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Invisible
by Danielle Steel
Thank you Pan Macmillian for sending me a copy of this book to review.
When you combine a heartless aspiring actress and a rich aristocrat your end product comes out in the form of a small girl born into a loveless home. With war raging inside both her parents and Antonia being in the line of fire, her only option is to retreat. To be invisible.
Antonia’s story starts post-war Paris and stretches to modern time New York. We read glimpses of her childhood where her mother repeatedly mentions she didn’t want Antonia and she is the reason her acting career isn’t taking of.How Antonia is constantly being neglected and treated with no love really punctures your heart. It got even worse after her mother left to chase fame, and her father blamed her for driving her mother away. Buried in his work to try and forget, Antonia does her best to stay out of his way and fade into the background. Finding refuge in books and movies, she later applies to become a screenwriter and studies at NYU film school.
When the opportunity to work with a famous British filmmaker at Hollywood Studio arrises, Antonia leaps for this chance to understand screenwriting better. To her shock he notices her and wants her to perform in movies, ready to make her a star. She constantly reminds him her real love is screenwriting, and she wants to be in the background. He encourages her to stop being invisible and show the world how gorgeous, smart and talented she is. Between her movies and marrying the filmmaker, she is in the lime light now more than ever, her camouflage completely stripped. When the worst of tragedies hit, Antonia can feel herself drifting towards the safe state of invisibility again, despite what her husband taught her. Will she face reality head-on, or retreat back into her old ways?
Danielle Steel writing style was very matter of fact and to the point. As Antonia progresses and starts counting the cost of what pursuing your passion asks of you, you as the reader will relate in so many ways. Hard topics such as divorce, neglect, death, staying true to yourself, drugs and rejection is addressed in this novel respectfully and you can’t help but root for Antonia from page one.
If you are looking for an emotional storyline, formulating out of tragedy, love and then determination- this contemporary book is for you.
When you combine a heartless aspiring actress and a rich aristocrat your end product comes out in the form of a small girl born into a loveless home. With war raging inside both her parents and Antonia being in the line of fire, her only option is to retreat. To be invisible.
Antonia’s story starts post-war Paris and stretches to modern time New York. We read glimpses of her childhood where her mother repeatedly mentions she didn’t want Antonia and she is the reason her acting career isn’t taking of.How Antonia is constantly being neglected and treated with no love really punctures your heart. It got even worse after her mother left to chase fame, and her father blamed her for driving her mother away. Buried in his work to try and forget, Antonia does her best to stay out of his way and fade into the background. Finding refuge in books and movies, she later applies to become a screenwriter and studies at NYU film school.
When the opportunity to work with a famous British filmmaker at Hollywood Studio arrises, Antonia leaps for this chance to understand screenwriting better. To her shock he notices her and wants her to perform in movies, ready to make her a star. She constantly reminds him her real love is screenwriting, and she wants to be in the background. He encourages her to stop being invisible and show the world how gorgeous, smart and talented she is. Between her movies and marrying the filmmaker, she is in the lime light now more than ever, her camouflage completely stripped. When the worst of tragedies hit, Antonia can feel herself drifting towards the safe state of invisibility again, despite what her husband taught her. Will she face reality head-on, or retreat back into her old ways?
Danielle Steel writing style was very matter of fact and to the point. As Antonia progresses and starts counting the cost of what pursuing your passion asks of you, you as the reader will relate in so many ways. Hard topics such as divorce, neglect, death, staying true to yourself, drugs and rejection is addressed in this novel respectfully and you can’t help but root for Antonia from page one.
If you are looking for an emotional storyline, formulating out of tragedy, love and then determination- this contemporary book is for you.