THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT BY SIDNEY SHELDON

The other side of Midnight is quite a page-turner. The reason for this can easily be found in the structure of the book. It is divided into different chapters, always switching from Noelle to Catherine. The chapters end with question to which the reader wants to know the answer as quickly as possible. Let me give you the summary or review, whatever you choose to call it.
     The other side of midnight is the story of two women who grow up in completely different circumstances. However, one day their stories meet and that is when the big problem starts.
      One woman is Noelle Page, who by the end of the book, has become a famous and wealthy actress. She was born in Marseilles as a poor fisherman's daughter. The older she grows, the more beautiful beautiful she becomes. As a young woman she decides to use her beauty to climb up in society. She becomes the mistress of various men, one wealthier and more influential than the other. One of her first lovers is Larry Douglass, a young American RAF pilot, whom she falls madly in love with. He promises her to come back to Paris to marry her, but he never does. From that day on, everything Noelle does, she does with the goal to destroy Larry. This is her plan until she meets him again many years later. By then she is very famous and the mistress of the richest and most influential man in the world; his name is constant in Demiris.
     The second woman is Catherine Alexander, born in Chicago as the daughter of a salesman who loses his job and becomes a dreamer full of illusions and ideas that never work out. Catherine is a very intelligent girl who doesn't have many friends. She finishes school as top of the year and wins a scholarship for college. She starts college, still one of the best students, her greatest worry being that she is still a virgin while everyone else is "doing it". She leaves university to go to Washington DC, in the hope of a more exciting life and finally "doing it". Her life gets more interesting and she starts working for Bill Fraser, a wealthy bachelor. They soon become close and starts a relationship. But one day Catherine meets Larry Douglas and she runs off with him and gets married to him in a mad rush. Her life couldn't be better because she still has a good friendship with Bill Fraser, whose business is doing very well and she's got a loving husband.
  Things change when Larry goes to Europe and the pacific to fly as a fighter pilot in the war against the Germans and Japanese. Catherine misses him every day, longing for him to return. When he finally does, things have changed completely and their relationship goes down the drain. Things seem to go better when Larry starts working for constant in Demeris. This is the moment where Catherine and Noelle lives mix together.
 If you love suspense and thrillers, then you would love this book.  There is a place to download it.
     
I promise to give you a link of where to get the free download of Sidney Sheldon's novels collection, tomorrow. As this is my last post for today, I do three reviews per day.