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Bungalow 2: A Novel
Danielle Steel takes us beyond the dazzle of Hollywood in her compelling new novel—the story of one woman’s journey from suburban mom to award-winning screenwriter...and all the joy, heartbreak, and challenges along the way.
Bungalow 2
The phone call came on a hot July day—a day like any other for Marin County mom and freelance writer Tanya Harris. But this call—from Tanya’s agent—was anything but ordinary, offering a once-in-a-lifetime the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, a dream she had put aside long ago to devote her energies to her family. This time, Tanya knows she cannot refuse, even though she’s torn about leaving her husband and their daughters. From the moment she steps into her lush bungalow at the fabled Beverly Hills Hotel, Tanya is thrust into an intoxicating new world where she feels reborn—energized by the creativity swirling around her—yet the pull of her family at home is strong.
Suddenly she’s working alongside A-list actors and a Hollywood Oscar-winning producer Douglas Wayne, a man who always gets what he wants–and who seems to have his sights set on her. Flying home between shoots, struggling to reconnect with a family that seems to need her less and less, Tanya watches helplessly as her old life is pulled out from under her in the most crushing of ways.
As her two lives collide, as one award-winning film leads to another, Tanya begins to wonder if she can be a wife, a mother, and a writer at the same time. And just as she confronts the toughest choice she has faced, she is offered another dazzling opportunity—one that could recast her story in an amazing new direction, complete with an ending she never could have written herself.
In Bungalow 2 , Danielle Steel takes us into a world few ever see—a world of fame and fortune, celebrity and genius–daring to show us the real lives, real dreams, and real struggles hidden beneath the flash and glitter of Hollywood.
Bungalow 2
The phone call came on a hot July day—a day like any other for Marin County mom and freelance writer Tanya Harris. But this call—from Tanya’s agent—was anything but ordinary, offering a once-in-a-lifetime the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, a dream she had put aside long ago to devote her energies to her family. This time, Tanya knows she cannot refuse, even though she’s torn about leaving her husband and their daughters. From the moment she steps into her lush bungalow at the fabled Beverly Hills Hotel, Tanya is thrust into an intoxicating new world where she feels reborn—energized by the creativity swirling around her—yet the pull of her family at home is strong.
Suddenly she’s working alongside A-list actors and a Hollywood Oscar-winning producer Douglas Wayne, a man who always gets what he wants–and who seems to have his sights set on her. Flying home between shoots, struggling to reconnect with a family that seems to need her less and less, Tanya watches helplessly as her old life is pulled out from under her in the most crushing of ways.
As her two lives collide, as one award-winning film leads to another, Tanya begins to wonder if she can be a wife, a mother, and a writer at the same time. And just as she confronts the toughest choice she has faced, she is offered another dazzling opportunity—one that could recast her story in an amazing new direction, complete with an ending she never could have written herself.
In Bungalow 2 , Danielle Steel takes us into a world few ever see—a world of fame and fortune, celebrity and genius–daring to show us the real lives, real dreams, and real struggles hidden beneath the flash and glitter of Hollywood.
448 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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Danielle Steel
986 books17.1k followersDanielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's bestselling authors, with almost a billion copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include All That Glitters, Royal, Daddy's Girls, The Wedding Dress, The Numbers Game, Moral Compass, Spy, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; Expect a Miracle, a book of her favorite quotations for inspiration and comfort; Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.
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August 21, 2008
I just started reading this book last night. I got it becuase it sounded like an interesting plot. Who doesn't want to read about the rich glamourous life of celebrities? So far it's been a let down. I don't know if I can finish it. I got about 100 pages in but it took me about 3 hours to do it, because, it does not keep my attention at all. I think (so far) it has been poorly written. I don't need to read about how much she loves being a housewife or how good her sex life is 20 times a chapter, tell me once and I'll believe you. You don't have to keep repeating everything. So far it's been very repetitive and boring. I don't know if I'll finish it but I may try if I have nothing better to do.
OK, I actually finished the book (it took a LOT of will-power). It never got better. Don't waste your time with this one.
OK, I actually finished the book (it took a LOT of will-power). It never got better. Don't waste your time with this one.
January 6, 2009
Okay, could DS get anymore predictable??? All of her books have the heroine lose love, find love, lose love, live happily ever after. I got bored with this book, but kept reading for lack of something else to read.....I think I'm done with her.
