The Promise

by Danielle Steel

Young architect Micheal Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother's disapproval. Then minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Micheal and Nancy--perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life--Nancy in California, Micheal in New York. But eventually nothing--and no one--can keep them apart as they keep their vow never to say good-bye.

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Novels, Drama

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Danielle 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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Reviews

[Darla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ahhhh. Nostalgia. This was my very first ever book by Danielle Steel and my teenage self thought it to be absolutely swoon-worthy. I decided to revisit it forty years later. How did it hold up, you ask? Well, teenage me would have given it 10 out of 5 stars. It was that memorable to me at the time. My current self recognizes it to be a bit dated, so 4 out of 5 stars. Overall, the story arc is still so appealing to me. I have read several of Danielle Steel's books since that time--always hoping to recover the magic of that first read. It has never been there. So, I declare this the very best book ever written by Danielle Steel. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Diane Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome read! nice love story about forgiveness and overcoming many things..well written (paperback!)

[Bren fall in love with the sea. · Rating 4 out of 5]

He laughed softly. “Not ‘it’s’ beautiful, silly girl. You’re beautiful. It is you,”
― Danielle Steel, The Promise

The fact that I read this (and cried) should speak of the book's power. I RARELY read romance novels. It just (usually) is not my genre . I do read romantic suspense but that is not what that is.

This is Danielle Steel..the one that Book snobs love to hate. I once knew a woman who would actually make faces at you if you told her you'd read anything by Ste el. Did I happen to mention I dislike book snobs greatly?

Anyway..this, in my opinion, is Steel's masterpiece. The story of Nancy and Michael who make "the promise" and are torn apart..brutally so..and then find their way back to each other..well..it makes Nicholas Sparks pale in comparison. And that is not easy to do.

What is great about this book..is it feels real despite some really unrealistic things that happen. There is also a movie version but I prefer the book.

Highly recommended to romance readers who have not yet found this one.

[KC · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this very readable and gripping yet ultimately unromantic because:

1. Nancy and Michael spent the majority of the book apart and only interacted for about seven out of 32 chapters. They're separated by Michael's snobbish mother, Marion, who received her own HEA and absolutely zero punishment for her interference*. WTH?!

Marion didn't think Nancy would be an appropriate wife for Michael. So after the two were injured in a car crash (they'd been on their way to get married), Marion offered to pay for the reconstructive surgery to fix Nancy's destroyed face, but only if Nancy agreed to never contact Michael again. Nancy accepted the deal because she thought Michael would come for her, and she wanted to look normal again. (What Marion didn't disclose was her intention to lie to Michael about Nancy's "death".)

2. Neither were celibate during their two years apart: Michael slept with a coworker while Nancy slept with her plastic surgeon. Of the two Nancy had the more serious relationship, the nature of which I thought was ethically questionable. To be fair to Michael he'd believed Nancy had died, but it's still aggravating because neither waited very long to move on. So much for promising not to forget each other!

3. I thought Nancy gave up on Michael too easily. Yes, she'd agreed to never contact him and believed he'd deliberately dismissed her from his life, but it never occurred to her that he might have been manipulated by his mother just like she'd been?

4. The ending wrapped up abruptly with Nancy claiming that she always knew Michael would find her. (Uh, sure, Nancy. That's why you didn't wait very long to have an affair with your surgeon?)

*The book ends with Michael thinking he wouldn't punish his mother for separating them because he was too happy, now that he'd been reunited with Nancy.

[Shirley Revill · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book some time ago and I really enjoyed reading the story. Very well written and very hard to put down.

[Becks! · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite love story from my teen years. Long, long, long ago!

[Fran P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-read
Yep, still in love with this. I wish there was an epilogue, though. :/

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January 28, 2014
The last time I read this was a decade ago and that was before my paperback copy was never returned to me. Luckily, I found an e-book. Thank you techy gods!

I think I decided to re-read this because I was curious to know whether or not the twentysomething me would still love it. I was only a high school sophomore then so what the heck did I know about "good" books anyway. At first, I thought it would maybe be like watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and then realizing how it totally sucked - I can't believe I had a huge crush on Tommy (complete with Kimberly's high-pitched squeals).

