Reviews for Family Ties

The average rating for Family Ties based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-11-20 00:00:00 David Dove I've been reading Danielle Steel books off and on since I was a teenager. I don't know if any of them were as bad as this. Wow. Basically, it was the standard Steel repetition of her most recent works as written by a thirteen year old. I never felt like I knew the characters really well, but I sure as hell knew what they wore on a day to day basis. Blah, blah, blah. It could have been a good book. The plot sounded like an interesting one. It just really lacked depth. Sort of makes me wonder if Steel is even pretending to write her own stuff anymore. Ugh.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-09-17 00:00:00 Thomas Mcclure Danielle Steel has some great ideas, and she really is a good writer, but I feel that her books lately just don't measure up to her older books. The ideas behind her stories are fine, its the way she repeats certain things over and over and over. It feels like she isn't really re-reading or going back over her writing to ensure a good flow, or in this case, less repetitive narration. Every time she mentioned Ted and Pattie, she mentioned their age difference. And with Tom, she always threw in the fact that he was an anchor. I kept saying to myself, "I know, I remember that detail. I'm actually paying attention." I think what she really needs to do is slow down her writing a little bit and take some time to re-read her work and rewrite her work a little bit to make the reader feel less like they're reading the same details over and over. Aside from that, the story itself was a good, short, and sweet story to get lost in. And that's what I have always loved about her novels. The repetitiveness is easy to forgive, its just slightly annoying.