Book Review

Worthy Opponents by Danielle Steel

I’m trying to read books by authors I haven’t before. I picked up a Danielle Steel at a book sale this summer.

I don’t know if this is representative of her writing or not. It’s not one of her most popular novels, so I won’t generalize my thoughts on this book to her work in general.

Fifty pages of backstory open the tale. Fifty pages. Five-zero. It’s backstory covering multiple generations of the female main character’s family. Then, there’s a few more pages of the male main character’s personal history.

Y’all, I nearly cried. I wanted to finish the book for the sake of finishing it, but I didn’t want because I was bored.

Backstory is great to have, in your notes. You can even have your characters discuss pertinent life events and work it into the story that way.

The novel improved from there. It didn’t exactly motivate me to read anything else by Danielle Steel. Should I give her another try? Is this just one bad book? What would you recommend?

OR

Are they all like this?