Answered Prayers

Review #1

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When this book first came out, I thought ” what a boring book!” Then after marriage of 15 1/2 years and calibrating my life with my husband that cancer of my spinal cord and uterus along with early simptoms of it spreading to my brain, and alluded to the fact that my dreams and my hard high honor status in school along with being a member of the National Honor Society, left me with no vocation and some law classes between treatments. My husband was tepid in understanding in the tender needs I needed, missed my golden retreiver( no pet townhouse) , my daddy( dead at 63-3 yrs ago) and needed affirmation about my life. I have read virtually every Steel novel, (note: when married to the late husband John Traina/ predeath of beloved son, Nick, her writing took on a different palpable feel as we know today).
So, one day, I visited my local library and had alighted my eyes on this book. For some reason, I pulled it off the shelf and cursorily began reading it . Its funny how your brain lexicons events and older impressions. To say it was fantastic was an understatement! It’s reason was basically the more you identify with the book as a whole, mirroring your life at that time, it’s content holds another interpretation and new experience to reading it. Even rereads.
In ” Answered Prayers” , Steel pens a wife and husband who after many years fall into a recalcitrant dull routine. However, as the novel progresses, the main protagonist finds a renewal of life beyond being a haus-frau and ends up going back to school to become a lawyer. In her forties!!! From a new found temerity, Liz finds the power to upend her predictable life and causes her once comfortable relationship to a unstable, tense home life without the support of her husband and further, endures resistance and hardship incurred by him making her decision to not live for him, but to reclaim her life she left at the altar.
I practically inhaled this novel. I identified with Liz due to the identical situation and depression one finds doing ferris wheel chores and never ending housework most woman find themselves in daily, haunted by thoughts that say , ” I want feel something more engaging in life than to wake up and clean”! Her desire to finding a purpose in life leads her to an old friend she had and throughout the support and strength, He provides the foundation Liz needs to redeem her once banal life.
As far as the rest of the book, I leave that up to you to find out what happens to her marriage, school and goals. If you currently lack the ever needed pat on the back for doing thankless but efficient housework to help keep your home peaceful, and yet feel like Liz, this book is for you! If you struggle with feelings of wanting to matter and hope that your life at your mid-forties is over and will never take a trajectory, pick this novel up and have a good sit with it. Danielle really comforts and affirms the little thibgs as well as the drop of the ball or the feelings ennui of being just a house wife/mother. She will bring balm and hope to your heart as you enjoy this book called ” Answered Prayers”.

Review #2

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I have always given her books 5 stars. This one seems so similar to a combination of a few other books of hers. It was very predictable and kind of a disappointment.

To be fair, I have read 22 of her books and she is bound to have similar plots now and then. I enjoyed reading it and look forward to my next one!

Review #3

Audiobook Answered Prayers by Danielle Steel

This book was slow and similar to Danielle Steel’s book Summer’s End where the women are just weak, letting their husbands show such disrespect and take it all without a word and in each book the husbands are having affairs with younger women. In this book Faith is a beautiful blond woman somewhat middle-aged if you call 47 middle age, with two beautiful daughters. Her husband Alex is so cold to her you wonder why she even stays with him. When she wants to pursue law school he puts his foot down as her job in within the home, who is to tend after him? Really, it’s just them in their home as their daughters Eloise is London and Zoe is in college. She then goes on to prove to him that she can do both, go to school and make sure his needs are met. Faith is a highly educated women yet I wonder why she stays in such an unhappy marriage. And the condescending treatment she receives from the eldest daughter Eloise who sides with the father regardless of how it affects her mother. I wish she would have developed some backbone to counter Alex such as what the younger daughter Zoe exhibits. But yes Faith does find happiness in the end so at least there was light at the end of this long tunnel. I just found it frustrating to read this story which was much too long, many pages could have been eliminated from this storyline. Read another Danielle Steel book.

Review #4

Audio Answered Prayers narrated by Ron McLarty

i will keep this book just to read it again. The woman was a saint, and how she put up with her husband is beyond me. He cheated and still put the blame on her and she covered for him constantly so as not disrespect him to their daughter’s. But in the end she fell in love with someone who really loved her back. So, I believe all she went thru was worth the pain of the hell her husband put her thru. He was a man not worthy of her love. But she met someone who is.

Review #5

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I always thought that Danielle Steel was my favorite author but the last two novels that I read were so easy to figure out without even reading them. The main characters in each book started out as best friends married to other people. I could tell after a few chapters that they were going to end up getting married. Her books like Zoe and the Ring written years ago are what I call good, well written page turner. Perhaps she is writing too fast and needs to slow down and get in the groove again.

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