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Safe Harbour

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Safe Harbour  - This story is as cheesy as this title is. "I should've known better" was the thought it left me with. It's a story that lacks depth and imagination whatsoever. It reminds you of an average Indian movie straight from the 90s when mushy happy endings was the key ingredient of a successful family movie.  Its a story of two broken-hearted strangers who come into each other's lives perchance. It doesn't take too long before one becomes the Safe Harbour for the other. Throw a couple pf extremely predictable plot twists into the mix and you have a love story waiting for its climax. Only the wait is too long & dreary. The author, Danielle Steel, seems to be unsure of getting her point across in one go. So she repeats what her characters are going through several times in the story. The feelings of the characters in the story would be reiterated so many times (and sometimes the words to describe those feelings would also be exactly the same) that it...