I let you go - anyone want to discuss? Possible spoilers!

[Brassica]

I've just finished reading I let you go by Claire Mackintosh and find it is staying with me more than most books do and I'm not quite sure why.

Early on I found it irritating (police chapters) and upsetting in equal measure so I really dawdled over the first part. The twist absolutely threw me and suddenly it got a lot more interesting, in that I was taking the book to bed and reading ravenously. I still wouldn't say I thought it was that well written, mainly because the banter between Ray and Kate was unconvincing, and his home life quite predictable/unoriginal. But Ian's chapters…well, he was chilling.

Ian's 'voice' and the quality of the twist are what would lead me to recommend the book to others, yet overall I can't quite shake the feeling that it was a bit 'creative writing' as an exercise.

What did you think? And did you find the ending slightly ambiguous? I wasn't at all sure what to make of it, although I'd like to think it was all OK...

I'm on my last few chapters, so I'm not looking at the thread until .ive finished but I will be back whoooo very exciting. It's a page turner. I love her writing style.

I'm reading the chapter written by her ex. I keep shouting LTB at the book!

Loved this. Amidst some pretty limited fiction reading for me this was a heartbreakingly brilliant page turner, would definitely recommend

Clare Mackintosh has said that the ending is left open to interpretation but she thinks that Ian is dead and the writing in the sand was simply Jenna's imagination.

I read this & liked it but preferred her other book I See You. I'd definitely recommend that.

Just finished this book and one thing really bugs me - WHY would Jenna go back home (and be left alone!) when she knew Ian was not in custody? Why, if the police understood how dangerous he was, would they not have her in protection until he was arrested? I understand that they need the confrontation for the climactic ending but the fact that she protected him for so long because she fears for her life and then after she knows he will learn that the cops know about him and what he did, THAT is when she decides to be careless? It makes no sense.

I liked the book otherwise but that was just frustrating to me.