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All for Anna (Letting Go) by Nicole Deese details the aftermath of a horrific car accident that left a young girl killed and a young nurse traumatized. Weeks before her college graduation, Tori Sales finds herself trying and failing to save the life of Anna in an accident that she caused. After fleeing from home for a year to escape the painful memories, she returns to help her older sister through a lonely pregnancy. Unwillingly, she begins her long-overdue recovery from the accident with the help of a wise therapist, bossy sister, and handsome stranger that seems vaguely familiar. As she bonds with her family once again to heal their broken relationships and begins a romantic relationship she never thought possible, she must stop running from God and learn to forgive herself.
I don’t usually read Christian romance fiction because I feel, justly or not, that the reading level is lower than normal romance fiction, which I don’t really read much of either. All for Anna (Letting Go) justified that claim, as I feel like my reading ability wasn’t at all challenged by the author’s writing and maybe even was a little bored by the simplicity. I must give the author respect, however, for not also creating simplistic characters or a boring plot. I truly hate when I can predict the plot of a novel from the first twenty pages, but the plot of this story was surprising until the very end with new developments and surprises. Throughout the first half of the story I was complaining about the perfection of the protagonist’s romantic partner, Kai, until a giant revelation is made that satisfied my desire for complexity in a character. Although I would have enjoyed a less child-friendly vocabulary, I did appreciate the creativity in plot and character development.
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