Danielle Steel

Kezia Saint Martin was born to dazzle the world and Lucas Johns was born to change it.

Passion's Promise

Lacy W

It pains me, truly pains me, to rate a DS book 3 stars. But I couldn't bring myself to give it anymore than that. And I am going to explain why. 

First off, I should point out that it was an okay story. It was written well. It was different then what DS usually does. It was like more grittier than normal. Not the normal light and fluffy. Kezia was almost selfish and rude. I understand that she wanted to do things for herself but she could have went about it a different way. Kezia just throws people away without any regard to their feelings. Not to mention she lies. Yes, I know that she has to protect herself but outright lying is just wrong.

When she met Luke, she became a totally different person and it wasn't a good thing. She became whiny and needy. She gets bitchy at everybody around her. She constantly demanded the attention of Luke, even though he was busy doing his thing. Luke was recently released from jail and was an outspoken advocate for better treatment of prisoners in jails. That was good. I appreciated Luke and who he was. 

I didn't really care for the world building either. The world was the socialite world. I know that it's supposed to be pretty fake and not deep, but it was almost way too fake. DS just made the world seems too fake. It felt forced. 

The ending killed it for me. (view spoiler)[ Luke dies in prison after they revoke his parole.  (hide spoiler)] I thought this was a pretty dumb ending. It felt forced, like he had to (view spoiler)[ die or the story wasn't going to work.  (hide spoiler)]. I also didn't like how we didn't know what Kezia was going to do. If you are going to do an ending like that, I would at least want some sort of direction so I had some idea of what was going on. 

Overall, I'm not impressed. It was an okay book but there were so many things that could have been done differently.

Passion's Promise

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