Season of Passion

by Danielle Steel

Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggest pro-football stars.  They share an idyllic and glamorous first love.  But the bullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together.  A failed suicide attempt will leave him mentally and physically disabled forever.  Kate will be left alone, heartbroken, and pregnant with their son.  Soon she will have another chance at love, but it will mean learning to let go of the past and learning to trust again.

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

434 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1979

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.

Facebook.com/DanielleSteelOfficial
Instagram: @officialdaniellesteel

Reviews

[Duaa Hafiz · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lamest book I've ever read in my life.

[Demi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read as part of a book club- l trashiest, worst book I’ve ever read. So ridiculous and yet so boring. The writing style was horrible and all over the place. My favourite line was “he’s not going to rape you, unless you get lucky”. Special mention to the overt sexualising of children, the weird incesty vibes, and romanticising coercive control.

[Ricci · Rating 4 out of 5]

I find the book awe inspiring for me. It talks about so many things, love, fame, and most of all the not feeling guilty about holding back and moving on.
I like Katie's character very much. She's such a strong-willed woman and she knows want she wants. Though at first, she was one of those women, like most of us, who gets easily attached with a guy and make them our world.
The kind of women who had the tendency when loving someone, forgets to leave some for herself. But eventually, after all the things that happened to her, she managed to become the person that she wants to be.

At 18 she fell in love with Tom, a pro-football player. Because of it, her parents disowned her. During the rough time of their marriage life, her husband who wasn't as strong as her, was having a hard time dealing with the reality of life. He attempted to kill himself yet it failed. Leaving him alive but only to be kept in a sanatorium. The effect of the bullet on his brain had caused him to become like a 7 year old kid. She was pregnant when it happened. I can only imagine how she managed giving birth to her son without his husband. Good thing her bestfriend was always there for her. Right after she gave birth, she kept herself away from the real world and has been hiding in darkness. It wasn't a complete dark place for her though because she had her son whom she loves so much more than anything else in the world. Later on in her life after 7 years of hiding, she finally met a man she fell in love with and who pulled her out from the black whole. It was one hell of a journey for her with her new found love and his son but with their unconditional love for each other they managed to stay strong. What makes me love the book the most is how it talked about being a woman who wanted to be free from all the pains and sorrows that she had been through. It talked about how a woman could have so much love to give even without leaving a little for herself. It was also about a woman who's been struggling to get over the guilt of loving herself again like she hasn't done to herself a long time ago. And most of all, it showed how much strength a woman can have and how great a woman's ability is to trust again after having gone through so much heartache in her life.

This book may not be the kind that gives you butterflies in your stomach on every page but it definitely has lots of love in it.

[M · Rating 1 out of 5]

It took me so long to get through this because...well, it was terrible. I love cheesy...this was worse than cheesy. Not her best work. Second half was better than the first.

[Veni · Rating 3 out of 5]

I usually read suspense, thrillers or crime novels. I am exploring new genres so this is my first Danielle Steel novel. It was a pretty quick read. Strong female lead with remarkable loyalty and commitment. I experienced lots of emotions: happiness, sadness, pity, irritation and pride. I liked the simplicity but honesty of the writing and didn't have to google facts and events which I am unfamiliar with. Looking forward to readung more books by her.

[Gabyal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buen libro, la historia un poco triste y el final no fue mi hit

[Pratima Das · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about a woman called Kate who fell in love with a pro- football player called Tom Harper and got married. They had a great married life together, and Kate becomes pregnant with a baby boy. Tom started playing really bad because he was getting old, and he had anger issues and had a bad reputation in the media.One day with an attempt of suicide he shot himself in the head but didn't die, but instead his mind became of a 7 year old, and that problem was incurable.He was sent to a place for people like him for the rest of his life.
Kate was left alone with her baby, and all she did was write a book, take care of her child and go meet her husband, she kept doing that for 7 years, with no motive in life. No one knew Tom was still alive, everyone knew he was dead.
Kate realized she has to do something with her life, so she published her book, and met a man called Nick. They fell in love, but Kate still went to meet Tom at times.Nick asked her if they could get married, but Kate always thought if it would be fair to Tom, because he was still alive and was her husband. Kate didn't tell Nick that Tom was still alive. One day Nick finds out that Tom was still alive and talks to Kate about it, he told her that he would accept her with him. Kate says that she would wait for the right time to get married to him. One day Kate becomes pregnant with Nick's child, and they finally decide they will stay together and that she could meet Tom.

