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A review by anthroxagorus
Let Me Go by Chelsea Cain
4.0
4.5/5.0
I think there's a good reason why the first three books are considered best sellers, while the rest were just okay. Because they didn't sell what we were after - Gretchen/Archie goodness. My heart lifted in that brief moment she was trying to play detective with him in Let Me Go and with all the... intimate scenes and just any time she tries to help him OH MY HEART. Otherwise, shit, yeah, I like the characters, and I'd still read more with them... but I just want Gretchen???
I just love that they were exploring themselves in their relationship. Archie and his wife weren't a good fit, Gretchen was experimenting with her own feelings, her sexuality, maybe testing the idea of BEING in a relationship. Maybe she tortured Archie because it was too much? Maybe she needed him to see her worst side? God, it hurts my heart because they really seemed to have something genuine.
However! I think the ending is fitting and ends as it "should." Which is massively boring in fiction! I've been thriving on Archie's pain! I want him to be in pain! Angst! LUST!! But throughout the series, he just got... better. (Yawn)
But how is the story even over?!?!
I want Gretchen becoming a detective with Archie, I want their relationship to continue, as problematic and unrealistic that plot would have been. But it's fiction. And it could have happened. And I want it so badly. (Probs something similar to Hannibal and Will's relationship in Bryan Fuller's show)
Instead Archie got with Susan. (Eye-roll) I'm not even sure how we are to believe that he's truly over Gretchen at the end. What has actually changed? He remembered she was a psycho? That's not really news. Was it because the secret finally came out to the team about the affair? However, it's probably over for Gretchen, who saw how desperately in like Archie was for Susan.
Boil down the book and it's about a really shitty break-up... with murder in the mix
Below, I started writing fanfiction of sorts so lol I've been up for 16 hours enjoy vvvv
"Never would have worked out, darling," she would think. She'd kill, of course she would, measuring how to sign her work so not to signal Archie Sheridan - Detective Archie Sheridan - to draw him to her and disrupt his life again. She's afraid he may not come at all, so she avoids hearts, she side-steps her old patterns. She blends into the crowd.
I think there's a good reason why the first three books are considered best sellers, while the rest were just okay. Because they didn't sell what we were after - Gretchen/Archie goodness. My heart lifted in that brief moment she was trying to play detective with him in Let Me Go and with all the... intimate scenes and just any time she tries to help him OH MY HEART. Otherwise, shit, yeah, I like the characters, and I'd still read more with them... but I just want Gretchen???
I just love that they were exploring themselves in their relationship. Archie and his wife weren't a good fit, Gretchen was experimenting with her own feelings, her sexuality, maybe testing the idea of BEING in a relationship. Maybe she tortured Archie because it was too much? Maybe she needed him to see her worst side? God, it hurts my heart because they really seemed to have something genuine.
However! I think the ending is fitting and ends as it "should." Which is massively boring in fiction! I've been thriving on Archie's pain! I want him to be in pain! Angst! LUST!! But throughout the series, he just got... better. (Yawn)
But how is the story even over?!?!
I want Gretchen becoming a detective with Archie, I want their relationship to continue, as problematic and unrealistic that plot would have been. But it's fiction. And it could have happened. And I want it so badly. (Probs something similar to Hannibal and Will's relationship in Bryan Fuller's show)
Instead Archie got with Susan. (Eye-roll) I'm not even sure how we are to believe that he's truly over Gretchen at the end. What has actually changed? He remembered she was a psycho? That's not really news. Was it because the secret finally came out to the team about the affair? However, it's probably over for Gretchen, who saw how desperately in like Archie was for Susan.
Boil down the book and it's about a really shitty break-up... with murder in the mix
Below, I started writing fanfiction of sorts so lol I've been up for 16 hours enjoy vvvv
"Never would have worked out, darling," she would think. She'd kill, of course she would, measuring how to sign her work so not to signal Archie Sheridan - Detective Archie Sheridan - to draw him to her and disrupt his life again. She's afraid he may not come at all, so she avoids hearts, she side-steps her old patterns. She blends into the crowd.