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Secrets

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Danielle Steel's "Secrets" is a story that focusses on several people who all want to succeed in the Hollywood movie industry. These people are all very different but they have this same ambition in common and also the fact that they are all involved in a new TV series that everyone is convinced will take the world by storm.

"Secrets" is a story about what people will sacrifice for Hollywood and the lies that they will tell to further their own careers in the movie industry.

The good things about this book is how the characters develop throughout it and that they all have such different personalities. I also enjoyed the romance element of the book as well.

My main criticism of this book is that the plot was fairly predictable in places. Other than that though, I enjoyed reading this book.

All in all, I found this book a enjoyable book to read.

i love danielle steel! i`ve read ALL of her books so far.but secrets was a big disappointment to me.as far as i am concerned,ms.steel tried to change her style of writing in this book more to the kind of judith krantz or jackie collins (some explicit "parts" i didn`t like at all).simply NOT the danielle steel we like. the story itselfs is ok(gives the readers some "insights" behind the scenes of hollywood)but....
some of her books i`ve read over and over again. i am not going to touch secrets for a second time,however.

This is such a great read! Can't pass it up. Reminds me a lot of jackie collins. This story is so much fun. It has so many surprises...I think you'll be shocked, not predictable.

Danielle Steel is my favorite author and I have read a lot of her books. Although, it was predictable, is still was a page turner. If you like romantic hollywood novels this book is for you. You will read about, Jane, a woman who realizes she is married to a horny drunk, Zachory, who hasn't been with a woman in years; Bill, who is secretly married to a former actress who is now a drug addict; Gabrielle, who is not what she seems; and Sabina, the famous movie actor who seems like perfection to everyone around her but in the end she like everyone else is hiding her own secret.

I stopped reading Danielle Steele long ago because I felt like I was reading the same book over & over. This was on the bottom of my "to read" pile & I decided to read it. It was the same ole, same ole, story line that DS is famous for. I like more character development. Also, I don't really care for seeing into the minds of shallow, selfish and petty people. Why anyone would fall in love with Bill in this book is beyond me. Gabby does even though he treats her horribly then has a total turn-around & lo & behold they are in love. How a stay-at-home mom can all of the sudden decide to totally leave her kids with a psycho dad was also weird to me. Several of the other "life situations" for the other characters had a false ring to them.

I was looking at some books by Steel and ran across this one and remember I've read this one in my 10th grade year in high school. I don't remember exactly what it's about...I remember that the main charcter gets blamed for murdering his wife...they were going through some rough times at that point and he found it hard to deal with. He goes to trial and while all this is going on he is in soap opera bussiness. Obiously if I rememberd this story from 3 years ago it must have been pretty good. And it is.

This book as with all of Danielle Steel books kept my interest and I loved it.. Putting it down was the hard part...
I believe anyone that has time on their hands get this book...
Linda Crawford

The characters, the storyline, a takeoff on the Dynasty/Falcon Crest /Knots Landing type tv shows.The tv movie was quite good also but enjoyed the book more.

Perfect summer easy reading!! My pet peeve with Ms. Steele is her constant repetitions, not sure if it's a word requirement thing or she may not realize what she does.
This book happily does not grate on the nerves in that respect.For me at least her characterizations are the best of any author I have read, that is what keeps me coming back for 25 years now.

Secrets is a great, steamy read!!! Mor along the Hollywood lines, this one is superb!!!!! I read it in 2 days and I would read it again.

This is typical Danielle Steele and I loved it all the characters and how the lives came together on the set of that show was great.