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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Read this 20 years ago but wanted it on my Read list as it's one of my all time favourites, definitely my favourite Danielle Steel novel.
read this book when i was a kid and my understanding of the language and the situations were subpar but it was very thrilling because 1) i had gotten this from the adult section of our school library 2) i was obsessed with the RMS Titanic, of which i had earlier seen a documentary of
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I read this a long time ago. I remember that I didn't really love it. too much bad stuff happened, and wasn't outweighed by the negative. besides, hasn't the whole Titanic thing been done enough by now?
I'm very surprised that I didn't like this book so much, I normally can't get enough of Danielle Steel but reading a book about the Titanic just wasn't for me. I've read a book in a couple days and this one was hard for me to read because even though it was an easy read, it was very hard to get into.
While this was a nice read (and quite different from Danielle's typical style, which is a big plus in my book, because I love reading her books, but they had gotten too repetitice), but it felt quite weak. I am glad about many plot decisions she made as an author, but I would not have lost anything without reading it.
Once upon a time many years ago a teenaged me loved this book. That girl loved the history and romance of ocean liners and everything Edwardian. That girl also didn't know how many other well written fiction books were written about Titanic. Teenaged me grew up and some twenty (give or take a year or two) years later picked this book up again to see if the magic was there. It wasn't. I barely made it past the Titanic chapters I was so angry. The history was not only off, but she basically made it seem that real passenger Bess Allison knowingly saw her infant son into a lifeboat with a nanny while she and two year old daughter Lorraine decided to die together with her husband. Anyone with remote knowledge of the story knows that this was not true. The Allison baby was kidnapped by his nanny, they got into a boat while Mrs. Allison searched frantically for them refusing to leave without her boy. By the time she realized that he was in a boat, it was too late, and she and her toddler daughter went down with the ship, Lorraine Allison being the only first class child to die that night. That alone ticked me off rather irrationally I know and I was so angry I couldn't even finish the book again. Sadly the magic has gone for me. Was it maturity, the fact that I've found better written Titanic novels or maybe the book was never that great in the first place. Who knows. All I know is if this book angered me I'm staying well away from Zoya, which is set in Russia in 1917. That one might make my head explode with rage.