While reading this book i thought about how Kate felt, having her husband alive but not the way he should have been but instead a 7 year old and the way she felt when she was in love with Nick, but her husband alive. It kept me thinking how everything will happen, but it was great. I really liked it. :D

[Sonal Shriti · Rating 1 out of 5]

Given the plot of the story , this book could have been finished in about 150 pages. I did not care for the couple at all (Kate and Nick).
I felt like every man Kate met (which was 4) made her feel like he was different from the rest.
The book also had 2 sexual harassment jokes that did not sit well with me.
So, this book was definitely not for me. would not recommend.

[Anne Diouf · Rating 2 out of 5]

Waste of time. Worst Danielle Steele book I have read so far.

[Sofia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hasta ahora es el que más me gustó, un libro sin complicaciones, que podes leer sin sentir emociones muy fuertes, pero que hace sentir mucho. Otra protagonista con gran crecimiento, hombres espléndidos, mucha madurez en una obra. Hay solamente algo que vi en dos de sus obras ya y es el hecho de usar la frase "te voy a violar" como algo tierno, se entiende por el contexto, pero me sigue causando algo...

[Marija Mladenović · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nik mi se baš, baš svideo, dok me je Kejt u nekim trenucima mnogo nervirala.

[Matilde · Rating 1 out of 5]

começou interessante mas é uma seca

[T. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don’t really remember this but there appears to be a football on the cover so I’m guessing it wasn’t a favorite.

[Jax · Rating 3 out of 5]

kaitlyn harper is disowned by her upper crust parents when she falls in love with football superstar Tom. Kaitlyn happily leaves her parents nest without a look back and for the first year or 2 with tom things are heavenly until Toms contract with the football league comes up for review. Tom knows he has limited time left in his career but instead of making the most of the time left Tom starts drinking heavily and gets into one fight after another until one fight gos to far and Tom whether purposely or accidentally shoots himself in the head.

Tom survives but the brain damage is to great and the man he once was is lost forever. Kate is forced to place Tom in a sanatorium to see out the rest of his days. Kate then escapes to the country where she gives birth to Toms child. For 6 years Kate hides in the country keeping her former life a secret from everybody including her and Toms son Tygue. To fill her days between car pooling and parenting Kates retreat is in her writing. After writing her first novel which was a flop Kate accendentally writes a best seller and the life she had carefully built up in the country started to crumble.

Through her first book tour Kate meets Nick Waterman who she gradually falls in love with. However Kate is soon caught up in the glamour of celebrity as fame goes to her head and her sense of self entitlement ends up before everything else including her son. It takes Tygue running away from home for a second time for Kate to see how selfish she has been and how much she has to lose...

Through nearly losing everything she has ever cared about Kate gets it together and focuses on her future with Nick, Tygue and the child she is carrying.

An enjoyable read but often times a frustrating read when you can see where Kate is going wrong and you just want to grab her and shake her and ask her whats wrong with her. Its also a heartbreaking story for anyone who has felt the loss of a loved one. Prepare to have those tissues handy if you decide to read this one.

[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.

Danielle Steel’s Season of Passion is a novel that seems to emerge not from the page but from a pulse — a rhythmic throb of desire and despair that doesn’t belong to time so much as to recurrence. Having just drifted through Passion’s Promise (or Golden Moments), one recognises this book’s haunting echo, as if Steel herself is rewriting the same melody in a different key, testing whether love can survive a change of season. There’s Kate, luminous and wounded; there’s Tom, the archetype of masculine certainty; and there’s the world—merciless in its insistence that love and loss must coexist.

But what fascinates me is the way this novel performs repetition as revelation. Barthes would have smiled: the text is a lover’s discourse looping endlessly back on itself. Steel’s syntax — always plain, never ornamental — carries a kind of secret violence; every short declarative sentence strikes like a heartbeat on the ECG monitor beside my hospital bed. “He loved her. She needed him. She left.” It’s as if grammar itself refuses to console.

Reading it in that sterilised space, I found myself thinking of Kristeva’s Powers of Horror—her meditation on abjection, on the blurred line between love and the body’s decay. Kate’s yearning isn’t romantic in the sentimental sense; it’s an encounter with abjection — that trembling awareness that what she loves can also destroy her.

