Customer Reviews

Jewels

5 star:		(25)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Absolutely one of my favorites by Danielle Steel! The main character is wonderfully portrayed as an intelligent, loving and faithful woman, even during the worst of times. This book reminds us how important family really is -- in the good times and the bad

Danielle Steel is so good at what she does and this book is no exception. She writes about a very passionate married couple who goes through many trials and tribulations only to be faced with shortcomings of one of their childern. That said, this book tells about how the wife literally wills her near death war inflicked husband back to life. She also, after his revival, births three more children to add to the first child (son) they had together and moves on to developing a career for herself and the family. Ergo, the title, Jewels, is about how she created an empire of jewelry that brought her fame and fortune. After a successful store of Jewelry in Paris, she moves on to open a store in New York and a couple other places. Before turning her business over to the grown children, she loses her husband (a veteran) to the military contracted illness. Nevertheless, this heroine pulls off a successful life for herself even after his death. If you love a love story, you absolutely must read this book.

This is my favorite book by far by Danielle Steel. She is wonderful! This book was long, but that's what I loved about it. I never wanted it to end. I cried at parts and I laughed at parts. I loved every bit of it. The one thing about her books is that as soon as you finish one of her books, you want to run out and get another by her right away! I always have a Danielle Steel book right next to me it seems! The bottom line is, if you read ANY Danielle Steel book, then read Jewels. It's absolutely wonderful.

This is the best book by Ms. Steel! I have just finished reading it and it was wonderful. What I liked best was the romance between the Duke and Duchess of Whitfield. The romance is so strong and loving! It shows you what true love really is. I want to see the movie now! This is the best book, so read it!

Danielle Steel is one of the few authors whose TV miniseries versions are better than the books themselves. Her characters are all rich, beautiful, smart, and somehow it's very difficult to care about these people's fates. Jewels proves to be no exception. Her characters seem cut out of cardboard boxes. The villains and villainesses are comic book caricatures, and the heroes and heroines are all beautiful, noble, intelligent, and selfless. In other words, quite unrealistic. I decided to read the book after watching the miniseries, but what a mistake that was.

This book took me away to another country, and era, that I never bothered with before. Sarah goes through some VERY difficult, depressing times, (even worse than some of MY life)!, I put it down several times,too sad. If you can get past the first 270 pages, the book finally gets happy. I was VERY pleased to see that the female lead in this book, SARAH, is a strong courageous woman, with INCREDIBLE faith. I like the fact that it takes you through most of her entire life, when her children grew up, I was amused at their uniqueness, yet "true to life" sameness, of their generation. You get to know everyone so well, it's as if you are a part of their lives, and you don't want the book to end. I enjoyed the last 1/3 of it VERY much, it was worth waiting for.

I loved Jewels so much I read it twice,It was touching how Sarah and William's loves lasted so long,and how they created a whole empire of jewels. It was supurb!!!! I would read it again.

So Danielle Steel is a NY Times bestseller, is she not? Unless you have been living in a cave for the last few decades, you know the name Danielle Steel. So I thought I would try reading one of her books. I chose the book with excellent reviews, 'Jewels'.

This book was impossible for me to read. Too many short sentences. Too little depth of character & plot & storyline. Boring. Disappointing. I won't be reading anymore of her books. I felt cheated from buying this one on my Kindle.

This story starts as Sarah Whitfield stands waiting for her children on the eve of her 75th birthday. We are then taken through the memory of her life.

Her first marriage to Freddie is a disaster as he regrets marrying her. finds her boring and is not ready for marriage anyway. Her parents take her on a trip round Europe when she divorces him to try and get over the trauma. When she gets to London she meets William, Duke of Whitfield. She falls in love with him and they buy a French chateau. When they are parted by war Sarah waits for Williams return and her chateau is taken over by the Germans, so she spends the war years living side by side with the Germans and befriends a commander.

We are taken through Sarah's 75 years and I preferred the first half of the book, ie pre war and war years to the second half ie after war. I found Sarah children completely unlikable, but then, I think there supposed to be. Especially Philip, what an ass. I thought Sarah was pretty shallow towards the end also, she didn't like her grand kids cause they were boring and pale skinned. She felt sorry for Philip because he had to have affairs because his wife was boring, much like Sarah with her first husband. Also it was ok for Emmanule to have an affair with minister because his wife was sick and they were doing no harm! For the first 2/3 s of this book, definitely 5 stars, last 1/3 3 stars.

Superbly written over five decades of love and loss and triumph. I especially like the history of WWII era and of course the European setting. Great Read...set aside some time for this one.