Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2018 A decent, engrossing read, but it's really not anything unique. .
No spoilers here though - you will just have to read it yourself ! With a beautiful face and a sympathetic backstory, she was well on her way of inheriting a vast fortune…unless Ralph Truitt had other plans.I am so good at only reading when I have time but this time I stayed up all night, I did not want to put it down, I was captivated from the very beginning and that feeling never went away. Published
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book - enjoyed the style of language and the way he put words together.
. But this book is a fascinating read about love, loss, sex (lots of sex), desire, deception, duplicity, and trust. That refuge turned into her highly anticipa...He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. . Please try again Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. He certainly painted a grim picture of humanity. . Goolrick twists a familiar story, refashioning it into something completely original. But these creatures are not human. It is dark, dealing with the historical time and the relationships involved. . From the beginning of her correspondence with him, Catherine is up to no good at all: she plans on slowly poisoning Ralph Truitt and having his fortune for herself. The characters were a little too much European-flavored tragic, but I liked that nobody was perfect and I didn't know if good or evil would prevail in them.I kindled this book, inspired by a stormy Friday night home alone, hoping for a romantic transportation to a Wisconsin winter a century ago. A Reliable Wife is eminently readable and should delight fans of old-fashioned Gothic romances . Even the ending was as good as the rest of it, and I am convinced that endings are the most difficult part of a book to write.I was born in a small university town in Virginia, a town in which, besides teaching, the chief preoccupations were drinking bourbon and telling complex anecdotes, stories about people who lived down the road, stories about ancestors who had died a hundred years before. I really only found the housekeeper fully human and appealing. Nothing is what it seems in the pages of A Reliable Wife, the debut novel by adman and memoirist Robert Goolrick. I loved this book, such a good read but heartbreaking too. Of course, she is anything but neither simple nor average.
Just ok. Wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it . . Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.” “Learning became her.
The story had potential, even though it's been done a hundred times. It never got better. I absolutely loved this book. There is an obsession with sex that seriously lacks sensuality.
I couldn't really recommend as it was neither fish nor foul.
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He had read it so many times, he knew it by heart. This novel of sexual intrigue, betrayal, and redemption concerns the experiences of two principal characters, Ralph Truitt and Catherine Land, who at first appear to be very different but are ultimately quite similar. It didn't. For southerners, the past is as real as the present; it is not even past, as Faulkner said.“Learning became her.
[I am confused about what exactly Ralph knew.