Well, you know what, I STILL LOVE IT! So, it shall remain as one of my all-time favorite love stories ever. Granted, it may not have the most original plot - in fact, I'm pretty sure it can fit right in with all the New Adult books these days, minus all the angst - but considering it was published in 1999, I think it's really amazing.

The Promise is a story about the simple kind of love. These days, most books that I read portray it as something complicated - too much angst, characters with troubled pasts, trust issues, and so on. I've said this before but it seems like in order to find true love in fiction, you have to be someone with a past. OK, rant over. Anyway, what I'm trying to say here is that I like how this made me feel good about love and how it made me believe that it will always find its way back to you. I know that a lot of people think that's probably too idealistic - as I do, sometimes - but I guess I'll always be a hopeless romantic and this, for me, is just a beautiful read.

"These beads will be our bond, a physical bond, buried fast for as long as this rock, and this beach, and these trees stand here. All right?"
"All right". He smiled softly. "We're being very romantic."
"Why not? If you're lucky enough to have love, celebrate it! Give it a home!"
"You're right. You're absolutely right. Okay, here's its home."
"Now let's make a promise. I promise never to forget what is here, or to forget what they stand for. Now you." She touched his hand, and he smiled down at her again. He had never loved her more.
"And I promise... I promise never to say good-bye to you..." And then for no reason in particular, they laughed. Because it felt good to be young, to be romantic, even to be corny.

[Diya✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

First DS book I read and I was very moved and I wish there was epilogue! The book is way better than the film so much more depth and it was good read! Despite being old book it felt timeless. Michael was dead to the world when he lost the love of life and it was clear he was truly shattered and closed off. DS captured this and you can feel their pain throughout the story. The ending was sweet. A keeper for sure!

[Pam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Published in 1978 and my 1st DS book. Re-read and still enjoyed it. "the early morning sun streamed across their backs as they unhooked their bicycles in front of Eliot House on the Harvard campus."

Nancy, an aspiring artist and orphan, and Michael, from a wealthy background, promise to love each other always. Nancy is not who Michael's mother would choose for her son & expresses her distaste and disapproval for this relationship. Michael, has always been the dutiful son to his widowed mother but defies her by setting off to marry Nancy. A tragic car accident changes everything. Michael has been told Nancy died in the accident and focuses on the family business. In truth, Nancy has been convinced to accept Mrs. Hilliards offer of medical assistance -- considerable reconstructive plastic surgery w/ the proviso that she not contact her son. Nancy has not given up on Michael, because she is sure he will come find her. However as time passes she begins to lose hope...until their paths cross again.

[Suz]

I may not be able to source a hard copy of the book, but oh my the dvd is the oldest and worst copy movie I’ve seen! So unclear I think it should be vhs 🤣 And even MORE corny, or should I say CRINGE, if that can be at all possible!

[Preetam Chatterjee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This review was written in that dim corridor of days between the 22nd and 28th of October, 2025 — a week blurred by the hiss of oxygen and the slow drip of IV lines at Bellona Nursing Home & Diagnostic Centre Pvt. Ltd. I was then a reluctant guest of illness, recovering from an infection that had seized both lungs and kidneys. Forgive, therefore, the infrequent tremor in my language; it bears the soft delirium of painkillers and the fragile clarity of a mind half-dreaming between fever and thought.

The title The Promise seems innocent enough, but within it hums the tragedy of the signifier: the word that swears fidelity even as it gestures toward its own inevitable breach.

Danielle Steel’s 1977 novel begins with lovers cradled in the warmth of anticipation—Nancy and Michael, young, radiant, engaged. The world before the crash. And then the accident: the literal one that shatters their bodies and the metaphysical one that fractures the continuity of their love. It’s a story that might have been told by a sentimental realist, but Steel turns it into a meditation on absence, substitution, and the violence of renewal.

Nancy awakens disfigured and alone, her face remade by surgeons who erase not only her scars but her identity. Michael, told she has died, retreats into grief. The entire plot pivots on this Derridean impossibility: presence through absence.

