Enough!!

There are exactly four characters in this book, the rest are all here for cameos. Not to mention the fourth character is introduced well after half-time. I was convinced Steve, Merrie and Cal were all the writer's imagination could muster up, not that they were particularly good imaginative products. Made in the same mould, they are all handsome, busy, career-oriented and mind-numbingly-boring.

None of them 'like' cheating. They are perfect. They abhor cheating. And then they cheat. All of them! For heaven's sake, it's seven months! How lonely can you get? The first 50 or so pages were spent telling us how little time you had with each other. How is this ANY different?

And then comes Cal. It's painfully obvious the character is supposed to be 'oozing charm and sex', and it's equally obvious he's not. I can write pages on his annoying attitude.

Merrie if you don't want children it's because you don't love your husband

Uhh sexist much? Sometimes I want to throw something at him. You have a lying cheating ex-wife, why would you seduce another married woman? And you couldn't help it isn't an answer. You have a brain man, supposedly. Use it.

The company's CFO Charlie was there just to make Cal look better by comparison, and to create a job opening for Meredith, just like Steve's boss was there...actually no he wasn't. He had two lines maybe. Cameos, remember?

And for a couple in their forties, they have surprisingly few friends. And by few, I mean none. Zero. Nada. Yes, I get they are busy but come on, none? A college roommate, a colleague they are friendly with (and did not sleep with), a childhood friend? Anyone? But then again how could they? If they did, said friend could have pointed out WHAT MORONS THE CHARACTERS ARE and the whole story could have been avoided.

Character development is not something the author figures is necessary. Pace? Forget fast, sometimes I wondered if we were going backwards. You remember the summary talked about a 'move'? That happens at page 225...in a 400 paged book. After 50% is over! As a joke, I decided to skip 50 pages and see if I could immediately pinpoint what was going on. I could. It's not even funny.

Research may also not have been a strong suit. Because apparently doctors are dirt poor in NYC. Assistant head of the best trauma unit in the city is dirt poor. Was this supposed to be a joke? Just Read

Anna was the only character I even remotely liked, and Steve's whiny internal monologue even nearly ruined that. Incidentally, Anna is the least-seen character and is only introduced after 250 pages. I think the less-seeing may have helped with the liking part.

This book was an agony to get through. In total, I probably liked 10 pages. And the only thing I actually liked about this book - the issue of it being completely fine if a woman did not want to have a kid, the author even killed that in the end! Just torture.

I wouldn't recommend it at all, but then again the friend who recommended it to me loved it. So I guess, to each his own... UPDATE: Turns out she was just messing with me. This is crap. I wouldn't recommend it. Period.

[The Cats’ Mother · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was about 4 times as long as it needed to be for the story, because she basically kept repeating the same 3 facts over and over: Steve and Meredith are happily married and love each other lots. They both work too hard - he as a trauma surgeon, she as an investment banker. He wants a baby, she's not sure. Getting to this point took up the first half of the book, then we discover what happens when she has to move away for a great new job, he gets left behind, and they both meet other people. It got interesting towards the end, trying to work out how it would all pan out - the characters are likable enough and you want them to have a happy ending, but I'm not sure it was worth reading just for this and I won't be in a hurry to read any more of hers.

[Phaedra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical Danielle Steele blueprint but rather enjoyable. A good quick read "in between" novels.

[Bonnies4winns · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't like this book. She repeated herself too much.

[Jacky · Rating 1 out of 5]

I decided at age 27 to read my first romance novel. This was it. To be frank, it was a horrible waste of life. If you want to bore yourself to death, read this book. The writing is not interesting, the characters are contrived and the book was about 300 pages too long with a plotline that I could have come up with at age 13.

[Fransisca Sidabutar · Rating 1 out of 5]

this is a book about lust, not love!! This book legitimize couple to be unfaithful as long as they were not love each other again.

[Lucinda07 · Rating 3 out of 5]

So this book only started getting good 200 pages in. First half of this book was incredibly boring but the last half was amazing! I loved reading it. I wish there was a second book to explain more (but a lot shorter)

[Parth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, "Irresistible Forces" isn't the kind of novel you admit that you have read and especially when you are a guy. But, oh boy, I did.

