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Danielle Steel disappoints yet again!!!

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Read a Danielle Steel after ages and was thoroughly disappointed :( The yr 2011 published '44 Charles Street' by Steel was a terrible let down, an extreme wash out in all the ways possible and I am cursing myself for having picked it up in the first place. Why and how did I read through it? Well, because I have a pact with my bookaholic self that however boring or useless the book maybe, I will finish it off to the end.....who knows maybe, just maybe there is an interesting twist to the tale in the penultimate chapter! But alas! there was no such queer twist, no such golden moment in the whole book which just seemed to drag on at an alarmingly slow pace from start to finish. Plot: A start-up art dealer Fransesca in a small town west of NY splits from her partner Todd after a 5 year old relationship. Her house on Charles Street is high-maintenance and in order to revive her art - business and keep her house, Fransesca turns to the only visible alternative. She decides to take