Rogue
by Danielle Steel
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Author: Danielle SteelEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-24
ISBN: 0385340257
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Book Reviews of Rogue
Book Review: What a waste of paper!
Summary: 1 Stars
Blake Williams suddenly amassed a huge fortune, retired, & now flits around the world buying houses & other toys, always on a new adventure, rarely coming home to his 3 kids & wife but doesn't see why she divorced him 5 years ago. Nothing said about adultery, but he sure had a string of YOUNG girls fast!
Blake was the children's biological father but no father in any other way. He constantly broke promises to & disappointed them & wouldn't show at important events in their lives. He wasn't there for Sam's birth, & twice when Sam was seriously injured couldn't be reached for days. He'd ignore his kids for MONTHS and couldn't be reached. He wasn't involved in decisions, took no responsibility, enforced no boundaries & undermined Maxine's authority during the infrequent times he was with the kids. He gave his 13 year old free rein of his penthouse when he was gone for weeks. He gave his kids alcohol, even the 5 year old. When the kids stayed with him, he'd usually bring a woman, always a different one, to share his bed, have sex with & let his attention be taken away from his kids to give to her. Great moral example for your own children.
But, Maxine let him get away with it. She & Blake were always touching & telling each other, "I love you." Blake referred to Max as his wife & himself her husband. When he took the kids to dinner she'd usually go with them. Yet neither cared about the other's love life & were never jealous? Maxine should have had him sign away his parental rights when they divorced. The kids weren't that old then & he was rarely around so it wouldn't have been much of an adjustment. No father would have been better than Blake as a father. He was self involved & incapable of real love.
Blake's "woman" in the beginning was 22 years old, barely legal, Blake was 46, more than twice her age. All his bimbos were under 30, most under 25. They were literally young enough to be his daughter & then some. He was old enough to be a grandfather!! It was pathetic.
He met Arabella, age 29, & was infatuated, in spite of the tattoos up & down both arms, with her. She disliked his kids, didn't want any of her own & turned out as loyal as a snake with the morals of an alley cat. What she did to Blake was horrid, but... when you're old enough to be a girl's father?
Blake was going through a mid life crisis most of his adult life. When caught in a natural disaster & seeing all the suffering, he suddenly grows up? The guy's pushing 50, how likely that he'd change, be a good father & husband & stay in one place? He would have continued jetting around & not be satisfied by a woman his own age. The end was just stupid.
The characters are undeveloped, cardboard & shallow. It's been a really long time since I've read a Danielle Steel book, now I remember why, & I'll never read another.
Summary of Rogue
Meet Maxine Williams, a dedicated doctor with three great kids, a challenging career, and the perfect new man in her life. Her only problem? Her irresistibly charming, utterly infuriating ex-husband, aka the . . .Rogue
Being married to Blake had been an amazing adventure for Maxine. Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, Blake Williams made millions and grabbed headlines as a dot-com entrepreneur. His only shortcoming was as a husband?first his work and then his never-ending quest for fun kept him constantly on the move, far away from Maxine and his family. For five years Blake and Maxine have worked out an odd but amicable divorce, with friendly though infrequent visits, a yacht he lends her every summer, and three children they both adore. Blake enjoys his globe-trotting lifestyle?dating a succession of beautiful, famous, and very young women?while Maxine raises their kids in Manhattan and pursues her passion, working as a psychiatrist, a world-renowned expert on childhood trauma and adolescent suicide. Then everything changes?.
For Maxine it starts when she falls in love with Dr. Charles West, a man who is everything Blake is not?mature, grounded, and present. For Blake it begins when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of his palatial foreign homes and he sees hundreds of orphaned children in need of shelter. Now Blake wants Maxine in his life again?as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives. For Maxine the choice is clear. But Blake? s sudden transformation?from carefree playboy to compassionate, responsible grown-up?raises questions she?s never managed to answer . . . and some she?s afraid to ask. After all, Maxine is on the cusp of a new life, about to marry Charles, and almost certain that Blake Williams, aka the Rogue, is a man capable of doing anything?except change?.
An unforgettable story of two people pursuing happiness from opposite directions, Rogue is a journey of choices and the amazing opportunities that come together?just when life seems to have been successfully rearranged at last.
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