Don't Let Me Go

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Last update: 06-29-2024


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SuzyQ
5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2024
Beautiful story with wonderful characters! It made me laugh and made me cry. Truly a must read! On to another book by Ms Hyde. ❤
genej101
4.0 out of 5 stars A good look at addiction
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024
and how it affects everything and everyone around you. Grace is the star of this book and the one thing I regret most about that is that Billy never did tell her, at least in the book, that he’d revised his judgment of her dancing from plugger to natural as that was so central to the entire story.

This could have as easily been titled “Grace Saves Everyone” as that is what she accomplished while her neighbors were heavily invested in saving her, all while overcoming challenges, some severe, of their own. I won’t list those here, read this great book for those, but it really is a feel good book. I’d recommend this to anyone, it’s such a great story covering so many issues, but it comes down to a bunch of strangers in one apartment building healing their various issues by banding together to help a little girl whose mother is, in the beginning, a hopeless addict - thanks to the oxy epidemic.

It’s just a wonderful story of overcoming issues with love, patience and good intentions. So many of us are strangers in our own worlds, neighborhoods don’t really exist as they once did, but these folks created one driven by the unstoppable force that is Grace. Stories like this make me wish they were real as I’d so much like to know how the various lives turned out, there was so much promise in the end of this book. Thanks to Catherine for another marvelously entertaining story.
Art Busch
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful read
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2024
I cannot tell you how much I loved this book. the characters were so real. I highly recommend this book.
Heidi H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Walking in Love
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2023
Such a delight to read a well written book!
The dialogue between the main characters, the people themselves were funny, tragic, heartwarming, maddening and so very real.
Having not read anything by this author I was glad for the happy ending. I was bracing myself.
As I have friends who have gone through the Twelve Step program gave me understanding as to Grace’s mother’s struggle.
Lastly, the gathering together of these apartment neighbors to step in and help this young girl and her mother was beautiful.
May we all be the hands and feet of Jesus on this earth
To love one another. Put aside our differences and simply walk in love.
Falcon
5.0 out of 5 stars I didn't want this book to end.
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2024
This book was very real to me. In my life I have lived in apartments, and homes and I know it isn't easy to get to know your neighbors. I also known that sometimes means putting yourself "out there". And getting involved means doing things for others. I loved the book and know from experience that it could be a true story. I will recommend this to all my reader friends.
Michelle Petersen
4.0 out of 5 stars In the end it came through
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
I started this book thinking "a Hyde book I don't love?!?!?" But in true form I fell in love, if not with Grace alone, but especially Billy. And as much as I wanted to be angry w Grace's mom, I just couldn't. Things were too familiar and she was just too sad to be angry with. It was a great cacophony of oddball characters knitted into a wonderful group of friends that made this such a heartwarming story. And Billy, as much as Grace, was the tie that bound them all together.
kathy G
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought inspiring
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2024
It makes you think about how our actions and actions can forever effect others especially those closest to us. Also how any of us even those younger than ourselves can effect a change in many others. I loved it.
sb-lynn
3.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2014
Brief summary and review, no spoilers.

This story is told in alternating chapters from the point-of-view of two characters: agoraphobic ex-dancer Billy Shine and his outspoken neighbor, 9 year old Grace.

The story takes place in a apartment building in a poorer area of Los Angeles. Grace lives there alone with her drug-addicted young mother, named Elaine. When Billy sees little Grace hanging out on her porch late at night, he worries about her and makes contact with her, albeit at first safely through windows and by remaining near his own front door.

As the story proceeds, we meet many of the neighbors in this building who take on the challenge of helping Grace and it becomes a group enterprise. We meet a young manicurist named Rayleen who takes a strong interest in making sure Grace doesn't become part of the foster child system in Los Angeles County. We know that Rayleen has a history of her own to share.

We also meet the apartment curmudgeon, Mr. Lafferty and a young kind-hearted man named Felipe who has suffered his own heartbreak. We meet as well the elderly and lonely Mrs. Hinman. Later on we meet a couple of additional characters who play a part in this story.

Because of their mutual concern over Grace, these individuals start to care about her and about each other. In the process, we see Billy try to deal with his own agoraphobia and we learn about the background and history of each and every apartment dweller and why they have become who they are. In this sense the story is very heartwarming as we see them all move in a positive and mutually supporting way.

For me, it was entertaining and an easy read.

In critique, I was frustrating by some of the dialogue which did not ring true to my ears, especially that spoken by Grace who was supposed to be 9 but who often sounded too precocious or just too mature. I also thought that the story was extremely predictable and we knew from just about the start what was ultimately going to happen.

This is a very upbeat book with a definite feel-good quality to it, despite some of its serious subject matter. At the same time, I thought the difficult situations (in particular with Billy's agoraphobia) were too easily resolved by sheer force of will because the story required that - when in fact it so over-simplifies those kinds of mental infirmities.

I do want to say again that this is an easy book to read, and the author has a pleasant writing style and I would be interested in reading some of her other books. This one just felt too Young Adult for me.

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