Steel, knowingly or not, turns romance into a kind of soft apocalypse: the destruction of the self in pursuit of the other. And as I read, feverish, every cough sounded like an echo of that destruction, a reminder that love, too, is an infection — beautiful, invasive, incurable.

There’s something deeply cinematic about Season of Passion, and yet it’s a cinema of interiors — emotional rather than visual. Steel doesn’t show you landscapes; she gives you the trembling of eyelids, the hesitations between sentences. Derrida would call it a trace: what remains after meaning has departed. Kate’s every gesture is haunted by what she cannot say, what she has already lost. And in this, Steel achieves something profoundly modernist under her commercial skin: she writes the absence at the heart of desire.

Halfway through the book, I began to sense a parallel between Steel’s lovers and the machinery of the hospital around me. Both operate through cycles of dependence, surrender, and repair.

The IV lines feeding my body were not so different from the invisible lines of emotional codependency that bind Kate and Tom. To love, in Steel’s world, is to become medicalised — the body submitting to another’s rhythm, the heart waiting for permission to beat again. When Tom withdraws, Kate collapses. When he returns, she resurrects. It’s theology disguised as romance: resurrection scripted in lowercase prose.

And yet, there’s irony here. Steel’s narrative insists on a return to normalcy, to domestic order — marriage, forgiveness, and the restoration of equilibrium. But her subtext refuses closure. The reader senses that the “season” never ends; passion is cyclical, a climate of the soul. Derrida might call it différance — desire forever deferred, meaning endlessly postponed. Even the title promises what it cannot deliver: a single season, a contained experience, when in truth, passion leaks, seeps, and overflows.

Confession: I wept at a passage I would have scoffed at years ago. “She looked at him, and for the first time, she saw herself.” Such a simple line, but under a morphine haze, it felt seismic. Perhaps because illness forces a similar reckoning — when you look at your body and realise it’s been both enemy and companion all along. Kate’s realisation mirrored my own slow return to selfhood, each breath a reminder of fragile autonomy. Steel, dismissed so often as sentimental, understands something raw: that sentimentality is not weakness, but survival.

The novel’s architecture — linear, predictable, almost banal — conceals an emotional labyrinth. Every return to the theme of reconciliation feels like a failed exorcism. Steel writes in the mode of repetition-compulsion Freud described: the neurotic’s doomed attempt to master trauma by reliving it. Love, for Kate, becomes precisely that — a way of rehearsing her own wounds until they start to sing. I recognised the rhythm; it was the same compulsion that made me reread lines of Kristeva during sleepless nights at Bellona, hoping to find meaning in the recurrence of pain.

Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse offers the perfect key: the lover is always waiting — for the phone to ring, for the beloved to return, for the sentence to end. Steel’s heroines live in that eternal waiting. They are not agents but dreamers of agency, suspended between the text’s commas. When Kate says, “I will never love again,” it’s not a declaration but a prophecy of repetition. She will love again, and it will hurt again. That’s the Steelian truth: the inevitability of return.

As I reached the final chapters, the hospital’s night nurse dimmed the lights. The room was soaked in blue quiet. I turned the page and saw the familiar end—reconciliation, a promise of forever—and yet I felt no closure, only a faint vertigo, as if the novel’s ending had already been swallowed by its beginning. Love, like illness, leaves residues. The body heals, but the scar remembers. Kate’s final embrace with Tom might as well be the tightening of my hospital blanket — an act of warmth tinged with dread, comfort edged by fragility.

In retrospect, Season of Passion reads like a secret mirror to the act of recovery itself. Every romance plot is, in essence, a healing narrative — the attempt to reconstitute a broken self through another’s touch. But Steel’s brilliance lies in her refusal to let that healing feel whole. There’s always an undertone of incompletion, an ache that survives the resolution. And that’s why her novels endure: they don’t promise eternal love; they perform its failure beautifully.

When the IV was finally removed, a tiny bruise bloomed on my wrist. I stared at it, thinking of Kate’s final words: “It will never be the same.” Neither will I, nor will she, nor will any reader who understands that passion’s true season is the one that never ends.

[Kris (My Novelesque Life) · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 STARS

"Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggest pro-football stars. They share an idyllic and glamorous first love. But the bullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together. A failed suicide attempt will leave him mentally and physically disabled forever. Kate will be left alone, heartbroken, and pregnant with their son. Soon she will have another chance at love, but it will mean learning to let go of the past and learning to trust again." (From Amazon)

Originally when I read Danielle Steel novels I would have rated them 3-4 STARS, but now I would classify them as 1-2 STARS. These are great for those who like mild sex, unrealistic dramatic romances and grand plots.

[Theresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow … a little bit tough going to begin with, but then it definitely captured my interest and in true Danielle Steel genre the plot came through; young love and marriage, parental disappointment, sport, success, destruction, isolation, caregiving and sacrifice, the joy and trials of offspring, realizing a hidden dream, maturing into womanhood and finally finding love. The recipe for a storyline that needed me to read to the end in the early hours of morning, satisfying my romantic streak, especially on this cold autumn night. It was cozy to immerse myself in the up and down lives of Kate, Tom and Knight in shining armour Nick. All in all a good read!

[Chrissy Hale · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would have given this book 5 stars but unfortunately Kate turned selfish about 3/4 way through the book. She is in New York and her son is in San Francisco and her son (who is six years old) has an accident but she just can’t go home to him because she deserves the right to have a life. WTH!!! Her son is going through a lot towards the end of the book and she just takes off to New York because she deserves the right to a life. 😳😳 She doesn’t deserve Nick or Tygue. I just want to reach into the book, grab her, and shake the hell out of her.

[Jeff Fong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Season Of Passion is extremely fun to read novel. Kate, an 18 year old, meets a man, Tom, which is a professional football player. They eventually fall in love, get married, and all the usual things that happen in a book. After that, a failed suicide attempt is thrown into the book and this causes Kate to lose all trust in everything that she does. I find this book fun to read because its funny how you can fail a suicide, but still, in all seriousness, this was a fantastic novel.

[Gizella Tóth · Rating 2 out of 5]

A magyar fordítás sántikál egy-két helyen (pl. "Nick úgy érezte, mintha földrengés érte volna." - hmm, érdekes érzés lehetett -, vagy ki gondolta volna, hogy Ámerikában is Mucsán laknak az emberek:) A csaj idegesítő, a pasi túl megértő, túl tökéletes, s ha véletlenül mégis kikel magából, gyorsan meg is bánja, akár jogos, akár nem a felháborodása. Ezzel együtt úgy vélem, öt-hat évenként egy-egy Steel elmegy. :)

[Amira · Rating 2 out of 5]

"season of passion" the worst book i've ever red, i hated most of it, i think the story was sort of interesting but the writing ruin it, it made it look so cheesy and stupid besides i found the main caracter (Kate) extremely boring and annoying. in other words, this book was a total fail. reading it was a waste of time.

[Valeria Ruiz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mi opinion:

Como siempre está autora logra sorprenderme con sus libros, con sus historias y con su forma de escribir.

En esta oportunidad cuenta la historia de Kate, una joven que se enamora y deja toda su vida para vivir con Tom, un deportista profesional conocido. Pero el deporte trae muchos problemas, y entre ellos el abandono del equipo a cierta edad, un problema que Tom no lleva nada bien y que le hizo cometer una serie de actos que cambian su vida por completo y también la vida de Kate.

La historia es muy interesante, en primer lugar, se trata el tema de la fama como un mundo en el que es mucho más fácil entrar y dejarse llevar por el dinero que salir. Una vida realmente peligrosa si no sabes dónde está el límite de la fama ya que puede volverte loco. 

Y en segundo lugar, se trata el tema del miedo a confiar en alguien y contarle todo tu pasado cuando no quieres volver a revivir todo lo que en él sucedió. La dificultad de volver a confiar en alguien cuando mucha gente te ha hecho mucho daño.

Me gusto la fuerza de Kate para salir adelante con todos los problemas que se le presentaron.

Su amor incondicional hacia Tom y por ser esa gran madre que fue.

Su mejor amiga Felicia la adore. Fue un pilar muy importante.

Hasta la llegada de Nick, que decir de este hombre. Me encantó, su amor por ella, su paciencia, el amor para con su hijo. Y como se fieron las cosas entre ellos me gustó, siento que fue un poco rápido pero era justo lo que ella necesitaba.

Es un libro muy breve y rápido de leer que esconde una gran historia, una historia sencilla pero a la vez trata temas que te hacen ponerte en la piel de la protagonista para comprender sus actuaciones y que te deja un buen sabor de boca.

