2008-09-10 terrible - so repetitive

This is my second Danielle Steel after reading 'Jewels' which was totally engrossing. In comparison to that (any any other book for that matter) this one is terrible! It is SO repetitive that I had to stop reading it word for word after about 15 minutes and skim read the rest of the book in another 15. It just goes on an on about how the princess feels the weight/burden/yoke of responsibility on her shoulders/around her neck/suffocating her/smothering her. You get my drift. The thesarus was clearly a trusty friend while this was being written but the amount of repetition is such that even the thesarus can't come up with enough variations on the endlessly repeated points. Some reviews of other Danielle Steel's have suggested that she writes some herself and others are written by a ghostwriter and/or on autopilot, I think this is an example of the latter.