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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
This was worse than I thought it would be. Sad and preachy in a really gross way.
Typical Nicholas Sparks and very predictable but I finally was drawn in and ended up loving the story.
I loved it! Amazing! Nicholas Sparks never disappoints! This is my the 4th of his books that Ive read and it is just as amazing as the past three. Purchasing a few more of his right now!
Awful. I typically like Nicholas Sparks' books for their light fluffy love stories and an easy quick read. But this book was just terrible.
As usual with Nicholas Sparks's books, I found myself engrossed with the story, but there were quite a few parts I found unbelievable and/or cheesy, and it was rather predictable.
Never read a Nicholas sparks book previously. An easy, predictable read. Perfect for my busy life right now. I will pick up another of his books again in the future.
why.
okay i've been very kind and giving most of the nicholas sparks books i read three stars. i find them entertaining enough but there's always at least a little eyeroll-y stuff and sometimes the major character death just makes me upset, though it hasn't been so bad with the last few books i've read
i watched the movie like four years ago and i remember really liking it! i'll see how i feel upon rewatch but i'm thinking that it must've been a lot better than the book bc while my tastes are always changing, i know i was sad about the way the movie ended but in the book it was like. what kind of cliche bullshit. because OF COURSE he has to die so her son can have a heart transplant he very suddenly needs or he'll die very soon like that is one of the most annoying tropes ever oh my god why did nicholas sparks go there
but even WORSE is the fucking dr. bonner's ghost thing like that's even worse than the wife in safe haven getting katie and alex together. it's like oh dr. bonner has been leading dawson to this very moment to save his son. jesus christ. is this gonna be nicholas sparks' thing now? the weird spirit shit? it doesn't vibe with his stories at all imo.
also like i don't remember the movie so i can't say if it deviates much from the plot (i hope it does) but i know the movie showed quite a bit of the relationship between dawson and amanda as teenagers, and i feel like the book barely showed it and i think it would've been better if it had, because like. we only really got a few scenes showing their exchanges back then yet i'm supposed to just believe their love was sooooo strong that they still love each other twenty-four years later because nicholas sparks says so?
also why does nicholas sparks love cheating so much? i feel like this was just a crappy version of the notebook with character death. they break up bc she's rich and he's not and her family doesn't approve of him, he spends the years apart pining and she lowkey does too except she finds someone else (engaged in the notebook, married in this) and she goes back to her hometown and falls back with him. can't make up her mind whether to stay with the man she's promised herself to or the man she loved as a teenager. i AM glad that it was later revealed amanda didn't go through with sleeping with him, at least, but it's like. you still cheated.
i know there was a point to having ted and abee and other characters' POVs but i just. did not care. also i thought it was unfair when amanda got mad at dawson for having someone like. look into the bonners it's not like he was being invasive, he just wanted to know they were doing okay. it would be different if maybe he'd been drunk driving or had intentionally killed the guy, but it was just an accident that left him full of guilt and he just wanted to do right by them. also it's annoying that marilyn was basically like "you need to let go of your guilt" and he didn't get a chance to do it because he was killed! like he spends years just like not even living his life and he might have finally made a change and that's one of the most annoying things a writer can do re: character death when there's a hopeful future and then it's ripped away by killing them off
also even though amanda's husband stopped drinking and they were going to counseling and whatever, like it just sucks that it almost feels like she has to stay in a not particularly happy marriage for the sake of her children (particularly her son bc he's Going Through It). and since it's not mentioned, i assume she doesn't tell her husband that she cheated on him like it just sucks ya know, i mean i imagine had he not died, she would have gone back to dawson
and tuck seemed very much like an "i'm minding my own business" guy, not the kind of guy who would bring these two people back together, i mean maybe that's the point idk. but why did it have to be in that way anyway? he could've brought them together while he was still alive, and i mean. i know he knew amanda was unhappy but seeing how devoted he was to his own wife, tuck also didn't seem like the type to encourage dawson and amanda to do anything while she's still married, but he very much did encourage it
anyway yeah i usually at least get a little invested in the couple and like i said, i was invested in the movie, but in the book i just didn't really care about their relationship but it really was just like you didn't show us anything about how they're in love, you're just like kinda telling the reader. i was just mad about dawson's death lmao and for once not just because they could've been together, (though yeah, i think it's left unresolved because like i said we don't know how amanda's choice might have changed if dawson was still alive) but because he didn't get to live a life free of the guilt he's lived with for two decades
okay i've been very kind and giving most of the nicholas sparks books i read three stars. i find them entertaining enough but there's always at least a little eyeroll-y stuff and sometimes the major character death just makes me upset, though it hasn't been so bad with the last few books i've read
i watched the movie like four years ago and i remember really liking it! i'll see how i feel upon rewatch but i'm thinking that it must've been a lot better than the book bc while my tastes are always changing, i know i was sad about the way the movie ended but in the book it was like. what kind of cliche bullshit. because OF COURSE he has to die so her son can have a heart transplant he very suddenly needs or he'll die very soon like that is one of the most annoying tropes ever oh my god why did nicholas sparks go there
but even WORSE is the fucking dr. bonner's ghost thing like that's even worse than the wife in safe haven getting katie and alex together. it's like oh dr. bonner has been leading dawson to this very moment to save his son. jesus christ. is this gonna be nicholas sparks' thing now? the weird spirit shit? it doesn't vibe with his stories at all imo.