I just picked this novel out of nowhere and realised later that Danielle Steel is the best selling living author alive. An impressive achievement, so why not go reading her book...

This book is a cliché and so verbose. Half of the novel is about Meredith and her boss Cal having a dinner, taking fancy trips or Steve doing surgery. This book is a drudge to read. While it may raise an important question of marriage and its tangibility- its treated in an extremely flippant manner and you barely care for the characters by the time this book is over.

I am not picking up a Danielle Steel book again--she is unfortunately a writer whose writing you want to resist.

[Hodan (Ho.th.an) Jama · Rating 2 out of 5]

what the hell was that??!?!?!?!, everyone lived happily ever after!!!! Callan Dow was such a TOOL and a total narcissist!! and i wanted to kill Meredith 99.999% of the time! they acted like Steve was a janitor (not that there is anything wrong with that)or a low life not a gd DOCTOR!!! Callan always looked like a model from a GQ ad, everyday with his suits and sport jackets, i don't want that and i don't think it's normal!!!! whats wrong with a guy in jeans and a t-shirt on the weekend or his off time? i think a guy who's always dressed up like a GQ model should be hospitalized!!!!!

and the ending, there was not ending i thought i lose some of the pages at the end of the book,he got shot and that was it, how does it end like that?
i wish i could get back the day i lost reading this book :(
this was my first and LAST Danielle Steel book!!! never ever again! i would rather watch 1hur of the Hills (i can't stand 1min so 1hur would kill me)than read anything by this author ever again! the entire book had no details, there was no inside to any of the characters just Meredith, i wanted to kill myself at one point and i fell like i should go back to the bookstore i bought it from and demand my money back!

[Flibertigib · Rating 1 out of 5]

my feeling about having read this book is similar to the existentialist entropy experienced when i find myself in the checkout line at a grocery store staring at magazine covers. i.e., something in my soul died a little, and i certainly lost a few brain cells.

but what do you do when you're working at a home and desperate to kill time anyway you can and this was the only thing to read.

bad writing. everything spelled correctly, but it was badly proofread, redundant word choices, definitely needed editing, and the worst part of the writing was how thru the entire book mz steel told, rather than showed. worst writing tells about an experience, the best writing has the reader live the experiences by showing it to them 1st-hand. the writing was insipid, banal, hackneyed, and offered nothing. and the banality of the book wasn't even balanced out by a decent sex scene. wtf?

[Muamer · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't write reviews quite often but for this book it had to be done, first of all, this was my first and LAST Danielle Steel book, no way I'll read anything from her ever again. When you finish with this book just burn it! The first half of the book is how much the wife loves her husband, her soulmate of 15 years of marriage. In second part she fucks her boss and suddenly, the boss is her instant soulmate. I call this book a pile of bullshit. This book is about lust not love. Meridith is a total cunt, you can't compare a doctor who saves lives and Mr. Fancy Pants who goes from one meeting to another. I wanted to stop reading this book after first 200 pages but I simply wanted to see what happens with Steve. Despite the fact that he cheated his "wife" and I don't approve what he has done, I am glad he finally got a decent partner.

[Maryann · Rating 1 out of 5]

absolute crap. I didnt finish this. If you want to read a book about a woman saying she loved her husband and "Im married" likes its some sort of superfluous label until you feel like peeling it off, this is the book for you. Main girl, Merri thinks shes in love with her husband even though she doesnt want his kids and puts her job first, husband steve is also fooled. Both fall for someone else, cheat on each other...and thats as far as I got. Good luck to other readers, some might actually enjoy it. Im never reading another Danielle STeel book again

[Anja · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was really cute and fun story. It wasn't so much about the plot, but it was about the characters and their thoughts, feelings, behavings. I was a little bit disapointed with the end, it was kinda expected, but, again, it's not about the story. The writing was excellent and that's the main reason for high rating, atleast in my opinion.

