Southern Lights: A Novel

in my small opinion this is her best book ever. it was so different from eny book she has ever wriitn. i loved it.

Leave the South to Southern writers, please. I don't understand San Francisco and wouldn't presume to write a book about the culture of San Francisco. You, Danielle Steel, came into Charleston and enjoyed our famous Southern hospitality, and then proceeded to do exactly what you accuse Southern women of doing--writing "nasty-nice" things about our people. I've done my share of traveling and living in other parts of the country, and I've found "nasty-nice" people (a/k/a hypocritcal people) all over. I also enjoyed the first part of the story and felt that the ending was rushed--the romance-marriage proposal was squeezed into ten pages or so at the end. We don't need every heroine getting a marriage proposal on the last page! The story lost all reality at that point. We're told over and over again that our heroine is terrified of even a date--then after she makes peace with the past, suddenly she's ready to get MARRIED? It could have ended much better and more realistically with a hint of things to come, but with the heroine enjoying a relationship, period.

ordered 10/07, received 10/20. The book is a combination of mystery and romance as well as dealing with family issues. I enjoyed it very much and feel that the book would appeal to those who enjoy a good suspenseful story.