Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Can’t Let Go – Michelle Lynn

Dex is many things, a college senior, the bassist for The
Invisibles, a son, a friend, everything but a boyfriend. Everybody knows him as
the shallow guy who’s up for a good time anytime. People rarely take the time
to see the loyal guy lying just beneath the happy-go-lucky façade.

There are parts of Dex’s life he keeps hidden. Ones he believes
no one would understand. Since he gave up on the idea of a dream girl long ago,
he thinks he’s finally found the perfect balance of connection without
commitment with Sam.

Chrissy used to know everything about Dex. When he left four
years ago for college, she was left behind. Four years later, with nowhere else
to turn, Chrissy calls the one person she’s always counted on, Dex. One glance
at the sad eyes he’s tried to forget and Dex knows it’s out of his control.

With Chrissy’s return, lines begin to cross from friendship to
something more, but will Dex’s secret force them apart forever?

Review

Reviewer:  Shannon
Rating:

Reviewer’s Thoughts

3.5 Cocktails

I have loved all the Invincible books, but CAN’T LET GO was a little bit different.  In Dex’s story, we found the woman he was meant to be with wasn’t someone he just meets, but someone he’s known since he was eight, who he didn’t always treat the best, but someone he would always be there for.

Dex and Chrissy meet through their fathers at a weekly poker game.  They bond over their fathers and the gambling that takes precedence over pretty much everything else.  But Dax lives a very different life from Chrissy’s and she often feels like she isn’t good enough for Dax or anything that has to do with his world.  As a reader, I felt very sorry for Chrissy because she was in a pretty horrible situation that was not of her own making.  And every time she tried to dig herself out of the hole she in, her father smacked her right back down again.  Chrissy had grit and she had determination.  She may have slipped a time or two, but she always managed to do what she needed to in order to start over.  And when it was really bad, she knew she could always call her old friend Dex.

Dex was a frustrating man.  You knew how he felt about Chrissy, he’d felt that way since he was a teenager, but he was insistent on keeping Chrissy at arms length.  You wanted him to believe in his feelings and know that you can love people and things will be alright.  But Dex is on stubborn man and he fights his feelings tooth and nail.  Of course, he hurts the one person he doesn’t ever want to.  He eventually figures it out, just when he’s about to lose what he wants, but he needed that push.

CAN’T LET GO didn’t have the same emotional pull for me as the other books in the series, but it was still a solid entry.  And Michelle Lynn sets up Rob’s story perfectly.  Suddenly we discover he’s not really the a-hole we think he is.  I can’t wait to get more of him.

EXCERPT:

Michelle moved around the Midwest most of her life, transferring from
school to school before settling down in the outskirts of Chicago ten years
ago, where she now resides with her husband and two kids.  She developed a love of reading at a young
age, which helped lay the foundation for her passion to write.   With the encouragement of her family, she
finally sat down and wrote one of the many stories that have been floating
around in her head. When she isn’t reading or writing, she can be found playing
with her kids, talking to her mom on the phone, or hanging out with her family
and friends.  But after chasing around
twin preschoolers all day, she always cherishes her relaxation time after
putting the kids to bed.