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Johnny Peterson could light up a room with a word or a smile. He had a future filled with promise--until he stepped into a car on prom night and, in an instant, it was all taken away. In the months that followed, Johnny's family and his high school sweetheart, Becky, struggle to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. No one is more devastated than Johnny's mother, Alice, but amid the heartache, something miraculous is about to happen. When a sudden illness sends Alice to hospital, a glorious vision comes to her--there, standing before her, is Johnny himself, gently urging his bewildered mother to be strong for her splintered family.
Through a season of hope and healing, Johnny will walk by his mother's side, leading his parents, his girlfriend, his sister and his brother out of their grief. But as Alice is about to discover, Johnny has returned not just to help those he loves, but to uncover a purpose even he cannot comprehend--one that will change them all forever.
Through a season of hope and healing, Johnny will walk by his mother's side, leading his parents, his girlfriend, his sister and his brother out of their grief. But as Alice is about to discover, Johnny has returned not just to help those he loves, but to uncover a purpose even he cannot comprehend--one that will change them all forever.
192 pages
First published January 1, 2003
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Danielle Steel
911 books16.7k 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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March 3, 2010
Danielle Steel's Johnny Angel is a winner. This book should come with a box of tissues though, because to quote an old Bachrach and David song, "Anyone who had a heart" would not get through this book without shedding some tears. OK, without shedding a lot of tears.
This is the story of a teenager (Johnny) who's life is cut too short and how he comes back to help put his family and his girlfriend's family back together again, though only two people can see him, his mother and his younger brother.
There are a lot of fiction about the afterlife. I've read several and this one is beautifully written. It gives you hope, especially when things are going terribly wrong, and they do go wrong for Johnny's family, even beyond his death. Johnny's return is to help put things to rights, perhaps things he couldn't do when he was alive.
In 210 pages, Danielle Steel gives us a story that is totally unforgettable and totally heartbreaking and yet happy. The last pages are definitely worth reading the book for.
This is the story of a teenager (Johnny) who's life is cut too short and how he comes back to help put his family and his girlfriend's family back together again, though only two people can see him, his mother and his younger brother.
There are a lot of fiction about the afterlife. I've read several and this one is beautifully written. It gives you hope, especially when things are going terribly wrong, and they do go wrong for Johnny's family, even beyond his death. Johnny's return is to help put things to rights, perhaps things he couldn't do when he was alive.
In 210 pages, Danielle Steel gives us a story that is totally unforgettable and totally heartbreaking and yet happy. The last pages are definitely worth reading the book for.
March 21, 2020
Good, nice story that only takes a few hours to read. I am reading a lot of Danielle Steel books right now because of the craziness going on with the virus right now, and Danielle Steel books are a read because they are not intense and end in a feel good manner. So on to another Danielle Steel.
December 6, 2007
OH my GOD. Don't read it.
June 13, 2025
Als de 17jarige Johnny sterft bij een verkeersongeluk, is heel zijn familie in diepe rouw. Zijn vader, moeder, zus Charlotte en broertje Bobby, groeien steeds meer uit elkaar, en Johnny's vriendinnetje Becky trekt zich in zichzelf terug en komt haast niet meer buiten.
Maar dan wordt de moeder van Johnny ernstig ziek, en in het ziekenhuis krijgt ze eerst in haar dromen, en later ook in wakende toestand, contact met Johnny. Ook Bobby, die al 5 jaar niet meer spreekt nadat hij bijna verdronken was, kan Johnny zien.
Het wordt duidelijk dat Johnny (zijn geest, of zijn persoonlijkheid) toestemming heeft gekregen om nog een tijdje bij zijn geliefden te vertoeven, om onafgemaakte dingen in orde te brengen.
En inderdaad, in de volgende paar maanden slaagt hij erin om langzaamaan zijn familie te helpen om hun leven terug op de rails te krijgen.
Heel emotioneel verhaal, dat je niet kan wegleggen.
Maar dan wordt de moeder van Johnny ernstig ziek, en in het ziekenhuis krijgt ze eerst in haar dromen, en later ook in wakende toestand, contact met Johnny. Ook Bobby, die al 5 jaar niet meer spreekt nadat hij bijna verdronken was, kan Johnny zien.
Het wordt duidelijk dat Johnny (zijn geest, of zijn persoonlijkheid) toestemming heeft gekregen om nog een tijdje bij zijn geliefden te vertoeven, om onafgemaakte dingen in orde te brengen.
