Review: I Let You Go

I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I have mixed reviews about this book. We selected it for our book club because a few of us had marked it as a "to read" on Goodreads, but I just don't think this delivered in the way I was hoping. The book is told from multiple perspectives and is broken into 2 parts. I'm not spoiling anything, but at the beginning of the book there is a death which sets the book into motion. Alternating between Jenna's point of view and a police detective Stevens. I found the police sections to be confusing since the setting is in London and the jargon is different from here in the states. The first part of the book was slow moving where I found myself just wishing for something to happen.

Jenna has started over in a new isolated small town in Wales. The reader isn't given much, she is an artist and somehow injured her hand is now exploring photography. She is lonely and takes a long time to warm up to her neighbor. With too many references about the lock that is always sticking to her front door, one would have to be clueless to not know something will happen at the house!

When I finally reached part 2 of the book, I was instantly thrown in and couldn't put it down. Jenna's past is explained and we find out exactly what happened to her. But what about this death at the beginning of the book? You'll need to read it to find out for yourself.

Worth a read - knowing that it will start out slow.

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