[Lima Angelica · Rating 5 out of 5]

#09 - Tempo para amar - Danielle Steel
Nota:8,5(1-10)

Fascinante. Não conseguia parar de ler. Uma história envolvente e uma lição de vida. O lema é nunca desistir e seguir em frente. Quando tudo parece negro, algo de bom vai acontecer.
É sem dúvida uma bonita história de amor com muitas lições de vida. A escritora mostra-nos a nossa humanidade e a forma como podemos ultrapassar as licitudes da vida, lutando de várias formas e nunca desistir. Há várias "Kates" pelo mundo fora, deviam aprender.

SINOPSE
Kate tinha apenas dezoito anos quando conheceu Tom Harper, uma grande estrela do futebol americano. O amor entre eles foi fulminante e começaram a viver uma idílica história de amor. Infelizmente os pais de Kate — pertencentes à alta burguesia — não aprovam o romance da filha, e quando ela insiste em continuar o namoro expulsam-na de casa.
Tom tudo faz para que ela esqueça a crueldade dos pais, e Kate começa a viver num mundo glamuroso, de luxo e de fama. Tudo corria bem até que a carreira de Tom começa a declinar e ele tenta suicidar-se. O suicídio não é bem-sucedido e como consequência disso, Tom fica paralisado e com a mentalidade de uma criança de sete anos. Grávida e com o marido deficiente Kate sente o seu mundo a desmoronar e todos os seus sonhos destruídos.
Refugia-se no campo com o filho, enquanto o marido é internado numa casa de saúde. Para tentar exorcizar os seus fantasmas, Kate dedica-se à escrita. Graças ao sucesso alcançado pelo livro, Kate é persuadida a empreender uma viagem de promoção, mas será ela capaz de sair do seu isolamento e aceitar de novo o amor que surge na sua vida?

[Eileen623 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book more than 20 years ago and I liked it. Reading it again. I absolutely loved it. I remember thinking Daniel steel was too sappy too many cheer working moments. But this book was absolutely fabulous. You have a young couple who gets married. She’s beautiful he’s a football player, and he has an injury that affects his brain which leaves him permanently, mentally and physically disabled. His new bride does not want to give up on her husband, but she has to come to terms with the fact that has been she once knew, and love is no more. Add to that she is pregnant and has to be a single mom as her husband is mentally incapacitated. A trip to San Francisco changes her life and she meets a handsome gentleman. Even as she urines to explore the possibility of this new relationship, she has her young son to consider and she still loves her mentally unavailable husband. If you haven’t read this book, I suggest you sit down and give it a chance. This was Danielle steel at her best. Since this book was written before the invention of the Internet, tick-tock, and all these. daily essentials we think we can’t do without are not available. She can’t Google her husband‘s condition. She can’t pick up her cell phone and call the facility where he is housed. I don’t even believe there was a such thing as cable TV. So if you want to go back in time and read a wonderful book, this is a book for you. BTW, there’s a part in the story where her son goes missing. Since there was no such thing as GPS or find my iPhone they have to go search for him the old-fashioned way. Happy reading.

[ANGELIA · Rating 1 out of 5]

Danielle Steel is not my favorite author, but once in a while I check out her books because I saw mini-series based on them and they were pretty good. And this one could have been good, if Ms. Steel hadn't gone in a different direction with her h, Kate. At first, all my sympathies were with her and what she went through with her husband, Tom, and leaving her life in limbo while raising their son, Tygue, on her own. Then her relationship with Nick, how she fell in love with him but felt she couldn't be any more honest with him about Tom than she could with Tygue.

I was on her side, until she became a best-selling author, and turned into a self-centered celebrity for a while, with too big a fondness for the "F" word, among other bad language. She goes to New York and doesn't seem to give her son much thought, but gets all hurt when she comes across her dad, who she'd been estranged from for years, because he's gotten along so well without her. Meanwhile, she was doing fine without her son!

She was more mature when the story began than at this point, over seven years later! I got tired of her bratty bitch routine, not to mention getting the hots for an older guy after a fight with Nick. She didn't cheat, but thought about it, and when Nick finds out, she has the nerve to get angry at him!

That's where I quit reading, because I figured they'd work things out eventually, didn't want Ms. Narcissist to have a HEA.

[Sunni · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first novel that I have read by Danielle Steel. I enjoyed it thoroughly, and would recommend it as a well written book although I had a bit of difficulty swallowing the actions of the main character concerning her husband. I thought her way of handling her husband's life altering injury set her up for a long line of bad choices. I spent my experience with this novel yelling at her for being dumb, and I am sure that took a bit of the enjoyment out of it for me.

