Sisters by Danielle Steel

Sisters Sabrina, Tammy, Annie & Candy are happy each with their own lives Sabrina being a successful lawyer, Tammy a producer for a hit TV show in L.A., Annie living in Florence lives for art and to paint, and Sister Candy is and International model in Paris, New York and Tokyo and is well know to everyone in the supermodel industry as “The Candy”. The Sisters all take leave from their prospective jobs to go home to Connecticut to spend time with their parents for their annual Fourth of July party. Sister Annie and their Mom go to pick up a few forgotten items for the party and are involved in a tragic three vehicle accident when pipes from a truck in front of them fall off the truck and fly through the window striking the window and ejecting her mother from the car killing her on impact and severely injuring her leaving her blind. When authorities let them know the family is crushed that their mother and wife is gone and daughter& sister is severely injured. When it is time for Annie’s bandages to come off they let the doctor gently tell her the news all though she still was very upset and though her life was ending since her mother had dies and now she has lost her sight. One of her sisters brought up the idea of all of them living together till Annie can function on her own. At first Annie does not like the idea because she doesn’t think she’s ever going to be able to function independently Their father seems to be getting worse and worse over losing his wife until a person from the sisters past shows up to pay respects to the family of their mothers passing. They become kindred spirits and start seeing each other without the sisters knowing it. Once the sisters move in together some things start to be easier for each of them. Annie finally decides to start the school of the blind, and does well to acclimating to her new lifestyle. When Thanksgiving rolls around their father seems to be a bit happier than he was. The girls do notice a girl’s pair of tennis shoes sitting near the back door which alarms them a bit but they are waved off by their father saying it may be just one of the friends he had over lately. The girl’s lives have been turned upside down since the Fourth of July accident and they really don’t know what to expect next and they may not be ready for it either. This is another one of Danielle’s all time tug-at-your heart strings stories. She will never cease to amaze us with how well she can manipulate our feelings with each page. This is definitely be put with my ever growing Danielle Steel collection.

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Zollyanna

Bungalow 2

Tanya Harris is a part-time mother and writer but one does pay the bills her husband is a successful lawyer. But when she gets a call from her agent, Walt one day with an offer to write a screenplay by a famous Oscar-winning Hollywood producer her day is becomes anything but normal. She doesn’t know how to react or what to say to the once in a lifetime offer she knows she will have to talk it over with her husband and 3 kids, she just can’t make the decision of going to L.A. to work on a movie script without talking to them first. The girls Molly and Megan and son Jason are all in school and fixing to go off to College they need her, it would be selfish of her to go off and leave them for up to nine months to work on this movie while they are back home in Marin. She tells him to hold the producer off one more day so she can talk to her family. She thinks about it a bit and realizes that she could never leave her family especially her girls they mean too much to her and they need her especially with this last year of school coming up this is their senior year. She decides to tell her agent no and not discuss it with her husband Peter, the next morning when Peter sees her however, he sees straight through her cover-up and asks her if she is hiding something from her and to fess up and she tells him all. He is very surprised especially at the amount that they are going to pay her which would help pay for the kids college tuitions. He thinks she should go he knows this is one thing she has always wanted and thinks she should go for it. That he and the kids can make it for those few months until she gets back especially if she is coming home on weekends. She said she would think about it and they could talk about it over dinner that evening he said he would take her to a nice restaurant. She called her agent and put him off one more day he told her that the producer would be fine with it because he wanted her over all the others anyway. When they talked with the kids the next morning after dinner Jason and Molly were fine but Megan blew up thinking that her mother was leaving her and that she was being selfish and not thinking about the family at all. Peter convinced Tanya that it was just a typical teenager temper tantrum that the kids were not home during the week and when they got home they were gone with their friends they only really needed her when they were home on the weekends. Megan still doesn’t let up on her mother about her decision even till the day she leaves. When Tanya reaches L.A. she feels like she is in heaven. Everything she likes is in the bungalow down to her favorite color, chocolates and even her bathrobe, and shoe size as well. They had sent a questionnaire to Peter to make her feel at home while she worked on the movie script. On the days that she comes home things seem still do not to ease up between Megan and her mother at all. Things go down hill not only with Megan but with her and Peter after Thanksgiving Holidays and things get harder to patch up as the days go on while she works on the script. One person may not want to patch things up as much as another if you know what I mean.

Danielle Steel has given us another emotional attention getter in Bungalow 2. Ms. Steel never ceases to amaze with each of her books that I read I find a page turner that I am captivated with. The characters are filled with depth, heart, soul and each one you can really associate with one way or another. I know this one will be on my keeper shelf for years to come.

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Zollyanna

Maledicte

Maledicte is dark rich tale about young love spurned that will not be torn asunder by anyone not even parents. A young man removed from the merchant’s relicts to be taken back to his father in the courts of Antyre Janus is torn away from his love and she is left for dead by the Earls kinsman. Once healed she makes her way towards her love but enters the wrong home coming face to face to the one that will help her and keep her secret for years to come, Baron Vornatti and his servant Gilly. Although when she enters she is dressed as a boy and carrying a black sword which she means to kill Lord Last with and reclaim his son Janus with. The only name she will give to them is Maledicte to help hide the fact that she is really a female, Baron Vornatti asks her reason for wanting to run Lord Last through she lets him know. He is truthful in letting her know that Lord Last is not at Lastrest and has gone off to another one of his homes for the winter to have his son trained in the ways of the court. Baron Vornatti strikes a deal with him to train him in what he needs to know to get the job done, seeing as how they have the same goals in mind in seeing Lasts demise as an eminent. Vornatti does find out that Maledicte is a girl but vows to keep it a secret by any means possible as long as the deal is kept to the letter. Vornatti does how ever revel in holding it over Maledictes’ head and never does find out the real name for the girl. Lane Robins did an excellent job of conveying the dark recesses of Maledictes mind and what a lover can go through when she or he loves someone so much she or he is willing to kill to keep them. Robins’ characters were intelligent and appealing showing zeal and zest for life. It was a most entertaining and passionate read that I won’t hesitate to pick up and read again and again, it is truly a keeper from a very gifted author.

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Zollyanna