For Quinn Collins, buying the flower shop in downtown Harbor Pointe fulfills a childhood dream, but also gives her the chance to stick it to her mom, who owned the store before skipping town twenty years ago and never looking back. Completing much-needed renovations, however, while also competing for a prestigious flower competition with her mother as the head judge, soon has Quinn in over her head. Not that she’d ever ask for help.
Luckily, she may not need to. Quinn’s father and his meddling friends find the perfect solution in notorious Olympic skier Grady Benson, who had only planned on passing through the old-fashioned lakeside town. But when a heated confrontation leads to property damage, helping Quinn as a community-service sentence seems like the quickest way out—and the best way to avoid more negative press.
Quinn finds Grady reckless and entitled; he thinks she’s uptight and too regimented. Yet as the two begin to hammer and saw, Quinn sees glimpses of the vulnerability behind the bravado, and Grady learns from her passion and determination, qualities he seems to have lost along the way. But when a well-intentioned omission has devastating consequences, Grady finds himself cast out of town—and Quinn’s life—possibly forever. Forced to face the hurt holding her back, Quinn must finally let go or risk missing out on the adventure of a lifetime.
Includes discussion questions.
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 1/5
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Language - 0/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
Just Let Go by Courtney Walsh is a family drama with romance to lighten the heavier moments. Quinn is trying desperately to overcome the abandonment of her mother. I was impressed as to how the author reveals Quinn’s shortcomings to herself. Even though Grady was the ‘bad boy’ of the book. I liked his character the best. He redeemed himself well, even if slowly. Grady is an Olympic skier with a bad attitude and a performance that has everyone including himself starting to question if he has the skill to make it back on the team for the Olympics. His temper once again gets the best of him and lands him in front of a Judge that assigns him community service work in the small town. Grady’s past is slowly revealed throughout the book to help explain his reckless attitude. I would love for his brother Benji to get his own book. Maybe he should end up with Quinn’s sister Carly??
The secondary characters of the book added the charm of a small town. I had not read the first book, Just Look Up that featured Lane and Robert. Each book stands alone and Robert and Lane appear in this book too.
Violence - not really violence; it was a fight
Alcohol - Grady drinks, it is not glamorized.