Todos los personajes están ahí por algo, poco a poco toda se va hilando perfectamente y todos y cada uno de ellos son necesarios.

I wouldn't have wanted my husbands best friends family foisted on me when I am on my own personal family holiday. I've read about genes skipping generations and knowing my luck, I shall be the first fat dwarf in hundreds of years of Beaumont males. But the characters were well developed, especially Alex and I do love Lucinda Riley's writing style. Helena sees her first love’s son in the distance and believes that it is Alexis, because his son is the same age as he was when he first met Helena twenty-six years ago.I have read The Midnight Rose and loved that and keep hearing great things about the Seven Sisters series too.

I get that Helena is supposed to be this perfectly heavenly creature on the outside, whilst enduring the guilt trip from hell on the inside.Una novela bien escrita, donde vamos descubriendo poco a poco los secretos de Helena respecto de su pasado. ABOUT 'THE OLIVE TREE': Please be aware that in some parts of the world, this book is published under the title 'Helena's Secret'. 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 (! I could have said the setting, but no, because Pandora and its location are barely described, so I didn't even get to be immersed into the atmosphere. She adores her husband William, and he her, although he can never quite rid himself of the feeling that Helena is holding something back from him.

Me pareció un chico muy dulce bajo esa capa de arrogancia que tienen todos los adolescentes a esa edad, ya que, como todos los niños, quiere que su familia esté bien y poder conectar con ellos de verdad, debido a que su coeficiente intelectual es superior al promedio y eso también lo hace ser un niño diferente.Una historia con un protagonista indiscutible y adorable, acompañado de personajes tan adorables como el protagonista y otros no tanto pero que complementan una historia super entretenida, ágil, tierna, de esas que se leen rapidísimo y con un enganche absoluto, sumado a que todo ocurre en Chipre a orillas del Mediterráneo, entre olivos y viñedos, no queda otra mas que querer descubrir cual es el secreto que tiene Helena. El secreto de Helena ha sido una lectura llena de incognitas, con una trama que transcurre en Chipre.

A few of the characters seemed a bit too good to be true but overall I enjoyed it and will look for more books by this author. Anfangs hatte ich Schwierigkeiten die vielen Personen auseinander zu halten, das wurde im Laufe der Story ein wenig besser. Past and present do collide but at some stage this needed to happen as keeping things locked away inside will just cause more hurt and pain for all involved.This is the first time that Lucinda has stepped away from books with a big sweeping historical background or one hundred year time span (I adore these kind of books even more so when they are written by Lucinda) and instead focuses on a family holiday over one ho , long summer in Cyprus staying in a house our main female protagonist Helena has inherited from her godfather Angus. The characters are so stereotypical that I just wanted to burn them with the fire of a thousand suns. Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Italian Bancarella Prize, the Lovely Books Award in Germany, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.