En inderdaad, in de volgende paar maanden slaagt hij erin om langzaamaan zijn familie te helpen om hun leven terug op de rails te krijgen.
Heel emotioneel verhaal, dat je niet kan wegleggen.
March 23, 2018
This is an emotional short story. It got even more emotional when I realised there's a dedication in the book to Danielle's son Nicky who died. Therefore it would be quite dumb of me to nitpick.
August 20, 2021
I needed tissues with this book. Heartbreaking but with a touch of hope.
January 25, 2018
Ok, I read Danielle Steel. So sue me.
I spent part of every summer with a maiden aunt, whose taste in reading introduced me to Sidney Sheldon, Harold Robbins, Jeffrey Archer, Rona Jaffe, Cynthia Freeman and Judith Krantz. Because sometimes you just gotta. This one was lying around where I was recently, so I picked it up and gobbled it in a day like a bag of Bit'OHoneys.
You know what I liked most about Johnny Angel? The time frame could be anytime because there are no computers or cel phones anywhere in the story. How refreshing.
I spent part of every summer with a maiden aunt, whose taste in reading introduced me to Sidney Sheldon, Harold Robbins, Jeffrey Archer, Rona Jaffe, Cynthia Freeman and Judith Krantz. Because sometimes you just gotta. This one was lying around where I was recently, so I picked it up and gobbled it in a day like a bag of Bit'OHoneys.
You know what I liked most about Johnny Angel? The time frame could be anytime because there are no computers or cel phones anywhere in the story. How refreshing.
September 3, 2012
تدور حول شاب في السنة النهائية يقتل بحادث سيارة ليلة التخرج .. ويزور طيفه عائلته وأحبائه ..
رواية تعدكم بالكثير من البكاء ... و تؤكد أن الأمل دائما موجود..... وأنه بالصبر وتعاضد أفراد الأسرة نتجاوز الصعاب ..
جميلة وحزينة ...
أحببتها كثيرا .
رواية تعدكم بالكثير من البكاء ... و تؤكد أن الأمل دائما موجود..... وأنه بالصبر وتعاضد أفراد الأسرة نتجاوز الصعاب ..
جميلة وحزينة ...
أحببتها كثيرا .
November 9, 2024
I don't want to hear a word about this, I'm reading it because I needed a lunchtime book and this was what I could find.
Update: it was bad.
Update: it was bad.
October 24, 2013
Who is most important to you? Has there ever been someone or something you cared about so much that you can barely breathe when you're with them? Time just seems to slip away and then before you know it everything has changed and all you ever cared about is gone.
In the book “Johnny Angel” by Danielle Steel, Johnny Peterson had the perfect life, the seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete with a football scholarship that promised him an incredible education. He was class valedictorian, tall, lanky Johnny had a future filled with promises. It is his senior year of high school and things couldn't be better. He was getting good grades, had a date to prom with his girlfriend Becky, and had a good roof over his head with people that loved him. Johnny was the best kind of kid you could ever ask for. He was the type that always remembered his manners, did as he was told, and helped anyone at anytime when someone needed assistance.
The night of prom, he had a good time and was headed home with his girlfriend when another car with a bunch of kids challenged him to a drag race. Johnny refused and kept on his way. A few minutes later there was a big crash and they didn't even know what hit them.
Becky was taken to the hospital to be checked out. While Johnny did not go to the hospital or home that night or any night. A firefighter went to Johnny's house and told his mother that he was pronounced dead at the scene. That night, lots of tears were shed for the life that once was.
No one was more upset over Johnny's death then his mother. Johnny meant everything to her. His mother Alice went into a very bad depression. This lead to her becoming very ill and had to be rushed to the hospital to be treated. While she was in the hospital, Johnny started coming back to her in visions and helping her get through it. Johnny actually was becoming an angel in Heaven but he had to earn his wings. To do this he had to accomplish something on earth, but he didn't know what.
The only other person Johnny would appear to is his nine-year old brother Bobby. He was a child with special needs and was locked in a silent world. Johnny always seemed to understand his little brother. Bobby never spoke after he and his father, Jim, drove off a bridge. A stranger saved Bobby, and Jim managed to get out just in time. Bobby was on life support for two weeks, and ever since Bobby hadn't spoken a single word. Jim his Dad , is so consumed with guilt that every night, while Bobby is locked in his silent world, Jim drinks himself to sleep in front of the television. Then as Johnny begins to appear to little Bobby he starts to talk.
