Title: The Art of Letting Go
Series: Happy Endings Resort
Author: M.C. Brightly
Release Date: March 1, 2017
When Hartley was seventeen she
legally “divorced” her parents’, escaping the abusive home life that was
leading her down the dark path of depression and suicide. Trying to heal and
let go of her past, she leaves her hometown of Lanesboro, Minnesota and moves
to Arden, South Carolina, to live with her aunt August for a fresh start at her
new life.
When her old foster family who are like the grandparents she never had surprise her with news that they’ve moved to Endings, South Carolina, she feels it’s the perfect time to experience her first road trip to the ocean.
She meets a mysterious yet charming Milo, who lives in the Happy Ending’s Resort trailer park near her ex foster parents’. For the first time in her life she lets go of the pain of her past and allows herself to truly live and experience a summer full of adventure—finally feeling like a normal, wild, and carefree teenager she used to dream about being.
It’s going to be a summer she’ll not soon forget with memories that’ll last her a lifetime.
When her old foster family who are like the grandparents she never had surprise her with news that they’ve moved to Endings, South Carolina, she feels it’s the perfect time to experience her first road trip to the ocean.
She meets a mysterious yet charming Milo, who lives in the Happy Ending’s Resort trailer park near her ex foster parents’. For the first time in her life she lets go of the pain of her past and allows herself to truly live and experience a summer full of adventure—finally feeling like a normal, wild, and carefree teenager she used to dream about being.
It’s going to be a summer she’ll not soon forget with memories that’ll last her a lifetime.
Review
I Heart Books Review
The Art of Letting Go (A Happy Endings novella) by M.C. Brightly
Review by Theresa Esterline
Stars: 5
Just Let It Go!
In life we have two choices, to let her pain and hurt drag us down or to preserve and succeed no matter what obstacle is put in our path. I like to think I'll always chose the optimistic road, at least eventually. This story walks us thru a horrible childhood and to the letting go stage. And now a bit about the story...
Hartley doesn't think she can take it anymore, but she wakes up in a safe place. Some time later she meets Milo. She's only opened up to Jordan. Does she take the leap and trust another man?
Favorite passages:
- I can’t believe that I’m falling for a boy I know nothing about...
- “I want to continue. I need to let the pain and anger go. The only way for me to do that is to tell the story. Taking the power from them and giving it back to myself.”
All
our lives we're taught not to talk to strangers and never to go anywhere with
someone we don't know or trust. But what happens when that line between
stranger and trusted adult is blurred?
In one day I had my heart broken and my entire life turned upside down all because I was naive enough to think this would never happen to me.
Now I lay here in this prison he's created for me and find myself saying, If only he had never kissed her...if only I had never decided to walk home...if only I never trusted him...I wouldn't be locked in this cold dark basement completely alone and wondering if this will be how my story ends?
In one day I had my heart broken and my entire life turned upside down all because I was naive enough to think this would never happen to me.
Now I lay here in this prison he's created for me and find myself saying, If only he had never kissed her...if only I had never decided to walk home...if only I never trusted him...I wouldn't be locked in this cold dark basement completely alone and wondering if this will be how my story ends?
Other
Books in Series (All are standalones)
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