Accidental Heroes

I struggle with how to rate Danielle Steel novels. Her books are great for moving from YA novels to adult and also for readers who might have memory or language barriers as they tend to have repetetive information and easy to remember names. In that way, it is a 5. As far as the plot line goes, it was a little too easy to see ahead of how the book was going to go. Danielle did a good job of using stereotypes to show how easy it is to fall into them and not see the correct picture. I do find the “All American good looks” and the typical “ American” names to get a little tiresome but her books have always been that way so I don't see that changing. Danielle needed to pick up a baby name book for a little variety for this particular book. It had Denise and Berniece, Ellen and Helen.

Trigger warning, gun based suicide.