Customer Reviews

Where You Belong (Doubleday Direct Large Print)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(44)

 

 

I began skip reading this book after the first chapter - no character depth and the story just seem to jump around with no purpose or focus. This book along with most of her books in the past few years have none of the qualities of that wonderful novel...Woman of Substance. The books now just seems to be quick put togethers to keep the author's name on the book lists.

Thank heavens for libraries - would hate to be wasting good money on disappointing literature!

How about it, Barbara - don't you have another Woman of Substance waiting in wings!

I love Barbara Taylor Bradford. I hate this book! The ending was predictable. The plot was all over the place. There was nothing driving you to finish this book. Ms. Bradford's heroines are usually strong, intelligent women. The main character in this book came across as a whiner. I was disappointed.

After anxioiusly awaiting the publication of this book,I found it very disappointing. It appears that Ms. Bradford wrote this book merely for the money it would bring. I'm just happy that I got my copy from the public library and didn't actually buy it. The characters were predictable and I really didn't care what happened to them. I just skipped through the last few chapters. Your faithful readers need you to do better next time, Ms. Bradford. We need another Woman of Substance.

So sorry that the author who gave us Emma Harte and family presented so uninteresting and shallow characters in her eagerly awaited new novel. I found myself asking "why am I bothering?" There was no point where I really cared what happened next- which to me should not be something to think about when reading such an established writer. Disappointed at best,questionable at least. Whatever happened?

I have read and enjoyed Barbara Taylor Bradford's books in the past, and I eagerly anticipated the latest, Where You Belong. However, I was very disappointed--the writing was stilted, the storyline one dimensional, and the dialogue laughable. As I read, my constant thought was "did Barbara Taylor Bradford really write this book?" I felt as if I were reading a very bad freshman English 101 creative writing assignment.

After every book BTB writes, I think to myself "I have to wait a whole year for another chance to see if she writes any better" Well I'm not waiting any longer, and I'm certinly not spending my hard earned money that I purposly save to enjoy BTB's latest work. My family and friends all know what a huge fan I am (was), and would fight over who would by me the latest copy. They no longer will have that opputunity.

I have read all of BTB's books. I was very, very disappointed in this book. As with so many other devoted BTB fans, I felt that I should finish the book. I kept thinking it would get better. It never did. Thank goodness I did not buy this book.

I enjoyed the beginning of the book. The heroine, Val, in Kosovo, finding out her lover was married and finding a new relationship with Jake. THEN it just kind of fell apart. I didn't enjoy the shallow relationship with her brother (they don't speak for years and then he finds out she will give him the company and he LOVES her), the Angelique character, who SHOULD inherit Lowell's, but no one even thinks of trying to find, the brief flirtation with the artist (why? ), the goofy mother who is just left hanging, and her return to Kosovo, where she swore she did not want to go, to be with Jake. I thought there must be another cassette that was missing.

this book was so bad it was fun to read just to marvel at 1. the unbelievable plot; 2.the number of times the heroine mentions how bad her childhood was; 3. the incredibly bad soap-opera dialog between the mother & daughter; 4. the thousands of times the author tells us that her heroine was A WAR PHOTOGRAPHER! 5. the plot lines that go nowhere & are not resolved; 6. how this book ever got published.
this was the 1st book I've read of this author; I understand she has written better books, but I think plowing thru this one was enough for me.

I think this might be the worst book I have ever read. But I must admit I was never bored. It was so bad that I almost liked it.

I think one of the worst things is the annoying...I don't know what you call it...foreshadowing. The narrator says things like I didn't want to meet with her, but later I would find out how important our meeting would be." I wanted to scream "Stop telling me what is going to happen!"

The thing with the childhood didn't make sense to me. She wallows in so much self-pity. Why? A lot of people have a parent who doesn't love them. Yeah, that's very sad. But at least she had grandparents and a nanny who loved her. It doesn't sound like she was tortured or anything. Then when her mother gives her reason for her behavior, Val has no sympathy. That didn't make sense to me. I think she would be at least a tiny bit understanding.

What was the deal with kissing the painter? That seems really thrown in there.

I can't believe someone actually published this.