Let It Go (2013) Review

Irresistible. Insatiable. Ambitious. Sweet. Passionate. Hot. And, laugh-out-loud-funny describes Brooklyn James' 2013 contemporary romance novel, Let It Go. Savannah Brondurant, a recent divorcee, and a marriage/relationship columnist for the Savannah Sun Times, stumbles into an unexpected relationship  that teaches her  how to let go of her past so she might be able step into a promising future while learning to trust in the happily-ever-after fairy tale.

I'm beginning to wonder if Brooklyn James herself is a relationship expert. I mean, a book as smart, witty, comforting, and sexy doesn't write itself. I presume personal experience in the love-department, or lack there of, sparks an imaginative, realistic, comedic, romantic story that tickles the heart and touches the soul. James writes a real feel-good and divine masterpiece that turns Let It Go into a page-turner leaving her audience hungry for more.

Savannah and Brody McAlister have an appetite so strong it leaves James' audience completely spell-bound wishing for a woman in  her 30's to be having incredible and lustrous sex so powerful it'd make the earth shift on its axis with a love so deep it hurts.

It seems like Savannah might actually have it all with an ambitious writing career, steamy sex, two supportive sisters and a loving mother. However, Savannah has a pesky ex-husband whom weasels his way under Savannah's skin causing her to question her night spent between the sheets with Brody and his love monster, Thor.  A whiskey tumbler plus a man's psyche is Savannah's remedy in discovering the antidote for fear so she might let. it. go.


Strip Let It Go to its most basic message. Hence, eliminate Brody McAlister and the drama king ex-husband from the equation and the reader is left with the conflict: Savannah. If Savannah can get out of her own way then she'd realize her potential to be happy and free without the added drama of what could have been, but is not. When Savannah recognizes her potential she'd know there's hope for her yet if she'd just let go of the muck and look into her future. Be a visionary and let it go.

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