Fictioned to Death: Let Her Go by Briana Pacheco

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Zoë Whitmore is in love with her best friend, but haunting memories and a guilty conscious have been holding her back from letting her be with him.

Owen Stevenson is unknowingly paying for the sins of his father. He doesn't understand why Zoë can't look at him for more than a few seconds or why his touch is unsettling at times. All he's ever wanted was to love her, to protect her, and to be hers, but it's not so easy.

She pushes, he pulls.
She hurts, he loves.

Both are holding onto ghosts of their pasts and in order for them to peruse a relationship they'll have to let them go.

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Briana Pacheco has done it again! This may be my new favorite of her books but I should go back and read Sky Full of Stars again just to be sure. I loved this book so much! It was such a gut wrenching story but at the same time it was a story about unconditional love.
I thought that this book would be good but it surpassed my expectations. It ended up being so much more than what I thought that it was going to be. In the New Adult genre, there are many books in which the main girl in the story has been through some kind of trauma and feels she isn't good enough to deserve the love of the love interest or has been ruined in some way. I thought that perhaps this book would be similar to that. There was an element of that to the story but it was mostly her carrying around the burden of the secret as well as the guilt from choices that she made. I think that is what made this book so unique coupled with the perpetrator of the abuse and the connections that the characters had with him. It made for a complex and emotional story that I won't soon forget.
I think that this book will stick with people after they finish reading it. It is an important story that needs to be read so that readers can learn the power that trauma holds over the survivors as well as how it can be overcome. This was a beautifully written story with perfect pacing and emotions that leapt off of the pages. I loved the characters and felt as if they were real people that I cared about.

Zoe had such a beautiful soul. I wanted to reach inside of the book and take her pain away. It hurt my heart to see her struggling to stay afloat while her pain was attempting to drown her. There were points in the book where I had to take breaks and at one point had to ask my husband for a hug. The author was able to write her point of view as if she herself had been through the painful experiences that Zoe was experiencing in the book.

Owen was such a dreamboat...well my version anyway. He was the total boy next door package mixed with romantic nerd. He loved with everything in him and it was a pleasure to get to be in his head. My heart broke for him at one point during the book when he is home for Christmas. It was the hardest scene to read in the entire book. There was so much anger and pain inside of him that was pouring out.

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AUTHOR BIO
Briana Pacheco is the author of New Adult novels (DON'T LET ME FALL, SOUNDS OF YESTERDAY, A SKY FULL OF SECRETS, and LET HER GO), a twin, a dreamer, a tattoo lover, easily swooned by accents, and a little bit of an extrovert but a whole lot of introvert. When she’s not reading, writing or people watching, she can be found listening to music, perfecting resting bitch face, or at Dunkin’ Donuts.