Nancy exists as a trace—alive yet dead, real yet fictional, a subject reconstructed through language and surgical intervention. If ever Steel brushed against post-structuralist territory, this is it. Her heroine becomes the site of différance, perpetually deferred, her original self displaced by the narrative’s need for restoration.

In my hospital bed, tubes trailing like syntax, I felt a peculiar kinship with Nancy. Illness, too, performs an erasure: the self dissolves into the machinery of survival. You are reconstituted by doctors, translated into data, and reauthored. When Steel describes Nancy’s mirror scene—her recognition that she is both herself and not-herself—I flinched. Kristeva’s notion of abjection floated in like a hallucination. The body betrays, but it also insists on its new grammar.

Steel’s language here is deceptively simple, even banal, yet it trembles with the ache of the unspeakable. “He loved her once,” Nancy thinks, “before she became someone else.” That line, stripped of flourish, is a miniature of the human condition: we are all loved in a tense that has expired. The novel’s sentimental surface conceals a profound temporal melancholy. Love in The Promise is always retrospective, always haunted by its own impossibility.

The surgeon who remakes Nancy becomes a perverse kind of author—a god rewriting his subject for the sake of aesthetic order. This echoes Barthes’ “Death of the Author”, inverted: here, the author’s intervention kills the character’s autonomy.

Nancy’s new face is a palimpsest, her skin carrying the ghost of its former text. She moves through the world as fiction incarnate. I thought of Derrida’s dissemination, the scattering of meaning across infinite contexts. Nancy is disseminated across identities—alive, dead, beloved, forgotten—her truth existing only in contradiction.

Steel’s readers often accuse her of melodrama, but I suspect her intuition is philosophical. The hospital scenes, the secret identities, the slow-motion reunions—all these are narrative manifestations of the trauma of language itself. To name something is to lose its fullness; to promise is to defer fulfillment indefinitely. The lovers’ tragedy becomes a metaphor for the gap between signifier and signified.

And yet, The Promise isn’t purely despairing. Steel, perhaps unconsciously, invents a theology of repair. The new Nancy is not merely a victim but a revision. When she finally meets Michael again, he doesn’t recognise her, yet feels an inexplicable pull—a Derridean trace of the original love. Recognition happens not through vision but through resonance, through what Kristeva would call the semiotic—the rhythm of shared emotion preceding language. Steel seems to suggest that love, like text, survives its own translation.

Around the fifth night of my convalescence, I found myself rereading the chapter of the reunion while listening to the ventilator’s steady pulse. The rhythm was uncanny: a mechanical heartbeat underscoring a story of organic loss. The novel’s structure mirrored my own recovery—fragmented, hesitant, stitched together from moments of clarity and narcotic blur. Steel’s world, though drenched in glamour and sentiment, holds within it the geometry of trauma.

Nancy’s reconstructed beauty is both a blessing and a curse. She becomes the embodiment of Derrida’s pharmakon—both poison and cure. Her new face liberates her from social judgement, yet imprisons her in anonymity. When Michael finally learns the truth, their love is both resurrected and transformed; it is no longer innocent but reflexive. The promise they once made—“forever”—returns as an ironic echo, contaminated by loss and time.

Reading this, I couldn’t help but think of Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse, those fragmented aphorisms that mourn the impossibility of reciprocity. Nancy’s silence—her inability to reveal herself for fear of rejection—is pure Barthes: the lover as a being suspended between speech and its futility. Steel dramatises what theory articulates: love as the art of deferral.

But Steel also betrays theory in the best way. She refuses to leave us in abstraction. Her characters bleed, cry, and rebuild. There’s an almost spiritual tenderness in her insistence on healing, even when that healing is incomplete. Perhaps that’s why her novels endure—not because they resolve pain, but because they insist on its visibility. She teaches us that scars are semiotic systems: they signify survival.

When I closed The Promise, dawn was sliding through the curtains like liquid silver. I imagined Nancy’s reflection merging with mine in the dark glass of the window. Both of us altered, both of us waiting for recognition. Steel, in her unassuming prose, captures the truth that theory often circles but never touches: that the self, once broken, can never return intact—but it can still be loved.