[Simin Yadegar · Rating 3 out of 5]

مری و استیو زن و شوهر و عاشق یکدیگرند . مری کارشناس بورس و استیو جراح است آنها به شدت درگیر کارهستند به نحویکه بندرت برای با هم بودن و تفریح و سرگرمی وقت دارند اما ازآنجا که به علایق یکدیگر احترام می گذارند و درک متقابلی از حرفه هم دارند این مسئله برای آنان مشکلی ایجاد نمی کند و از عشقشان به یکدیگر نمی کاهد . اما با تغییر شغل و محل کار مری وضعیت زندگیشان دگر گون می شود ...

[Alina Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok. This actually hit a raw nerve with me. That even the strongest of marriage can wind up in hell. That sometimes, the strangest things happen for a reason and that it's better to have loads in common than opposites attract because it will finally catch up with you......

[Agos Fernandez · Rating 2 out of 5]

2/5 ⭐️
Le doy 2 estrellas porque la premisa de la historia está buena, pero hubieron muchos aspectos alrededor del libro que me hicieron querer abandonarlo, múltiples veces.

Para empezar, se trata de una historia SUMAMENTE repetitiva en cuanto a descripciones. Muchas veces creí haberme equivocado y estar leyendo la misma parte cuando, en realidad, se estaba explicando nuevamente “x” situación. La repetición o las descripciones no me parecen equivocadas cuando aportan mayor sentido a la trama o corresponden a un sentido estilístico, pero en este caso no correspondió a ninguna de las dos.

Tampoco me gustó el desarrollo de ciertos temas, entre ellos la infidelidad. Los personajes se contradicen constantemente (y no de una manera que explica su “complejidad como humano”) y no sentí la química entre ninguno de los cuatro personajes principales. De nuevo, solo fueron constantes descripciones de cómo cada personaje luce como un/a modelo y son los mejores en lo que hacen.

El matrimonio de los personajes solo funciona porque casi no se ven, en ningún momento y ambos lo súper comprenden durante 15 años PERO, de repente, parece que el único conflicto que aparece es que cada vez se les complica más verse. No te desarrollan mucho de su relación más allá de ese aspecto, lo cual hace que no te involucres mucho con ambos.

Otro tema que no se desarrolla lo suficiente es acerca de que ella no quiere tener hijos y todo el mundo parece querer convencerla de lo contrario, incluso Steve (personaje principal) que si quiere tener hijos, pero que cree poder convencerla en algún momento (sin que ella le haya dicho, en 15 años de matrimonio, que no quiere tener hijos). Te cuentan la historia de Cal (el jefe de ella) con su expareja y como él terminó criando 3 niños/as solo, y de repente ella empieza a amar esos chicos como suyos e incluso le dice que él hace que ella quiera tener hijos. Pero luego, al final de la historia, de nuevo vuelve a aclarar que no quiere tener hijos, y así sucesivamente.

Tengo más inquietudes al respecto de este libro pero, en resumen, no creo leer otro libro de la autora. Simplemente, no considero que sus libros sean para mí ni yo sea parte de su público objetivo.

PD: creo que el momento exacto en que el libro me dejó de gustar al 100%, fue cuando Meredith me terminó de caer mal. De todas las oportunidades que tuvo de comunicarse, actuar o marcar un límite, eligió no hacerlo…nunca… Solo en las últimas 10 páginas (menos incluso) ella vuelve a tener la personalidad que tenía al comienzo del libro.

Un ejemplo de pura contradicción innecesaria de Meredith hacia las situaciones que se le presentaban es esta:

“That was the force she had felt pulling her away from Steve. It was Callan”. (p.273)

4 páginas después…

“In spite of what she felt for Cal now, she couldn’t imagine a life without her husband [Steve]. He had been part of her life for too long now to give up. He was part of her, body and soul. It was more complicated than Cal knew. She had never been unhappy with Steve”.

o…”She had been beating him like a punching bag, but it actually hadn’t occurred to her that he would leave her”. (p.347) 👀

Pero lo que más me molestó fue que, una vez que Steve dejó de ser el “interés romántico” de la protagonista, dejó de ser el esposo perfecto, bueno, simpático para volverse desordenado, infantil y molesto a los ojos de ella. No lo quiere pero tampoco lo suelta. Lo compara internamente con Cal todo el tiempo, y viceversa. Ninguno la convence en su totalidad.

