Rogue | Danielle Steel

Rogue | Danielle Steel | Could Have Been Five Stars.....IF....

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Rogue

	Rogue Danielle Steel Delacorte Press, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Meet Maxine Williams, a dedicated doctor with three great kids, a challenging career, and the perfect new man in her life. Her only problem? Her irresistibly charming, utterly infuriating ex-husband, aka the . . .

Rogue

Being married to Blake had been an amazing adventure for Maxine. Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, Blake Williams made millions and grabbed headlines as a dot-com entrepreneur. His only shortcoming was as a husband?first his work and then his never-ending quest for fun kept him constantly on the move, far away from Maxine and his family. For five years Blake and Maxine have worked out an odd but amicable divorce, with friendly though infrequent visits, a yacht he lends her every summer, and three children they both adore. Blake enjoys his globe-trotting lifestyle?dating a succession of beautiful, famous, and very young women?while Maxine raises their kids in Manhattan and pursues her passion, working as a psychiatrist, a world-renowned expert on childhood trauma and adolescent suicide. Then everything changes?.

For Maxine it starts when she falls in love with Dr. Charles West, a man who is everything Blake is not?mature, grounded, and present. For Blake it begins when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of his palatial foreign homes and he sees hundreds of orphaned children in need of shelter. Now Blake wants Maxine in his life again?as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives. For Maxine the choice is clear. But Blake?s sudden transformation?from carefree playboy to compassionate, responsible grown-up?raises questions she?s never managed to answer . . . and some she?s afraid to ask. After all, Maxine is on the cusp of a new life, about to marry Charles, and almost certain that Blake Williams, aka the Rogue, is a man capable of doing anything?except change?.

An unforgettable story of two people pursuing happiness from opposite directions, Rogue is a journey of choices and the amazing opportunities that come together?just when life seems to have been successfully rearranged at last.

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Great read

I've been a fan of Danielle's books for years. I actually met her on the beach in Hawaii in the 1980s, and she was and is a personal delight. "Rogue" continues her seemingly never ending formula for successful romance novels. It may start off a bit on the slow side, but it picks up and roars from then on. A wonderful book and I highly recommend it.

Editor of Michele Cozzens' award winning women's fiction A Line Between Friends

Could Have Been Five Stars.....IF....

I really enjoyed this book and would have given it five stars, had it not had so much repetition in the beginning. Once Danielle got rolling in the plot, it got much better. Some may think this is a predictable story and sounds a lot like others that she's written.

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Slow Start but Fantastic Ending...

Danielle Steele always has a good story up her sleeve, and Rogue is no exception. The only caveat is that you have to wade through the very slow beginning before the meaty stuff kicks in. Believe me, the first third of the book will put you to sleep, but as the story line picks up, you won't be able to put it down. And the ending makes it all worth it.

Dr. Maxine Williams is a successful, world-renown child psychiatrist who is the single mother of three children. Her ex-husband, Blake Williams, is a free-wheeling, playboy billionaire who loves to party and live life in the fast lane. Ironically, he and Maxine remain very close friends, despite having been amicably divorced five years ago. They are both seem very happy living their separate lives. Maxine meets Dr. Charles West, an internist, through a tragic episode involving one of her young patients, and Blake seems to have fallen very much in love with an eccentric, beautiful English artist. While Blake is in Morocco with plans to build his dream home, a tragedy occurs that shatters his jet-setting world and forces him to "grow up" overnight. He desperately needs his ex-wife's medical expertise, and within a short time, Maxine is thrown head first into a triangle that forces her to choose between the stability she longs for with Charles or the supposedly newly-transformed Blake.

As I mentioned before, this starts off painstakingly slow, but stick with it; the plot picks up and the characters are truly unforgettable. The ending is pretty predictable, but still worth it.

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3.5, Repetitious (AGAIN), Nothing Exciting Here

As stated in other reviews, Steel is once again just filling pages. Over and over and over, she repeats the same things about the characters. It makes the reader wonder if Steel ever reads what she writes??!!

The book is just ok. Nothing dramatic, original or a just-can't-put-it-down read. It is a little better than some of her last 10-15 books. However, the story feels like she has borrowed from her previous books, just nothing special here.

Defintely would NOT buy this book. It is worth reading, but get it at your library for FREE!!!

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Gag!

This book is so predictable! The very end of the book (I won't give any spoilers) is so nauseatingly predictable, hokey and unrealistic that I just shook my head in wonder. And the only likable character was the housekeeper Zelda.

Another bomb from Danielle Steel.

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