Johnny's high school sweetheart, Becky had lost her father 2 years ago when he died. Her mother works for most of the day, so Becky has to take care of her four brothers and sisters while maintaining two jobs and schoolwork. Becky did not get the scholarship that she hoped for, so now she can't go to college and has to begin to work full time at a local drugstore.
In the book “Johnny Angel” by Danielle Steel, Johnny Peterson had the perfect life, the seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete with a football scholarship that promised him an incredible education. He was class valedictorian, tall, lanky Johnny had a future filled with promises. It is his senior year of high school and things couldn't be better. He was getting good grades, had a date to prom with his girlfriend Becky, and had a good roof over his head with people that loved him. Johnny was the best kind of kid you could ever ask for. He was the type that always remembered his manners, did as he was told, and helped anyone at anytime when someone needed assistance.
The night of prom, he had a good time and was headed home with his girlfriend when another car with a bunch of kids challenged him to a drag race. Johnny refused and kept on his way. A few minutes later there was a big crash and they didn't even know what hit them.
Becky was taken to the hospital to be checked out. While Johnny did not go to the hospital or home that night or any night. A firefighter went to Johnny's house and told his mother that he was pronounced dead at the scene. That night, lots of tears were shed for the life that once was.
No one was more upset over Johnny's death then his mother. Johnny meant everything to her. His mother Alice went into a very bad depression. This lead to her becoming very ill and had to be rushed to the hospital to be treated. While she was in the hospital, Johnny started coming back to her in visions and helping her get through it. Johnny actually was becoming an angel in Heaven but he had to earn his wings. To do this he had to accomplish something on earth, but he didn't know what.
The only other person Johnny would appear to is his nine-year old brother Bobby. He was a child with special needs and was locked in a silent world. Johnny always seemed to understand his little brother. Bobby never spoke after he and his father, Jim, drove off a bridge. A stranger saved Bobby, and Jim managed to get out just in time. Bobby was on life support for two weeks, and ever since Bobby hadn't spoken a single word. Jim his Dad , is so consumed with guilt that every night, while Bobby is locked in his silent world, Jim drinks himself to sleep in front of the television. Then as Johnny begins to appear to little Bobby he starts to talk.
Johnny's high school sweetheart, Becky had lost her father 2 years ago when he died. Her mother works for most of the day, so Becky has to take care of her four brothers and sisters while maintaining two jobs and schoolwork. Becky did not get the scholarship that she hoped for, so now she can't go to college and has to begin to work full time at a local drugstore.
September 24, 2010
Reading Johnny Angel brought tears to my eyes. This book is not about the story or the character or the ending. It's just about relationships. A relationship between a husband and wife, a mother and daughter or her son, two teenagers. Its how one accident really burned lives. Its about the living people after someone so close to them had died. Johnny Angel is all that.
In this book I loved the special bonding between Johnny and his mother. Soul mate is the person we can be ourselves with. For Alice her soul mate was Johnny, her eldest son. He was matured, calm, someone his mother knew she could depend on. Johnny had everything he wanted but alas his life, the thing he needed to have everything else, was taken away. This is not about Johnny. It is about how his passing away affected others.
His mother was completely broken. It was not that she loved Johnny more than her other children, but she was to some extent relying on him. He was special to her and she couldn't accept his death. It is how she to struggles to face the life ahead and the special gift Johnny leaves her.
There was humor, but there was a trace of sadness and mixed feelings as well. Somehow the simplicity of all of it touches your heart.
This is a book I really wished I owned!
In this book I loved the special bonding between Johnny and his mother. Soul mate is the person we can be ourselves with. For Alice her soul mate was Johnny, her eldest son. He was matured, calm, someone his mother knew she could depend on. Johnny had everything he wanted but alas his life, the thing he needed to have everything else, was taken away. This is not about Johnny. It is about how his passing away affected others.
His mother was completely broken. It was not that she loved Johnny more than her other children, but she was to some extent relying on him. He was special to her and she couldn't accept his death. It is how she to struggles to face the life ahead and the special gift Johnny leaves her.
There was humor, but there was a trace of sadness and mixed feelings as well. Somehow the simplicity of all of it touches your heart.
This is a book I really wished I owned!
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October 15, 2011
The first out of the two books that have ever made me literally cry while reading it...I don't know if it's that the subject matter hits home or the quality of the writing is just that good, but i remember reading this and, halfway through, lunging for a tissue. Such a sweet, sad, heartbreaking, yet beautiful story. I wish Danielle Steel would write another book like this.
