Journey

By Danielle Steel. Dont ask me what made me choose this book. I was looking for a romance novel and I dint see any Nora Roberts that i liked. So i thought Danielle Steel is good..she has written some books that i have enjoyed years ago..i wanted to see if she still had the magic. But i realised sadly that she dint. Journey is a half baked story about Maddy Carpenter, a hot shot news reader married to Jack Carpenter, head of a TV station. Frequent guests to the White House, friends with the First Family, they lead a charmed life. Jack had rescued Maddy from an abusive marriage only for Maddy to realise that she was living through the abuse again. Not physical but a mental domination and isolation. Maddy does not realise this until she joins a Women's group against abuse headed by none other than the first lady. Thats when she realises that she is stuck in an abusive marriage too. But she does not have the strength to get out of it. After almost 200 pages of mental torture(for us, not her!) she finally decides to leave Jack and start a new life with an aging Senator( whose name escapes me..Bill Something). So thats the story. I dont know why i am trashing this author who has written some mind blowing romance stuff i have enjoyed liked 5 years ago. I remember books like Perfect Stranger which i have enjoyed immensely. But this book was a total let down. I dont know if it was the book or if i have been spoiled by the work of other romance novel geniuses, I will not be reading another Danielle Steel for a long time to come.