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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm a Danielle Steele fanatic. Something about this book bothered me but I couldn't stop reading because I wanted to know the ending. Several of the characters are self righteous with a savior complex that plays out in the work they do and how they live their lives. And to boot, they are rich. The way the relationships all played out was bothersome as well because this all happens in the span of about 6 months. Yet I kept reading. Its very soap opera-esque on the believability scale and being a child of the 80s who watched Santa Barbara with my grandmother, maybe that's why I kept reading. I'm keeping my Danielle Steele collection despite this book.
3.5 stars. This was a very good story but I’m not surprised since this is Danielle Steel.
The Cottage by Danielle Steel
Coop Winslow a film star is broke.
The cottage, BelAir, CA sits on 14 acres-like the ones in Newport, RI-they are mansions.
He takes in boarders to make ends meet. The book also follows Mark who all of a sudden is getting a divorce. His wife Janet who had been traveling to and from NY fell in love with her mothers doctor.
Margaret and Jimmy are social workers and he sets up children to go to foster homes, sometimes taking them in temporarily. She had died.
Abe, Coop's financial adviser sets up all the men to live at the cottage.
The three men do get along when they meet on the grounds and each is healing, in their own way when Mark's kids come to visit.
Jimmy is having a hard time adjusting without his wife, Mark has the kids in place of his wife and Coop has a new girl, a doctor who's richer than himself and he has problems that arise.
People come and go from each of their lives and some stay...
Coop Winslow a film star is broke.
The cottage, BelAir, CA sits on 14 acres-like the ones in Newport, RI-they are mansions.
He takes in boarders to make ends meet. The book also follows Mark who all of a sudden is getting a divorce. His wife Janet who had been traveling to and from NY fell in love with her mothers doctor.
Margaret and Jimmy are social workers and he sets up children to go to foster homes, sometimes taking them in temporarily. She had died.
Abe, Coop's financial adviser sets up all the men to live at the cottage.
The three men do get along when they meet on the grounds and each is healing, in their own way when Mark's kids come to visit.
Jimmy is having a hard time adjusting without his wife, Mark has the kids in place of his wife and Coop has a new girl, a doctor who's richer than himself and he has problems that arise.
People come and go from each of their lives and some stay...
This was a better Danielle Steele than I’ve read in awhile.
This was another predictable story by Danielle Steel, but I enjoyed the storyline & characters.
I was a bit surprised that most of the characters in this were all men. Not really what I expected from DS. But it was a nice change of pace.
This was a better Danielle Steele than I’ve read in awhile.