January 7, 2009
two words for you... Danielle Steel sucks rocks in a big way. So that was more than two words, but well... she freaking does. I bought this for a quick beach read and realized that I've never read DS before. And now I know why... because she's retarded. I absolutely hate the way this woman writes... beat a dead horse much? I'm retarded for buying it - even with the 40% off. I will gladly pay you to take it off my hands... else it will end up as starter wood in our chiminea.
November 11, 2022
Dnf.
I finally decide to give up on Steel’s books for now. They’re just the same thing over and over… they are a straight up copy paste.
I finally decide to give up on Steel’s books for now. They’re just the same thing over and over… they are a straight up copy paste.
May 5, 2025
"Sin necesidad de sorprender o de tener nada extraordinario, logra resultar entretenido. Se puede intuir el rumbo que tomará la trama y, a pesar de ello, da curiosidad saber cómo irán reaccionando los personajes. Lo mejor es lo bien tratado que está el dilema inicial, y lo que más decepciona es la manera en la que la autora fuerza determinadas situaciones para obtener un tipo de final concreto. No es inolvidable, pero está bien como distracción".
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September 20, 2016
Quite the roller coaster ride, this story. Parts I could barley stand interspersed with enough good points to hold my interest to the end. 6 of 10 stars
January 15, 2011
In the interest of not beating a dead horse or only repeating the same monotony complaint other reviewers have covered - I'd rather talk about the other problems with this book. Not to say it wasn't monotonous (it was) and that alone made it a 'scan' read. A book you don't read every single word on the page but rather scan paragraphs for some dialogue or action that is doing the job of moving the story forward.
Tanya the perfect mother and wife has the perfect husband. And he encourages her to go live out her perfect fantasy in her perfect career. (Rest assured all of the perfects are told to you painstakingly again and again) He assures her he has things under control. Step one for disbelief when Steel sets this same husband up to fall into her best friends arms within three months of her being gone. My husband and I have a similar (though not perfect because it is reality) relationship as this couple. He went to work out of country for nine months and I was okay. I know without a shadow of a doubt in a reverse situation, I would not come home to find him sleeping with my best friend. Especially in such a short time span. So stop telling us it was perfect and start explaining to your reader how the marriage had actually broken down. Give us some real reasons to believe that this man would do this. Don't just make one of the main plot elements completely out of character for your characters with no reasoning. And the only reasoning to progress this plot was the big C. Really? That is the best you can do after all these years Ms Steel?
Furthermore, Tanya's first boyfriend didn't like kids. We all got that drilled repeatedly into our thoughts. But her kids were not kids. Not even close. They were all three in college! That is young adults. What man would be too frightened to relate to them at all? I mean he couldn't even carry on a conversation with them? This suave, debonair, classy man whom works with young actors and actresses all the time, could not make a normal conversation with two college kids when they attempted to start one? That doesn't even make sense. At all.
Predictable. Sappy. Over told. Repeated. Could forgive all those faults, might even enjoy some sap. Can not forgive how you just built a story to do everything you wanted it to do but did not build your characters or their reality into the plot at all.
Bungalow 2 is the biggest fail I've ever read from Danielle Steel. And this is sad because some of her earlier work was pure magic. But readers reading this for the first time would never be inspired to read the real Danielle Steel. I even asked myself if this was a bad ghostwriter. I can't believe this is from the same author to give us Kalidescope and Thurston House.
Tanya the perfect mother and wife has the perfect husband. And he encourages her to go live out her perfect fantasy in her perfect career. (Rest assured all of the perfects are told to you painstakingly again and again) He assures her he has things under control. Step one for disbelief when Steel sets this same husband up to fall into her best friends arms within three months of her being gone. My husband and I have a similar (though not perfect because it is reality) relationship as this couple. He went to work out of country for nine months and I was okay. I know without a shadow of a doubt in a reverse situation, I would not come home to find him sleeping with my best friend. Especially in such a short time span. So stop telling us it was perfect and start explaining to your reader how the marriage had actually broken down. Give us some real reasons to believe that this man would do this. Don't just make one of the main plot elements completely out of character for your characters with no reasoning. And the only reasoning to progress this plot was the big C. Really? That is the best you can do after all these years Ms Steel?