The novel’s final gesture—a kiss, a reconciliation, a future—feels both artificial and inevitable. It’s the closure demanded by narrative, the suturing of the wound so the reader can breathe again. But beneath that neat ending hums the ghost of what cannot be healed.

Steel’s lovers walk into the sunset not as redeemed figures, but as survivors of linguistic and corporeal mutilation.

Somewhere, perhaps, that is the real promise: not eternity, not perfection, but the fragile courage to exist after disfigurement. To believe that recognition is possible even when the face, the voice, the self, have all changed.

I lay back, eyes heavy, the machines whispering their lullabies. And in that half-dreaming space, Nancy’s final line returned to me—not as text, but as pulse: “He knew her, even without knowing her.”

That, I think, is the closest Steel ever comes to theory—to love as the miracle of misrecognition, the refusal of death to have the last word.

Try it, by all means.

[Lenny Husen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very romantic story. I first read it at age 15 and really loved it, read it again as an adult and thought it was silly. Why wouldn't he want to look for her grave? But okay, allowing for that, and how easily the main characters get everything they want or think they want, this is a fun little romance. Danielle Steel is a dreadful writer but this book is OK, if you have to read one by her this is the least nauseating. I think she had help with this one, at least I read that that was the case.

[Youmna S. El-Din · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gotta admit that at the beginning I did not like this novel much ,but as I kept on reading it just caught me with the specific details and the dramatic changes that happens to almost every character in this novel .Danielle Steel sure is a great and talented writer to write such a fascinating novel ,this was my first book to read by Danielle Steel but it sure is not going to be the last.

[Laura Da Rosa · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the book the Promise by Danielle Steel we are taught many life lessons, we learn that no mater what incidents happen in life it goes on and eventually you'll get through it, your taught that if you care about something or someone enough the love will never fade away. The main characters in the book Nancy and Michael are young and madly in love with each other, Michael's mother though is not a fan of Nancy and doesn't approve of her as Michael's girlfriend or wife.
Late one night they decide that they truly are in love and want to get married so they decided they would drive off the two of them and Michael's best friend. One there way there everything was normal until the weren't paying attention and a car came head on into the lane and crashed. Michael and Nancy were both hurt badly and the friend had just a few damages, but Michael and NAncy both woke up in the hospital not knowing what happened to the other. Michaels mom however thought this was the perfect time to get rid of nancy, so she told Nancy that if she would agree to be sent away and never talk to Michael again unless he found her she would pay to fix all her injuries from the accident and reconstruct her face, Nancy said yes. But the only way this would work is Michaels mom telling him NAncy died so she did so.
They both began to lead their lives, both in misery, Nancy beginning with surgeries and Michael back in the office pretty much living there to try and get things off his mind. Both of them found new people to fall in love with and start a family with, but one day when Nancy was feeling lost she decided she had to go back, not to Michael just somewhere where they had spent a lot of time together while she was there Michael showed up. They were both in amazement in what was going on fell back in love within minutes and decided to get married and do it right this time, they kept their promise.

[Julie Barrett · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Promise by Danielle Steel
Michael Hillard and Nancy MacAllister are to be wed but the car accident prior to the wedding
leaves others to wonder if they will keep their vow. He is an architect and she is an artist.
His wealthy mother disapproves though...They will be separated but will it keep them apart?
He is appalled that his mother have a private eye find out about Nancy's past=like it was her fault who her parents turned out to be.
On their way to get married the car crashes and he's unconscious and she has lost her face. When his mother visits in the hospital she pays for
Peter to not only care for her in CA but to rebuild her face and life-away from Michael.
Going through face restorations she is not sure why Michael doesn't come to visit her. She doesn't know that his mother told him that she had died.
The book follows each of them as their new lifes begin...
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).

[Redfox5 · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've not long read 'Accident' by Steel which also featured a Car Crash as one of the main plot points. And whereas I couldn't put 'Accident' down, The Promise fell flat.

