Special Delivery (Paragon Softcover Large Print Books) [Import] [Paperback]

Danielle Steel (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C; Large Print Ed edition (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0754021718
• ISBN-13: 978-0754021711
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,730,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not one of her best, March 27, 2002

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Deanna Hockey (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Special Delivery (Hardcover)

I have been reading Danielle Steel's books for over 15 years now. Sometimes they do get a bit "all the same" with most of the characters being important, successful, beautiful people who live in "stately homes" and wear "important jewels and furs". Sometimes I think the characters are more about what they have then who they are. Despite this, I always enjoy her books - they are easy to read, romantic and make you forget about everyday life for a couple of hours while engrossed in the book. Personally I think her earlier books are more enjoyable and get more involved in the characters than some of the later books she has written.
A book full of the "beautiful people". This one was predictable, kind of boring and I hated her children ... they were so immature and spiteful. I would definately recommend "Thurston House", "Palomino" or "Rememberance" over this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The same tale told everytime - much worse this time..., August 5, 2000

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Marco Aurelio - See all my reviews

This review is from: Special Delivery (Hardcover)

A book by Danielle Steel is always a book with the Danielle Steel brand, as if you were seeing a "TM" or a R inside of a circle by the side of her name. You go to the bookshop and choose your book by her like you choose your favorite brand of candies.

As a male fan, I have to say that her new books have been seeming fairly trite to me. Books like SPECIAL DELIVERY, for example, are the kind of ones that she seem to write only to make money. The plot of the book is poor, with no deep characters and no deep insight on the plot itself. I think she'll never write a book like THE RING, MALICE or THURSTON HOUSE anymore. They now seem to me like things from a far past. These books have all the elements that her latest ones don't: a real good story, with characters that seem to make part of your life that you miss when finish the book.

When I read a new book by Danielle Steel, what I feel now is that she has forgotten how to write a good bestseller. Even in good new ones, like The Long Road Home, what she's being doing most is a big and boring melodrama (although in that one the reader can see a little bit of good plot). And that's what she's done with that terrible book, that revolves around a couple that begins hating themselves and then loving each other more than life. Have you ever perceived how Danielle Steel makes even bretrayl and cheating seem to be a good, right and excellent thing to be done? That's a reason why I like her: the gift to persuade the reader and turn a bad thing into a good one. But it seems as she's now deceiving her readers too much. Her present books are not up to her best ones. Not the ones like the boring SPECIAL DELIVERY, anyway. A book that I finished reading only because it has just a few pages. One page more and I would scream. Terrible, boring and dull. The kind of book that means nothing, as if you were reading blank pages. I think she should return to the road where she once was.

Marco Aurelio.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very sweet, April 19, 2005

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D. Seymour (Germany, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Special Delivery (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the frist book of Danielle Steels I have read. I usually dont read romance, but I did enjoy this. Its not overly mushie and was actually very sweet and charming. As I read the book it was almost as if I was watching a movie of it. It was very believeal and left me with some laughs and a lot of smiles.