2008-04-07 A BIG yawn, all the way!!

I had such high hopes for this book. After many disappointments with Danielle Steel lately, the synopsis seemed promising.

Alas. This book was far from ds at her best, when she was writing really good books. The last fairly acceptable one being "Sisters".

"Honor Thyself" starts with 50 year old world famous movie star Carole Barber trying to write a semi-biographic book. A very sympathetic heroine, to sympathetic perhaps, but that is regular ds recipe. However, already the first 20-30 pages are so repetitive and downright boring that I only kept reading in the hope that it would all get better.

In a way it does. Carole ends up in an awful accident, a terrorist attack in Paris. She almost dies, lies in a coma for a long time. Wakes up, does not recognize anyone, not even her children. She finally gets better and gets a new lease on life. She finds the answers she has been seeking both from her past and her loves.

The book has a happy, perhaps a bit unexpected, ending. That is, if you manage to get so far (or only take a peek at the end in order to find out). Because, even if things do happen in this book, it continues being extremely repetitive and lacking in substance. A big yawn, all the way!

If properly edited, it could have made a nice little short story, but there certainly is not material for much more than that.

Danielle Steel is such a fine writer and has given me so much joy with her numerous excellent works. Please get back to the quality of quite long ago. This book is a waste of money both in hardcover and paperback.