Book Review - "The Sins of the Mother" by Danielle Steel (#17 - 2018)

The Sins of the Mother - by Danielle Steel

Olivia Grayson runs a very successful worldwide home store chain.  She built the business with the help of her accountant husband for decades.  This meant that her mom and husband mostly raised their children while she spent hours in the office.  Her husband passed away over a decade ago and she’s looking to make up time with her grown children.  She has been doing this by scheduling a lavish holiday every year.    This year the vacation is on a luxury yacht in the Riviera.  All of her kids (but one) and their spouses and their children are together.  But family dynamics, old resentments and new bonds are formed.  It’s a summer of lessons learned, lives reassessed and breakthroughs.  It’s an interesting read.  I will say this book really illustrates Danielle Steel’s bad habit of rehashing phrases and repeating of descriptions.  It’s like they didn’t edit it and kept in some of the outline of the story.  If that makes sense.  But just so you know it’s really bad in the book.