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Special Delivery (Windsor Selections)

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3 star:		(5)
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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.

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.

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.

Not necesarilly the most serious piece of fiction on the market. But since when is fiction supposed to be serious?

The emotions of loneliness are deeply explored in Danielle Steele's novel Special Delivery. And they are done quite well. But who would figure that a party would kindle a romance between the newly widowed Amanda and a long time bachelor, Jack? And oh what different personalities between Amanda and Jack. The main thing they have in common is the family connection from each of their former spouses to their children and children in law.

Some soap opera like trials and tribulations occur between Jack and Amanda and their children that rival the stuff you might witness on One Life To Live and All My Children. You cannot take the novel so seriously. But somehow there are enough twists and turns to keep most audiences at least remotely intrigued. Its short length of 229 pages makes it an amusing light read instead of a long drawn out bore.

This book was terrific! I could not put the book down and had to read it all in one day! Danielle Steel is a terrific author and really knows how to write her books! This book made me want to cry inside, get angry at some of the characters,and even laugh outloud! I absolutely recemond this book!

Cardboard characters; weak, transparent plot. This is the second Steel book I have read - never again. Stupid problems solved within pages (with much hand wringing). At one point, Author has main character sitting up all night discussing their interests ... would have been nice for reader to learn what these people were interested in, so we could care more about them.

I read Special Delivery in a few hours-only about 200 pages. It was a very light read. The characters are pretty much one-dimensional. The plot was also pretty predictable with everything working out just fine in the end. It's a nice book to pick up if you have some time to spare and want to read something that's not too taxing, but don't expect any earth-shattering revelations in this one

I never read Danielle Steel before in my life, because I thought most of the plots she had in her books were too mushy and boring. God knows what made me interested in this book. The first few chapters go slow, but when Jack and Amanda get together, all the excitment begins. 'Special Delivery' is a very emotional story and is a lot of fun to read if you like love stories. As a seventeen year old girl, I thought, after reading this book, that it is okay to be ages sixty and fifty, and still act twenty years younger. After all, life is short, right? : ) The only annoying fact in this book is that almost everytime Jack and Amanda see each other, they always end up in bed with each other as if the world is going to end within a second. On the other hand, the book is nothing, but a wonderfully cute love story with strong emotion and feelings.

After 26 years of marriage, Amanda Robbins become unexpectedly widowed. She stayed at home in a depressed state for a few years afraid to give up the memory of her late husband. One day, her daughter talked her into going to a Hollywood party and she finally gave in. Amanda had been a famous actress before and knew lots of people at the party. The party gave her a jumpstart on her lost social life plus she met a new man named Jack Watson, who was the father of her son-in-law. Jack was a boutique owner in Beverly Hills and was a swinging bachelor with a bad reputation. Amanda soon found him to be a charming gentleman. As the story progresses Amanda and Jack fall in love and then one day they have suprising news to give to their family...

I thought this was one of the smaller novels that Danielle Steel was able to actually pull off. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan, it's just that about half of her smaller books aren't worth the reading time. This one though I really enjoyed. I think it was just the overall story & the characters. If you're looking for a quick love story I'd recommend The Gift & Five Days in Paris. Those are both great reads as well.