A review by tonyalalala
The Last to Let Go by Amber Smith

4.0

This was almost a 5 star read for me. The only issue I really had with it was how Brooke seemed to blame her mother for the abuse as much as she blamed her father. Abuse is never the victims fault. Whatever reasons Brooke’s mom had for staying, her father was still a piece of shit who beat on her and her brother. I also didn’t appreciate how they tried to victimize her father after his death. There’s a scene that reveals the abuse started while the parents were still in high school yet readers are expected to believe there was once a happy time, they were a happy family, and the abuse just started one day out of nowhere. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s how I understood it.