I was completely absorbed by this book. It's quite a steady story, but it really gets under your skin. An outstanding debut by, Gillian McAllister, and I genuinely hope there is more to come. If only she wasn’t pretending to be somebody else. Holly Mathew mom is hired to work in a retirement home. They just move in,which mean Holly neighbors are very old people and very rich. It's not the best place to live, but it is not a total bust either, because gorgeous, and hot hollywood star Malik Buchannan is the grandson of one of the richest man, Charles Buchannan living in the retirement home. When they first met, Malik think Holly is there to visit her super rich family members.which she does not not correct him, she assume that the spark between them will never become something,But Malik fall for her thinking she is Lucy a nice rich girl who is just like him.because she is afraid Malik will not accept the real her,she lie to keep the spark between them.What will happen to Malik when he found out she been lying to him . Everything but the truth is a novel by Mandy Hubbard. I really loved all the characters in this book. I took all of them into my heart and wanted the best for each and everyone of them. Where at times I found myself confused by what had happened in the past and all the secrets that people were hiding. I never ended up hating anyone. Which in itself is fascinating to me and opens up lots of questions like what is the difference between good and right? Is there a difference? Can the two coincide along Side each other? There were times I felt like I was actually standing in Oban's harbour smelling the fish and chips and then standing in Newcastle's city centre looking at the Monument, so well had the author captured and portrayed these places I know so well. I love when you can truly relate to places in books, it makes it so much more realistic.

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Finally, I really liked Mr. Buchannan! He totally reminded me of Blu Mankuma as Gort in Halloweentown ll: Kalabar's Revenge. He's so growly bear, but with a giant soft spot! Deep down, he loves his grandson and his intentions are good. Our main character, Holiday, is in a really odd situation since she can’t be honest about her life. I understood how she found herself there and how it just gradually spun out of control. I don’t agree with her actions, and think she should have just been honest, but I do understand how it got to the point it did. Plus it made for an interesting story, and that’s really the point isn’t it. :) Holly had a unique personality and I must commend Hubbard for making an effort to make Holly different. She’s the only teenager I’ve read about who has such a love for antiques and who knows so much about art. Holly made me smile with her endearing ways. In the Highlands of Scotland two people fell in love like two peas in a pod. Only to discover that they're going to have a baby and don't really know anything about each other, apart from knowing that they were meant to grow old together.

As for the romance, I liked how we slowly got to know Holly and Malik a little better. They're both fully-formed characters. Holly is a bit girly but not overtly so. She likes antiques and interior decorating, and she has plans to attend Washington State University in the fall. Malik is set to run his grandfather's business - but he doesn't really want to. I was worried that part would be totally cliche, but it's not. He loves to read, and after a party boy past, he's actually realized the good he can do in this world and he's working toward ways he can do that and still take over his grandfather's company like expected. I did enjoy the characters and plot, even with the dose of anxiety, and had fun with this predictably fun and entertaining story.

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This book is certainly a light and fluffy romantic story that you can easily engulf in one sitting. It's your typical clean teen romance novel since the characters - especially the protagonist Holly - seem a bit immature for a bunch of 18-19 yr olds. They blow up the tiniest things and overthink every small complication. Despite this, this book is easily amusing and entertaining. Once I'd started I was of course powerless to stop. Everything But the Truth is a dream debut, brilliantly executed, clever and utterly realistic. I loved it." - Jill Mansell Everything But the Truth is definitely my favorite of the If Only books to this point. If it weren't for the plot being based on a stupid lie, I think this would have been a higher rating for me. This was my first Mandy Hubbard book and my first read from the "If Only" YA Romance Series (which focuses on teenage girls who want what they can’t have and fall for someone they shouldn’t, according to this article). I had no idea what to expect and I don't typically read YA romance novels, so I was a bit nervous; however, Everything But the Truth ended up being a cute, light-hearted romance with fun characters and major ship feels!While the romance between Malik and Holly was very much a fairytale, it's Holly relationships with her friends and mother that I appreciated the most.

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Everything but the Truth is the sixth addition to the If Only series, a set of young adult contemporary romances written by various authors, all centered around the theme of wanting what you can’t have. They are lighthearted reads, a new spin on the ever-popular forbidden love trope. Tipped as a Cinderella-inspired story, Mandy Hubbard’s newest is about college-bound Holly, a girl who has never lived a privileged lifestyle. It’s only recently that she and her mom could start living comfortably, thanks to her mom’s promotion as the new manager of a ritzy retirement home. The problems begin when she meets Malik, the famous and gorgeous grandson of one of the richest men in the world, who happens to be staying there. When Malik mistakes her identity as someone else – someone rich and who belongs in his world – she doesn’t correct him, thinking that whatever they start will be nothing more than a summer fling. Soon, lies and feelings are getting all mixed up… Is it too late for Holly to tell him the truth? When she meets Malik while on the floor trying to move a very large couch, she's floored by how hot he is. She's even more flabbergasted when she meets him again on the top floor and discovers his grandfather is the unhappy occupant of the ultra-fancy suite Mom has been trying to rent for months. When she's called Lucy by Henrietta, her favorite resident who lives down the hall because she looks like the woman's deceased granddaughter, Malik assumes that's her name. Afraid that he'll lose interest if he knows the truth, Holly goes along with the lie. The books in this series can definitely be read alone but it’s still good to see a group of authors working together to make a series along the same theme. In this installment we meet Holly who isn’t as well off as the residents in the retirement home her mother works and lives at. But she’s genuine and real, especially when she meets Malik Buchanan. But then again not that genuine as he’s under the impression she’s really someone else, mistakenly of course.Everything but the Truth is Gillian McAllister's stunning breakthrough thriller about deceit, betrayal and one woman's compulsive need to uncover the truth. I hugely enjoyed this novel and found it was a brilliant, riveting read which left my feeling satisfied. However as the reader, we don't know too much about Rachel's recent past. Why did she really quit her job as a doctor? We know her mother died from cancer and after her death, Rachel's father discovered she had been having an affair with another man for years. She then became suspicion about her then boyfriend Ben of seeing other people. So maybe Rachel is just paranoid because of what's happened in her own past? Although there just seem to be too many coincidences, hidden secrets and odd happenings for that to really be the case. Holly's life has been on the low end of the financial scale until her mom's latest job. Dad bailed early on, they struggled and she knew what pinching pennies meant in a way that most other kids her age never understood. It took several years, but now Mom has a degree and is near the end of her probation at a dream job, managing a very high class retirement home on an island in Washington State. Holly, short for Holiday, likes art, creativity and helping out the nicer residents. She saves the tips they give her for college. If Only . . . she wasn't pretending to be someone else! The If Only romance line continues in this fun rags-to-riches romance.