“Until the End of Time” by Danielle Steel – Everlasting Love

The idea that love conquers all, even death, is one that has lasted throughout the centuries for its beauty and the hope it inspires in us to find eternal happiness, never having to struggle and suffer again.

Though we surely do not know if that is possible with there being a very good reason to be skeptical of such a line of thinking being applied to real life, the idea, I believe, is still a necessary one to maintain for after all, what ought to worry us is the life we are living and not what comes after it ends.

In any case, Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel is sort of an exploration of this concept, telling the story of two couples separated by 38 years.

The first one is that of Bill, a young lawyer who decides to follow his lifelong dream of becoming a preacher in rural Wyoming, and Jenny, his wife, a stylist who leaves her life behind to join him. They believe that if lovers die together, they will be reunited after death, in one way or another.

The second story is set thirty-eight years later, following a struggling book publisher and a young Amish woman who has secretly written the hit novel he believes he needs to find success again. Pretty soon though, he falls in love not only with the book, but with the woman herself, though he never met her before.

As you would expect from a premise such as this one, this book doesn’t really hold many plot twists or surprises, at least the kind that will shock you or make you gasp out loud.

Really, it is a heartwarming story of love being lost and found again, how the strength of our hopes and faith can vanquish our greatest enemies. It seems that in the end, Danielle Steel wanted to use this book not just to tell a story, but to inspire her readers to believe in the possibility that such a magnificent and overwhelming happiness can exist.

As far as the actual story goes, it is very well-written, easy to follow, has likable, well-developed and relatable characters, though it is a bit predictable at times.

Nevertheless, it is a negligible flaw which is more than compensated for, especially by the detailed descriptions that do a very good job at drawing emotions out of the reader, whether for the comedy, happiness or tragedy a situation brings.

At the end of it all, the book leaves you filled with a very warm and satisfying feeling, reminding that there is unimaginable beauty in this world despite the darkness which sometimes fills it.

All in all, if you are looking for kind-hearted, simple and yet very powerful romantic book which focuses on emotional love and its transcendence through everything in its way, then I recommend you check this book out.

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Danielle Steel Personal site Danielle Steel is a very well-known American novelist who, at the moment, is the bestselling author alive, and the fourth bestselling author in history, with more than 800 million copies of her books sold, and more counting. In the habit of producing several books a year, many of her projects became popular bestsellers, such as Kaleidoscope, Wanderlust and Five Days in Paris.