June 13, 2013
Amazing ... this the best book I have read ever ...
life is so generous it always. Finds a way to make it up to us when we lose someone or something precious .. I think this is the message here .. and I like that Danielle chose the motherhood bond to deliver this message ..
you absolutely have to read this .. really it is great book :D
life is so generous it always. Finds a way to make it up to us when we lose someone or something precious .. I think this is the message here .. and I like that Danielle chose the motherhood bond to deliver this message ..
you absolutely have to read this .. really it is great book :D
July 12, 2010
SO good. It was so sad though. I was crying the entire time. But I read it in a day.
February 26, 2010
This book is based on her real-life son's life. Having a chemical imbalance is a heart rending situation for any family. I think Steele tells us the bottom line truth. She is repetitive because the events in her son's life was repetitive.....that's how the sickness goes.....and these people with these kinds of difficulties need to be understood....thus her repetitive trying to help us "see" the situation.
I admire her for being open and telling THIS STORY.
I admire her for being open and telling THIS STORY.
March 9, 2011
A very inspiring truth about a mom and a son. :) God has His own way of making people learn. And never doubt His will. Family is the most important thing in this world. No money can replace the joy that each member brings. Losing someone is very painful, but what important is realizing how to cherish each moment with them while their still here. :D
February 3, 2015
Oh, Danielle. You make my eyes bleed. With your shallow writing style, repetition, and all those sentences that start with 'And'. It was all I could do to make myself finish the book. I gave it 2 stars instead of one because the story line could actually have been a good one....if someone else would have written the story.
February 21, 2016
i read this book just for two days because i couldnt leave it it was really awesome ..It was a book that made me cry so many times.Even tho it was a book with imagination it was perfect . I really think everyone should read this because it is really an awesome book.And it kinds of tells that how nowadays men can even put in danger their children's life .
February 6, 2011
this book was soooo good that i cried all the way thru it and i could not put it down..i would def recommend you read this book if you are looking for a page turner tear jerker..
October 13, 2021
Too many Danielle Steel.. not enough book memory..
June 25, 2019
كتبت رأيي مسبقاً، فلذلك سأختصر: الرواية جميلة وبسيطة، وأجمل ما فيها مشاعر المحبة بين بطل الرواية جوني وأسرته وخاصة أمه. و نهاية القصة هي أجمل أحداثها.
November 12, 2025
Oh my gosh…. What an emotional ride. Did not see the ending coming. Short read but impactful. Please read it 😭
June 20, 2024
Will always love this book 📖 ❤️
Read it on a very quick road trip and always come back to it. Especially now as a mom it just hits different 😭
Read it on a very quick road trip and always come back to it. Especially now as a mom it just hits different 😭
February 17, 2021
الملاك الحارس..
اقتباس من الرواية
“ذلك يبدو غريبا بالنسبة اليك, وقد بدا لي كذلك في البداية, لقد عاد طيفي مجددا لبعض الوقت لاقوم بعمل معين.. لانني عندما رحلت رحلت بسرعة من دون ان اتم الامور حتى نهايتها, لذلك عدت لانجزها ليس من اجلي لكن من اجل الجميع!!”
قصة جوني بيترسون ووالدته التي كادت حادثة مأساوية ان تودي بحياتها. فالبطل نجم فريق سباق المسافات و كره القدم يتمتع بشخصية جذابة و هو على علاقة متميزة مع اقرانه, تعرض الى حادث مروري مروع ادى الي مقتله. لكن معجزة غريبة حدثت و انقذت حياه والدته و اعادت السعادة الى افراد الاسرة التي كانت مهددة بالضياع. كانت امه غارقة في نوم عميق في احدى الليالي التي عانت فيها مرضا شديدا و فجأه شعرت ان جوني يسير الي جنبها و قد بدا سعيدا و مرتاحا.. الامر الذي جعلها تشعر بالسعادة و انها مستيقظة اكثر من كونها نائمة الا انها كانت تدرك ان عليها ان تظل نائمة لتراه, كان جوني يعود الى الحياة لبعض الوقت من خلال الطيف ليقوم بعمل ما من اجل افراد اسرته فطيفه يظهر و يختفي بينما ينجز بعض الامور..
