{"id":1281,"date":"2017-12-29T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2017-12-28T23:37:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T07:37:42","slug":"review-let-go-marieke-nijcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/29\/review-let-go-marieke-nijcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Before I Let Go &#8211; Marieke Nijcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bookreview\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/33918883.jpg?w=1280\" alt=\"Review: Before I Let Go &#8211; Marieke Nijcamp\" title=\"Review: Before I Let Go &#8211; Marieke Nijcamp\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignright\"><strong>Before I Let Go<\/strong><br>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/authors\/marieke-nijkamp\/\">Marieke Nijkamp<\/a> <br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/publishers\/sourcebooks-fire\/\">Sourcebooks Fire<\/a> <br><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> January 2, 2018 <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/mystery\/\">Mystery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/young-adult\/\">Young Adult<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 368 <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/sources\/bookish-first\/\">Bookish First<\/a> <br><br><p>I received this book for free from Bookish First in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>My rating: <span class=\"ubb-buy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><\/span><br><br><br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Best friends Corey and Kyra were inseparable in their snow-covered town of Lost Creek, Alaska. When Corey moves away, she makes Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return.<\/p>\n<p>Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated\u2015and confused. 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\u00a0Was it her guilty conscience? \u00a0Was it someone trying to trick her into thinking there&#8217;s a ghost? \u00a0I don&#8217;t know, because it&#8217;s never actually explained. \u00a0There&#8217;s not really any sort of build up of the tension, really &#8211; what I suspected happened after the first few chapters is what actually happened. \u00a0Instead of building from &#8220;normal la la everything&#8217;s alright&#8221; to &#8220;AH!!!!&#8221; it starts right out at creepy and stays pretty much the same for the rest of the book.<\/p>\n<p>The book consists of a mix of chapters from Corey&#8217;s point of view interspersed with letters from Kyra, and then weird script-type sections. \u00a0For the life of me, I&#8217;m not sure what the author was trying to accomplish with those. \u00a0They made me feel especially disconnected from Corey, because these supposedly creepy things would happen, and we&#8217;d never really get her emotional reaction to them.<\/p>\n<p>That gets into one of the major reasons I couldn&#8217;t really get into the book: I never really got a good feel for Corey. \u00a0Though we see her and Kyra in flashbacks, for the most part, present Corey has just one emotional state: anger. \u00a0She&#8217;s\u00a0downright belligerent, and seriously, when you&#8217;re confronting people who you \u00a0think are hiding secrets about your best friend&#8217;s death, wouldn&#8217;t you try to be, I don&#8217;t know, a little more circumspect? 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