The Truth About Him by Molly O'Keefe on November 24, 2015
Pages: 336
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We played our roles, told each other lies.
But now Dylan is no longer just a mysterious deep voice on the other end of the line. We’re face-to-face and our relationship is very, very real.
We still have secrets—but so much is crystal clear:
The thrilling danger.
The raw, naked desire.
The need to keep feeling the way he makes me feel. Forever.
Dylan is putting up walls, trying to keep me safe, but he can’t shut me out. He has seen my darkness and rescued me. Now it’s my turn, if only he will let me.
Everything I Left Unsaid and The Truth About Him by Molly O’Keefe combined tell a twisty, bendy, sexy story that in the end made my heart full!
I didn’t think answering someone else’s cellphone would change my life. But the stranger with the low, deep voice on the other end of the line tempted me, awakened my body, set me on fire. He was looking for someone else. Instead he found me.
This is the start of the blurb to Everything I Left Unsaid and it instantly grabbed my attention. I am very glad I read these two books together and I thoroughly enjoyed experiencing the complete story.
The plot in this one is full of twists and turns so I am going to keep this short so I don’t spoil anything in book 1 or book 2.
I will say the reason Dylan calls that phone is layered and it builds as the story unfolds in both books. Emotions run deep even when you want to bury them and family is the tie that binds even when you don’t want it to be. This last part applied to both characters (and was so enjoyable to witness unfolding throughout).
Annie finds herself in a trailer park answering a stranger’s phone and is so drawn to the man on the other end that the reader is pulled right into the story. Dylan is also affected by the calls, something he never expected as this is not the first time he has called this phone.
But a ten-minute conversation with a stranger and he was hard as steel. His body primed. Ready. Craving more.
As Annie’s bond grows with Dylan so does that of the readers. As a reader, I so wanted to know more about the mystery man on the other end.
It’s just a phone, I thought, despite its near pulsing heat in my hand. Its strange alive-ness. It echoed in me, a foreign nature that was not entirely my own. Something hot-blooded and impulsive.
When Dylan finally reveals himself, it was so well done; you truly believe this man who swore he would never bring her to him would in this case, you understand he had no options.
When Annie and Dylan meet, the connection grows even deeper and though warned off from Dylan, Annie knows this connection is something she wants to explore.
“I’m not scared of you,” she said. “I’ll never be scared of you.”
“Well, I’m sure as shit scared of you,” he said.
This books has many sexy moments as Dylan helps Annie explore her sexuality.
I loved that this story was told in dual POV. Annie and Dylan both have pasts that affect them in the moments we interact with them and both had reasons for being closed down at times, so hearing and experiencing both added to the story for me.
In the end, I not only loved the happy for Dylan and Annie, I loved the closure both obtained.
♥READ THE SERIES♥
Book 1 – Everything I Left Unsaid
Book 2 – The Truth About Him
About Molly O’Keefe
Molly O’Keefe has always known she wanted to be a writer (except when she wanted to be a florist or a chef and the brief period of time when she considered being a cowgirl). And once she got her hands on some romances, she knew exactly what she wanted to write.
She published her first Harlequin romance at age 25 and hasn’t looked back. She loves exploring every character’s road towards happily ever after.
Originally from a small town outside of Chicago, she went to university in St. Louis where she met and fell in love with the editor of her school newspaper. They followed each other around the world for several years and finally got married and settled down in Toronto, Ontario. They welcomed their son into their family in 2006, and their daughter in 2008. When she’s not at the park or cleaning up the toy room, Molly is working hard on her next novel, trying to exercise, stalking Tina Fey on the internet and dreaming of the day she can finish a cup of coffee without interruption.
Dishing It Out, her last Harlequin Flipside won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award for best Flipside in 2005.
Her Superromance Baby Makes Three won the RT Reviewer’s Choice for best Superromance in 2006. L-length Her novella, “The Christmas Eve Promise” in The Night Before Christmas won the RITA in 2009. And her full length contemporary romance CRAZY THING CALLED LOVE won the RITA in 2013.
Kathleen Bylsma
thank you so very much for the review…I’ll be reading this…added to my Goodreads shelf!