The Apartment
by Danielle Steel
There are certain milestones in every reader’s journey: the classics: Hemingway, Dickens, Twain, Irving; and the moderns: King, Steele, Roberts, Patterson, Quinn. I’d never read a Danielle Steele book before, and story of The Apartment seemed right up my alley. All in all, she’s not the greatest writer in the world, but I can totally understand why she’s so popular. Without being disrespectful, I would call her books great “airport books”. They’re pocket sized, light in nature so you don’t mind being interrupted by the stewardesses, dramatic enough to keep you interested between beverage services, and extremely simple in sentence structure so you can pay attention even through turbulence.
This Steele novel follows a group of girls who share an apartment. One roommate is trying to branch out and start her own shoe designing business. Her ambition is a far cry from one of the women who works on Wall Street, or the medical intern – but their jobs are not the focus of the story. It’s love, lust, and romance: healthy and unhealthy. Controlling, cheating, using, mean, and of course, all fun melodrama to read during an airplane trip. If you’ve never read a Danielle Steele novel, and you want to read something similar to The Best of Everything, try The Apartment.
This Steele novel follows a group of girls who share an apartment. One roommate is trying to branch out and start her own shoe designing business. Her ambition is a far cry from one of the women who works on Wall Street, or the medical intern – but their jobs are not the focus of the story. It’s love, lust, and romance: healthy and unhealthy. Controlling, cheating, using, mean, and of course, all fun melodrama to read during an airplane trip. If you’ve never read a Danielle Steele novel, and you want to read something similar to The Best of Everything, try The Apartment.