Lara Cameron is a famous powerful wealthy New York building developer who struggled from brutal poverty in Glace Bay, a banker who took her body as part of her first deal, to Chicago, banker Keller whose love she takes lightly for granted. As her skyscrapers and boutique hotels tower on earth, she is at the top of a male dominated field. She lies and cheats to close a deal, making cruel enemies. She is forty, beautiful, glamorous, insecure, ruthless, vulnerable, secretly generous, rich - and still wants more. She marries an international concert pianist, the Lochinvar of her childhood dreams, but someone puts him in the hospital and threatens to take down her empire. ( )

OK, I guess. Don't know of any other novels to tackle the S&L crisis. The biggest problem with the book is that none of the characters are very likable. We can understand why they behave as they do, but they're all mostly pretty selfish. Maybe that's realistic for the worlds in which they inhabit, but it's hard to really get into a book in which you can't root for anyone. ( )

OK, I guess. Don't know of any other novels to tackle the S&L crisis. The biggest problem with the book is that none of the characters are very likable. We can understand why they behave as they do, but they're all mostly pretty selfish. Maybe that's realistic for the worlds in which they inhabit, but it's hard to really get into a book in which you can't root for anyone. ( )

This one's about Lara Cameron and her rags to riches rise to power as a real estate aficionado (similar to that of Kate Blackwell in Master of the Game unfortunately). Her mother and twin are dead. Her father's poor. She learns to do whatever she can to survive, sex or not. Once she stumbles into the world of real estate she leaves her native Nova Scotia and moves to Chicago, becoming one of the country's most successful real estate magnets. Then she meets Phillip, a man that's in the arts who shows her the finer things in life aren't getting over on somebody or something. And it doesn't last long as sins from Lara's past threaten to take her down permanently.

This is okay. Another one and doner.

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The story was soo realistic and shady at the same time that it made me sick ( )

Didn't really care for the main character. She had a terrible childhood that made her become obsessive with owning property and having the best. ( )

Great read. ( )

Sidney Sheldon is quite the writer and that is reflected once again in The Stars Shine Down which follows a young girl with an abusive father who shrugs off the shackles of her small town and father to rise to the top of the real estate development world, then towards the end it looks as if one too many risks have been taken and everything is going to crumble back down.

It's a good page turner which draws you in with a decent female protagonist however I couldn't help but feel the ending was a bit of a let down, I felt like there could have been more too it and detail what actually happened to the main characters.

Despite that it was still an entertaining read. ( )

Lara Cameron is a young and beautiful self-made tycoon. She doesn't realize that a spurned lover will stop at nothing to get revenge against her. I give this book an A+! because it was so good. ( )

This is the life story of Lara Cameron, a small town girl who makes it big in the construction business. It's a story of her highs and lows. She uses hard work and deception to get her ends.

I'm reading [[Sidney Sheldon]] after a gap of more than ten years. Back the I really enjoyed his books but reading it now I found this book very shallow and lacking any literary content. ( )

Not much conflict. Maybe a little boaring. ( )

This is Sidney Sheldon's 12th and most passionate novel, set against the glamorous world of international business and featuring a complex and compelling heroine faced with a series of life-shattering decisions.

From Scotland to Nova Scotia, New York to London, Rome to Reno this novel features the startling shocks and amazing surprises millions of readers have come to expect and love.

The book tells the story of Lara Cameron, who made her way through success by becoming one of the top world site builders over a traditionally male domain. Coming from a broken family in Nova Scotia, she promised herself to gain more power to show to her father that he was wrong. Beautiful but insecure, ruthless yet vulnerable, Lara has struggled brutally to achieve it all and she still wants more. And in a global setting from London to New York, from Reno to Rome, she will find everything she has ever desired and won.

A young girl with nothing became a famous, wealthy realtor and could never have enough. She was finally losing her streak, but I was too bored to continue. ( )