

First Sight
Author: Danielle Steel
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Abridged: 6 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/16/2013
Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Women
Author: Danielle Steel
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Abridged: 6 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/16/2013
Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Women
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel was born on August 14, 1947 in New York. Her father was a descendant of the Lowenbrau beer family and her mother was the daughter of a diplomat. She studied both literature and fashion design, first attending the Parsons School of Design and then New York University, graduating in 1967. Danielle Steel is currently the bestselling author alive today, and the fourth bestselling author of all time with over 650 million copies of her books sold. Steel has written 129 books, 93 of which were novels, primarily romance. Every one of her novels has achieved best seller status. She has been published in 69 countries and in 43 different languages. She has had 22 of her novels adapted for television movies and two of those received Golden Globe nominations. Danielle releases three new novels a year and works on multiple books at a time, often as many as five at once.
Steel has been married five times and although she is currently divorced, she is a strong believer in marriage and family. An only child, she discovered the joys of a big family as a child through one of her friends. She has nine children (seven biological and two stepsons that she has always considered her own) that are her greatest accomplishment. Her joy in life is her children and she speaks of them frequently on her website and her blog. Many of her books have been dedicated to one or more of her children. She was based in California for most of her career and now lives in both San Francisco and Paris.
This book is horribly written. She beats the reader over the head with her descriptions of the heroine--how noble and self-sacrificing she has been, her rotten childhood. Actually, she overdescribes everything, like Charles Dickens writing for a penny paper but without the need. Surely she doesn't g......more
Ok. This book took awhile to get around the blooming relationship and then the way she handled the situation of the last fifty-ish pages was just frustrating and not adult like at all. I don’t know. It rubbed me the wrong way. Decent story overall though.......more
Does Danielle Steele get paid by the word? There are so many passages and paragraphs that are redundant (especially in the first half), that I feel like Steele is just milking every extraneous description for the dollars she sees in her head. I could have edited out every other paragraph and this no......more
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