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Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to thriller, fiction lovers. See 2 questions about With You Always…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details.
More filters. Sort order. Start your review of With You Always. Aug 07, Debra rated it really liked it Shelves: netgalley , traveling-sister-reads. This is not going to be a fairy tale romance.
It starts out that way but things, like life. Julia meets Bryce by chance and is quickly swept off her feet by this handsome, charming and confident man. Julia wants to please Bryce and is open to meeting his adopted family and attending Church services with him. This is where things get interesting! Soon, with each small concession, Julia's life begins to change Thi 3. This book is what I would call escapism reading.
It was entertaining, and I enjoyed it. Will I be sitting around thinking about his book for months to come? But I did enjoy it while I was reading it and hence the 3. I feel this book makes a great plane or beach book. I enjoyed how this story was told. I also enjoyed the italicized sections. Yes, they do break up the story a little, but I enjoyed trying to make sense of them and made guesses as to who each part was about.
Thank you to Penguin Group Putnam and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions in this review are my own. Read more of my reviews at www. View all 10 comments. The writing was done well, the characters were distinct but the plot was predictable and many questions were left unanswered.
This novel follows Julia Hawthorne, a young woman working her way up in her career, who is swept off her feet by the handsome and wealthy Bryce Covington. Julia keeps wondering how she could be so lu 2. Julia keeps wondering how she could be so lucky. Why does he refrain from giving details about his childhood? What happened to his real parents?
What is his true connection to his church? For me, this story felt like it has been done many times before. The situation seemed highly predictable, at times I could picture it as a made-for-TV movie. Even though it was quite obvious where this story was headed early on, there were many questions left unanswered at the end. The intricate details that were slowly revealed throughout the novel remained open and without explanation at the conclusion which felt unsatisfying.
This was a Traveling Sister read. Others felt much more positive about this, so I strongly recommend checking out the other glowing reviews before making a decision on this.
Thank you to Edelweiss, G. View all 39 comments. Aug 11, Marialyce absltmom, yaya rated it really liked it Shelves: net-galley , traveling-sisters. Oftentimes, your gut feeling is right and you know eventually you have tumbled into something you need to get away from, something threatening, something evil. Julia is adrift coming off of a bad relationship when into her li 4 ominous creepy stars On this sunny Saturday morning, I am reviewing the very dark With You Always When one is hurt and suffering, it is easy to fall into traps, places that you know you shouldn't be, relationships that can make you wonder if this is just too good to be true.
Julia is adrift coming off of a bad relationship when into her life strolls the handsome, charismatic Byrce. He is beyond wonderful, a successful lawyer, a respectful man, and Julia finds herself being swept off her feet. Their relationship goes forward in record breaking speed because you know when something is right, and one does sometimes fall madly in love.
Byrce does have a few tiny idiosyncrasies though. He refuses to speak of his parents and he adores his church having latched onto the Reverend and his wife as surrogate parents.
Byrce encourages Julia to join his church and originally she is put off by the goings on, but she loves Byrce and wants to please him so she climbs aboard for this religious experience. Julia embraces the church and its followers and all seems destined to be a bit of heaven on earth.
However, that little bit of heaven becomes a large piece of hell as Julia descends down a road she never thought she would be traveling.
As always, all is not what it seems and Julia is in for a very rude awakening. This was a well done story that kept this reader actively involved in the scenario it depicted..
Rena Olsen did an admirable job with developing her characters and created a mysterious, ominous and chilling moodiness. Thank you to Rena Olsen, G. Putnam's Sons, and NetGalley for a copy of this chilling book. Also thank you to the Traveling Sisters group who shared this chilling book and their views with me.
View all 15 comments. May 23, Brooke rated it did not like it Shelves: , apl , fiction , not-my-cup-of-tea , tlb , no-shit-sherlock. The Girl Before was one of my favorite reads last year so I was excited to see what Olsen's follow-up would entail. Yes, I finished this in a couple sittings but that's because I was hoping to get it over with, to see if anything would make me change my mind in giving it a higher rating.
I expected more. First off, this is 1 underwhelming star What a letdown. First off, this is labeled as "thriller". Sure that meaning has been severely overused the last few years, but there was nothing "thriller-ish" about this book.
Why are they not more strong-willed? Then you have the "broad-shouldered dashing prince" who gives her the time of day, so naturally she falls in love with him. It's an already cheesy baseline, but I guess it just annoyed me more than usual because The Girl Before is quite similar.
Why do authors insist on copying what they know rather than trying to dive out of their comfort zone? But this church is unlike anything Julia has ever seen before.
Or is there? The plot to this is incredibly predictable, but I was really hoping Olsen would salvage it as her writing is compelling at times.
So much time was spent focusing on Bryce's downward spiral, that by the time Julia set her plan in action, it was already too late. Overall I just had a difficult time with this. Can't recommend; it's better just to stick to her debut. View 2 comments. With You Always is the story of Julia and Bryce - a couple who meet by the chance of fate and have a whirlwind romance. By all appearances, Bryce is the perfect man - handsome, wealthy, charming - but is there more than meets the eye?
In this story of a woman who gets wrapped up in a Scientology-Esque cult with an awful man, the story is really just that. The writing is great, however, the story bored me honestly and felt incredibly predictable. I was expecting more of a thriller and this one wa With You Always is the story of Julia and Bryce - a couple who meet by the chance of fate and have a whirlwind romance. I was expecting more of a thriller and this one was more a bad lifetime movie.
I received an advance copy. All opinions are my own. View all 3 comments. Jul 27, Julie JuJu rated it liked it. Another 3. Those chapters were the most interesting and I wish more of the book was dedicated to that portion of the story.
The plot is your typical boy meets girl, instantly sweeps her off her feet and they marry — without the happily-ever-after. The Another 3. The author does throw in some different context, which changed things up some. Julia is an assistant at a marketing firm, trying to impress her boss and get a promotion. Then she meets Bryce and they begin a whirlwind romance. After the proposal, she becomes overwhelmingly busy.
She struggles to make time for everything without being stressed out and ends up quitting her dream job, that has now become too demanding. Her life has finally taken a turn in the right direction! Now with her latest release I feel like I've returned to my teen giddiness after finishing; such astounding storytelling!
If you also enjoy I-can't-believe-how-this-could-be-true psychological writing style - preorder now. From page one you know it's going to have elements of Sleeping With the Enemy, while equally getting sucked into the fairy tale love story that most young girls dream of.
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