Furthermore, Tanya's first boyfriend didn't like kids. We all got that drilled repeatedly into our thoughts. But her kids were not kids. Not even close. They were all three in college! That is young adults. What man would be too frightened to relate to them at all? I mean he couldn't even carry on a conversation with them? This suave, debonair, classy man whom works with young actors and actresses all the time, could not make a normal conversation with two college kids when they attempted to start one? That doesn't even make sense. At all.
Predictable. Sappy. Over told. Repeated. Could forgive all those faults, might even enjoy some sap. Can not forgive how you just built a story to do everything you wanted it to do but did not build your characters or their reality into the plot at all.
Bungalow 2 is the biggest fail I've ever read from Danielle Steel. And this is sad because some of her earlier work was pure magic. But readers reading this for the first time would never be inspired to read the real Danielle Steel. I even asked myself if this was a bad ghostwriter. I can't believe this is from the same author to give us Kalidescope and Thurston House.
October 4, 2015
Tanya Harris is a forty-something mother and homemaker, and a part time, moderately successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. She is still beautiful, with stable, happy teenagers, a fulfilling and sexually active marriage, a career she loves, and no desire for any other life.
Then her agent calls with an offer that's very hard to refuse: a major director wants her and her alone for a new high profile film. Tanya's first reaction is distress -- her daughters are just starting their senior year, how can she leave them, even if she could be home on weekends? Her long and detailed deliberations are cut short by her attorney husband, who convinces her that this is her big opportunity, and she goes off to Hollywood reluctantly to find that everything about Bungalow 2 at the Beverly Hills Hotel is perfect. She's cosseted in every possible way by her director and producer, she takes to the work immediately and without a hitch, she learns to appreciate room service and the luxurious perks that come her way. But she misses her family. The weekend trips home aren't enough, and her worries turn out to be well founded when her husband falls prey to a lonely neighbor.
Steel follows Tanya as she copes with the disappointment and pain of separation and divorce, all the time pushing ahead with her screenwriting career, always returning to Bungalow 2 when she starts a new project. A series of relationships, each seriously flawed, result in an epiphany that sends her back home, where what she was looking for comes to find her. Steel's characters spend a lot of time debating and contemplating problems, and Tanya is especially good at wringing her hands, a modern day and forlorn Dorothy torn between Oz and Kansas.
Then her agent calls with an offer that's very hard to refuse: a major director wants her and her alone for a new high profile film. Tanya's first reaction is distress -- her daughters are just starting their senior year, how can she leave them, even if she could be home on weekends? Her long and detailed deliberations are cut short by her attorney husband, who convinces her that this is her big opportunity, and she goes off to Hollywood reluctantly to find that everything about Bungalow 2 at the Beverly Hills Hotel is perfect. She's cosseted in every possible way by her director and producer, she takes to the work immediately and without a hitch, she learns to appreciate room service and the luxurious perks that come her way. But she misses her family. The weekend trips home aren't enough, and her worries turn out to be well founded when her husband falls prey to a lonely neighbor.
Steel follows Tanya as she copes with the disappointment and pain of separation and divorce, all the time pushing ahead with her screenwriting career, always returning to Bungalow 2 when she starts a new project. A series of relationships, each seriously flawed, result in an epiphany that sends her back home, where what she was looking for comes to find her. Steel's characters spend a lot of time debating and contemplating problems, and Tanya is especially good at wringing her hands, a modern day and forlorn Dorothy torn between Oz and Kansas.
December 25, 2020
МОЖЕ ДА СЪДЪРЖА СПОЙЛЕРИ
По принцип тази авторка не ме привлича да я чета, но книгата ме изкуши, понеже е за писателка. Само че се разочаровах много от нея. Дочетох я по диагонал и пак разбрах за какво се разказва. Подробно, разказвателно и по много пъти е повторено едно и също нещо. Как Таня е съвършената съпруга, отдадена на семейството си, колко се обичат, но тя е убедена от мъжа си да замине за Лос Анджелис да пише сценарий за филм. Колко сълзи ронеше, че не може да ги вижда и всичко това по няколко пъти описано. Ами то, ако брака ѝ беше толкова съвършен, мъжът ѝ нямаше да я изостави още на третия месец от отсъствието ѝ от къщи. Тя така е разглезила съпруга си и трите си деца, че те са свикнали да е наоколо постоянно и да им слугува. Само че животът в Ел Ей е бляскав и пълен със звезди, актьори и известни личности, а Питър решава, че жена му няма да пожелае да се върне в семейното гнездо. Почти до края на книгата се разказваше за любовния живот на Таня, отношението на децата ѝ, колко ѝ е мъчно за Питър, какво правила, къде ходила, с кого била, с кой как се чувствала, колко се разочаровала… да не продължавам, че и на вас ще досадя. Няма как на тази книга, която явно не е минала никаква редакция, да дам повече от една звезда. Не си струва прочитането й, дори и заради един-два по-интересни моменти. Като скалъпена ми се видя, а героите извършват много нелепи постъпки и действия.