also like i don't remember the movie so i can't say if it deviates much from the plot (i hope it does) but i know the movie showed quite a bit of the relationship between dawson and amanda as teenagers, and i feel like the book barely showed it and i think it would've been better if it had, because like. we only really got a few scenes showing their exchanges back then yet i'm supposed to just believe their love was sooooo strong that they still love each other twenty-four years later because nicholas sparks says so?
also why does nicholas sparks love cheating so much? i feel like this was just a crappy version of the notebook with character death. they break up bc she's rich and he's not and her family doesn't approve of him, he spends the years apart pining and she lowkey does too except she finds someone else (engaged in the notebook, married in this) and she goes back to her hometown and falls back with him. can't make up her mind whether to stay with the man she's promised herself to or the man she loved as a teenager. i AM glad that it was later revealed amanda didn't go through with sleeping with him, at least, but it's like. you still cheated.
i know there was a point to having ted and abee and other characters' POVs but i just. did not care. also i thought it was unfair when amanda got mad at dawson for having someone like. look into the bonners it's not like he was being invasive, he just wanted to know they were doing okay. it would be different if maybe he'd been drunk driving or had intentionally killed the guy, but it was just an accident that left him full of guilt and he just wanted to do right by them. also it's annoying that marilyn was basically like "you need to let go of your guilt" and he didn't get a chance to do it because he was killed! like he spends years just like not even living his life and he might have finally made a change and that's one of the most annoying things a writer can do re: character death when there's a hopeful future and then it's ripped away by killing them off
also even though amanda's husband stopped drinking and they were going to counseling and whatever, like it just sucks that it almost feels like she has to stay in a not particularly happy marriage for the sake of her children (particularly her son bc he's Going Through It). and since it's not mentioned, i assume she doesn't tell her husband that she cheated on him like it just sucks ya know, i mean i imagine had he not died, she would have gone back to dawson
and tuck seemed very much like an "i'm minding my own business" guy, not the kind of guy who would bring these two people back together, i mean maybe that's the point idk. but why did it have to be in that way anyway? he could've brought them together while he was still alive, and i mean. i know he knew amanda was unhappy but seeing how devoted he was to his own wife, tuck also didn't seem like the type to encourage dawson and amanda to do anything while she's still married, but he very much did encourage it
anyway yeah i usually at least get a little invested in the couple and like i said, i was invested in the movie, but in the book i just didn't really care about their relationship but it really was just like you didn't show us anything about how they're in love, you're just like kinda telling the reader. i was just mad about dawson's death lmao and for once not just because they could've been together, (though yeah, i think it's left unresolved because like i said we don't know how amanda's choice might have changed if dawson was still alive) but because he didn't get to live a life free of the guilt he's lived with for two decades
Story was okay. Kind of unfulfilling, good example of why people don't like NS. The characters are too perfect to be likable.
Good story, pretty typical of Nicolas Sparks, gut wrenching twist at the end as always!!