Book Review : Never Let You Go by Erin Healy

If you like fiction, if you like mystery, if you have enjoyed fictional stories based on spiritual battles then a special welcome to Erin Healy’s first solo authored book, NEVER LET GO. Erin Healy has co-written two other books with my favorite author Ted Dekker. Her style is her own yet the suspense and twists will feel familiar to Dekker fans.

Lexi Solomon is a single mom struggling to make ends meet and is faced with tough decisions that could seriously affect her life and that of her daughter. Her troubles are familiar to many who have fought the road of parenting alone and to many who have fought demons of the past. Yet, there is an element that most of us don’t see as clearly as it is presented to Lexi. How will she handle it? Who will help her?

Ted Dekker is one of my all time favorite authors. His stories are quickly engaging and such page turners that you don’t want to stop. Most of them have a great deal of insight, plot twists and second level meanings that you could enjoy reading them again. NEVER LET GO is my first intro to Erin Healy and overall I really enjoyed the book and will likely buy more that she author’s. It wasn’t quite as engrossing as Dekker’s and it took me a little longer to really get to that “can’t put it down” phase, but still very good. However, once engrossed I really could not stop reading. There were several twists and exciting revelations that I really enjoyed.

Personally, I would have liked to have seen more depth in the spiritual aspect. In order to fight spiritual battles we need to have a firm grounding in the Lord and prayer and relationship with God is the key. There was such a light reference to anyone praying on her behalf that while I could feel some empathy for Lexi (mostly because I’ve been a single mom), I couldn’t feel a strong sense of the enemies defeat by calling upon the Lord for strength. I’m not sure if this was intentional in order to gain a larger reading audience, but I would commend anyone for standing stronger on the lines of direct references to the power of prayer and fellowship with the Lord and other believers. Frank Peretti’s THIS PRESENT DARKNESS and PIERCING THE DARKNESS are better examples of this.

Bottom line, I am glad to have another author along these lines of fiction to read.

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