A Perfect Life: A Novel

My guilty secret is I love a good Danielle Steel book. This one cheered me as I nursed a cold, so I had time to read quickly. I fell in love with the three main characters. It’s a great read.

Totally enjoyed. A comfortable read that held my interest. Nothing dragged out! Well written. Have been reading Danielle SteeleFor many years.

Danielle steel has done it again! Another great story with a great ending. She never fails to put a twist on every day. Love!

Story about a 45 year old mother with a 18 year old deft daughter who had lived at a school for 11 years. Daughter helper who was living with her died with meningitis died, school shut down and daughter had to go home and live with mother. A male teacher who was 35 years old was sent with her to help her and teach her. Mother and teacher fell in love, but teacher had been in love with a married lady his own age in town where the school was located, When school reopened he went back to school to finish out his contract with school. The mother had gotten pregnant but didn't know it at the time when teacher left to go back to school. As it so happened, teacher did not go back to the married lady who had gotten divorced in the mean time, Mother had not planned to tell the teacher about the baby until it was borne because she thought the teacher was really in love with the other lady his own age. When the deft daughter had a concert with her singing. The teacher had finished at school and gotten a job in city where the mother and her daughter lived, the mother and him we reunited and lived together and had son. Story was heart warming and I gave it 5 stars.

I am an avid Danielle Steel fan, but I did not like this novel. One of the things that irked me was how repetitive she was. She treated her readers like we're dumb and can't follow a story because she felt the need to go into grand detail way too many times on simple points. Yes, we understood that Simon wanted to go back to Megan and see what could be done, but Ms. Steel kept drilling that point into our heads several times, along with Blaise's relationship with Andrew and the negative effect it had on her. It was too much and I got tired of reading the same thing over and over. The book was predictable as well. Duh, we knew Simon was gonna somehow change the lives of Blaise and Salima. Duh, we knew either Blaise and Simon or Salima and Simon were gonna fall in love. Duh, we knew Blaise was became pregnant by Simon when Ms. Steel pressed the point that they had sex without contraception and that Blaise just kneeew she wasn't gonna get pregnant because of her age. That was a dead ringer that even with her age, she'd end up pregnant. And duh, we knew Simon would end up going back to Blaise. What would have been a real surprise or a real twist in the story is if Susie Q would have really taken Blaise's spot. Not to say I was rooting for that, but it at least would have added some shock to the story because Danielle Steel made Blaise McCarthy such a perfectly perfect goddess who was so perfect that she couldn't be any more perfect, we wouldn't have thought that she would be knocked off her throne. Overall, I was not impressed with this novel. I only finished it because I paid for it. It was dragging and boring and repetitive.

From the very beginning I was taken into the lives of Blaise,Simon and Salima. Blaise is a very successful morning TV host and in order to keep her show she had to work extremely hard and forfeited a lot including sending her 8 year old daughter to a school away from home due to the fact that she went blind at that.age and Blaise's marriage failed.Due to Salima's caregiver, Abby, taking ill and dying Blaise had to take Salina to stay at home. A new caregiver was sent home with her. They were not happy about it to start with be cause it was a male caregiver but in no time he proved his worth in gold as he got Salima to become independent and to follow her passion to sing.Simon returned to the school for the blind where he was a teacher in the country but soon released that wanted to be in New York with Blaise and Salima.I enjoyed the story and could picture each character, place and situation..

" A Perfect Life" ... ReviewI absolutely loved the book....I loved it from the very start... Danielle Steel has a way of introducing characters that warm your heart & you feel you could personally know them.... Loved the storyline too.... Great read.... Quick too...😊

As a teacher of blind kids, it was a little hard at times to read this book. The use of the word "stick" (for the long white cane that blind people use) drove me nuts even though it was only used once (so far) near the front of the book. The need of a caretaker for a blind girl, even one with diabetes, is so demeaning and old fashioned that it was torture for me to read the first part of the book. I will finish it, because it's Danielle Steel and I've read just about all of her books. I just wish someone from the board of National Federation of the Blind could have contributed to this book, before it was published. Her books are usually very well researched.

story went kinda expectable plot.

Danielle Steel tem o peder de prender, surpreender e agradar o leitor que escolhe seus livros. Já li uns 20 ou mais e nem sei qual foi o melhor. Adorei o livro e já recomendei a todos meus amigos

Even only one third of total pages was read, I can explect very dramatic story will be. I referred to New York Times ranking of p,aperbacks.

Another can't put down Danielle Steel book never disappointed with her books .look forward to my next read sure it will be as great

Nice story