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Miracle

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I have to agree with the first reviewer. While Miracle was better than Impossible by far. It didn't wow me either. The story of three main characters Quinn,Jack, and Maggie. Each in their own way trying fight their own personal battles. Basically this story is about love, redemption and renewal. If you are looking for a nice pleasant read this is it.

I sat and read this book by the pool and finished it in a day. It left me with no great opinion. While it was good enough to keep my attention...I cant say it was really great.

I tried as hard as I could but just could not get into this book. Not quite as bad as her book, "Impossible," but close. Danielle Steel is getting so repetitive in her writing. Basically, this book repeated over and over how much Quinn liked sailing and how he neglected his wife throughout the years and that he didn't realize how much she meant to him until she was dying/dead. Drivel. She could have elaborated on what was supposedly the storm of the century but ended it quickly or expanded on the characters themselves, but no. A waste of time. Very hard to get through as there really is nothing there to get into at all. Disappointing, to say the least.

Quinn Thompson is still trying get over the death of his wife when he meet Maggie Dartman after a violent storm one night. But Maggie is also dealing with pain and lost. But these two people are drawn together over their love for sailing. But Quinn is determined to move on and out of Maggie's life.
"Miracle" by Danielle Steel is the first book that I have read form Ms. Steel in a long while, and it was sweet for me. It seem that Ms. Steel just kept driving home her point when she didn't have to. If you want to read some good Steel books, check out her earlier works and not "Miracle."

Wonderful story and captures your attention right away. Life is too short to read a bad book and the older I get (58) the less time I spend reading a book that is not interesting. Her writing is always great and this was no exception.

I've read almost all of Danielle Steele's books and have enjoyed them. This one was a big disappointment. Boring, blah, takes forever to get thru the introduction of characters,what were you thinking Danielle?

After I read Echoes, which was horrible, I wanted to give up on reading any more Danielle Steel books. They are not what they used to be. I guess that's what happens when you're releasing 2 or 3 books a year. Against my better judgement, I read Impossible, which was just as bad as Echoes. I read Miracle with the hope that Ms. Steel had gotten back on track. I was wrong.

The book is just under 200 pages but could have been told in 50. The first 40 pages are devoted to narrative that tells us repeatedly that Quinn Thompson loves sailing and he's extremely guilty about how he ignored his now dead wife and children while making his fortune. Over and over we read how devoted his wife had been to him and how she never complained about him never being home. Over and over we read how he ignored his children, one of which was tragically killed when he was 13, and how the other wants nothing to do with him now.

After a huge storm hits the San Francisco area, Quinn becomes friends with Jack who he hires to help make repairs on his house. He learns that Jack can't read, so of course, he teaches him. He also becomes friends with his next door neighbor, Maggie, a teacher who is recently divorced and whose son committed suicide when he was 16. The three have dinner together every Friday night. Quinn talks about his love of sailing and charters a boat one day and takes Jack and Maggie with him. Over time, Quinn and Maggie become a couple, Quinn charters the boat for the summer and they spend a great deal of time on it. Maggie encourages Quinn to call his daughter, Alex, and try to patch things up. They settle their problems too quickly to make it believable when Quinn offers to take Alex's two sons sailing for 3 weeks.

Quinn tells Maggie from the start that he is leaving when the boat he is having built is completed. He feels he owes it to his wife to lead a solitary life and think about how he messed everything up. Maggie goes along with this until the day comes that he leaves. She asks to come with him and even though he admits he loves her, he refuses to bring her with.

Maggie tries to pick up her life and goes back to teaching. Meanwhile, Quinn and his crew are caught in a violent storm and don't think they will get through it. During the storm, Quinn sees Maggie's face in the waves and sees it as a sign. I won't ruin the ending, but you can probably guess what happens.

I cannot recommend this book. I have read these recent books of Ms. Steel's with the slim hope that she would return to writing like she used to. I have now come to the conclusion that she will never return to the quality she was once at, and I for one, will no longer be purchasing any future books.

I have read every book of Steel's. Some of her books are no more than a long, short story. This one fits that bill. The book is small and the print is large.

This book is all about a widowed man who has a passion for sailing. Everything about him revolves around sailing. He tells everyone he meets about sailing and his boat. Did I mention how much he enoys sailing? It becomes redundent. We get it. Move on.

Guess its nice to be so rich and not have to write substantial material anymore. At least save your money and check the book out from the library. I paid .50 for a "hold fee". I think it was worth .25 !!

While this was nowhere near as bad as IMPOSSIBLE, this was just boring and very repetitive.

And the end - the storm - wasn't that in Bittersweet? A storm on a yacht and the hero comes to claim the heroine??

I have read Danielle Steel for half my life now.....named my daughter after her....but I long for the day when I can say "She's BACK!"

Although the story was somewhat predictable, it was a heartwarming account that left me feeling lost for the characters when I finished. I enjoyed this quick read.