Can't Let You Go (A Katie Parker Production) Paperback – September 15, 2014

I desperately wanted to give this book more than just 5 stars! This conclusion to the Katie Parker Productions series is absolutely outstanding!Katie Parker is back in In Between and so is Charlie Benson; actually, they take the last leg of their flight to their hometown together. Some of the things Katie holds dear in her hometown are in serious jeopardy. Can she trust Charlie Benson? Or will they have to say goodbye forever?The first 3 books in this series were wonderful; sassy, fall on the floor laughing hysterically. They also had a serious spiritual tone as well. I have loved watching Katie Parker grow from a sassy, mean 16 year old to her grown up self. Katie learns, eventually, that God has been right there all along, through all her pain, her disappointments, her problems, paving the way to what He had planned for her from the very beginning. Katie Parker comes from a dysfunctional home and drug addict mother to being part of a loving family and town. God loves Katie Parker and He has plans for her!This book was also funny, as Jenny B. Jones books are, but there is an intense, heart grabbing emotional depth to it that really pulls the reader in and causes them to actually feel what's happening in the lives of these characters! I wept and laughed and sighed and just hated to say goodbye. The title is Can't Let You Go and I surely didn't want to let go of the wonderful folks of In Between, Texas: Mad Maxine (I adore her!) is forever etched on my heart.Read this series and start at the beginning: In Between, On The Loose, The Big Picture and finally, Can't Let You Go. I devoured these books one right after the other and now I'm depressed because they're finished. These books made me feel so good.

This series is the best fiction I've read for a long time. As someone that has a voracious appetite for reading, that's saying a lot. I would expect a series of 4 books would be weak at the beginning or the end, perhaps lag in the middle, but this set was exceptionally good from the first page to the last. The characters were wonderfully three dimensional, the situations were fascinating, the plot was perfectly timed and fresh, it was real in nature and engaging with a rare combination of humor and drama. Taking the character from her mid teens to her mid twenties, giving us a consistent and detailed history, the author managed to mature the character while holding on to the insecurities and personality deficiencies of a person who had such a traumatic life -- yet maintained a likability in the midst of all the weaknesses. The supporting characters also grew, though Maxine strangely never seemed to get older or more mature -- part of her charm. I'll miss these people and wish there were a dozen more books in this series. As to this last book, again a solid core of faith with the humor and drama, but this time with a significant amount more romance.

I loved the characters, the wit, the imagination and especially Katie. She grew from a shattered home life to loving foster home. I laughed, a lot, cried and cheered for this amazing young woman. This author has an amazing sense of humor that creates characters that steal your heart and make you laugh out loud. Mad Maxine was hilarious and so real.Buy the whole series and settle in for a great clean satisfying tale that you won't forget. This is my new favorite author!!

Can't Let You Go picks up several years after the third book in this series, The Big Picture. A lot has happened during those years, including that Charlie and Katie are no longer together. That about broke my heart from the beginning because I loved them in the third book. They weren't, nor are, perfect, but I thought they were perfect for each other. It was fun coming back to the town of In Between. Rather like coming back to old friends. The best stories are the ones that feel this way. Even if you haven't read the other books in this series, the story was written in such a way that you could read this one alone.I'm going to insert here my love of the cover. It is gorgeous and perfect for this story! Really, really love it! They got her hair that strawberry blondish and his dark and the airplane in the background... An airplane and flying was quite significant in this story. The cover also continues the newer covers' more vintage look. I love the sunny-ness of it as well.Okay. So the story...Katie was in really deep this time in so many ways! So much was going on and she had a lot of concerns for herself, for her best friend who was rushing to the altar, for Charlie, for Ian, and for her beloved Valiant Theater. Some of her choices were upsetting. Emotions were high and intense, both in very sweet as well as in some ugly ways. The author always has this great wit that comes across in her stories and it's no different here. There were a lot of zingers, humor, and sarcasm. I especially enjoyed a lot of Katie's grandma Maxine's lines. Her and those other home town folks always add so much to this series.I loved that the story was messy. Not in the way it was written or the characterization. The author let her character's make choices, both good and bad, or not make them sometimes. She let them cry and hurt, be angry, fall in love, be unkind, and be the best friends. It made me really cheer on and connect with these characters. And really, Charlie is the best sort of man in so many ways and Katie has so many insecurities and lashes out sometimes, but Charlie tries to be there for her regardless. The biggest question was if Katie would figure things out and let Charlie in, or if someone or something else would feel that roll.Can't Let You Go inspired and sucked me in with these fabulously familiar characters, sweet and intense romance, lots of humor, and Katie's struggle to face her fears, to accept love, and to learn to let go. It was a beautiful, heartfelt story. A story I loved. I'll definitely be visiting these characters and the town of In Between again when I reread this series in the future. If you enjoy YA, NA, or Adult contemporary romance (Christian or not) then I'd definitely recommend Can't Let You Go.Content: A little innuendo, but otherwise clean.Source: Purchased.

Such a great book and series, really fell in love with the characters. I can very much relate to Katie and her love for her community. Jenny B. Jones is an excellent author, who is witty and heart felt.

This review is for all the books in the series. It would be folly and nigh unto impossible to recap the plot which has more twists and turns than a back country road. The author, Jenny B. Jones, delineates her characters deftly and with a wicked sense of humour, except for the truly selfish drug addicted single mother of our heroine, Katie, whom she abandoned in her search for pleasure and illegal substances. A minister and his wife foster Katie with love and compassion. James and Millie have their own sorrows and a truly zany mother whose bizarre escapades draw Katie into some very strange episodes. Through them, Katie' s brilliant best friend Frances, and on-again, off-again boyfriend, Charlie, Katie learns to trust and love in four volumes.One word of advice, buy the box set. Once you read the first book you will want to read the rest as quickly as possible.

Good read! Enjoyed the series!

only regret was the ending didnt solve all the issue. Had to wait for On the Loose set about 6 years later.

I downloaded the first Katie Parker book to read on holiday, I enjoyed it so much I bought the next and then the next. And then I decided I had to buy this the last in the series and am so glad I did.I'm not an avid reader, I'm lucky to get through 2 books in a 2 week holiday, but these captivated me, made me laugh and cry and laugh again. I'd throughly recommend.