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Truth:<\/b> Penn Walker entered my life like a summer storm\u2014dark, ominous, and filled with thunder.<\/span><\/p>\n After witnessing my husband\u2019s murder, I didn\u2019t have much of a heart left to offer a man.<\/p>\n But Penn took it all. Lie:<\/b> I didn\u2019t need him to save me. But that\u2019s the thing about lies\u2014you never know who to believe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Add to Goodreads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4.5 stars!<\/b><\/p>\n Wow, what an ending to an emotionally intense, dark and gritty duet! Aly Martinez has given us an emotional, romantic, fun and exciting finish to Penn and Cora\u2019s story, giving me everything I wanted to see and more, and keeping me glued to my kindle from start to finish.<\/p>\n The Truth About Lies<\/a> ended on a huge cliffhanger that left me desperate for more, and there\u2019s not a whole lot I can say about this book that won\u2019t be a spoiler so I\u2019m going to try and keep this vague.<\/p>\n In the first book of this duet, we met Penn, a man hell-bent on vengeance, and Cora, a woman trying her best to survive hell and working to escape the life she was dumped into. Their paths crossed, and despite all of their intentions, they unexpectedly found themselves falling hard for each other.<\/p>\n \u201cTruth,\u201d I whispered against her temple. \u201cI love you.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n All that they found together was threatened in the worst possible way, and now we get the second part of their story as they reveal all to each other, sort through the blurred lines of lie and truth, and figure out where to from here.<\/p>\n \u201cAre you okay?\u201d His big, warm palm came down on my thigh. You may think you know what you\u2019re going to get with this book, but you end up with so much more. There are twists and turns and surprising reveals, and as it all unfolds, Penn fights hard for his girl, his devotion and commitment to her absolutely melting my heart. And Cora gets to truly know the man that she fell so deeply in love with.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery smile. Every laugh. Every kiss. Every touch. That was me. That was us. And that was the truth.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n It\u2019s not an easy path for them, but it\u2019s a gorgeous love story that has both its sweet, fun moments and heartbreaking ones. It\u2019s passionate, intense and emotional, and you can feel<\/i> everything that is between them, and I loved watching them find their way forward together.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are the truth, Cora. We are the only truth in this entire fucked-up situation.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And more than just the two of them, the involvement of key side characters in the action bring great depth to the story. River and Savannah are fantastic, and Penn\u2019s devotion to them was just beautiful to see. And Drew continues to be pure awesome. There\u2019s a fantastic side-story brewing for him, and I\u2019m really excited that we\u2019re going to get his story next year.<\/p>\n Intertwined with the love story and family drama is the dark and gritty mystery\/suspense storyline that plays out so well, bringing excitement and intensity to the book, and tying up all the loose ends really cleverly.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were the only truth that mattered in any of this. We earned this. I won\u2019t lose that. I won\u2019t lose you.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If all finishes off beautifully with an epilogue that left me beyond satisfied and giddy with happiness.<\/p>\n Aly Martinez \u2013 you continue to rock my world. 4.5 stars.<\/p>\n An Advanced Reader Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Truth About Lies (#1) The Truth About Us (#2) The Ways We Lied (Spin-off)<\/strong> (Drew’s story) <\/p>\n Originally from Savannah, Georgia, USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez now lives in South Carolina with her four young children.<\/p>\n Never one to take herself too seriously, she enjoys cheap wine, mystery leggings, and baked feta. It should be known, however, that she hates pizza and ice cream, almost as much as writing her bio in the third person.<\/p>\n She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a super-sized tumbler of wine by her side.<\/p>\n WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0|<\/b>\u00a0FACEBOOK<\/b><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/b>TWITTER<\/b><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0 INSTAGRAM\u00a0<\/a> | NEWSLETTER<\/a> | <\/b>GOODREADS<\/b><\/a>\u00a0 | AMAZON<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Truth Duet by Aly Martinez is Complete!\u00a0 Amazon US\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon UK\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon CA\u00a0 |\u00a0 Amazon AU Synopsis Truth: Penn Walker entered my life like a summer storm\u2014dark, ominous, and filled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","yasr_overall_rating":4.5,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"Product","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,9,29],"tags":[194,59,48,891],"class_list":["post-36518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mystery","category-romance","category-steamy","tag-aly-martinez","tag-arc","tag-review","tag-the-truth-duet"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Truth-About-Us.jpg?fit=150%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gaNL-9v0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nLie:<\/b> I knew exactly who he was.
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\nI blinked at him some more, waiting for the oasis to fade. \u201cI don\u2019t think I am.\u201d
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