Yes, it's not "The life drawing, but Live figure drawing... class. The author is a wonderful writer: stylistically and grammar-wise. But it is the characters that all are a pretty low-life specimen that she draws here, in this novel: scary and not desirable, mostly. Among them, unwed young girls with children and fatherless. Or dead relatives because of drugs smuggling. I do not advice the reading of the book.
Arrogant, poor and not deserving read.... As author himself states in his creation: "I hate grammar !"... And so do we, in his rendition. I do not recommend it to readers, or to future writers.
Very dark, full of horrific, rather unusual abuse (physical and verbal) of a young child... The mother who later born identical twin girls.... The girls are inseparable and while loving each other tremendously, live together even when one of them is about to marry a man, they still play tricks on him being literally hard to identify by their identical looks... It's not a good read this time around from great Danielle Steel. I do not recommend it.
The book/album is of excellent quality: of paper on which it's printed and detailed and masterfully written and illustrated; with art prints on every single page with coordinated numbers that are easily located and information that belongs to each of them. The only negative is the fact, that previous reader had tore the entire full page from it ! It's the page number # 176 of the album....
I have read the novel before, and forgot that it left a bitter and depressing "aftertaste" in my mind. It's very gloomy, long-forgotten old time of WWI in Europe, and Russian Revolution (on the side) of miserable events.... Pretty much has a continuous theme of death, unending doom and suffering.... The ending has minimum amount of satisfaction and happiness. I do not suggest it to elderly or ailing people, at all.
