This is a Hard Hitting Women's Fiction. This is all about a top Model being in a terrorist attack, and her whole world gets turned upside down. Her surviving the terrorist attack is the first thing, but now she has to learn to live with what she as lifted over. I love the characters in this book. I love how Danielle Steel's can cover something so hard hitting with beautiful writing, and it being easy to read. This book will touch your heart so much. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Delacorte Press) or author (Danielle Steel) via NetGalley, so I can give an honest review about how I feel about this book. I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.arc-copy hard-hitting-topics kindle-books ...more46 s Tim2,282 244

An excellent story. 10 of 10 stars39 s Wendy W.518 161

Four and a half stars ?????

Beautiful by Danielle Steel is a fast-paced book about one woman who has it all.
But, when a woman whose whole life is based on her beauty, what happens when she loses it all?

Veronique Vincent is an international model who is at the top of her game. She travels the world as one of the most sought-out models in the world. She loves her life and knows she can’t be a model forever. Her mother has managed her career and saved her money and invested it wisely. Veronique’s best friend is her mother, who is a successful lawyer and also lives in Paris.

When she travels to Brussels with her mother, a tragedy ensues that changes her life forever. How can Veronique move on without all that she has held so dear all her life?

This book started off quickly and I was drawn into this world immediately and read this book all in one sitting. In previous Danielle Steel books, she starts off a bit slow with an info dump, but this didn’t happen in this book. There are only a few characters in this book, but they are all well developed and interesting. The story never dragged, and I enjoyed the author’s descriptions of Paris and Angola.

There is a little bit of romance in this book, but it’s mostly about Veronique and her journey as she adjusts to her new life.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves women’s fiction. I received a complimentary copy of this book. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.18 s Amanda - Mrs B's Book Reviews2,050 299

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‘Her beauty was a given before, and now it had been stolen from her.’

The true meaning of beauty underscores global bestseller Danielle Steel’s latest release. When a supermodel is struck down by a tragedy, she must accept her fate. With self-acceptance, love, heartbreak, resilience and determination surrounding this new novel from the bestselling author, Beautiful explores the theme of physical attractiveness.

Meet Veronique Vincent. One of the world’s top supermodels, Veronique is a renowned celebrity in the fashion industry. Despite treading the catwalk and posing for magazine spreads, Veronique is happy to live her life away from the public eye. Veronique is a woman who prefers the company of her boyfriend over lavish parties. When a break comes up in her schedule after fashion week, Veronique decides to make a quick escape. But this move proves to be fatal as an explosion at the Brussels airport sends Veronique’s life into a state of disarray. As Veronique learns to accept that her life has irrevocably changed, she must overcome the challenges of being placed in hospital after the terrorist attack that took away her previous life. With loss and grief consuming her, Veronique must learn to live again.

I have been reading Danielle Steel books for a number of years now and I enjoy passing on her novels to my step mum to read as she is a big fan of the popular author’s work. Beautiful has a striking and bold cover that immediately caught my eye. I d the idea of such a relevant, timely and pointed novel about the construction of beauty being a central topic of examination. The bones were there with this one, but I don’t think it was executed that well.

Glamour, glitz, fashion, love, adoration, power and the world of the celebrity forms much of the narrative of Beautiful. With additional topics on injury, terrorism, travel, family, secrets, heartbreak, strength, self-acceptance, humanity, kindness and reinvention all coming into play in this story, Danielle Steel has composed a strong thematic tale. The start-up of Beautiful is typical Danielle Steel territory. Beautiful features a slow start and it is followed some rather information heavy prose. Unfortunately there is little exploration of a decent storyline. Beautiful had potential and I d the message that Danielle Steel was trying to convey, but it just didn’t come across that well in my eyes.

Veronique the supermodel is the lead of this new Danielle Steel yarn. I felt some sympathy for Steel’s main protagonist, as her journey was quite heartbreaking as well as emotional. I think there was definitely room for further expansion of the feelings of this woman and her heartfelt experiences. Steel seems to scratch the surface only. Beautiful does not feature an overly wide cast, so it is easy to stay on track . I would turn to Beautiful if you are need of a light and undemanding read.


*Thanks extended to Pan Macmillan for providing a free copy of this book for review purposes.2022-books first-reads review-book14 s Kookie9200498

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this book.

