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Title: Safe Harbour (Danielle Steel)
ISBN: 0375728287
Author:
Danielle Steel
Publicate Date: 2004-09-28
Publish: 2004-09-28
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: One of the two worst books I have ever read
This is easily one of the two worst books I have ever read in my life. It's an insult to writing and storytelling. The story itself is thin and lame, the characters have no depth and it is clear that no one edited the book. Danielle Steel's prose is filled with unnecessary commas, paragraphs with sentences that contradict one another and trite sayings and descriptions. My advice is to not waste your time reading this horrible book. Doing anything else, including staring into space, would be a better use of one's time.
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2: Safe Harbour
The story begins with a young girl named Pip who, while walking on the beach with her dog, meets an attractive middle-aged artist and then starts up a father-daughter type of friendship with him. Over the summer she goes to meet him each day. In time, Pip brings her mother to meet Matt. She hopes that they will be attracted to each other. She is desperate for a father figure and would like her mother to be happy again. Ophelie, Pip's mother, is a depressed widow and is fearful about starting up a new relationship. She attends a support group to discuss her feelings surrounding her late husband's and son's accidental death. Over time, she and Matt develop a low-key relationship and in the end, it becomes a steamy romance. Through unexpected twists and turns Pip gets her wish and a new baby as well.
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3: Repetitive
I've read DS before and I know that basically every book is the same. A woman who has lost someone, scared to start over, meets someone new, resists falling in love, but eventually does, etc., etc., etc. I get that, I'm fine with that, but I am reading Safe Harbour and it get extremely irritating to read the run on sentences and the same sentences being used over and over again throughout the entire book................Please be more careful in the editing process.
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4: Wow!
I'm definitely not one to read books....AT ALL. However, I had a couple of minutes before going into work one day and picked up a random book. From the turning of the first few pages, I was hooked. As a matter of fact, I read a fourth of the book by days end. From my reading, Mrs. Steel captures the feelings of despair, hopelessness, and grief in great depth with her style. Ophelie shelved her life and happily traded it for a super-subservient one to her husband. And when he dies, Ophelie is left trying to piece together a fragile puzzle called her life. If you can relate to the grief of losing great hope, then this book will suck you right in like a black hole... it kidnapped me. Also, Mrs. Steel's style is rather flowing so it's easy to get lost in the pages. I am going to read more of Mrs. Steel's books.
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5: If I could have given 0 stars...
I would have. I have never read Danielle Steel, and once I went to pick up a book of hers and saw that it was priced above the normal amount for a paperback. I put it down, assuming she must be really good, but as I hadn't read anything by her, I wasn't willing to pay extra to do so. Well, I got Safe Harbor from my local library on audiobook and figured I'd give her a try.
As I listened to this novel, I got very tired of the amateur lack of descriptiveness, and of the redundancy. I noticed that a few things were said over and over again throughout the novel, like the fact that she had so much to do before the tragedy, and now... afterward she had too much free time, and even though things were hard before, she'd rather have the "business" of a mentally ill son and a husband that didn't care about her. As if the readers wouldn't remember, or as if we didn't get her point the first 3 times. Many things were repeated like that, and I felt like I was listening to a fifth grade creative writing assignment where the student had to meet a word requirement and didn't have enough content.
Ophelie is weak, simple, and boring, as is Matt. They have no personality. The version I am listening to is the unabridged verson, so I can't possibly be just missing something. I understand that this is supposedly a novel of triumph and the will to survive, but she didn't even care for her child, and it had been a year. Perhaps these things do happen in real life, but I'd much rather read about women with some semblance of a spine. It should have been one or the other, Ophelie's husband should have been worth mourning so thoroughly.
I assumed this must have been one of her very first novels for it to be so blah, but I checked the publication date... and I'm in shock.
Perhaps Danielle Steel feels she is above having to deliver a quality novel with her fame, I can't begin to understand how such a reknown author could release something so terrible.
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