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With you always / Rena Olsen.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101982396 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 342 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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| Subject: | Secrecy > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Suspense fiction. |
Available copies
- 10 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Radium Hot Springs Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radium Hot Springs Public Library | FIC OLS (Text) | 35130000044903 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 July #1
A gust of wind literally blows Bryce Covington into Julia Hawthorne's life, as he stops to help her retrieve pages from a report that take flight on the breeze. He suggests a drink, which leads to dinner, and, before she knows it, she's head-over-heels. Julia is on the mend from a broken engagement, and Bryceâa handsome, charming lawyer with vivid blue eyesâseems perfect. She misses alarm bells when he won't share his background and when he turns up at a bar where she's enjoying a girls' night out; soon enough, Bryce immerses her in his church, the Church of the Life, with its iffy reputation. When Julia's sister, Kate, warns her that what seems to be love is actually control, she dismisses her concern as sour grapes. Before long she's given up her job, become estranged from Kate, drifted away from her friends, and is in increasing peril. Interspersed passages hint at the solution to Julia's dilemma as the psychological suspense ramps up to the final pages. Olsen, whose debut was The Girl Before (2016), has another page-turner here. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 June #1
In Olsen's (The Girl Before, 2016) second novel, a woman learns that her handsome new husband isn't quite what he seems, and then some. When career-minded Julia Hawthorne meets lawyer Bryce Covington by chance while on a work break one day, she's immediately struck by how handsome he is and how gentlemanly he seems to be. To her delight, he asks her out, and after a few blissful dates, Julia is smitten, and evidently, so is Bryce. Everything would be perfect if it weren't for the fact that Julia's sister, Kate, with whom she's very close, is suspicious of Bryce. Kate claims that Bryce seems contrived and too perfect and points out that he never talks about himself. Julia chalks it up to the fact that her ex (and only other serious boyfriend), Jake, was charming too at first, and that ended in disaster. Julia is thrilled when Bryce invites her to meet his parents, the enigmatic Reverend and his wife, Nancy. They mostly raised him, but they aren't his biological parents, and th ey run the Church of the Life. When Bryce invites her to attend, she's open to the experience, though she's not overly religious, and the experience is a revelation. The congregation makes her feel welcome, and she instantly feels like part of the family. In a creepy turn, she's later invited to participate in the Gathering, where the congregants eat strange-tasting wafers, drink bitter wine, and then, in euphoria, speak in tongues and attempt to achieve Oneness with God. As she becomes entwined with the church, she quits her job and becomes isolated from her friends and family, especially after she and Bryce get married. As Bryce becomes more controlling, Julia blames herself for nearly all of his bad behavior. Even when he starts hitting her. When Julia begins to dig into Bryce's past, all hell breaks loose. Readers will cringe as they turn the pages in hopes that Julia gets out before it's too late to reclaim herself and her life. A somewhat predictable yet compulsively r e adable story of a woman in way over her head. Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2018 June #1
Olsen follows her debut,
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly.The Girl Before , with a tale of domestic abuse set in rural New York that suffers from a predictable plot, a bland female narrator, and abusive characters who behave in stereotypical ways. Aspiring graphic designer Julia is swept off her feet by rich and charismatic, if cryptic, lawyer Bryce Covington, and drawn into his community at the Church of the Life, led by the reverend and his wife, whom Bryce considers his parents, and eventually into the mystical Gathering, in which chosen members commune with God. But after they marry, Bryce's controlling jealousy and the church's attitudes on wifely behavior isolate Julia from work, friends, family, and medical help for the injuries Bryce causes her, while Julia's secret delving into Bryce's history reveals his dark and violent past. Tense snippets of story that share bits of Bryce's childhood or telegraph Julia's final acts aren't enough to build complexity, and Olsen's depiction of Julia's mental state rarely evokes the depth of conflicted feelings or fear that would make the novel affecting.Agent: Sharon Pelletier, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. (Aug.)
