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by Robert Goolrick
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A Tale of Two Pages
A Tale of Two Pages rated it 9 years ago
***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...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it 10 years ago
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...
Danielle Hearts Books
Danielle Hearts Books rated it 11 years ago
Silver's Reviews
Silver's Reviews rated it 11 years ago
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...
Unabridged Chick
Unabridged Chick rated it 12 years ago
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
Overloaded Bookshelf
Overloaded Bookshelf rated it 12 years ago
Reasonably well written but the plot was very contrived. Unrewarding.
melsbookshelf
melsbookshelf rated it 12 years ago
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...
madbkwm
madbkwm rated it 12 years ago
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 ...
Lynn Spencer - All About Romance
Lynn Spencer - All About Romance rated it 12 years ago
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.
SA Bodeen Reads
SA Bodeen Reads rated it 13 years ago
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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