I think the problem was the characters just didn't have much personality. It was hard to care about them. I didn't find the reasons they gave for the choices they made very believable. The whole Nancy/Marie thing was weird. It was strange that she had coaching to change her voice but in the end I understood why that was in there as it was used in the plot. Her relationship with Peter was professionally very wrong.

It just wasn't the kind of book where you ignore other things, and for a Steel book, it was pretty short but it felt much longer. It was okay but not very exciting.

[Carolyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

An oldie, but a goodie! I wish there was an epilogue. The author tends to do that a lot. Still love the books though.

[Stella]

First book I ever read because I was bored. I was grounded in high school and I stayed up all night to finish it. It was great! I went on to read Danielle Steel for several years. I loved the way she described the women in the stories and the places they went and where they lived. Just beautitul!

[Lexi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Promise
Author: Danielle Steel

Michael Hillyard and Nancy McAllister are madly in love. Michael met Nancy at a Boston Gallery where her work was being shown. She is an artist and he is a famous architect. He asked her out and fell madly in love with her. Nancy wasn't too quick to jump into a serious relationship. Her mother had left her as a young child in an orphanage. She just abandoned her. Nancy had not really healed from it. She doesn't want to trust or love anyone. Michael kept asking her out and proved to her he was someone who could be trusted. They are so in love. Michael and Nancy want to have a small wedding.
Michael comes from a very wealthy family. They have many family values and traditions. His mother is like the queen of the family. Michael has always done everything he could to please his mother. Nancy knows his mother doesn't like her. She acts nice when Michael is around but Nancy knows she thinks she’s just a fling. She won’t accept that Michael is really in love with her. His mother doesn't think she is good enough for her son.
One day when Michael and Nancy are riding their bikes they pass a man selling stuff. Michael asks Nancy if she would like a pink stuffed doggie. She chooses a cheap blue beaded necklace. They keep going on there bike ride and when they stop at a very pretty site she takes off the beads and buries them in the dirt at the base of the big tree. She says lets make a promise to never forget what is here or for what it stands for. He then says I promise to never say goodbye to you.
As soon as Michael’s mother finds out they're planning a wedding. She hires a private investigator to dig up bad things on Nancy. As soon as she finds out that she was an orphan she tells Michael he can’t marry her. They get into a big fight.
Michael calls his Best Friend Ben and the three of them decide that Michael and Nancy should just run away and get married. Their driving and are all talking and not paying attention to the road and all of a sudden a huge truck is in both lanes coming right at them.They get in a huge accident. Ben first comes to and sees Mike is alive but barely breathing. Then he looks at Nancy and sees her beautiful face is just ripped off! He didn’t know if she was even alive.
They all end up in the hospital. Nancy gets flown to another one because of her injuries. His mother tells Michael that Nancy died!
Michaels mother goes to the hospital where Nancy is and tells her that she will never be anything but hideous and Michael is starting a career in a job that is too powerful to have a wife that looks like her. She tells her it is the best thing for both of them. She insists that if she loves Michael she will stay out of his life. His mother also says that she told Michael what hospital she is in and if he really loved her he would come and see her. After a while when he never comes to see Nancy she believes his mother and accepts her money and plastic surgeon to fix her face. She also promises not to try and contact Michael. What Nancy also doesn't know is that his mother gave a different picture to the plastic surgeon so he would make her look totally different. That way Michael would never know it’s her even if he ran into her somewhere!
She has the surgery and when she sees her face she decides to change her name too. She is so upset about Michael not caring about her she figures she should just be someone else.
She then continues her career as an artist and photographer under a different name. She is now Marie and lives on the west coast.
One day her office gets a request for her to do some work at company in Boston. When she arrives for the appointment she notices that the President’s office has one of her paintings hanging in it. She then realizes it is the one she had given to Michael. She now realizes she is going to be face to face with him and runs out of the office. She doesn't want to see him.
He calls her office and wants to know why she won’t even keep her appointment or do work for him. He even asks her if it is something personal or something against his firm. She is so upset. She feels the one person who she truly loved abandoned her like her mother did. She has no idea he really doesn't know that she survived the accident. She doesn't know that his mother is a really wicked and mean person.
She finally decides to meet him for coffee and just keeps getting madder at him because he does not know who she really is.
She then leaves and while she is in town she drives to the spot where her and Michael and buried the blue beads. While she is sitting there she decides to dig them up. As soon as she gets them a man’s voice says you can't have them! They belong to someone else. Someone I loved and never forgot! He then walked up to her and said I promised to never say goodbye and I never did.
She then told him you never came to see me or find me. He tells her he was told she died. She admitted she promised to stay out of his life if they gave her a new face. They immediately find all the love they have for each other and tell each other how much they love each other. They then decide they are going to get married immediately. He told her he started noticing things about her that were so much like his Nancy and that his mother finally admitted what she had done. She begged for forgiveness and he ran out looking for her. He could find her in the city and decided to go to their spot to just remember her and when he got there he realized she was already there. They now know they really belong together!
This book was very good and very powerful about true love. It also teaches you to watch for people who will do anything to get there way even pay you off to stay out of someone’s life. But this book showed that true love can’t be broken.

