Never Too Late also features their adult children navigating their own relationships. Kezia's youngest daughter Felicity is a supermodel who is proposed to by her much older boyfriend. When she accepts, and starts planning her wedding, it makes her older half-sister Kate jealous. Kate, and aspiring writer, has been with her boyfriend for four years. After going to meet her father in Africa (and discovering he doesn't live up to the fantasies she had of him), she decides she wants more out of life. She gets engaged to her boyfriend, but he refuses to set a date or even talk about the wedding. Meanwhile, Sam's son has been up front with his current girlfriend that he doesn't want to get married (and doesn't even want her moving in). But she has her sights set on marriage with him anyway!
I'm not going to lie, the ending and how these relationships turn out was fairly predictable from the point the book let's you know that Sam has a son who is Kate's age. But that part of the story was still probably the most fun of the book. I honestly felt like Kate was the most interesting character with the most growth. Everyone else was fairly flat and stagnant.
Never Too Late is also not very well written. The book tells you almost everything without showing you much, and is extremely repetitive (a thought will be repeated not only a few times on the same page, but multiple times in the book). I started wondering if Steel has an editor because the book reads very much like an early draft. :(
Needless to say, Steel's books do not seem to be for me, so I will not be reading the other two I got. :(
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When I wrote this post, I forgot to include that I was not impressed with the messages the book was sending either. Many characters kept expecting that whenever a woman was getting married, she would drop her career to raise children (though at the end, Kezia did say to her daughter something about being okay not doing that). While there is nothing wrong if that is what a woman and her family chooses, that should not be the expectation! I was sad to see this so prevalent, especially in a book that I believe was published in 2024 (not 1950).
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