Let it Go by DC Renee Review

4.5 Smooches!

Synopsis

Benny’s story…a novella…stand alone & sequel to Let Me Go

A street thug with a heart. That was Benny Negrete. To the outside world, he looked like bad news, but anyone who knew him knew he was intelligent, honest, and most importantly, caring. He looked out for the people he loved. But it hasn’t always been that way.

Sophie Basi, a successful doctor with a promising career, has tried hard to put the past behind her. It even worked for a while, but she never expected to run into Benny again. He’s the one person who can summon the past and unravel her perfectly crafted life.

When avoidance doesn’t work, the two are forced to relive their recollections of a past they are both desperate to forget. Can they let it go? Or are they forever going to live in their memories, with the future just out of reach? 

Review

This is Benny’s story. Let It Go follows Benny and Sophie as they try to continue living once they are placed in each other’s lives again. Benny and Sophie have a history, it’s a history that centres around pain, hurt, regret, guilt and anger.

Benny is living his life the best way that he can, he is trying to make himself better and stay as far away from his past as he can. We find out about his brother and what happened to him and the guilt and regret that he carries around. Benny is helping Kat plan a party for Mason, when all the past comes to the surface, he bumps into little Sophie, the girl next door who is all grown up and full of hatred for him. “This time, there was no confusing what emotions were written in her eyes. It was hatred. Pure hatred and it was directed at him.

Sophie gets the shock of her life when she attends her new boss’s party, running straight into the past. Sophie has a lot of pain which we find out more of later in the book. She holds Benny responsible for the way her life has turned out, she blames him for Ethan, his death, the distance between them before he died. She blames him as Benny was the person that Ethan looked up to, he wanted his big brothers praise, approval and acceptance. Sophie takes all the pain she feels and directs it all towards Benny.

Trying to avoid each other is harder to do then they expect with Kat getting involved, she has a way about her that makes people want to do what she asks. Kat gets involved after Sophie spills her guts when she drinks too much on a girl’s night out. This is also the night Benny picks them up and finds out why Sophie holds such a huge amount of anger towards him. With the new found information Benny hates himself more, he goes into a hole. He doesn’t want to come out of it and Sophie wants her own time as well. Kat not having any of this gets involved and starts what ends up being the thing that they both needed to find closure.

Benny chooses to fight, he wants Sophie in his life and he also needs to let go of the past, he needs to let go of the guilt if he really even wants to move forward. What Benny does in this scene, for not only Sophie, but himself brought me to tears. It was such a heartfelt gesture and the reasons for him doing it, just hits you straight in the chest. You can tell throughout the whole book that Benny isn’t the person that Sophie thought he was, well not anymore. Benny loves with everything in him, Sophie sees this after his gesture. “Once you’re in his circle, you’re in for life.”

Sophie and Benny have so much that needs to be resolved, that you wonder if they can really, truly be friends, or possibly more with so much hanging over them. Will they work things out? Or is the past too much?

I loved this book, and I’m glad that we got Benny’s story. I also loved reading more about Kat and Mason. This book was a rollercoaster of emotions for me, but so worth it. Well done DC Renee on another amazing read.

“You know this all started because you didn’t let go.”

~Stacy

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