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A review by acass92
Friends Forever by Danielle Steel
2.0
This is my first Danielle Steel book I have read and I have to say I'm not encouraged to read anymore.
To start with, all the characters, main and supportive, were forgettable. I found myself getting confused between the characters or forgetting their story line completely. Maybe she put in too many characters, but there wasn't room for development. You didn't get a chance to grow attached to any of them because their story kept changing so rapidly.
The dialogue between the main characters was lifeless, even though they're all supposed to be best friends. There didn't seem to be any chemistry.
The writing and storyline was also very repetitive. I found myself rolling my eyes every chapter because it was very easy to predict and was not surprising or gripping at all.
The only redeeming quality of this book is if you really think about the factors that surrounded the three characters who died. All were faced with external pressure which if handled better by those pushing them could have prevented their deaths. I understand these deaths made the storyline, but it made me think about the pressure of family and societal expectations and how that effects someone's life.
This book was an easy read. Not because it was enjoyable, but because it was poorly written. It was frustrating to think that the aurhor couldn't think of something different to occur in the story. Its not a book I would recommend to anyone, even if they have read some of her previous stories.
To start with, all the characters, main and supportive, were forgettable. I found myself getting confused between the characters or forgetting their story line completely. Maybe she put in too many characters, but there wasn't room for development. You didn't get a chance to grow attached to any of them because their story kept changing so rapidly.
The dialogue between the main characters was lifeless, even though they're all supposed to be best friends. There didn't seem to be any chemistry.
The writing and storyline was also very repetitive. I found myself rolling my eyes every chapter because it was very easy to predict and was not surprising or gripping at all.
The only redeeming quality of this book is if you really think about the factors that surrounded the three characters who died. All were faced with external pressure which if handled better by those pushing them could have prevented their deaths. I understand these deaths made the storyline, but it made me think about the pressure of family and societal expectations and how that effects someone's life.
This book was an easy read. Not because it was enjoyable, but because it was poorly written. It was frustrating to think that the aurhor couldn't think of something different to occur in the story. Its not a book I would recommend to anyone, even if they have read some of her previous stories.