По принцип тази авторка не ме привлича да я чета, но книгата ме изкуши, понеже е за писателка. Само че се разочаровах много от нея. Дочетох я по диагонал и пак разбрах за какво се разказва. Подробно, разказвателно и по много пъти е повторено едно и също нещо. Как Таня е съвършената съпруга, отдадена на семейството си, колко се обичат, но тя е убедена от мъжа си да замине за Лос Анджелис да пише сценарий за филм. Колко сълзи ронеше, че не може да ги вижда и всичко това по няколко пъти описано. Ами то, ако брака ѝ беше толкова съвършен, мъжът ѝ нямаше да я изостави още на третия месец от отсъствието ѝ от къщи. Тя така е разглезила съпруга си и трите си деца, че те са свикнали да е наоколо постоянно и да им слугува. Само че животът в Ел Ей е бляскав и пълен със звезди, актьори и известни личности, а Питър решава, че жена му няма да пожелае да се върне в семейното гнездо. Почти до края на книгата се разказваше за любовния живот на Таня, отношението на децата ѝ, колко ѝ е мъчно за Питър, какво правила, къде ходила, с кого била, с кой как се чувствала, колко се разочаровала… да не продължавам, че и на вас ще досадя. Няма как на тази книга, която явно не е минала никаква редакция, да дам повече от една звезда. Не си струва прочитането й, дори и заради един-два по-интересни моменти. Като скалъпена ми се видя, а героите извършват много нелепи постъпки и действия.
May 23, 2014
Este libro había empezado a leerlo hacía dos años, y lo dejé sin motivo. En ese momento, me gustaba. Lo cierto es, que varias cosas han pasado en mi vida y cuando leí nuevamente las páginas de esta historia, descubrí que ya no me agradaba. Me recordaba una situación personal muy triste, y llegó un punto en el que odié a la protagonista, los hechos, y todo lo demás. La historia en sí no es mala. Es realista y factible. Una mujer casada y con hijos que tiene la posibilidad de ampliar sus horizontes en su trabajo. Eso afecta a su hogar, por supuesto. Las cosas se dan de forma previsible, y tal vez sea eso lo que me causó una profunda angustia. El que para mí fuera previsible, dado que ya lo había vivido.
Luego de los sucesos que me tuvieron sin leer durante varios días, retomé el libro y continué leyendo para poder reseñarlo. Odio dejar un libro por la mitad. De otro modo, no puedo ser verdaderamente crítica y justa al tiempo de opinar sobre él. Por ende, continué. Hubieron partes que me gustaron. Otras, no. Habían cosas que ocurrían demasiado rápido, y particularmente no me agradaron. Si bien es una historia de vida y de superación luego de un desengaño, YO no lo habría manejado de esa forma; por ende, me resulta un poco chocante verlo en un libro. Es extraño, lo sé, pero con esta historia me pasaron demasiadas cosas.
No fue uno de los libros de Danielle Steel que más me ha gustado. No volvería a leerlo, de hecho. Pero creo que muchas mujeres podrían sentirse identificadas con algunas cosas, y podría ayudarlas con algunas decisiones difíciles. Conmigo lo hizo.
Luego de los sucesos que me tuvieron sin leer durante varios días, retomé el libro y continué leyendo para poder reseñarlo. Odio dejar un libro por la mitad. De otro modo, no puedo ser verdaderamente crítica y justa al tiempo de opinar sobre él. Por ende, continué. Hubieron partes que me gustaron. Otras, no. Habían cosas que ocurrían demasiado rápido, y particularmente no me agradaron. Si bien es una historia de vida y de superación luego de un desengaño, YO no lo habría manejado de esa forma; por ende, me resulta un poco chocante verlo en un libro. Es extraño, lo sé, pero con esta historia me pasaron demasiadas cosas.
