Reviews for Matters of the Heart: Limited Edition

The average rating for Matters of the Heart: Limited Edition based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-19 00:00:00 Yashvir Singh When I first started this book I did so with high hopes. After all, it had been referred to my by a trusted friend, and I'd seen this authors books everywhere, so it was a very good chance that this author/book would be good. I can't believe how wrong I was. This book was so poorly written and so badly outlined that I literally found myself both squirming (picture it like being in a dentists chair getting drilled) and rolling my eyes as I continued on. About halfway through I rarely read any of it, I just skimmed through to get the gist of the story. Honestly, I can't fathom reading any more of her books ever again. Not only was it confusing in the way she changed between people's perspectives, but I felt like I was reading the same paragraph again, and again, and again. Her overuse of the same adjectives, and almost entire sentences, gave me a similar sensation to fingernails running down a chalkboard. I guess I feel that reading a book should be a pleasant, enjoyable thing. But I would have to say that this author does not deliver. I can't rate it according to my opinion. If I could, I would give it a negative 5 stars, and an "I really hated it" rating. Definitely a "do not read."

Review # 2 was written on 2009-11-19 00:00:00 James Pace I've avoided Danielle Steel for years. Her books are formulaic and her writing is passable. But a coworker recommended this, and I decided to give it a try. The verdict? Meh. Hope Dunne is, of course, incredibly wealthy, successful, kind, and beautiful. And tiny; how many times were we reminded of how tiny she is, and how her eyes are violet? Steel beats the reader over the head with her female protagonist's perfection, to the point where, instead of sympathizing with the protagonist, we're sick of her. At least I was. Finn O'Neil is a psychopath, but he doesn't reveal his true nature until Hope is already in love with him. In typical Steel fashion, most of the action takes place through narrative, rather than dialog, and just to make sure we've gotten it, Steel reminds us again, and again, and again of the same points. And in case we've been snoozing through the entire first two-thirds of the book (which, I admit, I kind of did), she summarizes it again in a conversation Hope has with a Dublin lawyer. Okay, we got it, Danielle. I will say that the plot was very different from the Steel books I've read in the past. And I think that Steel did a decent job portraying the way in which an intelligent person can be sucked into a relationship with a manipulator. Still, Danielle Steel is just...not good. I don't know what else to say. So she gets props for originality - not overall originality, but originality compared to her past efforts - and that's what the two stars are for.