A review by abbybroncos
Moral Compass by Danielle Steel

1.0

This book was terrible for a lot of reasons but it wasn't unreadable. The first one or two chapters was literally just a list of names and descriptions and I didn't remember any of them the next times they came up. There was a focus on way too many characters, if it had only been 2-4 characters then the book would have been significantly better. Even if the perspectives would have been more separated the book would have been better but they were all line by line. There is a lot in this book that I don't think was researched at all. Police investigations, court sentencing and just the way that an average person speaks to begin with. There are so many thoughts in this book that are repeated over and over. Like I understand if that's how the character feels but show me don't tell me! Which is another issue with this book, everything is told instead of shown. The main event that happens in this book is completely smoothed over so quickly that its confusing that it happened in the first place. There are no details in this book its pretty much just generalizations of everything that happens. There are a lot of cliches in this book as well and some of them are slightly racist. The motivations for the characters made absolutely no sense to me. They were almost completely nonsensical. Plus there are side plots in this book that I honestly could not have cared less about. In fact the last 20 or so pages I skipped quite a bit because I didn't think it was relevant to the story itself. There are so many problems in the writing of this book that it honestly confuses me that she is such a popular writer. The ending was completely predictable because the last 100 pages the ending is alluded to through "opinions" of the characters. I did not feel an attachment to any of the characters. I just really don't understand how anyone could have loved this book.