Synopsis
Life is a sequence of
choices. Some are deliberate, others are forced upon you. This was a
lesson that McKenzie Evans knew all too well. After the miscarriage of
her son, she made the hard decision to leave her absentee boyfriend and
move in with her former college roommate, Olivia Hamilton. That's when
she was introduced to Andrew Wise, a brilliant attorney, working for his
family's law firm in Sarasota, Florida. To McKenzie, Drew became her
salvation. He had a way of understanding her when no one else could. The
closer they became, the more McKenzie found herself falling in love
with Drew. He was everything she ever dreamed of in a man, and for the
first time in her life, she felt truly alive. There was only one
problem. Drew was dating Olivia. With the help of fate and circumstance,
Drew and McKenzie journey down a path of unrequited love and denied
feelings. In the end, they must make a choice between their hearts or
their consciences. In this one decision they discover that there's
always a glimmer of truth to a lie, that there's a fine line between
love and friendship, and sometimes you have to risk everything to gain
everything.
My Review
I don't do spoilers, I hate them in a review, I think if you want the best parts of a book you should read it and get them in context. Therefore what you read in the synopsis is what you get.
What you don't get from it is the emotion, the heartbreak and the hope for a happier future for these characters. I fell in love with all but one of them.
You have 2 best friends who couldn't be more opposite. Olivia is a selfish, lying, scheming, money grubbing skeeze in my opinion.
While McKenzi, is an honest, true friend who has suffered a horrible loss in her young life.
She moves in with her best friend after leaving her boyfriend who's never around and leaves her to handle their loss on her own. She deserves better and meets better, the only problem is he's currently dating her best friend Olivia. I've known people like Olivia and shes the one character I couldn't stand. But what good is a story without someone we can't tolerate?
And while I'm usually not a big fan of the cliffhanger, this one floored me, I wasn't expecting a cliffhanger when I started reading, I figured we would get the whole story at once, It was so good until the last 10 pages, I snapped, my sailor vocabulary ran wild, my husband was staring at me like I grew a 2nd head.
BUT I'm so ready for the 2nd book, I cannot wait to see what happens, I'm very impatiently waiting. The characters pull you in and keep you wrapped up in the story, the emotional pull of their story keeps you hanging on the writers every word. I love a book that gets an emotional response out of me, and The Truth in Lies did just that. When I finished this book I tossed my kindle across the room onto the couch, and that my fellow readers is emotion, this book will make you cry, laugh and hope for things to happen that just don't happen in this book. These are characters you can relate to. You will be hooked by the end and like me, be waiting for the rest of the story.
The writing is spectacular, I felt an instant connection, and you quite likely will too, to at least one character if not more and you become a part of their story, it grabs you and won't let you go until the very last page.
Even if your anti-cliffhanger like me, you need to give this book a read, I am so glad I didn't know it was a cliffhanger, I may have passed it by until the followup book was out so I could read them back to back, but I am more than happy that I didn't do that, I'd have missed out on a great book.
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