حيث يأتي طيفه ليزور أهله وخطيبته، بل ويقيم معهم في بيتهم يأكل ويشرب ويمارس الرياضة ويتبادل معهم الأحاديث والهدايا ويحاول أن يساعدهم في أعمالهم ومشاكلهم ويزوّدهم بالنُّصح والمشورة وهو يعيش في الوقت ذاته في العالم الآخر، و في آخر الحكاية يهدي أمّه علبةً صغيرة ويطلب منها ألا تفتحها حتى يغادر، وعندما يغادر وتفتحها تجد فيها اختباراً للحمل فتتعجّب، ثم ترى أن تستخدمه فإذا هي بالفعل حامل وفي بطنها حياةٌ جديدة !!!
اقتباس من الرواية
“ذلك يبدو غريبا بالنسبة اليك, وقد بدا لي كذلك في البداية, لقد عاد طيفي مجددا لبعض الوقت لاقوم بعمل معين.. لانني عندما رحلت رحلت بسرعة من دون ان اتم الامور حتى نهايتها, لذلك عدت لانجزها ليس من اجلي لكن من اجل الجميع!!”
قصة جوني بيترسون ووالدته التي كادت حادثة مأساوية ان تودي بحياتها. فالبطل نجم فريق سباق المسافات و كره القدم يتمتع بشخصية جذابة و هو على علاقة متميزة مع اقرانه, تعرض الى حادث مروري مروع ادى الي مقتله. لكن معجزة غريبة حدثت و انقذت حياه والدته و اعادت السعادة الى افراد الاسرة التي كانت مهددة بالضياع. كانت امه غارقة في نوم عميق في احدى الليالي التي عانت فيها مرضا شديدا و فجأه شعرت ان جوني يسير الي جنبها و قد بدا سعيدا و مرتاحا.. الامر الذي جعلها تشعر بالسعادة و انها مستيقظة اكثر من كونها نائمة الا انها كانت تدرك ان عليها ان تظل نائمة لتراه, كان جوني يعود الى الحياة لبعض الوقت من خلال الطيف ليقوم بعمل ما من اجل افراد اسرته فطيفه يظهر و يختفي بينما ينجز بعض الامور..
حيث يأتي طيفه ليزور أهله وخطيبته، بل ويقيم معهم في بيتهم يأكل ويشرب ويمارس الرياضة ويتبادل معهم الأحاديث والهدايا ويحاول أن يساعدهم في أعمالهم ومشاكلهم ويزوّدهم بالنُّصح والمشورة وهو يعيش في الوقت ذاته في العالم الآخر، و في آخر الحكاية يهدي أمّه علبةً صغيرة ويطلب منها ألا تفتحها حتى يغادر، وعندما يغادر وتفتحها تجد فيها اختباراً للحمل فتتعجّب، ثم ترى أن تستخدمه فإذا هي بالفعل حامل وفي بطنها حياةٌ جديدة !!!
March 26, 2017
Johnny Angel brought tears to my eyes. Such a sweet, sad, heartbreaking yet a beautiful story. I can't get over it ♥
" Johnny Peterson could light up a room with a word or a smile. He had a future filled with promise--until he stepped into a car on prom night and, in an instant, it was all taken away. In the months that followed, Johnny's family and his high school sweetheart, Becky, struggle to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. No one is more devastated than Johnny's mother, Alice, but amid the heartache, something miraculous is about to happen. When a sudden illness sends Alice to hospital, a glorious vision comes to her--there, standing before her, is Johnny himself, gently urging his bewildered mother to be strong for her splintered family.
Through a season of hope and healing, Johnny will walk by his mother's side, leading his parents, his girlfriend, his sister and his brother out of their grief. But as Alice is about to discover, Johnny has returned not just to help those he loves, but to uncover a purpose even he cannot comprehend--one that will change them all forever. "
" Johnny Peterson could light up a room with a word or a smile. He had a future filled with promise--until he stepped into a car on prom night and, in an instant, it was all taken away. In the months that followed, Johnny's family and his high school sweetheart, Becky, struggle to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. No one is more devastated than Johnny's mother, Alice, but amid the heartache, something miraculous is about to happen. When a sudden illness sends Alice to hospital, a glorious vision comes to her--there, standing before her, is Johnny himself, gently urging his bewildered mother to be strong for her splintered family.
Through a season of hope and healing, Johnny will walk by his mother's side, leading his parents, his girlfriend, his sister and his brother out of their grief. But as Alice is about to discover, Johnny has returned not just to help those he loves, but to uncover a purpose even he cannot comprehend--one that will change them all forever. "
May 26, 2023
This was a reread of an all-time favourite. The book was much shorter than I remembered but it certainly packs an emotional punch.
