I can't believe this book got published, it's so badly written: descriptive, repetitive, awful, gave me a headache! Too bad there's only stars; there should be a thumbs-down icon to add on here.

I just finished Danielle Steel's 'Sisters'. I've never read any of her work before but I thought I'd give her a shot.

This book started out great-the characters were well-illustrated and I wasn't many pages in before I started to care about the characters and wonder what was going to happen next.

The problem with this book-it's end was just thrown together. All the loose ends were tied up in a couple of pages with no explanations, almost like the buzzer going off at a town hall meeting signaling the next speaker or something.

The end of this book did not live up to the introduction and body. I might try another one some other time, the author is very talented but I know this particular book wasn't one of her better works.

My Mom and Grandma always read Danielle Steel. I have never read anything of hers. I saw this book and always wanted to read it. I guess the title intrigued me. I loved it! The first couple chapters were a little slow but they were building up the characters. Once the story got meaty, I couldnt put the book down. I was interested the whole way through and was left wanting more. I found it a great story for people with sisters and strong family bonds. Its also a good story about people triumphing over hardships. I have already passed on the book to someone else, who also read it in a couple days. And I plan to pass it on to my sister next.

I really enjoyed this book. I had stopped reading Danielle steele for awhile, because I wasn't enjoying the story lines, but I couldn't put this book down. It greatly portrayed how sisters come together in time of crisis and help each other out. The book is about four sisters who lead very different lives in different parts of the worrld, but always come home for holidays and on this one fourth of july a tragedy strikes this family and one of the sisters becomes blind and has to learn how to start her life over. At the same time they loose their mom in this same tragedy and all learn how to overcome their grief and bond as sisters to help Annie with her blindness. I would definatly recommend this book as a good read.

Danielle Steel's "Sisters" begins with a rather unbelievable plot. Four sisters, all gorgeous (Steel takes a good amount of time ramming this point into our heads), all implausibly successful, yet somehow all very family oriented.

Take Candy, an incredibly famous supermodel who is the most unlikable from the get-go. She parades around topless and if she's wearing a thong she's fully dressed, no matter who is around, whether it be her sisters' boyfriends or (grossly enough) her very own father. Of course, her behavior is excused many times because she is just "so young." Aside from Candy there is Annie, a blossoming artist in Florence. Then there's Tammy, an Emmy-winning producer of America's most popular television show, who (boo-hoo!) just can't seem to find a man. And Sabrina, a family lawyer in New York City with fears of getting married herself despite finding the perfect man.

Although the story should really be about Annie, who goes blind in a car accident that kills their mother, Steel finds time to talk about the others too. Despite this, Candy never develops into anyone the reader could sympathize with and even though she suffers from anorexia and gets raped on top of her mother dying Candy never seems to let these things bother her. Tammy and Sabrina, not being blind and not being young supermodels have storylines that seem to fade into the background.

On top of disagreeable characters, Steel's writing style is terrible. She repeats the same ideas over and over again throughout the book and one begins to wonder if she even bothered with an editor. While many potentially interesting characters appear (Annie's blind psychologist, Baxter, Annie's friend who is also blind and lost his boyfriend in a motorcycle accident) they never develop and become unnecessary to the plot.

I give this book two stars because in the right hands it could have been a good story. Unfortunately, Danielle Steel got a hold of the plot instead.