Book: Legacy

 
 Just finished this one, from Danielle Steel.

I have liked Danielle Steel since many years ago. 

There is always a fairy tale between male-female, prince-princess, commoner-royal people, etc. It is always difficult relationship at the beginning, but has a happy ending at the end. It's just so simple, but still, intriguing, due to her richness of knowledge about love and relationship between different gender. 

I do love her books with a history behind it, like Jewels, Zoya, No Greater Love, The Ring. A love story with a history background is always meaningful. 

Recently, I read this 'Legacy'. 

I really didn't mean to throw myself at any love story again, because I'm more Paulo Coelho fans at the moment (who's trying to be wise and honorable). However, once I read the first paragraph, it becomes the whole book in three days. How special this story was!

Legacy is about a journey of a young woman (Briggite) in finding her ancestor. It started with she was dumped by her long term boyfriend, and lost her job in the same week. Then, to overcome her difficult time, she helped her mother to track down their ancestor. It was interesting to find out that her ancestor was not only a marquis from Paris, France, but there was a Sioux lady appeared to be her great-great-great grandmother. She traced the history in some cities in the US, and made a great progress until she had to come to Paris to find information about her and their life in Brittany, France. 

Wachiwi, the Sioux lady has an interesting background also. She has endured many painful events and finally got married to a royal/marquis in France. Her presence in Paris at the time when Louis XIV and Maria Antoinette were king and queen, was also quite an addition of the story.

Somehow, this book is inspiring not only because of Brigitte determination to find the family tree and root, but also to learn from her interesting spirit and life history. 

I appreciated Danielle Steel skill of binding a relationship between male-female, husband-wife, and lovers within the story, and make it very meaningful. It is more deep on my side, since I need to recharge my knowledge again about it. It is true, everything is not a fairy tale, but it happens in life, too, and we could learn something from it.

This is just a nice love story for some people, I guess. 

Pekanbaru,