The Olive Tree
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4.4 • 32 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
The Olive Tree is the number one international bestseller from Lucinda Riley, author of the bestselling Seven Sisters series.
A magical house. A momentous summer.
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. When the now crumbling house, 'Pandora', is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family.
Yet, as soon as Helena arrives at Pandora, she knows that its idyllic beauty masks a web of secrets that she has kept from William, her husband, and Alex, her son. At the difficult age of thirteen, Alex is torn between protecting his beloved mother, and growing up. And equally, desperate to learn the truth about his real father…
When, by chance, Helena meets her childhood sweetheart, a chain of events is set in motion that threatens to make her past and present collide. Both Helena and Alex know that life will never be the same, once Pandora's secrets have been revealed…
*This title is also published as Helena's Secret.*
Customer Reviews
Disappointing..nothing to do with Cyprus or an Olive Tree.
This was the first book I read from this author and I’m not sure if she always loses the plot but what was this? I would not recommend it. I felt like I was taken around and around in circles for most of it. The book loses its continuity a third into it and thus its magic with it, and never recovers. The first half of the book was full of blatant red herrings as to who Alex’s father is to the point we for sure know it isn’t his father really early on so the rest of the red herrings seem filler by the time we find out that he’s not. Also what was up with the verbal abuse Helena’s husband casually sends her way when he’s feeling insecure? I figured out who the actual father was really early on due to the red herrings. Even the mystery of the letters was not really a mystery at all as the trite plot was predictable. I stuck to finish it because I wanted to see how the author would reveal it all, but it was a chore to do so. It only got interesting in the end I would’ve rather read about Viola and Alex which of course we knew really early on would happen as well. I wish I could get my money back for this book.