Blue
Danielle Steel
336 pages
Published in 2016
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Blue is a heartwarming contemporary fiction novel set in New York, about a woman finding a reason to live again after losing her family in a terrible accident. I had read a few Danielle Steels years ago and had her firmly in the “schmaltzy romance, not for me” category, but my neighbour lent me this and recommended it, so I decided to give it a go. I ended up quite liking it, in spite of the banal repetitive writing and too-good-to-be-true characters. It’s like someone lent her a Catherine Ryan Hyde book and she thought “I can do that!” CRH does it better though
Beautiful 30-something Ginny Carter is lonely, unfulfilled and contemplating suicide on a snowy night, when she is distracted by the discovery of a young boy hiding in a park shed. Feeling she must help him, she buys him a meal, and discovers he’s homeless with no family he can stay with. Her busy life as an international human rights worker leaves no time for a child, but when she discovers his shocking if unsurprising secret, knows she can’t leave him on the streets.
This was a completely predictable feelgood tale that I finished within a day. It’s about friendship and family rather than romantic love (although there is a low-key romance subplot, Steel hasn’t strayed that far from her usual genre!) I won’t be rushing to read any more, but I enjoyed it in spite ofthe weird obsession with people having blue eyes! 3.5 rounded up for exceeding expectations!
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