Steve todo el tiempo está abierto a charlar sobre su situación, ella no. Incluso le pregunta exactamente lo que ella quiere decirle y aún así decide cambiar de tema, divagar o no decirle. En cambio, Cal que es tan “diferente a Steve e igual a ella”, a la primera que lo rechaza, en lugar de echarla del trabajo (algo que Meredith si comunica, por primera vez), elige que se quede en el compañía solo para terminar tratándola mal. Cal termina siendo el infantil en esta situación. “Come back to me. Teach me to do this” (básicamente, que le enseñe a saber comprometerse en una relación).

[Alex (Alex's Version) · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was about 4 times as long as it needed to be for the story, because she basically kept repeating the same 3 facts over and over.. Steve and Meredith are happily married and they fuck each-other like rabbits...

I personally Loved Steve (I mean who wouldn't) but even he gets boring. Too much perfect kills perfect. Cooking, doing the laundry, trying to talk his wife into having a baby for 14 years and agreeing and even persuading his wife to go after her dream job at the expense of his own..seriously?? Where are the Steve's in my life?
For 50 pages we get the same monotonous drivel. Steve is good. Meredith is hot. Both are busy. They are deeply in love. We get it already! Enough!!

There are exactly four characters in this book, the rest are all here for cameos. Not to mention the fourth character is introduced well after half-time. I was convinced Steve, Merrie and Cal were all the writer's imagination could muster up, not that they were particularly good imaginative products. Made in the same mould, they are all handsome, busy, career-oriented and mind-numbingly-boring.

None of them 'like' cheating. They are perfect. They abhor cheating. And then they cheat. All of them! For heaven's sake, it's seven months! How lonely can you get? The first 50 or so pages were spent telling us how little time you had with each other. How is this ANY different?

And then comes Cal. It's painfully obvious the character is supposed to be 'oozing charm and sex', and it's equally obvious he's not. I can write pages on his annoying attitude.

Merrie if you don't want children it's because you don't love your husband

Uhh sexist much? Sometimes I want to throw something at him. You have a lying cheating ex-wife, why would you seduce another married woman? And you couldn't help it isn't an answer. You have a brain man, supposedly. Use it.

The company's CFO Charlie was there just to make Cal look better by comparison, and to create a job opening for Meredith, just like Steve's boss was there...actually no he wasn't. He had two lines maybe. Cameos, remember?

And for a couple in their forties, they have surprisingly few friends. And by few, I mean none. Zero. Nada. Yes, I get they are busy but come on, none? A college roommate, a colleague they are friendly with (and did not sleep with), a childhood friend? Anyone? But then again how could they? If they did, said friend could have pointed out WHAT MORONS THE CHARACTERS ARE and the whole story could have been avoided.

Character development is not something the author figures is necessary. Pace? Forget fast, sometimes I wondered if we were going backwards. You remember the summary talked about a 'move'? That happens at page 225...in a 400 paged book. After 50% is over! As a joke, I decided to skip 50 pages and see if I could immediately pinpoint what was going on. I could. It's not even funny.

Research may also not have been a strong suit. Because apparently doctors are dirt poor in NYC. Assistant head of the best trauma unit in the city is dirt poor. Was this supposed to be a joke? Just Read

Anna was the only character I even remotely liked, and Steve's whiny internal monologue even nearly ruined that. Incidentally, Anna is the least-seen character and is only introduced after 250 pages. I think the less-seeing may have helped with the liking part.

This book was an agony to get through. In total, I probably liked 10 pages. And the only thing I actually liked about this book - the issue of it being completely fine if a woman did not want to have a kid, the author even killed that in the end! Just torture.

