Review: Never Let You Go is a bit like the fantasy little girls dream up when young.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 30, 2014
Never Let You Go is a wonderful follow up to Never Let You Fall.  It's better than Never Let You Fall, which was a good debut with a strong foundation.  The second book in the series allowed for the characters to really find their footing though.Skye becomes more than a lost and broken girl.  She's been thrust into a world, a life, she doesn't recall.  She's had the weight of that world firmly secured to her shoulders but instead of hiding from it, she runs head first into it.  She braves the unknown by herself.  Determined to seek answers, find a way to better everything with not one person she cares for falling in the process.  Lofty, and unrealistic, goals.  But goals that come from a true heart, none the less.However, seeking this path takes her away from Xander.  Her guardian, her love, one of the few people she can truly trust.  Yet it forces her into the life of Nikoli, a man who grew up with the idea of Skye.  With the idea that she was his future and he's willing to fight for that idea.Now, I usually run from love triangles of any kind.  The aggravate me.  I am not a fan of the idea that you can be in love with more than one person at a time.  Yes, in love.  I understand you can love multiple but the distinction between love and in love...is great.  Here is where I bow down to the graceful way in which Miller produced this dramatic entanglement.There was no simpering girl who just can't decide what path her heart wants to take.  Sky thinks with her brain while still feeling with her heart.  The progression of her and Nikoli's relationship is natural, it felt real and comforting. Her estrangement from Xander, just as real.  Painful, beautiful but REAL.  That's what this complication felt like.  And it, surely, a complication.Xander and Sky have a forbidden soul mate type love.  A love that can make a heart soar or, possibly, burn a kingdom to the ground.Beyond the love story, Never Let You Go is a bit like the fantasy little girls dream up when young.  It has the castle, the prince, the villains (that I wanted to take sharp objects to on many occasions), epic fight scenes, fantastical ethereal beings and an underlying deeper meaning.I enjoyed this part of the story and eagerly wait for more.