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Turning Point by Danielle Steel

Turning point is the story of four doctors from San Francisco who are the best in their field and these four of them go to Paris for exchange medical venture to learn more about treatments during crisis since Paris has seen more attacks and has survived all through it. There they will have to work with 4 Paris doctors and after a month Paris doctors will have to come to San Francisco to do the same. Somehow all eight of them become friends and get connected in ways they didn't expect to become.
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The whole setting and introducing us to the characters took more than 100 pages and by then I was really bored because they are Danielle Steel's signature characters. They all somehow have one dimensional personality and equally married to their career.
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Her writing is too repetitive and 100% predictable. She could have picked any one or two protagonists among them instead of dealing with all eight people's lives at once. It felt like telling the same thing again and again especially when the characters try to introduce them to each one of them. Also, the story was more like DS telling what is happening around and switching from one character to another whenever she felt like instead of letting the readers imagine the story for themselves. There was no time for imagining things everything was happening back to back and I had to just rush and go with the flow. And the ending was classic DS style with perfect happily ever after.
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This book definitely could have been better. like, it wasn't bad but wasn't the best of her works either. Otherwise, this would be perfect for light reading and for those who just want to kill some time reading a book.