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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Like it has been with all of his books that I have read… it takes me a little while to get into the book, then I can’t put it down, then I cry like a baby, and then upon the last page I am always sad that the story is over. Loved it.
Read a long time ago, but remember it was really good!
despite some super cringey moments I'm a sucker for a love story? ugh
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
cute story, shed a couple tears, probably my favourite sparks novel
This book is different from other Nicholas Sparks books. It has the same formula but the substance is different. I gave this 4 stars because this book is exactly what I needed at this time. I just finished a high fantasy series and I wanted to read something light.
I love Denise so much. You can really see how much she loves her son. She’s by far, my favorite of all of Spark’s characters. I also like how imperfect Taylor is. He’s healing in his own way. The ending was the cutest!
I love Denise so much. You can really see how much she loves her son. She’s by far, my favorite of all of Spark’s characters. I also like how imperfect Taylor is. He’s healing in his own way. The ending was the cutest!
A good romantic book to indulge in. Obvious plot holes, but that didn't really bother me that much. Very lovey dovey.
A little trite, even for me (and I'm a sucker for sentimental hogwash). The characters are interesting enough to make the read worth it, though.
Nicholas Sparks is such a great author, he knows how to invoke the emotions of the readers. This novel is about a single mother Denise and her kid Kyle. Kyle has a speech disorder and Denise puts her best efforts to help her son. I cried by how beautiful a mother’s love is, I got touched with the way Denise treasures her son. In the story, Denise and Kyle got into a car accident and Kyle goes missing. A firefighter, Taylor, comes into the rescue and finds Kyle then returns her to her mother. From then on, Taylor and Denise got closer and had a special relationship. But Taylor also has a scar and trauma to unmask, making him unable to love and be open with Denise wholly. He lost his father to a fire, hence he became a firefighter. After all these years, he still hasn't moved on and yet another person he loves got taken away by the fire, his best friend Mitch. The world seems so unfair, I cried when Mitch died too, why must Taylor go through that kind of pain again. Happily, Taylor recovered from all these and had a kid with Denise (along with Kyle) and he named his son after his dead best friend. Sparks knows how to make you cry and hurt you and how to make your heart full of happiness at the same time.
Book Rating: 5/5
Book Rating: 5/5
Wow - so this was a book. And I read this book, I sure did. I am not a huge Nicholas Sparks fan, and not because of this book specifically, but because of all of his books. When you read a Nicholas Sparks book I really feel like there is a huge count down hanging over your head. But instead of the passage of time, this is a count down of page numbers. And at the end of this count down do you know what happens? Are you sad that it's over? Possibly. But, more importantly, you are waiting for someone to die. Yep. In. Every. Single. Book. I find it annoying and extremely formulaic. If someone read a Nicholas Sparks book and no one died in the course of it I would be dumbfounded.
Now - to this book specifically. Wow. It was .... a novel. The characters were difficult to believe in. Taylor is a giant dick - who somehow manages to be sensitive - that seems right. Denise gives up everything for her child and then doesn't for a man - that also seems right on. Judy acts like a fantastic mom to Taylor throughout the whole book - and then suddenly we're informed that she's actually a terrible mom. Huh.
The plot was okay. Kind of dull and predictable, but not detestable. I was not terribly moved by the love story that occurred here. I found that I was able to think of many other things while reading and still follow along with the story.
The prose - delightful! With such gems as "He finally let go of her hand, felt longing as it slipped away from him. He wanted to tell her that she had something inside her, something impossibly rare, something he'd looked for in the past but had never hoped to find. He wanted to say all these things but found that he couldn't"(135). You would think that this would lead to something - it occurs about half way into the book. But not only is this incredibly, barfingly corny (as are many more lines in this book), but he does not follow through on what it is he wants to tell her until pretty much the very end.
Gawd! Ugh! *Kick*.
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Now - to this book specifically. Wow. It was .... a novel. The characters were difficult to believe in. Taylor is a giant dick - who somehow manages to be sensitive - that seems right. Denise gives up everything for her child and then doesn't for a man - that also seems right on. Judy acts like a fantastic mom to Taylor throughout the whole book - and then suddenly we're informed that she's actually a terrible mom. Huh.
The plot was okay. Kind of dull and predictable, but not detestable. I was not terribly moved by the love story that occurred here. I found that I was able to think of many other things while reading and still follow along with the story.
The prose - delightful! With such gems as "He finally let go of her hand, felt longing as it slipped away from him. He wanted to tell her that she had something inside her, something impossibly rare, something he'd looked for in the past but had never hoped to find. He wanted to say all these things but found that he couldn't"(135). You would think that this would lead to something - it occurs about half way into the book. But not only is this incredibly, barfingly corny (as are many more lines in this book), but he does not follow through on what it is he wants to tell her until pretty much the very end.
Gawd! Ugh! *Kick*.
To check out more of my reviews visit http://whatabookbitch.blogspot.ca
Cute story, but it alternated between feeling like a soap opera and feeling like I'm reading the second or third draft of someone's NaNoWriMo novel, where they're trying like crazy to make their word count.