The Klone and I - Danielle Steel

Advantages: Fun to read
Disadvantages: Unbelievable

...predictable but when I saw The Klone and I my resolve weakened. The main character Stephanie is 41, divorced and at a low ebb when she meets 59 year old Peter in Paris. Her marriage break up 2 years earlier came as a total shock to her. She believed that her and her husband Roger were happy until the day he told her that he had met somebody else, didn’t love her and wanted a divorce. Stephanie blamed the break up on letting herself go and becoming ...
...but it did give her the confidence to help rebuild her life and start dating again. Some people manage to find new partners quickly after break ups and diminish their feelings of hurt and rejection. Others like Stephanie try the dating game and meet many prospective partners but none ever feel right. After the break up Stephanie realised or perhaps accepted that her husband had used her for a meal ticket. She had a healthy private income and he ... Read review

Advantages: Addictive
Disadvantages: none I am aware of

...Steel, is a descendent of the Lowenbrau Beer Barons. Her Mother is Portugese and her Father is German.Their common language is French, although the whole family can speak 8 Languages.Danielle's Father's family, the main banking and brewing clan, have always lived in Munich and the family home a moated castle in Bavaria, Kaltenburg.Her Mother's family were diplomats and her maternal Grandfather was a Portuguese diplomat assigned to the United States ...
...most of her childhood. At the age of 20,she went to New York and started working for "Supergirls", a before it's time public relations firm run by women who organised parties for Wall Street Stock Brokers and designed P.R. campaigns for big commpanies. When the recession hit, the firm went out of business and Danielle retired to write her first novel "Going Home" in 1973. Danielle is hailed as one of the world's most sucessful Romance Authors, ... Read review

Advantages: A good book to read
Disadvantages: none

...continue in order to find the outcome of the story. The book is about Stephanie who is married to Roger. They also have two children, Charlotte who is just going into those awkward teenage years and Sam, who younger. Roger states that he no longer loves Stephaine and he leaves her for another woman. This leads Stephanie to take a long hard look at herself. Out go the old flannelette nighties and in come her new clothes and hairstyle. While on a trip ...
...discovers lives nearby. They continue the friendship when they return home. Before long Stephanie realises that she is falling for Peter in a big way. Unfortunately he has to go away on business but he does leave a surprise for her. The surprise lands on her doorstep the next day in the form of a klone called Paul. He dresses and acts differently much to the delight of the children. This is where Stephanies life is turned into an array of new experiences ... Read review

Advantages: Light hearted with Steel's romantic edge
Disadvantages: It's not a weepy!

...predictable I must say. At the beginning of her stories somebody breaks up with somebody else and there are always morbidly depressed for the next 10 chapters. For instance, in Palimino, the guy breaks up with the girl as he feels inferior to her. I often find this very heavy as I am only a teenager. I have been brought up to think that marriages are forever and will last forever even though I see the statistics stating that 1 in 3 marriages end ...
...I opened this book and the guy leaves the girl, I groaned. Not another sob story, but I decidided to read on anyway. Basically, Stephanie blames herself for the split, thinking that her old flannel nighties and hairy legs did the trick but really, her husband has found a big busted, skinny blond. All of our worst nightmares. In a radical decision she exchanges her flannels for silky sexy night dresses (except one or two she clings on to for comfort!) ... Read review

Advantages: Something a bit different from Ms. Steel
Disadvantages: Something a bit different from Ms. Steel!!!!

...one of her books for the first time, and chose this one, they may not realise why she is classed as a first rate writer. Of course the book is very compelling, like the majority of Steel novels, and I have to admit you do want to know what happens in the end, but unlike her others I could put this one down and not get withdrawal symptoms! The first few chapters convince you that this is a run of the mill girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl meets ...
...and for the majority it is, but of course there is a twist. After being dumped by her git of a husband Stephaniem the main character, meets a guy who owns a bionics company, he's lovely and she starts to fall for him, fairly standard stuff, until he goes away and sends her a clone of himself that is a Versace dressed nightmare. Paul, the Klone, is the exact opposite of the man that created him, and is the outgoing party animal his creator isn't, ... Read review