Mixed Blessings [Paperback]

Danielle Steel (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Delacorte Press; First Edition edition (November 1, 1992)
• ASIN: B001AVH91Q
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,107,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 590 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include 44 Charles Street, Legacy, Family Ties, Big Girl, Southern Lights, Matters of the Heart, One Day at a Time, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very real story to me, June 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Mixed Blessings (Hardcover)

I checked this book out of the library. I wasn't sure if I wanted to read it because at the time I was suffering through my own infertility. But once I started I was hooked. I could relate to Diana so easily, the heartache that occured at the same time each month, and the feeling that there was something wrong long before I went to any doctor. Like Diana, I too was able to overcome this problem, and now have two beautiful sons (our own biological children, too!) I didn't relate quite as well to the other couples, but did find their stories facinating as well. The research Danielle Steel did was very good except for one flaw - when Pillar had her miscarriage around New Year's she was back in getting another insemination done the next month -I also had this procedure done and doctors will not do this procedure for three months after a miscarriage. Also her discription of the procedure itself was a little different than mine. But excellent reading none the less!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Emotions, January 10, 2004

By 

Sara Swihart (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mixed Blessings (Mass Market Paperback)

"Mixed Blessings" follows couples who marry and face the question of whether they want to have children or not and how they overcome their infertility.

I really began to resent, and almost hate, Barbi. I thought that maybe Charlie hadn't really thought about the marriage completely before he married her, or perhaps he was hoping that she would settle down and change her mind.

However, I questioned why Pilar would want to have a child with Brad, considering that he is already 60. By the time the child graduates from high school, he would be pushing 80.

I think a lot of people will be able to relate to this book, considering 1 in 5 people will have difficulty conceiving. And I think that people can also relate to the characters on the basis of "What do I really want in life?"

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Blessings, July 22, 2002

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Mary Ellen Kok (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mixed Blessings (Hardcover)

This was a very poorly written book, reading more like a fertility manual than a novel. Danielle Steel leaves nothing for the readers imagination. We are told the same things over and over. Pilar doesn't want children, she never got along with her mother, she never had good family relationships, etc. In a very short period of time, she goes from being vehemently opposed to having children to going to a fertility specialist, receiving in vitro fertilization, miscarrying, repeating in vitro, becoming pregnant with twins, losing one baby, resolving conflicts with a step daughter, etc. Barb (Barbie, Barbara)does not want to have a child, her husband does, she is impregnated by some one else, tells Charlie after he has learned that he is sterile, divorces him, he finds a girl to marry who already has a child, and soon adopts a son from the same orphanage where he himself was raised. Diana and Andy are unable to conceive, miraculously adopt a baby available to them through an old aquaintance of Andy's, and immediately Diana becomes pregnant, and quickly repairs the dastardly relationship she has with her two sisters, who are walking baby factories.

While I am sure these problems present in any relationship would be major life events for most, there is no depth to any of the characters beyond these issues. They have no concern for anything other than their ability to produce babies. Their reactions to life events are consistently more dramatic than the average person in real life. Steel should spend time developing her characters and show us the real angst of couples who go through these challanging situations, rather than giving readers simplistic answers to very hard life events.