Review: An evitable and sweet and sour love-stroy that is bound to sweep you off the floor!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
Birdie Hall's new novel, Letting Go is a road-trip love-story. The journey is great and the attraction is quite inevitable! Well, Isabelle and Harper are stuck in a 2days long road-trip and with each passing moment, they are falling hard for each other. Letting Go is also about how to let go of some feelings without which we think we might become very insecure and vulnerable and to follow one's true heart's calling and instincts.Thanks to the author, Birdie Hall, for giving me an opportunity to read and review her book.Isabelle, a senior-year high-school student, who had went to Paris for her art-work. Till date she was happy and content with her life. She had nothing to fear about, she had a handsome and hot and very nice boyfriend, Jamie, who was her classmate, a childhood bestie, Chloe and her dad. But soon after reaching Atlanta, her so-called perfect life started to fall apart. Her luggage gets stolen, her boyfriend, Jamie doesn't come to pick her up, instead he sends for his elder brother, Harper to pick-her up, learning about which, her bestie, Chloe, starts teasing her about hot and brooding elder brother, Harper. Isabelle and Harper have a bittersweet relationship, more like fire and ice. As soon as Isabelle gets into the car, Harper starts bickering and teasing her by throwing tantrums. But eventually soon their journey turns out to be a myriad of different emotions. They ease up and start opening up their deepest, darkest corners in their heart. And a detour proves to be great bond between them. But soon their attraction towards each other became fatal for each other and takes them to a roller-coaster of pain and torture in their lives.Birdie Hall has told story very sweetly and the book is very delectable. Although she has written the book in a third person manner, but the book is quite interesting to read since she has included a lot of dialogues and since they were stuck in an old Chevy, so there was not much scope to make it look interesting, hence she filled the voids with too many back-stories, which gave us an idea about Isabelle and Harper's relationship. The author has made them like the two opposites poles of a magnet and thus it was quite sweet and wonderful and emotional to read about them. Isabelle is more like control-freak, who loves her boyfriend, Jamie to death, ignores all his mistakes and wants her relationship with Jamie to be perfect. Harper is a humorous guy, a total womanizer, loves to pull Isabelle's leg. Jamie is a sweet guy who constantly tries to protect his girlfriend from his brother. Chloe proves to be a true best friend, who advices and supports Isabelle during toughest times of her life. Although they both had a dark past, maybe that's why they fell for each other, no matter how hard they tried running away from each other.Read this book and see how Isabelle and Harper bring smile to your face and you'll might want to fall in love all over again!