FICTION
Released: April 5, 2011
After a breakup, a Manhattan gallery owner takes in tenants at her West Village brownstone.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 28, 2010
"The two women's stories are compelling--if only they weren't weighted down by clichés and artless exposition."
In Steel's latest romance (
Family Ties, 2010, etc.), a restrained anthropologist discovers her wild side while researching the life of a beautiful 18th-century Sioux Indian.
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FICTION
Released: June 22, 2010
"A listless narrative not helped by Steel's plodding prose, but her legion of fans aren't in it for the surprise."
An aunt steps up to mother her orphaned nieces and nephew, in Steel's predictable latest (
A Good Woman, 2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 28, 2008
"After a slow-moving start, the action accelerates during the war sections, but Steel's tin ear and simplistic prose, even more than the predictable plot, make for a leaden tale."
Manhattan heiress, wrongfully shunned as an adulteress, becomes a medic in the Great War, then a Paris physician, confounding all her detractors, in this cliché-riddled, exposition-bound umpteenth from Steel (
Rogue, 2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2007
"Similar to a fast-food meal, the book won't meet daily nutritional requirements and just might leave you with a bellyache."
A San Francisco earthquake shakes up the lives of three women in the latest from Steel (
Bungalow 2, 2007, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 27, 2007
"Female bonding with a cozy slumber-party vibe."
In Steel's latest (
H.R.H., 2006, etc.), four far-flung adult sisters move into a New York brownstone after tragedy strikes their close-knit clan.
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FICTION
Released: June 27, 2006
"A slight confection that spares no heartwarming family cliché, but one that acknowledges the unique challenges of today's mixed families."
Manhattan matron struggles to keep the family peace when her wildly divergent twin daughters are invited to a debutante ball.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2005
"Cartoonish prose and skimpy storyline do little for a notably unsexy romance from the indefatigable Steel (Echoes, 2004, etc., etc.)."
FICTION
Released: March 2, 2004
"Show-and-tell suspenser from Steel, heavily freighted with clumsy exposition. An afterthought romance for Lee and Fernanda is chilly and utterly unconvincing."
FICTION
Released: June 20, 2000
"This time out, Steel makes an intelligent choice of subject matter--and only occasionally threatens to treacle it to death."
FICTION
Released: April 6, 1999
"Steel manages to make even some solid ideas sound treacly and dated."
FICTION
Released: May 1, 1998
"Steel goes to battle with yet another worthy cause, but her good intentions this time fizzle in a sea of Åber-melodrama."
Steel (The Ranch, 1997, etc.) actually manages to minimize child abuse in this saccharine take on tragedy.
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