No fue uno de los libros de Danielle Steel que más me ha gustado. No volvería a leerlo, de hecho. Pero creo que muchas mujeres podrían sentirse identificadas con algunas cosas, y podría ayudarlas con algunas decisiones difíciles. Conmigo lo hizo.
February 21, 2008
Started it on vacation and still reading, but like it. DS is one of my 3 favorite fiction authors, so of course I like it ;)
Update: a good read. Ending was a little disappinting - more than half the book was spent on detailing the main character's life, but then the pace changed and the last part, where the character was really being challenged, seemed rushed, to the point that I wondered if a publisher's deadline has snuck up on the author. Ending was fine, I just would have preferred as much detail/story development with the last part as was given to the first part, even if the first part had been shortened.
Update: a good read. Ending was a little disappinting - more than half the book was spent on detailing the main character's life, but then the pace changed and the last part, where the character was really being challenged, seemed rushed, to the point that I wondered if a publisher's deadline has snuck up on the author. Ending was fine, I just would have preferred as much detail/story development with the last part as was given to the first part, even if the first part had been shortened.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 10, 2009
This was the first book I've read in my lifetime that I wanted to return to the store for a refund. I also contemplated burning it to spare others the agony of picking it up and reading it. The characters were shallow and self-centered, but the worst was the doormat mentality of the "heroine" in the story. Danielle Steel should be ashamed of herself for offering up the same tired storyline in every book and selling it to the gullible. I would give this book a negative five stars if Goodreads would allow it.
July 11, 2011
okay. after reading this, what i really said was "WHAT WAS THAT?"
i mean, i've come to love danielle steel but this one really disappointed me. i would have loved it if she stopped the story when Tanya broke up with Douglas Wayne, but instead, she continued the story and introduced to more boys to Tanya's life just so that it'll have a happy ending. I THINK I WOULD HAVE WRITTEN THIS STORY BETTER THAN HER. HAHAHA!
one star for Danielle Steel's effort. one star for the thought of having it published. so two stars.
i mean, i've come to love danielle steel but this one really disappointed me. i would have loved it if she stopped the story when Tanya broke up with Douglas Wayne, but instead, she continued the story and introduced to more boys to Tanya's life just so that it'll have a happy ending. I THINK I WOULD HAVE WRITTEN THIS STORY BETTER THAN HER. HAHAHA!
one star for Danielle Steel's effort. one star for the thought of having it published. so two stars.
February 12, 2009
I hated the 1st two chapters. I will give the book a chance as, when in need of a light, quick read, I have enjoyed other Danielle Steel novels. Update: It never gets better. This book is aggravatingly bad. I usually like a book like this after a serious read or when nursing a hangover and can't quite get thru anything else. This book is headache inducing. I would rather drink a bucket of margaritas and wake up in the Sahara then go through this experience again.
August 6, 2011
Very poorly written, the author kept on repeating herself as if she was trying to fill out pages. Steel's earlier work was fabulous, but the latest books I've read of hers were awful. It's like she writing to meet a quota, her stories have no depth. I found myself skimming through this book and it felt like it was never going to end. No more Danielle Steel books for this girl!
September 26, 2021
I like reading romance every now and then… There is a lot of criticism of this genre that romantic books are naive, cliché and badly written. I thought I would finally read something by Steel before I get all judgemental 😂. Well, now I read the book and can bitch about it: a perfect woman has a perfect husband and they have a perfect life. She then goes away to LA to write for a film, the perfect husband cheats, she cries perfect tears and then finds another perfect man. Oh, on the way there she wins some Oscars lolz….naive, cliché and boring zzzz…😂😂 The writing was very repetitive and flat. I will choose more wisely next time. If anyone has any recommendations of epic love stories, please shout.
April 4, 2026
The shittest book I have ever read. Danielle Steel is a terrible writer who can barely string a sentence together. The main character was unbelievably shallow with no fucking back bone. Disgusting, cringe and awful.
May 10, 2019
Metade foi lido na diagonal, não é a história mais inovadora da autora. As duas estrelas são pelo final...
November 21, 2021
Por onde começar… Não desgostei de todo, mas creio que esperava mais desta história.
