Rogue

If you're thinking about reading Rogue, reconsider. I found this book to be the most mundane, predictable and utterly ridiculous book Steel has written yet. Rogue is about a shrink named Maxine who lets her school-aged child sleep in her bed, who swears she is destined to help troubled teens but yet somehow cannot seem to manage her own teen, and who walked away from her marriage to a rich entrepreneur named Blake only to fall in love with a respectable doctor named Charles, who she later decides is a jerk, but not before accepting his proposal for marriage and stringing him along for several months. You can't help but feel sorry for Charles as he gets jilted again and again in this book. Somehow we are supposed to rejoice at the end as Blake tells Charles off and Blake ends up marrying Maxine instead. Maxine's character is not likeable and that is perhaps one of the bigger downfalls of this book.

Bottom line- HUGE disappointment and so very predictable!

Come on, Steel, you owe your fans more than this!

I've been a Danielle Steele fan for 25+ years, but I find her writing to be extremely variable. While she has written some of my favorite books (Season of the Heart, Wanderlust, Thurston House, Sisters) but she has also written some oh-so-predicatable books. The Rogue is definitely one of those. By the time I finished the first chapter, I could have easily told anyone how it was going to end (and I would have been right). And I spent the first 2/3 of the book waiting for something to happen!

Definitely not a book I would recommend to anyone - this ranks right up there with "Accident" as the worse books Danielle Steele has ever written. Hopefully the next one will be less predictable!

Many of Danielle Steel's novels of late seem to start off very slowly and some don't seem to show the story progressing. Lots of skimming through the actions of the characters rather than showing them doing what they do. This probably lends itself to the slowness of the story. I've noticed other authors "telling the story" rather than "showing" it. Basically the premise of the story is very good. If you can get through the slow beginning and into the story, you're in for a good read. I have read and have collected every Danielle Steel book and probably will continue to do so and will hope to have faster-action story progress in the future.

J.A. Fulkerson, Author
For Love of Teddy

I liked the book Rogue because I do like Danielle Steel's writing. Her stories are interesting.

This is the first Danielle Steel novel that I have read and I was not impressed. What a bore!! I agree with the other reader who said the book was a waste of time! The book screamed bad Lifetime movie of the week. Save your money...thankfully I did by borrowing it from the library!