Name: Changes
ISBN: 9780440111818

Danielle Steel

Vowing never to love again after a disastrous marriage, renowned TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams encounters famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam--a widower with three children--and as their powerful feelings for each other develop, Melanie must choose between her career, Peter, and her family. Reissue.

Changes

Lacy W

I found this book while going through all my books. I had thought that I hadn't read it and was excited to find a Danielle Steel book that I hadn't read. 

Well, turns out I had read it. (Surprise surprise right??) But that's okay. I continued to read it and finish it because I needed a little fluffy read consider how America is 50 shades of messed up right now. (I don't think I need to say what is going on right now...) 

This is the typical Danielle Steel fluff that her readers have come to know and love. It's the story of Mel (Melanie if you are into full names), who is a big time new anchor in New York with twin girls and Peter, a heart surgeon in LA and is considered one of the best with three kids and a wife who recently died. 

Mel is given the story of a very sick little girl that needs a new heart like yesterday. She is to convince a heart surgeon to do it for free and so Mel can get an awesome story about it. Peter is willing to do it. One thing leads to another and I'm sure you can guess what happened if you know anything about Danielle Steel. 

One of the big things that I like about this book is it documents the struggles of blending two families together. Mel's twins are 16. Peter's kids are 6, 14 and 18. So I bet you can already imagine the issues and problems that would arise blending families at such a confusing age. It is pretty difficult to capture the tension and awkwardness of blending families but I think Steel does it perfectly. It didn't consume the book but it definitely had a major part in it. 

Okay, now don't get me wrong but I'm going to be a Debby downer for a minute. I am an avid Danielle Steel reader. I will read all of her books, no matter what they are about. But she seems to constantly do instalove. I've grown to get quite annoyed with it. Love comes from months of being with the person. Learning about their quirks and all the other things that make them tick. Not spending a couple days with them.

But something about Danielle Steel just makes me keep coming back to her. Even her older stuff. They don't seem dated to me. Although it threw me sometimes because Mel and Peter would call on their house phones. I would sit there and think, why not use a cell phone. And then I remembered that this was in the 80's. There were no cell phones. #millennialproblems 

In conclusion to my ramblings (because I do that a lot), this is one of her better novels. If you are looking for nice a fluffy read or if you're in between books, this is a good book for you. It's 300 pages but you will zip right through them. It still has it's issues but I have read worse.