Release Date: November 17th 2015
Pages: 288
Age Range: Young Adult
Source: E-Galley from Netgalley
The mother of Holly Matthews has just been assigned to be the manager of a retirement home of wealthy elderly people, which means they finally get some financial security after Holly's father passed away.Holly and her mom start living there too, but being surrounded only by people who are above seventy years starts to get a bit boring soon. But then she meets Malik Buchannan, a grandson of one of the most wealthy and demanding residents of the home.
And exactly that moment, one of the residents who has started to get a bit forgetfull calls Holly with the name of her passed a way granddaughter, so Malik thinks when he sees this that Holly is visiting her grandmother, which she is not. She doesn't correct him, and it probably doesn't matter, because their flirtation could never turn into more than a superficial fling . . . right? But the longer she lives in his privileged world, the deeper Holly falls for Malik, and the harder it is to tell the truth, because coming clean might mean losing him.
I might fall in a boring repeat, but every book in the If Only series is quite a delicious read. This is the seventh book out and it was very entertaining again. I thought this was the first book by Mandy Hubbard I've read, but as she writes under different pen names it was actually the third.
Now over to what I thought about the characters: I thought they where fun and likeable!
Holly was just a very normal teenage girl who saves every penny for college, but that was what I liked because I think many readers of her age wil like her because of this and can relate to her. Malik was the classic grandson coming of old money. He was likeable but he obviously mistrusted Holly sometimes, and so did his grandfather, who wrongly thinks Holly is after his status and money.
It took a little too long before Holly revealed her ''lie'', but hey, this is fiction and otherwise it wouldn't have been such an enjoyable story. Further on the author created a nice tension line about the truth that Holly is not telling Malik.
So yes, I do recommend this seventh book in the If Only Series, and thats nothing but the truth!
