Never Let You Go

By: Caleb Crowe

Many thanks to Zooloo’s Book Tours for the ARC of the book and the stop on the book tour!

About the Book

Obsession is forever.

When 17-year-old Ariana runs away from her foster home she finds herself living with the Willens family and looking after Daniel, their 12-year-old son.

Daniel is sensitive and brilliant – the most brilliant person Ariana has ever met. The two of them forge an extraordinary bond – and Ariana vows she will protect Daniel, now and forever.

But then their lives are torn apart by a horrifying tragedy. Forcibly separated, they do not see each other for ten years.

Now Daniel has come back into Ariana’s life and the dark secrets they share begin to surface, threatening to destroy everything she has built for herself.

Can Ariana escape the ghosts of the past? Or does Daniel’s reappearance mean that deeds long buried must now play out to their terrifying conclusion – plunging her into a waking nightmare from which there may be no escape?

My Review

I really enjoy this author. His mind just works differently. Every book he writes feels different; it’s unique and fresh. This book was no different. Crowe had me forgetting that I was reading a thriller and that someone was going to be the “bad guy” that I was shocked when it happened! You kind of feel like something is a little off, but you also kind of ignore it because no.. that can’t be right. There was definitely a twist reveal in there that I didn’t see coming and shook me to the core.

Crowes writing just flows so nicely. He has you turning pages and pages before you even realize that you’ve read half the book in such a short amount of time. I don’t always see images in my head when I read, but with this book I did. I could picture everything that was happening. This book should be made into a movie! As much as it has readers on the edge of their seat, it would have movie watchers on the edge of their seats as well.

The ending before the epilogue was really interesting, and I would love to know how Crowe comes up with these endings/plots! But that epilogue…. I had to read it a few times. On the one hand, I loved it. On the other, I questioned if I read it correctly! But I don’t give away spoilers – so you’re just going to have to read the book yourself to know what I’m talking about! It’s out now, so get your copy!

About the Author

Caleb Crowe is a British writer of psychological thrillers, and is fascinated by stories where extraordinary things happen to ordinary people, and the mundane is transformed into the menacing.

He’s afraid of the sea, fearful in the countryside, panicky in large open spaces and terrified of small, confined spaces. He finds eerily quiet villages and bustling impersonal cities equally unsettling. There’s nowhere, and no one, that doesn’t possess some kind of dark, brooding anxiety just waiting to have the lid prised open and turned into a twisty, suspenseful, nerve-shredding story.

He lives in Manchester with his partner, two children and two cats, who probably have their own mysterious agendas. Whether he’s navigating the urban jungle or wrestling with the daily challenges of family life, Caleb draws inspiration from the unpredictability of everyday existence.