Accident

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Summary: Accident: It was no accident
Review: "She doesn't look like she's going to make it." Danielle Steele's Accident revolves around how a car accident forever changes the lives of two families. This novel is chick fiction because it involves love and courage. Steele did a great job of bringing all the characters to life.
The tragedy begins when two perfect teenage girls lie to their parents and go out with two older guys. On their way home they collide with another car head-on. Page, the mother of one of the girls, discovers her daughter may not live and her husband is having an affair. Trygve, the other girl's dad, becomes the only one to comfort Page. They develop a great relationship while battling their daughters' accident.
The setting works very well. Maintaining smooth and obvious shifts made the setting clear and easy to follow. The story takes place in Ross, a small town near San Francisco, California. The car accident occurs when the couples "[drive] quietly and smoothly toward the Golden Gate Bridge". Medical teams rush the teenagers to Marin General Hospital where most of the story takes place because of the girls' conditions.
The characters are incredibly realistic and relatable. Page Clarke and Trygve Thorensen become the protagonists in the novel. Page, the thirty-nine year old mother of Andy and Allyson, "is a good mother, a good wife, the kind of friend anyone would be grateful for...she is unconsciously beautiful, and fun to be with." Trygve, the father of Chloe and a divorcee, " is patient, kind, and very attractive." Chloe Thorensen and Allyson Clarke, static characters, are fifteen year old best friends who lie to their parents to go out with two older guys. Allyson remains in a critical coma after the accident, and Chloe suffers severely injured legs. Brad Clarke, static character and antagonist, is Page's husband and Allyson's dad who is caught in an affair. Many of the characters face the decisions of courage, love, and loyalty. Steele brings all of them to life amazingly well.
The novel, told in third person omniscient, revolves around Page Clarke's life. When Allyson and Chloe become seriously injured, everyone's lives change drastically. All of the events make the story completely believable; a car accident, a marriage gone wrong, and a mother's sorrow while trying to keep her family and her life together. Steele foreshadows Brad's affair when he unexpectedly leaves on a business trip with his secretary without leaving the number of his hotel. Page flashes back to how she held a perfect marriage and life before the accident. Steele did a great job of introducing all the characters and wrapping everything up at the end without leaving the reader hanging.
While using everyday language, Steele involves all the emotions. The reader will want to smile, cry, laugh, or frown. Intenseness and sadness occur when Allyson remains in the hospital and no one knows whether she will live or not. Disgust, guilt, and misery rise between Brad and Page while they go through confrontations about the affair. The writing involves love, romance, and inspiration while Page and Trygve fall for each other. This type of language makes the novel more intriguing and suspicious. The reader never knows what will happen next.
Accident is a powerful, yet glorious novel about lives that shatter and change in one shocking moment. The beginning conveys Page's "perfect life", then disaster occurs and the rest of the story just pulls the readers' hearts right into it. Teenage girls and women will absolutely love this book.

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Summary: Accident: It was no accident
Review: "She doesn't look like she's going to make it." Danielle Steele's Accident revolves around how a car accident forever changes the lives of two families. This novel is chick fiction because it involves love and courage. Steele did a great job of bringing all the characters to life.
The tragedy begins when two perfect teenage girls lie to their parents and go out with two older guys. On their way home they collide with another car head-on. Page, the mother of one of the girls, discovers her daughter may not live and her husband is having an affair. Trygve, the other girl's dad, becomes the only one to comfort Page. They develop a great relationship while battling their daughters' accident.
The setting works very well. Maintaining smooth and obvious shifts made the setting clear and easy to follow. The story takes place in Ross, a small town near San Francisco, California. The car accident occurs when the couples "[drive] quietly and smoothly toward the Golden Gate Bridge". Medical teams rush the teenagers to Marin General Hospital where most of the story takes place because of the girls' conditions.
The characters are incredibly realistic and relatable. Page Clarke and Trygve Thorensen become the protagonists in the novel. Page, the thirty-nine year old mother of Andy and Allyson, "is a good mother, a good wife, the kind of friend anyone would be grateful for...she is unconsciously beautiful, and fun to be with." Trygve, the father of Chloe and a divorcee, " is patient, kind, and very attractive." Chloe Thorensen and Allyson Clarke, static characters, are fifteen year old best friends who lie to their parents to go out with two older guys. Allyson remains in a critical coma after the accident, and Chloe suffers severely injured legs. Brad Clarke, static character and antagonist, is Page's husband and Allyson's dad who is caught in an affair. Many of the characters face the decisions of courage, love, and loyalty. Steele brings all of them to life amazingly well.
The novel, told in third person omniscient, revolves around Page Clarke's life. When Allyson and Chloe become seriously injured, everyone's lives change drastically. All of the events make the story completely believable; a car accident, a marriage gone wrong, and a mother's sorrow while trying to keep her family and her life together. Steele foreshadows Brad's affair when he unexpectedly leaves on a business trip with his secretary without leaving the number of his hotel. Page flashes back to how she held a perfect marriage and life before the accident. Steele did a great job of introducing all the characters and wrapping everything up at the end without leaving the reader hanging.
While using everyday language, Steele involves all the emotions. The reader will want to smile, cry, laugh, or frown. Intenseness and sadness occur when Allyson remains in the hospital and no one knows whether she will live or not. Disgust, guilt, and misery rise between Brad and Page while they go through confrontations about the affair. The writing involves love, romance, and inspiration while Page and Trygve fall for each other. This type of language makes the novel more intriguing and suspicious. The reader never knows what will happen next.
Accident is a powerful, yet glorious novel about lives that shatter and change in one shocking moment. The beginning conveys Page's "perfect life", then disaster occurs and the rest of the story just pulls the readers' hearts right into it. Teenage girls and women will absolutely love this book.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Accident by Danielle Steel is a wonderfully written story of the tragedy one woman faces when her teenage daughter is in a very serious car accident. Slowly her whole world slips away, and she realizes how alone she really is in her vigil for her daughters life... except for the strong handsome Trygve, who also has an injured daughter.

