The book I read before this one was trying very hard to be philosophical and deep, and I didn't like it very much. And yet I read the whole thing.
That made me wonder: do I know when to stop reading? Am I forcing myself to finish books I don't like because of some misplaced feeling of obligation?

This book cleared that up really quickly. ( )

Teresa Calvet

Fairytale by Danielle Steel was just another mediocre novel to me. It wasn’t very original and even though it kept my attention, it was nothing special. Fairytale follows Camille, who is the daughter of a very successful winemaker, Christophe. Christophe’s wife, Joy, dies of breast cancer and within a year he is remarried to a very conniving woman, Maxine. When Christophe dies in a plane crash, you discover Maxine is really a wicked stepmother. Fairytale follows Cinderella perfectly, so you basically know what is going to happen before it even happens. ( )

Dit is een moderne versie van het zeer bekende sprookje Assepoester. Iedereen kent dit sprookje ook. Hierdoor denk je tijdens het lezen te weten wat er gaat gebeuren, maar toch blijft het verhaal je verrassen.
Een echte aanrader voor wie van sprookjes verhalen en romans houdt! ( )

I'm a Danielle Steel snob so of course I'm going to say I liked this book but I didn't love it as much as some of her others but glad I read it.

Fairytale is the perfect title for this book but it should have been sub-titled Wicked: The Stepmother is a bitch.

Camille is only 24 years old but wise and mature for her age running her families winery after her mother dies young of cancer and her father dies in a tragic accident. I would have never been able to do what she did. She was a smart woman and knew what was going on in the winery. Christophe was her father, who was a good guy but fell hard in love with the Countess Maxine who only wanted to get her hooks into men's $.

I'm not going to go into what happens but let's just say that Maxine and her jerks of sons got their due.

I fell in love with Simone (Maxine's feisty 87 year old mother) who she brought over from France. She became Camille's fairy godmother and I wanted to adopt her! ( )