***Very adult themed novel. I do not recommend this for anyone under the age of 21***Catherine is the worst sort of woman out there. But she markets herself as a reliable woman who would make a good wife. She answers an ad placed in a paper by Ralph Truitt and soon is on her way across country via t...
Told in two parts, A Reliable Wife is about the arranged marriage between Ralph Truitt and Catherine Land. I gave this book 3.5 stars which I rounded up to 4 stars on Goodreads. As I read, I went through a myriad of reactions in response to Ralph and Catherine. Ralph at times would evoke sympathy i...
A lie from the first moment they met....Ralph knew she wasn't the girl he had placed an ad for. But Catherine never thought twice about how she lied to this man she was going to marry and how her destitute life before Ralph made her such a phony…but the lying didn't even faze her. Her life befor...
Until I write a review: my gushy response for Literary Wives on this book: http://unabridged-expression.blogspot.com/2013/07/literary-wives-reliable-wife-by-robert.html
I almost did not even want to write the review for this book, because I realized that I seem to be in the minority among most reviewers. But I am adhering to my policy of giving honest reviews, and after all, how can someone like every book they read? So let it be said that I did not particularly en...
The only thing that prevented me from giving this book a single star rating is that there were a few decent turns of phrase: "They hated him and they needed him and they excused him" and "She had been adept at the beginning and the ends of things, and now she saw that whatever pleasures life had to ...
I tried. I know lots of people loved this book, but I just couldn't get into it. I like a good psychological thriller, but the "psychological" side to this one was pretty heavy-handed at least in the portion of this book I plodded through.
I know I did it backwards, reading his newest first, then going back to read this one. But if he had ten more, I'd go and get them all. The dude can suck you into a story, that's for sure. And make you love characters that you start out hating.
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