Letting Go (Thatch, #1)

by Molly McAdams

[Cocktails and Books]

I have to tell you, I really enjoyed this story. I liked how two friends, who helped each other through the aftermath of their best friend/fiance’s death, fall in love.

Grey and Jagger certainly climb an emotional mountain to get to their HEA. They are both still very raw after the death of fiance/best friend, Ben. Grey, a little bit more broken needing all the strength Jagger can give her to dig her way out. But when they finally make it to the other side, it’s to have a long held secret revealed and a discovery that their friendship changed somewhere along the way. But when they both finally admitted to how they felt, they knew they were where they were supposed to be.

There were other secrets, other than how Grey and Jagger felt for each other, that had the potential to cause serious issues between the two of them. There was Jagger’s mother and sister’s secret, along with a secret that Ben had. The secrets could have destroyed them, but we were able to see the strength of their relationship by how they handled the fall out once the secrets became public. My only problem was how easily everyone was forgiven for the secrets. I could understand eventually forgiving and moving forward, but it felt like Grey forgave way to easily. I’m not generally a blood thirsty kind of person, but she definitely should have been pissed for longer than 1 day after she discovered what had happened.

As always, Molly McAdams gives readers a story full of angst, drama, heartbreak and eventually the HEA. She always manages to create characters that just beg for you to rally behind them. Grey and Jagger were no different and they definitely rank up there as one of my favorite couple of the year.

If you haven’t picked up a Molly McAdams book before, this is definitely one to try (especially with it being the first book in a new series).