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Impossible

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Every time I read a DS book---and I have read them all--I tell myself "this is the last one". But then I'm always willing to give her one more try. As I've written before, her books are slipping--as someone else has said. I'm beginning to think that she's not doing the writing anymore. It's not a fraction of the caliber of "Message from Nam" or "Thurston House". She now repeats herself over and over again, uses poorly constructed sentences and runs thoughts together as a child would do. Her grammar is terrible. And the stories are becoming so fluff and too similar that it's not fun to read them anymore. So perhaps she has finally lost me as a loyal reader.
It's the story about Liam and Sasha---with a 9 year age difference who break up and get back together over and over. DS is constantly reminding the reader of their ages and their past history------it's boring and mundane. It's a waste of time to read these books unless you're looking for a quick read without any substance.
Danielle, please write better and go back to meaty story ideas like in the "good old days" and wow us with your research and ways to capture us with the story. I miss the old style and will not read another book until I hear they have improved.

Just because Danielle Steel writes it, does that make it worthy of being published? This book is a mess. There are only two reasons that I finished the book; 1) I paid for it, 2) The characters were likable. Otherwise... it was a complete waste of time. How many times can you say the same exact thing over & over again and still have it called literature. Anyway... if you are a fan of the "real" Danielle Steel's writing... DO NOT buy this book... waste of money & time.

I have never read a Danielle Steel novel, but my friend bought it when we were inter-railing through Europe last week so I picked it up out of sheer boredom.

The grammar is atrocious, and the repetitiveness highly irritating. How many times do Sasha and what's his name need to break up and get back together? How often does Sasha need to cry about this artsy guy?

This book was so annoying that I had to literally put it down and stop reading it.

I will never pick up another Danielle Steel book, and I am still appalled that the publishing world even let this one be published!

I am joining the majority of reviewers when I say that this book is her WORST yet, and they have been pretty bad for a few years. I also miss her classics and may just have to read them over, rather than read another one of her new books. This story is ridiculously predictable and completely unrealistic. The "wacky" artist Liam is just an obnoxious, disrespectful, immature guy who cheated on his wife with her sister - there is absolutely no way that Sasha would be attracted to him, completely unbelievable. He is a completely unlikable character, and she is just irritating. I have never heard D.S. be so repetitive - I agree that she has gone downhill and it is unclear as to whether she actually wrote this book or employs an editor. The most infuriating scene in the book was the way Liam disrespected her while she was doing her job as an art dealer but then it was chalked off that he is just a "wacky" artist - absurd. Over the years, I have stopped buying her books because they are declining in quality and I did not want to waste my money but still checked them out from the library - well based on this latest book, I may just have to give her up all together, I cannot go through any more torture.

Why do I continue to read her books??? B/c I love the stories (most of them) but I give up. I can no longer stand the repitition. why does she repeat herself over and over again?? does she think her reading audience is stupid?? and why doesn't an editor take out all of the extra stuff?? this book could've been about a hundred pages.

I didn't like Liam. of course, heros can not be perfect but I found him completely unlikeable. He was a mooch, a slug, a leech on his wife. How could I admire this guy?? He sucked the life out of his wife, cheated on her w/her sister, and ignored his kids for many years and thought it was ok b/c he was "creative"

I give up. Some of her books have excellent plots (not this one) but even those make me want to pull my hair out b/c they repeat info over and over again

Impossible is the story of two very different people looking for love. Sasha Boardman is a very successful Paris Art Dealer. She learned to love art from her father, and went to work at his gallery. Sasha enhanced the gallery by expanding their interests to contemporary artists and encouraged her father when she moved there to open a New York gallery. Sasha has led an idyllic life of sorts, married to Arthur Boardman for 25 years, the mother of two wonderful children, and a career she loves. Her life predictably falls apart by Arthur's sudden death. Months after Arthur's death, Sasha finally meets Liam Allison, a wacky artist, and friend of her beloved son Xavier. One bothersome editorial note is the distracting and excessive use of the word "wacky" when describing Liam. However, it is a just description of a very immature, and out of control artist like Liam. Sasha, such a conservative, quiet person, never predicted she would fall in love with this man so opposite from herself. Sasha is irresistibly drawn to him but has so many doubts she pushes him away multiple times. Nevertheless the novel ends in Danielle Steel's typical style.

This is quite possibly the most poorly written book I have ever seen. Like others on this site I will never again read a DS book. Talk about repetitive -- it got so bad that I began to underline everytime the main love interest was referred to as a "wacky artist". Between Chapters 5 and 7 the term was used 15 times, three times on one page. To make it worse, the "wacky artist" is also characterized as extremely immature and childlike, making him very unappealing to me, anyway. In the space of 3 pages the following phrases appear -- "looked like a big kid", "she felt like his mother", "his childlike style" "he was very needy sometimes, and self-centered, as children are", "he acted like a bored schoolboy", "pouting", "acted out, more often than not, like a child". What a bore. Both the book and the people in it.

I sometimes wonder where DS is when she's writing these stories...I was worn out by hearing about Liam's personality issues and his age difference with Sasha. It got old very quick. I struggled through the last part of the book wondering how I would manage to finish. I'd say the next book needs to be more exciting and unique.

If I had three words to come up with to describe the plot in this book they would be: ping-pong match.

Why is that you ask? Because the characters go back and forth, changing their minds literally probably a hundred times. Do they want to be together or not? Sasha and Liam spent the book either in passionate lust or dislike. I really didn't see "love" between them.

I have a issue with how they continue to bring up the difference of their ages (9 years apart), as a reason they're not together. 9 years isn't a big deal, and much of the book you spend saying "Get over it!" But they never do.

Steel's subjects and story line are worn out - I'm sick of gallery owners, and widowers. Come up with something new that hasn't been done that doesn't involve these two subjects! For now, I'm just going to go back and re-read some of her classics. Don't bother with this book - if you must, wait a month or so until you can get one on here or Ebay dirt cheap!

There were a few spots in the book where I got a little teary eyed because my life at one point in time was exactly like her characters in the book. It was also depressing to me that Sasha would be so dumb to take Liam back each & everytime but hey truthfully that's what love does to us. Well anyways at some points I was impressed w/ the book and some parts I was bored w/ the book.