[Deity World · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars wow this was a promise made for life very emotional and tragic love story between two people

[Mela · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wanted to face the "Queen" Steel, whom I remember was popular when I was a child. Maybe I chose the wrong book, but WOW. It was as bad as I could expect from an "awful romance".

An incredible situation (facial reconstruction) and melodrama surrounded by boring scenes. Actually, I didn't read most of the pages, I just skimmed them - and I'm sure I didn't lose anything of the story.

[Susan Siow · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just finished re-reading this (first read it as a teenager), and did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Perhaps it's a genre that I've since outgrown.

[lacy white · Rating 3 out of 5]

tw: rape remark, car accident

Personally I prefer the older Danielle Steel. This one was published in 1999, hence why I consider it her older work. Her older work has more of a story. Less tell and more show. The conversations amongst the characters are better. Everything about her older work is just better. But sadly, this one wasn't the best I've read.

I think my problem with the book and why I didn't love it was because of how forgiving Michael was to his mother. This woman cost him the love of his life and all because Nancy was an orphan and an artist. His mother didn't think she was good enough for Michael. Michael was just like “Oh it's okay mom! Lol!” If that happened to me, I would have been furious.

Besides my spoiler tag, there wasn't much to this story. Just two people trying to rebuild there lives after a car accident. It spans over the course of two years and Michael and Nancy get plenty of screen time. I wasn't super keen on the doctor and Nancy being together. It felt like a weird power imbalance and I just wasn't about that.

Overall, this wasn't the worst book I've read of Danielle Steel but I've read better. It was a nice filler book and quick and easy read.

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A poor girl marries a rich boy and is unacceptable to her new mother-in-law. When she is in a car accident and terribly disfigured, her mother-in-law pays for her reconstructive surgery on the condition that she will disappear from her son's life. This was a TV movie (and Ms Steele wrote the books afterwards) with Kathleen Quinlan and Steven Collins.

[Purvika · Rating 5 out of 5]

o my god seriously this was my first book ever... the story the lines it was just o my god have no words .... just hooked my with love stories for ever .... i still carry the paperback copy of this bold its even smells old but when ever i look at it i remember the days i kept think abt this book ... :)

[Sheila · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the very first book I read by this author and fell in love with her style of writing as I could 'picture' the story unfolding in my mind. Years later I saw the movie and although it was good I could honestly say that the book was so much better and I have been reading her books ever since.

[Caitlin Blechschmidt · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!!!!!!!!!! I READ IT IN ONE DAY I COULDNT PUT IT DOWN!!!! MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BOX OF TISSUES!!!

[Mary · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolute trite.

[Isis Ray-sisco · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a reread for me. I enjoyed it as much as I did the fist time years ago. I love DS books and I am glad I agreed to do this for a buddy read.

[Nick Stewart · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm always amazed at the lengths snooty matriarchs will go to, just to keep poor, deserving girls from marrying their sons.