Molly O’Keefe has a talent for making the reader experience her characters’ feelings, thoughts, and emotions. I love her work, but was a little disappointed by Need You Now. I sympathized with the characters and hurt for them, but the angst and drama went on a little too long for my liking. ~ Java Girl – Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews
Need You Now, an all-new standalone contemporary romance by Molly O’Keefe.
MARCO
I have loved Rosa since I met her in high school English, even though the odds have always been stacked against us. She is the child of criminals, resigned to a bleak future. I’m the heir to a successful construction company and am not afraid to go after what I want.
And I want Rosa. Always and forever.
ROSA
I broke the law to make sure Marco got custody of our daughter, and I paid the price. But now that I’m out of jail, I’m terrified my ugly past might bleed into our daughter’s future.
The only way to ensure that doesn’t happen is staying far away from both of them.
But Marco isn’t letting me run from him. Not again.
Molly O’Keefe has a talent for making the reader feel what the characters are feeling. With her books, I feel like I’m right there, experiencing the characters’ thoughts and emotions right along with them. I don’t find that very often, and when I do, that author goes to the top of my auto-buy list. As much as I love her work, I didn’t love Need You Now. I liked it, but didn’t love it. It was a little too angsty for me to really enjoy it. Marco and Rosa’s story is sweet, sad, and tragic, and I felt a lot of emotion from them, but I found the strongest emotion I felt with this book was frustration. I found Rosa to be very frustrating—I understood her fears, and why she made many of the choices she made, but the frustration came from her refusal to ask for or take help when it was offered. She was too much of a martyr, for me. I’m not suggesting her actions weren’t authentic to someone of her life experiences, but I felt it dragged on a little too long. It started to feel like drama for the sake of drama, which isn’t my usual reaction to a book by this author. However, even a somewhat disappointing book from Molly O’Keefe is better than the vast majority of books available, so she remains an auto-buy author for me.
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Excerpt:
He looked at me across the room and slowly shook his head. “I don’t want to love you,” he said.
“I know.”
“Half the time I hate you.”
“I know.”
He looked away from me, his hands in fists, and I could feel the tension across the room, the fragile control he had on himself. How he was barely holding on. And I knew that he would never hurt me. The thing he was trying to stop himself from doing was touch me.
“I’m leaving,” he said and crossed the room in three angry steps. Everything in me told me to get out of the way. To let him go. But I didn’t. I stood right in front of the door in my gold vest and hot pants.
His face was flushed. “Get out of my way,” he said, and my mouth was full, my throat closed, and I shook my head. “Don’t make me,” he said. “Don’t make me touch you.”
It was exactly what I was doing, because I would take his touch any way I could get it.
“Fuck, Rosa,” he groaned. “Fuck you.”
And he put his hands around my arms and pulled me up and into his body so my breasts touched his chest, and between my legs I felt the hard pressure of him. I gasped and he turned. I expected him to let me go. I expected him to shove me away but he didn’t. Oh god, he didn’t. He lifted me off my feet and took two steps forward, pushing me against the wall. Not gently. But not rough. And then he leaned against me, his entire body against mine. And I was electrified. Every inch of my skin burned where it touched his.
I burned so hot I burned right through all the years. All the pain fell away and it was just us. Marco and me and the desire so pure it kept changing the course of both our lives.
He held himself so still, so carefully, and he was going to walk away. I knew he was. He would walk away and this moment would never happen again.
“Please,” I begged, because it was all I had left. No more pride. No more distance. I was only need.
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Molly O’Keefe is the USA Today Bestselling author of over 50 contemporary romances. She lives in Toronto Ontario with her husband, two kids and rescue dog.
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