I read this because I'd acquired it somehow - no idea how - and I thought it was worth reading just to see what it was about Danielle Steel that made her so successful. Well, I guess it's just being a prolific writer. How does anyone write that many books? Even if you don't care much about writing quality - and it appears she doesn't - getting that many words on paper must be hard work. I got through it. Found the story line highly unlikely - yeah, probably impossible in fact. The name was appropriate. The characters weren't particularly believable. Sasha was too good to be true, and I struggled to believe a talented, beautiful, highly successful, extremely rich globe-trotting diva would behave as she did - particularly the constant crying and wasting away with grief! Liam was so ethical and committed that he took up with his mate's mother, slept with his wife's sister, embarrassed the hell out of his conservative much older lady friend behaving like a juvenile delinquent, ignored his kids for a year, went back to his wife after she got engaged to someone else, and then returned to Sasha after having dumped her for his ex-wife. Yeah - definitely ethical and committed! The writing irritated because Ms Steel kept ranting on at length stating the very obvious and repeating herself. She demonstrated graphically to budding writers how to ''show'', then tell, tell, tell and tell again. Presumably she thinks her readers lack the intelligence to interpret the action scenes and deduce what is happening, or even to remember what she's told them from one page to the next.The other thing that really grated was the use of the word ''as''. Often, there were three clauses in the same sentence beginning with as. (As she did this, as he did that, as that was happening over there....) Many sentences were grammatically incorrect, and I can tolerate that - just, but the overuse of clauses starting with ''as'' really bugged me.
What do You think about Impossible (2006)?
I haven't been a Danielle Steel fan since I was in 8th grade. Picking this up reminded me why. While anticipating a relocation I started trying to read some of the books that have been on my shelves for years. I figured if I read them before the packing started, I wouldn't have to pack as many. I inherited this one somewhere along the way and it has been shelved for, no pun intended, an "impossible" length of time. It took more than one day to read only because it was so painful. Sophomoric and repetitive writing, canned plot line, trite, predictable, but aptly named as it is nearly impossible to get through. This one needs to return to the book mill from whence it came. http://bibliofilesbookrating.blogspot...
—Chanda
This book was alright, but I think it is better suited to women who are older and have grown children. Much like the other Danielle Steel book I read (Rogue), her main character is a 40-50 year old widow/divorcee with grown children. A lot of the conflict is about how her new romance will affect her children and how it will reflect on her after her previous marriage. These are not things that I can easily relate to, and so the book was not as enjoyable for me as I assume it would be for someone in her target audience. I think I will put her books on the shelf for now.
—Terrah
This is only the second Danielle Steel book I have ever read and while it was okay to read, I don't see how she can be such a best selling author. In my opinion, she repeats things too much in her books. They aren't bad, just annoying. This book was also very predictable because the word impossible (the title) was repeated about a million times, however, since "possible" is a different color in the title, you know that regardless of what happens it is going to work out. I just felt like the book went in a lot of circles and had an all too predictable outcome.
—Kirsten
