Review: The Truth About Him by M. O’Keefe

16 January of 2016 by Jean

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

Bedrock ~ the hard reality of me… you… us.

The Truth About Him By M. O’Keefe

Contemporary Erotic Romance

Released November 24, 2015

Bantam

Series: Everything I Left Unsaid, Book 2

Reviewed by Jean

For fans of Christina Lauren and Jodi Ellen Malpas comes the next novel in M. O’Keefe’s breathtakingly sexy series about a woman called into a journey of the heart, body, and soul.

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.

Bedrock ~ the hard reality of me… you… us.

Everything I left Unsaid left us with Annie deciding she wanted to be with Dylan as soon as she got the pesky business of her marriage dealt with. Then she came home only to be accosted by her husband. The Truth About Him picks up where Everything I Left Unsaid left off. Her husband Hoyt is a real violent piece of work and he’s determined that she’ll be going home with him if he has to drag her kicking and screaming and over whatever dead bodies he has to leave along the way. When Dylan gets the call about what’s going down you can guess at what ensues. Can you say beat down? Let’s just say things get rather violent and Hoyt is taken care of.

Now Annie is free of her ex but the danger is still lurking around every corner in the form of Dylan’s family connections. And while you might think she should be running for the hills nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, we’re dealing with Dylan’s feelings of inadequacy.

Are you okay?” she asked. Still she didn’t touch me, and I wanted her to as badly as I couldn’t stand it if she did. “Fine.” A lie so worthless there was hardly any point in it. She could see how not fine I was. How broken and shaken and fucked up I was.

I was not the right man for her, but I wanted to be. And I was humbled by her choice.

Luckily Annie’s just a bit intuitive when it comes to Dylan’s deflections.

Somehow she got the sense that he was hitting bedrock. Not rock bottom, but the hard reality of who he was. She’d done it or was in the process of doing it. And maybe that was the only way they stood a chance. If they burrowed down through the lies they told themselves, through the doubts and the fears, through the remains of the life they’d been living before—if they got down to the bedrock of who they really were—maybe they stood a chance. Everything else—it was a lie. Maybe not one that they said out loud. But one that they lived.

Bedrock is a tough place to reach while life is exploding around you. Coming to terms with your past, accepting who you and others in your life are today, letting go, learning to forgive others as well as yourself, giving into love and welcoming tomorrow with open arms… all of it takes just a bit of courage. Sometimes it takes just a bit of selfishness too.

I know it’s wrong. And it’s selfish and I don’t have any right to it, I don’t deserve it … but, I’m glad you’re here.

The Truth About Him was the perfect end to Annie and Dylan’s story. Ms. O’Keefe delves deep into the psyche of her characters. I dare you not to fall in love with them. I’m sure you won’t mind the heat and chemistry that fairly sizzles off the page on the wild ride that is The Truth About HIm.