The basic synopsis is this: supermodel Veronique Vincent Is heavily injured during a terrorist attack in Brussels and loses her mom and boyfriend. She has to learn to live with losing her mom, her career, and her beauty. This book was a phone it in, barely-there plot if I have ever read one. Nothing of note or interest even happens until 85% through the book. and even then it's rushed. This book felt more an outline of an actual story than anything substantial. I don't know anything about the main character except she's beautiful...or was until half her face was scarred. The majority of the book is just about her face and her not being conventionally beautiful anymore. The number of times the title is used on the page is ridiculous. Please don't do this as a drinking game, you won't make it.

What annoys me most about this book is not only the repetition but the fact that it' takes a very serious, heartbreaking subject and turns it into inane, vapid fodder. I should have felt such empathy for this character, but I felt nothing. I know Steel can make you feel things for characters, she's written some lovely stories that will rip your heart out. This isn't one of them. Instead, it is a girl feeling sorry for herself because she can't be a model anymore. There are some lame, half-formed platitudes about beauty being subjective or internal, but let's be real...she' feels her life sucks because her face is damaged. She's ashamed of her scars because they make her feel less perfect. Sure, there are subplots in there, but they do nothing to flesh out the story. I didn't feel any of the trauma or depression she would have felt in this situation.13 s1 comment Barbara Behring387 154

I used to love Danielle Steel books when I was younger. This is the first one I have read in years and it seemed rather formalic to me. The story has a good message but was rather boring at times.13 s Natalie840 40

This was a lovely novel. It was sadly timely as well. Beautiful Veronique, a top fashion model, faces a frightening injury when she and her beloved mother are caught in a terrorist bombing in Brussels. Despite surviving, her beauty is a fatality when she is painfully scarred on her face and body. She has lost it all, her mother, her beauty and her career, but not her determination.

But, after her mother’s death she finally learns the identity of her father and comes to a shocking and sweet discovery about love and family. She also becomes involved in helping others, through a fluke connection with her surgeon. I found myself teary as I made the journey with Veronique from devastation to hope.

This novel truly teaches the value of compassion and inner beauty. Veronique is a special heroine and I really enjoyed her story.

Thank you Netgalley for a very touching novel, which I truly enjoyed.12 s Sherri Thacker1,437 313

This is my 43rd book by Danielle Steel and as always, I always look forward to her new books . A supermodel’s whole world comes crashing down when a tourist attack happens right where her mother, her bf and she is. She barely survives this whole ordeal with lots of surgeries to make her whole again. Will she recover 100%? Heartbreaking what Veronique went through! I devoured this book in a day and really enjoyed it! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this early release in exchange for my honest review. 5-star-books-that-i-loved netgalley-books10 s MicheleReader830 141

At the start of Beautiful, twenty-two year old Veronique Vincent’s life takes a horrific turn. While in the Belgian airport, there is a terrorist attack which kills her mother and the man she is dating. Originally thought by the rescuers to have been killed, she survives but has sustained critical internal and external injuries. The damage to her face abruptly ends her career as one of the world’s most beautiful models. Her famous face will never grace the covers of the fashion magazines again. Lost without her mother, Veronique has to find a way to rebuild her life. A letter left by her mother, to be opened upon her death, provides some shocking information that sends Veronique from Paris to New York City.

Famous for creating strong, heroic female characters, author Danielle Steel has done it again. This time, the subject of beauty is addressed. How does someone move forward after losing the beauty that had defined them? Can inner beauty replace what physical beauty may have been lost? The author based this story on the real-life 2016 terrorist bombings at the Brussels Airport in Zaventem and the Maalbeek metro station. It’s a relative short, fast-paced book that offers a heartfelt story. I enjoyed it.

Many thanks to Delacorte Press | Penguin Random House for the opportunity to read Beautiful in advance of its April 19, 2022 publication.

Rated 3.75 stars.

Review posted on MicheleReader.com.9 s Sophia Liao176 2

This is the first Danielle Steel book I read and I regret reading it and I am glad I have never read any of her books. Not sure what the point of the book is - an extremely beautiful model with fantastic personality lost all she loved and her look from a tourist attack. How she found herself again through other's affirmation of how she is still beautiful, blah blah blah. She is also rich enough so no financial struggles for not working for months. She is a bastard child of a US senator so she patched things up with him after the terrorist attack before he died and received inheritance. I wonder why I continue to read it throughout and very annoyed with the writer for putting out books this. Repeated or paraphrased the simple premise from one chapter to another. I keep waiting for something to happen, but nothing. Of course, she accept who she was and found love again in the end. Argh...I don't recommend it, not even for fun/pleasure reading as it gives me no pleasure, but annoyance. DO NOT recommend!9 s Alli151 5

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