I first read this book as a teenager and it was a totally different experience reading it now as an adult and a mother. This is why I love rereading favourites as your perspective very often changes and you see stories in a new light. This was heartbreaking on a whole other level. I was always aware of Danielle Steel's own experiences when reading this book and I think that is why the grief and tragedy of losing a child is depicted in such a raw and authentic way.
Despite the sad subject matter, the story is full of hope and healing. There was a part of me that felt like Johnny's task after death to heal the lives of so many adults, when he was just a child himself, was a huge burden. However, the story symbolises light coming out of the darkest places and how positive things can grow after the worst has happened. It made me cry multiple times and I loved revisiting this beautiful story.
I first read this book as a teenager and it was a totally different experience reading it now as an adult and a mother. This is why I love rereading favourites as your perspective very often changes and you see stories in a new light. This was heartbreaking on a whole other level. I was always aware of Danielle Steel's own experiences when reading this book and I think that is why the grief and tragedy of losing a child is depicted in such a raw and authentic way.
Despite the sad subject matter, the story is full of hope and healing. There was a part of me that felt like Johnny's task after death to heal the lives of so many adults, when he was just a child himself, was a huge burden. However, the story symbolises light coming out of the darkest places and how positive things can grow after the worst has happened. It made me cry multiple times and I loved revisiting this beautiful story.
September 9, 2021
Late review.
You know it's a great book when it's etched to your mind regardless if you’ve read it only once. But over time, you forgot its existence. Then randomly you came across it again and had you relived that one fine day you’ve read a truly exquisite masterpiece.
Johnny, salt of the earth. Kind and loving, family-oriented, loyal... But fatal tragic took him from his loved ones. His family fell apart and couldn’t recover from their loss. Johnny, the ever-loving son and brother, came back to earth and helped them accept the grief and loss. He discovered his parents were not getting along anymore, his siblings were faced with confusion and anger.
And oh, the ending… Perfection.
This book is well-written. I wasn’t into paranormal but the story got me hooked from start to finish. I remembered this as one of DS’s short reads, but nevertheless it was a fascinating read.
I’ll definitely revisit this book once I’m up back home for vacation.
You know it's a great book when it's etched to your mind regardless if you’ve read it only once. But over time, you forgot its existence. Then randomly you came across it again and had you relived that one fine day you’ve read a truly exquisite masterpiece.
Johnny, salt of the earth. Kind and loving, family-oriented, loyal... But fatal tragic took him from his loved ones. His family fell apart and couldn’t recover from their loss. Johnny, the ever-loving son and brother, came back to earth and helped them accept the grief and loss. He discovered his parents were not getting along anymore, his siblings were faced with confusion and anger.
And oh, the ending… Perfection.
This book is well-written. I wasn’t into paranormal but the story got me hooked from start to finish. I remembered this as one of DS’s short reads, but nevertheless it was a fascinating read.
I’ll definitely revisit this book once I’m up back home for vacation.
October 26, 2010
Parents that have experienced the death of a child can identify with this book. If only we could all be 'visited' by our dearly departed loved ones to help us through the stages of death. If only we could all have that last time together to say goodbye, reach the stage of acceptance and move on with our lives.
Husbands and wives who have experienced one of them being responsible for a child's accident can identify with this book. Husbands and wives who have experienced one of them being an alcoholic can identify with this book.
I really liked this book but have a box of tissues handy!
Husbands and wives who have experienced one of them being responsible for a child's accident can identify with this book. Husbands and wives who have experienced one of them being an alcoholic can identify with this book.
I really liked this book but have a box of tissues handy!
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April 23, 2019
This is the very first book I review here and it took me on an emotional drive. Danielle Steel is such a great writer she nearly pulled out all the emotions in my heart through her work and it might be impossible to believe I still have tears in my eyes it's a mix of happiness and pain. Inspite of a tragedy it's surprising how she managed to maintain positivity throughout and kept me intrigued. Absolutely love this book, I am just so touched.
January 29, 2011
I Dont Read Many Books Like This ... Im More Of A Paranormal Or Murder Mystery ... This Book Was Absolutley Amazing I Caught Myself Crying More Than Once If You Get The Chance To Read This Book ... I Think You Will Agree That It Is Amazing !
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