Before I Let You Go

By: Kelly Rimmer

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon

From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan and for fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Before I Let You Go explores a hotly divisive topic and asks how far the ties of family love can be stretched before they finally break.

“Kelly Rimmer skillfully takes us deep inside a world where love must make choices that logic cannot. Ripped from the headlines and from the heart, Before I Let You Go is an unforgettable novel that will amaze and startle you with its impact and insight.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop at Water’s End

“Before I Let You Go is a heartbreaking book about an impossible decision. Kelly Rimmer writes with wisdom and compassion about the relationships between sisters, mother and daughter…. She captures the anguish of addiction, the agonizing conflict between an addict’s best and worst selves. Above all, this is a novel about the deepest love possible.” —Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author

The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister’s voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liar—and in trouble, again. Lexie has always bailed Annie out, given her money, a place to sleep, sent her to every kind of rehab. But this time, she’s not just strung out—she’s pregnant and in premature labor. If she goes to the hospital, she’ll lose custody of her baby—maybe even go to prison. But the alternative is unthinkable.

As the weeks unfold, Lexie finds herself caring for her fragile newborn niece while her carefully ordered life is collapsing around her. She’s in danger of losing her job, and her fiancé only has so much patience for Annie’s drama. In court-ordered rehab, Annie attempts to halt her downward spiral by confronting long-buried secrets from the sisters’ childhoods, ghosts that Lexie doesn’t want to face. But will the journey heal Annie, or lead her down a darker path?

Don’t miss Kelly Rimmer’s newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family’s innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light!

For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for

• The Things We Cannot Say
• Truths I Never Told You
• The Warsaw Orphan
• The German Wife

Moving story, but one reader is terrible

I almost never listen to books at faster than the normal speed, but I had to with this one. The reader for the character of Lexi was like a dull computer read-out of a text message. I eventually overcame my irritation with her and really did enjoy the story but it’s unfortunate the reader didn’t do Justice to the character.

Might be just me

I’m not sure if it was the performance or writing or maybe the intention, but I found it so hard to empathize or not be annoyed by the main character Lexie. It also seemed a bit predictable, but was a fine story. I might have also gone in with high expectations since the reviews were all 5 stars.

Very Slow

The story dragged much longer than necessary. The characters were not believable. Lexi’s character did not make sense and made the book hard to read. She was irrational, juvenile, controlling and could not have successfully made it through medical school and residency, let alone had a successful practice with how self-centered she was on her own problems with her sister and her questionable judgement.
Sam was better suited as a fairytale prince and not realistic.
The writing was good and made the book tolerable. Overall, not nearly as impressive as the author’s other work.

Needs another narrator

The story was good but the female voices pretending to be male were annoying and sometime the voice of “Lexi” pretending to be male, forgets to go back to the female voice.

Robotic narrator

The narrator was disappointing. The character Lexi was unfortunately a little too whiny for someone who had persevered through so much.