This is a very powerful and dramatic story, which will leave you a different person than when you started this book. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: VERY EXCITING!
Review: Accident is the first Danielle Steel book I read and it was wonderful. It kept me in suspense as to what would happen next. It made me think about how I would feel if I was in Page's place and had to go on wondering if my daughter would live or be disabled for the rest of her life and on top of it to find out that my husband has been cheating. I read this book overnight because I just couldnt put it down. I cant wait to read other DS books. She is great and I hope her other books are as good as Accident. If you want to read and exciting good book read this one.

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Summary: accidents cars
Review: ACCIDENTS CAR

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Summary: A sad story
Review: As a huge fan of Danielle Steel, I of course loved this book. It's one I have on my shelf & will probably read again in the future. It's a sad story and one that makes you think about your own life & not wasting the time that you have left.

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Summary: A sad story
Review: As a huge fan of Danielle Steel, I of course loved this book. It's one I have on my shelf & will probably read again in the future. It's a sad story and one that makes you think about your own life & not wasting the time that you have left.

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Summary: Tragically written, yet a decent story nevertheless
Review: As a man, Danielle Steel may appear to be somewhat of a mystery to other male readers; however, for me, she offers a nice diversion from other novels which are more literary and intricate. Ms. Steel usually offers a nice easy story told simply and is readable in a relatively short period of time. And while I have only read a handful of Ms. Steel's works, i.e. "Zoya," "Jewels," "The Ranch," and "The Ghost" they have all had interesting characters and plot developments. "Accident" falls short on both counts offering, at best, a mindless read. 'Accident" tells the story of Allyson, a teen-age girl who tragically ends up in a car accident while on a date with a older high school boy, her best friend Chole and her date. Both Allyson and Chole lie to their parents about going on this date as to not be met with disapproval so the shock of the deception as well as the accident is enormous. Allyson ends up in a coma resulting from the accident and Ms. Steel depicts not only on how the accident changes the life of Allyson but changes the life of her mother, Page and her marriage as well. There are no surprises here and the end is predictable almost from the beginning. More troubling then the precdictability of the story, though, is the writing. Although one does not read Danielle Steel for her prose one should not have to be subjected to the innumerable sentences beginning with the word, "but." This is plain sloppiness and eventhough Ms. Steel writes for the masses, better judgement should be used. I like Danielle Steel and I will continue to read her as she offers a different slice of the pie from other authors out there; and, I enjoy every now and again just sitting back and reading a good story. Unfortunately, "Accident" only offers an uneventful story line with characters we really do not care about using, on top of that, poor writing.

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Summary: A GOOD BOOK
Review: As always another great book! I cried all the way through it, and loved doing it! If you want to read a book that goes straight to your heart, read Stolen Moments by Barbara Jeanne Fisher. . .It is a beautiful story of unrequited love. . .for certain the love story of the nineties. I intended to give the book a quick read, but I got so caught up in the story that I couldn't put the book down. From the very beginning, I was fully caught up in the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter's battle with lupus and her growing love for Don Lipton. This love, in the face of Julie's impending death, makes for a story that covers the range of human emotions. The touches of humor are great, too, they add some nice contrast and lighten things a bit when emotions are running high. I've never read a book more deserving of being published. It has rare depth. Julie's story will remind your readers that life and love are precious and not to be taken for granted. It has had an impact on me, and for that I'm grateful. Stolen Moments is written with so much sensitivity that it made me want to cry. It is a spellbinder. What terrific writing. Barbara does have an exceptional gift! This book was edited by Lupus specialist Dr. Matt Morrow too, and has the latest information on that disease. ..A perfect gift for someone who started college late in life, fell in love too late in life, is living with any illness, or trying to understand a loved one who is. . .A gift to be cherished forever.

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Summary: STEELE DOES IT AGAIN
Review: Danielle Steele did it again, she took me inside the story and had me feel every emotion Page felt. With three children of my own I can't imagine how I would deal with what happened. This is one of Danielle Steeles' best books yet. I would urge anyone who is a Danielle Steele fan to buy this book right away. If you're not a fan, buy it anyway. Congrats Miss Steele on a job perfectly done.