Achei um pouco aborrecido na primeira metade do livro, mas que depois logo aí começam realmente a reviravoltas. Desde o marido que a trai com a sua melhor amiga e vizinha. Esta aproveita-se da ausência da amiga e apunhala-a pelas costas. Onde estava o girlcode?? Fiquei logo revoltada. Já o seu casamento com Peter achei demasiado bonitinho e perfeito...
No entanto era bastante óbvio que a nova relação de Tanya com Douglas não iria dar certo. Nem com Gordon.
Na segunda metade do livro, achei a leitura dos acontecimentos demasiado depressa.
Achei um pouco aborrecido na primeira metade do livro, mas que depois logo aí começam realmente a reviravoltas. Desde o marido que a trai com a sua melhor amiga e vizinha. Esta aproveita-se da ausência da amiga e apunhala-a pelas costas. Onde estava o girlcode?? Fiquei logo revoltada. Já o seu casamento com Peter achei demasiado bonitinho e perfeito...
No entanto era bastante óbvio que a nova relação de Tanya com Douglas não iria dar certo. Nem com Gordon.
Na segunda metade do livro, achei a leitura dos acontecimentos demasiado depressa.
February 17, 2022
This one was OK...not one of her best. Divorce and alot of sleeping around.
January 28, 2021
A woman is happy with her life in a small town writing short stories. Then, she gets offered a movie to write a screenplay for. It gets complicated then.
January 22, 2022
I really hate to leave negative reviews,but this book was so repetitive & Tanya was way too whiny for my tastes. Sorry,but I’ve read much better D.S. books than this
February 3, 2017
Tanya é uma dona de casa que levou a vida atratar do marido e dos filhos, legando para 2º plano e para as noites o seu trabalho de escrita. Quando o sonho da vida dela, escrever um filme, se lhe apresenta ela pensa em negar-se a esse prazer pois terá de mudar de cidade e deixar o marido e os filhos por 9 meses. No entanto, o marido sabe que é o sonho dela e incentiva-a a persegui-lo.
Tanya aceita o trabalho mas sente-se solitária em Hollywood, faz-lhe diferença dormir sem o marido e não ter as filhas para tratar mas, ao mesmo tempo, o seu trabalho absorve-a quase todo o tempo. Tenta vir a casa todos os fins-de semana mas vai-se sentindo cada vez mais à parte na sua própria vida, alguém quase transparente, e ver a sua melhor amiga a quase tomar o papel de dona da casa... e, no limite, consegue-o pois o marido de Tanya atraiçoa-a e deixa-a por esta mulher. Peter teve medo que a mulher não voltasse de Hollywood mas foi ele a dar o passo decisivo que leva Tanya a aceitar outro filme e mais outro pois, com as filhas na universidade e sem um marido para o qual voltar, a vida em Marin tornou-se estranha e solitária.
Entre filmes conhece muitas estrelas e vai tendo alguns relacionamentos que a dividem e desiludem pois Hollywood é aparências e poder e ela farta-se desse mundo, decidindo que não vai fazer mais argumentos para cinema... mas uma proposta de um filme independente apaixona-a e ajuda também que o filme seja passado na sua cidade e que o realizador seja um homem fantástico com dois filhos amorosos que entram na vida dela para não mais sair. Finalmente Tanya tem a felicidade que merece embora ainda não saiba bem como será a logística da sua vida já que o realizador é de Londres e ela não quer abandonar as filhas nos EUA.
Uma história pungente de sentimentos e traição, de abandono mas também de superação e de uma mulher que merece muito mais do que aquilo que tinha.
Tanya aceita o trabalho mas sente-se solitária em Hollywood, faz-lhe diferença dormir sem o marido e não ter as filhas para tratar mas, ao mesmo tempo, o seu trabalho absorve-a quase todo o tempo. Tenta vir a casa todos os fins-de semana mas vai-se sentindo cada vez mais à parte na sua própria vida, alguém quase transparente, e ver a sua melhor amiga a quase tomar o papel de dona da casa... e, no limite, consegue-o pois o marido de Tanya atraiçoa-a e deixa-a por esta mulher. Peter teve medo que a mulher não voltasse de Hollywood mas foi ele a dar o passo decisivo que leva Tanya a aceitar outro filme e mais outro pois, com as filhas na universidade e sem um marido para o qual voltar, a vida em Marin tornou-se estranha e solitária.
