Customer Reviews

Heartbeat

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I first read this book when I was 15-16 years old. I loved it then and I love it now. I have worn out copy after copy, and still re-read it (as I do many DS novels) at least once a year. A GREAT read.... believeable characters, interesting storylines and twists that jerk your emotions around... pick it up, if you haven't yer. If you have, read it again :)

I am a great fan of Danielle Steel and 'Heartbeat' didn't dissapoint me. I liked the twist and the drama of the middle chapters, the accident scene, aswell as the cliffhanger in the end... I think the author has drawn a very objective picture when describing Adrian Townsend, a person who has been mistreated and confused...and the feelings she has for this wondeful and ordinary man, Bill Thigpen, who has just entered her life at the right time... It's a 'real' situation that can happen in real life and, as in many of her books, Danielle gives us an insight on how an ordinary person would approach this.

Danielle Steel is by far, my favorite fiction author.

Overall I guess this was a good book, but compared to the other Danielle Steel books I have read, Lightning and Mixed Blessings, it doesnt measure up. I liked those far more. For the first 200 pages I didnt think anything really happened and I had to fight to keep reading. I also kept expecting Adrian to get back together with Steven since the character in Lightning reunited as did Diana in Mixed Blessings. I would have liked to hear more about Bill and Adrians life after the birth of the baby as opposed to all of the tedious events that led to them meeting. As mentioned before, I did like it and 2 stars is deceiving. It was a great book, but not near as great as what Steel is capable of.

I couldnt stop reading it, and i found myself staying up way later than i should have just trying ot get through the next couple of pages...

Bill Thigpen was married to his work and didnt realize that his marrige was falling apart until it was too late, his then wife, Leslie, left him, taking their two young boys, Adam and Tommy, while Bill moved to California to persue his career.

Meanwhile, Adrian Townsend is married to this creep named Steven, and Steven had a horrible upbringing, and he never wanted to have kids. So when adrian finds out that she is pregnant, he tells her to have an Abortion, or he will leave her. She finds that she cannot abort this baby, and Steven says that she betrayed him by getting pregnant. (it was his fault too..i hated him!)

So Adrian is left on her own with this unborn baby, when she meets Bill. They kept running into eachother, and started a friendship.

This book was so very good, and it goes through all the triles and tribulations. I loved it and I think you will too!

I was really happy to see this woman's devotion to a baby. She got the best of both worlds, a child, and a man that loved her for who she was and had the same aspirations as she. I am pro-life and believe that nothing should come before a baby's life, and I was happy to see that she kept it. This book is definately one to pass on!!!

This book started out good and had a wonderful ending. But,everything in between was dull.

I don't understand how Bill neglected his first wife and his children by not spending enough time with them and then, be such a caring and devoted supporter for Adrian. Why wasn't he as committed to his orginial family as he was his second family?

Next, Adrian nearly drove me crazy by being so secretive to keep from having confrontations with different characters in the story. She was going to have to tell Bill she was pregnant sooner or later so why let their relationship grow knowing it may end? It did not make sense for her not to tell her mother about the baby sooner. She should have told those whom she worked with that Steven had left her. As it was, her co-workers thought she was having an affair. Did she not tell the co-workers she was pregnant because she thought they would never know? She took the "road of least resistance" too many times to suit me. There are many other questions I had while reading the book but you can read it for yourself. Many have loved the book.

ok, i admit, this isn't the best book ever written, but so what? have any of you ever tried to write and publish a book. i thought that this was a pretty good book and people who are not critical about absolutely everything they see and read should try it out. i'm only 12 and i did!

i have been a ds fan for many many and have all her books i have to say this book is a miss not to say it wasnt a good story it was but there was way way to much of a pity party with the main chairtier itdidnt set well with me having such weak female lead just missed

The overall moral of the story is wonderful but the book could have been explained in half this amount, I adore Bill for what he did for Adrian , felt so real that I wished he was my guy

I have read most of the Danielle Steel books. Some great and some not so. This one had me wondering why Adrian was so secretive. She did keep her baby against all odds on her part, but loses her husband because of it. In the end she finds a wonderful guy, Bill, in the supermarket, at first a friend, a man divorced from his dancer wife, with kids of his own. They discover that they have many values in common and over time become closer and closer.