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leighannsherwin 's review for:
No Greater Love
by Danielle Steel
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.