Entre filmes conhece muitas estrelas e vai tendo alguns relacionamentos que a dividem e desiludem pois Hollywood é aparências e poder e ela farta-se desse mundo, decidindo que não vai fazer mais argumentos para cinema... mas uma proposta de um filme independente apaixona-a e ajuda também que o filme seja passado na sua cidade e que o realizador seja um homem fantástico com dois filhos amorosos que entram na vida dela para não mais sair. Finalmente Tanya tem a felicidade que merece embora ainda não saiba bem como será a logística da sua vida já que o realizador é de Londres e ela não quer abandonar as filhas nos EUA.
Uma história pungente de sentimentos e traição, de abandono mas também de superação e de uma mulher que merece muito mais do que aquilo que tinha.
July 23, 2014
Okay all you Danielle Steel fans (and I know that there are millions of you out there - how else would this author keep selling so many books), you're probably not going to agree with my review. Every time I pick up a Danielle Steel novel and start reading, I remember why I hate this author's style of writing. I learned back in high school English that the first sentence of a paragraph is supposed to be the most important sentence and set the stage for the rest of the paragraph. In essence, if you only read the first sentence of each paragraph, you would be able to progress the story along. Ms. Steel takes this concept to new heights. She basically repeats the same thought over and over and over in each paragraph to the point of tedium. Not only that, she then revisits that same thought numerous times in the next few paragraphs, in the next few chapters, and basically throughout the whole story. Enough, we get the point the first time. Secondly, I like my novels to have more dialogue and less narrative - I find that the story moves along better that way and the characters come more to life. There are authors who employ narrative to great effect and the use of excessive dialogue is not necessary. This author is not one of them. On a positive note, most of Ms. Steel's storylines are interesting and believable. The problem is that they could just as well be written as short stories; they don't merit a whole novel in the style in which they are written. For all my criticism, however, this is just my opinion and obviously this author enjoys a huge following evidenced by the number of books she sells and the number of books her editor continues to publish.
January 1, 2015
So so book. Didn't love it. It was overly simplistic, predictable and unrealistic. DS wrote the most one dimensional, enormously self-centered characters and it made this book hard to finish. One daughter in particular is so selfish and spoiled that she will make you wish she were real just so you could slap her. By far the worst character in this book--well, right behind her father. Also, I hated how the book developed so fast. In one chapter, Tanya husband is the greatest husband any woman could ask for then in the next, he is betraying her in a huge way. No progression at all, no in-between explaining why he would betray the person who put her own happiness second to her families for so long. Read this in one sitting because I knew if I put it down, I wouldn’t pick it back up. Wish I checked it out at the library instead of purchasing it because I will never read it again.Bungalow 2
September 18, 2012
This is one of the most irritating books I have read in ages. The main character is presented as a model wife and mother but she is frankly annoying in her attachment to her children. Also, the style is incredibly repetitive and the author repeatedly breaks the "show don't tell" rule, resulting in a patronising tone throughout. The plot premise was good but the story could have been told in half the number of words. A real disappointment.
August 13, 2009
Ok, who doesn't love Danielle Steel. I mean she is classic chick lit.
Take 413 pages of sappy and add 2 parts men who are jerks, 1 part misunderstood man, mix in 1 bratty kid, and finally add 1 gorgeous man who is so in touch with his feminine side that he could be a chick. Stir gently, and you have a Danielle Steel Novel and guess what ~ WE LOVE EM.
Take 413 pages of sappy and add 2 parts men who are jerks, 1 part misunderstood man, mix in 1 bratty kid, and finally add 1 gorgeous man who is so in touch with his feminine side that he could be a chick. Stir gently, and you have a Danielle Steel Novel and guess what ~ WE LOVE EM.
August 2, 2008
I HAVE GRADUATED TO A BETTER QUALITY OF WRITING. ALTHOUGH I USED TO ENJOY DS VERY MUCH, THIS BOOK WAS A LITTLE CUTESY AND DETAILED WITH TRIVIA FOR ME. I DON'T CARE THAT SHE PUT ON A PINK SWEATER OR WHAT SHE FED THE CHILDREN.
October 7, 2008
Couldn't even get through half of it- so redundant!!!
December 15, 2008
The worst book I've ever read.
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