The Olive Tree: The bestselling story of secrets and love under the Cyprus sun

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But this is not just Helena’s drama…The Olive Tree is a wise, warm-hearted story of how we function in times of stress, how secrets and lies can undermine relationships, how guilt and betrayal can corrode even the closest of families and how love, loyalty and honesty are the glue that keeps us together. The Olive Tree is quite hefty at nearly 600 pages but I did read it in two sittings so absorbed did I become in the story. She begins to wonder despite inheriting the house is there a reason why now at this point in time everyone is gathering? Sacha, Julie and their children Rupes and Viola weren't the nicest of people and I wondered were they token characters we were supposed to dislike from the outset but as I have mentioned every character needs to be kept an eye on.

The Olive Tree by Lucinda Riley Book review: The Olive Tree by Lucinda Riley

It all started in Cyprus for Helena, as a teenager she fell in love for the first time and Helena used to have holidays there then it all stopped until her Godfather passes and leaves her his house affectionately named “Pandora” in his will. Both Helena and Alex know that life will never be the same, once Pandora's secrets have been revealed. Sadly it was not much happening and i do like a real kind of book, but it was boring - when the story raised itself it came down too quickly and it didn't work to save itself for me.Me alegra tanto de volver a leer Lucinda Riley y ahora que no está, es cuando más hay que disfrutar de su obra para recordarla. year-old Alex describes his family as ‘whatever-is the-opposite-of-nuclear’ – do you find that these kinds of families are becoming more common? She just floated from the kitchen to the terrace to the pool to the garden in angelic perfection, smiling at everyone, sucking up their misplaced anger like a sponge, and believing everything was her fault. A good story about past love and secrets can work just as well without the need to incorporate such toxic masculine discourses. Die Geschichte wird aus verschiedenen Perspektiven erzählt, man liest viel aus der Sicht des Sohnes, der zwar manchmal recht altklug erscheint, aber eben doch viele kindliche Züge hat.

The Olive Tree: The bestselling story of secrets and love The Olive Tree: The bestselling story of secrets and love

But the characters were well developed, especially Alex and I do love Lucinda Riley's writing style. I didn’t need a 40 something year-old man being absurdly obsessed with and jealous about the relationship his current wife had when she was 15 (!Lucinda Riley has created such a relatable, likable, loveable, and sometimes downright funny character in Alex that I could have read the entire book from his viewpoint – even though it was written in diary form – and happily given the book five stars.

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No one knows who their real father is, apparently, and it takes a summer vacation by the sea to make them discover their genealogy.

This was a proper family saga and I really enjoyed it, even though the plot took a few tangents that are arguably pointless. Alex tiene por costumbre escribir un diario, ese diario está lleno de emociones, escribe lo que siente y lo que piensa sin miedo a que nadie le diga nada, relatado exquisitamente y muy inteligentemente, utiliza mucho el sarcasmo y la ironía, me hizo reír en muchas ocasiones por las comparaciones que hace y otras veces me dejo con el corazón en un puño. Sprinkle a little drama - because apparently people are not allowed to keep secrets - plus a little pointless jealousy, like in all "good" soap operas, and you have a garbage book that's best fitted for middle-aged divorcees who will never find love again and drown their sorrow in red wine.

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Aproape niciodată nu găsim momentul potrivit pentru a dezvălui un secret care știi sigur că ar schimba totul. It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time.Pero no es que particularmente el personaje de Helena sea malo, sino que me pareció excesivamente perfecto o “demasiado buena” para algunas cosas, como el querer ser siempre intachable y tener todo bajo control, tapando las cosas. My little sister asked if she was dead the last time we flew because someone told her Grandpa was up on a cloud. Con cada página que pasaba, llegaba hasta a sentir el sonido de las olas del mar, queriendo estar ahí, en Chipre y recorrer Grecia. No la conocí en persona, pero sentí pena y hasta un poco de temor, de qué pasaría con su obra, más que recién estaba comenzando a juntar la saga de “Las siete hermanas”.