This book feels like something I'd find at a beach house while on vacation and I'm reading it only because I somehow forgot to bring any books with me and also have no way to get to a bookstore or library. The gift that this book gave me is that I only wasted 1 day reading it.

This was my first Danielle Steel and it will likely be my last. Her writing style (and probably subject matters) are just definitely not for me. Part of my issue with this book is that it's a romance about two 16-year-olds, which is really not a type of romance I enjoy. Most of my issue, however, is with the writing style, and the rest is with the bizarre plot.

I just don't understand most of the choices made by the characters in this book, especially the adults. I didn't connect with any of the characters because of Steel's straightforward, tell-never-show, style and that made it hard to just go along with what they were doing, or even root for the relationship between the teens.

I know Ms. Steel is an incredibly prolific writer and they can't all be bangers, but I don't imagine myself giving her another shot. She's definitely got a huge fanbase without me. ( )

Sentimental and predictable. ( )

Estamos en los años cincuenta, cuando la vida era más sencilla, la gente todavía creía en sus sueños y la familia.
Estamos en los años cincuenta, cuando la vida era más sencilla, la gente todavía creía en sus sueños y la familia constituía el núcleo de las relaciones humanas. El lugar es una pequeña ciudad del Medio Oeste. Allí, en una apacible avenida bordeada de árboles, un hogar feliz es destruido por la absurda muerte de una niña. Los padres y el hermano se sumen en el dolor y en la desesperanza. Sin embargo, la inesperada llegada de una joven cambiará para siempre sus vidas y les permitirá recuperar la felicidad.

A nice story but too predictable. ( )

Svenska: Gåvan