[Guada · Rating 1 out of 5]

SIN ÁNIMOS DE EXAGERAR, ESTE ES EL PEOR LIBRO QUE LEÍ EN TODA MI VIDA. Nada de lo que pasa tiene sentido. NADA. Meredith se la pasa hablando de lo mucho que ama a Steve y de que es perfecto (195 páginas, las conté) para después, absolutamente de la nada, enamorarse de su jefe??? Y no solo eso, sino que también se la pasó diciendo que NUNCA en su vida iba a querer tener hijos porque no creía que iba a ser buena madre que pin que pan y cuando se besa con Callan.... CHAN. QUIERE TENER HIJOS SUYOS????? Decidite trola de mierda O QUERES LOS HIJOS O NO LOS QUERES. Otra, el "romance" entre Steve y Ana, UNA FARSA. Todo el tiempo dicen que son re buenos amigos y después los tenes cogiendo como si fuese lo más normal del mundo. Ambas relaciones me parecieron híper forzadas y no hay nada que pueda salvarlas porque son ridículas por donde las mires. Estoy llena de bronca mientras escribo esto y destruyo el teclado PERO QUÉ LIBRO MÁS PORONGA. No puedo creer que desperdicié horas de mi vida leyendo esta mierda. Y ENCIMA parece que la escritora está empeñada en hacer que sus personajes femeninos estén con hombres que les llevan MÁS DE OCHO O DIEZ AÑOS. EN QUÉ CABEZA????? O sea dale una vez oka por qué no, pero en este libro se volvió a repetir Y EN LAS DOS RELACIONES? Escuchame flacaaaaaaaaaaa. Horrible por donde lo mire. No tengo una cosa buena que decir sobre esto. Que se terminó capaz, pero hasta eso me hace enojar.
Bueno y conclusión: nunca más voy a leer un libro de esta mina porque son todos igual de poronga. No sé cómo vende tanto si siguen todos el mismo hilo: desarrollo de personaje inexistente y una diferencia de edad bastannnte notoria. Si fuese que el romance es lindo, bueeeno pero no. Nada. Todo una verga. Nada más para decir, solamente que quiero pegarle una trompada a la pantalla de la computadora. GRACIAS POR NADA DANIELLE STEEL !!!!!!!!!!

[Liza · Rating 1 out of 5]

My mother in law seemed so excited when she gave me this book. The author is not one that I enjoy reading but I graciously accepted her gift (I suspect it was pulled off the shelf at the senior center and her girlfriends declared it a must read). I hope that is the case because it is about the collapse of a good marriage partly because the wife didn't want kids. I hope she wasn't trying to warn me in order to get grandkids. I never knew her to read a book, so I think I am reading too much into this.

[Carina Carvalho · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vários anos sem ler Danielle Steel, aproveitei o facto de ter de ler um livro com a palavra força e lá encontrei um dela para ler. Ficou um pouco aquém do que me lembro dos livros dela. Demorou muito tempo a desenvolver mas gostei muito do final. Mais valia ter explorado mais o final e não ter demorado tanto a lá chegar.

[Lynda Johnson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a simple holiday read.
What a lovely love story with an equally lovely ending.

[Isabel · Rating 2 out of 5]

pfpfpf al principio bastante sin mas, muy repetitivo, luego se pone intenso pero demasiado cliché

[Kris · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was the 17th Danielle Steel book I've read. It also is the 2nd book in her collection that I just couldn't get through. I didn't mind reading about Steve, I understood him and his job, but Meredith bored me. Maybe it's because I don't really know what an investment banker does, but I found I didn't understand her job. So sorry Danielle, this one was no good.

[Amber · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was horrible. It was so predictable, you knew as soon as Meredith and Callan met that they would end up being together. The only reason I finished it was because I hate leaving a book unread, but it was so bad. I was hoping for some twist, and I thought I was getting that at the end with Steve, but no.
Dont think I'll ever pick up another Danielle Steel book. It bored me to tears..

[debbie lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read!

One of Danielle's finest works! So good you never want to put your book down, and you don't want the story line to end......just go on and on. Wishing there was a part two so the character s could continue to grow.....

[Diane · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was ok. not a great steele novel. husband and wife are separated by their jobs and try to save their marriage while meeting other possible romances.