When we stopped at Richland Hills Library, I picked up Dannille Steel’s book Moral Compass. Which from the front cover I couldn’t remember reading. I glanced at the book jacket and still couldn’t remember the story checked out Moral Compass and came home to look through the book. David saw me and said haven’t your read this and I had to let David know I was sure if I had or hadn’t.
Before I finished the first chapter i begin to remember the story and the more I read the chapiter I knew this was one book by Danielle Stelle I had started but couldn’t get into. This time I decided I was going to read at least 3 chapters before deciding Moral Compass was a book I didn’t want to finish.
By the time I finished chapter 3 I found myself wanting to read to chapter 5 which was halfway through the Moral Compass. I could feel myself being drawn in into the story which takes place at a boarding school. On Halloween night there is a party and kids end up drinking. A girl is wrapped, and she is only 17 just a year older that Suzzane which tore me up.
Through Moral Compass you will see how kids ban together even when there is a crime involved. Families are torn apart. Violence and divorce and even reconciliation happens to the families. There is love and sadness and you will find that you will not want to put this book down. I just wish there was a second book that talks more about what happened to the kids especially the girl in the story.
About:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • At an elite private school in Massachusetts, a wide circle of lives will be forever changed by a devastating series of events in Danielle Steel’s riveting new novel.
Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling, wounded by their parents’ bitter divorces, dealing with insecurity and loneliness. In such a heightened environment, even the smallest spark can become a raging fire.
One day after the school’s annual Halloween event, a student lies in the hospital, her system poisoned by dangerous levels of alcohol. Everyone in this sheltered community—parents, teachers, students, police, and the media—are left trying to figure out what actually happened. Only the handful of students who were there when she was attacked truly know the answers and they have vowed to keep one another’s secrets. As details from the evening emerge, powerful families are forced to hire attorneys and less powerful families watch helplessly. Parents’ marriages are jeopardized, and students’ futures are impacted. No one at Saint Ambrose can escape the fallout of a life-altering event.
In this compelling novel, Danielle Steel illuminates the dark side of one drunken night, with its tragic consequences, from every possible point of view. As the drama unfolds, the characters will reach a crossroads where they must choose between truth and lies, between what is easy and what is right, and find the moral compass they will need for the rest of their lives.
About: Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with nearly a billion copies of her novels sold. Her recent many international bestsellers include Against All Odds, The Duchess and The Right Time. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children’s books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood. Danielle divides her time between Paris and her home in northern California.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