I could almost understand why she kept her husband's injury and the reasons it occurred from her son, but I didn't understand why she hid her husband from her son entirely. I was equally puzzled at her decision to pursue romantic involvement with another man that she would never be willing to marry until her current husband died. If her love or feeling of commitment was so strong towards her husband than the question of another romance shouldn't have even come up.

Maybe the author was trying to show something to her readers regarding human nature and morality that I just wasn't able to see. I must say that although I had terrible feelings about most of the decisions that the main character made I wasn't disappointed in the way the story was written. It kept my attention throughout even if it also kept me antagonized.

[Tammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story is about a professional football player for Chicago who is in the prime of his career when he meets 18 year old Kate at a party. He is attracted to her immediately and they start a whirlwind romance that is not getting any approval from her parents. They fall in love and Kate decides to drop out of collage which doesnt sit well with her parents. She tells them she is going to marry Tom and they tell her if she does they will disown her.

Tom starts to get more injuries while playing and his age is against him so he starts to get traded to other teams. fans are calling him a has been, coaches want younger players, owners dont want to pay the big bucks for someone that is injured and cant produce any more. He is more or less forced into retirement which he doesnt want. Kate just discovered she is pregnant with their first child and Tom wants to play football for one more year so he will make enough money for his family to be comfortable.... Things go terribly wrong and Tom makes the biggest mistake of his life

I dont want to divulge more without ruining the story but I didnt like Kate at all.. I hated how she treated her son and how selfish she seemed at time. A six year old child DOESNT OWE YOU ANYTHING!!! That part of the story infuriated me...

over all it was an interesting story that kept me turning the pages to find out what was going to happen next

[Dawn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had to remind myself that this book was older than me because I had a problem with the rape jokes and the homophobic slurs. I also found myself rolling my eyes at this book a lot.


I didn't hate Kate but I didn't really like her much by the time the book got to the halfway point. How dare her seven year old son have an accident when she's away being a star? And the fact he's upset at been lied to all his life, and she just leaves him.

I did also find her "I want to be a star but I want to hide away' personality annoying, too. She didn't bother me as much as Nick did.

I may be in the minority but this guy gave me red flags. He meets Kate at lunch, decides there that he's in love with her? Then, he turns up the next day, at her house and asks her to go away with him and the day after that, the pair are declaring love for each other and saying that it wouldn't be a bad thing if they got pregnant. After 3 days of meeting.

And instead of letting the trust build in their relationship, he gets a work mate to dig into her past.

I did love Felicia. I think if it wasn't for her, and wanting to see how the mess Kate had created for herself got resolved, I probably wouldn't have finished the book.

I do like Danielle Steel but I didn't like this book. Not the worst book I've read, but not my favourite book either.

[What to read next ....... · Rating 3 out of 5]

Season of Passion , 1979 Danielle Steel, WOW, this was an eye opener in many ways.
Danielle Steel 's writing and vocabulary, you could say was a little shocking , especially words used, will not be up to today's standards.

Kate's only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggest pro football stars.
They share an idyllic and glamorous first love.
But the bullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together.
A failed suicide attempt will leave him mentally and physically disabled forever.
Kate will be left alone heat broken and pregnant.

I was intrigued by Kate's story, she was very loyal to Tom, and put her life on hold for a very long time, its hard to imagine how stenous, her life was over the years and yet when she found love again, it was forever, she attracted good men and the men her life were gently full of compassion.

Just unfortunate not knowing what happened with Tom at the end, after the family vist .

Worth the read , excellent storyline !

[Rachael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Danielle Steel has got to be one of my favourite go to authors and her stories are so immersive, with this one being no different.
I loved the story line of the book and found Kate to be such a strong female lead in the story. She showed loyalty and commitment, with her character experiencing a range of emotions through the book, which definitely portrayed through to the reader.
I enjoyed the ending of the book and felt it was fitting to the characters, but I found the ending in regards to Tom to be a little flat. I wanted to have a bit more finality to his character after such a build up in the book and would have loved to have seen this go a little differently.
The settings of the book were so descriptive, from the beaches of Santa Barbara to the views over the golden gate bridge, I could really picture myself there with the characters.
Overall, this was a good romantic read and I can't wait to read more from her soon.