Title: Trite and Predictable
Product review: This is my first and last Danielle Steel book. Curious about the enthusiasm for this author, I decided to give her a try. Never before have I experienced such a constant and highly repetitious barrage of being told what characters were thinking and feeling, with so little attempt to make them come alive through their actions and words. Her attempts at character development were transparent, and the story line was trite and highly predictable and could have been told in a quarter of the time. There were many, many missed opportunities to enrich the story with details that would have made the House a more meaningful character. Steel's attempts to apply psychology to the main character's motivations were inappropriate and failed to add anything to the story. Overall it read like an outline of a story still waiting to be fleshed out and made alive. A waste of time and money, but never again.
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