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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Nicholas Sparks has done it again! Made me fall in love, laugh and cry all with one story!
I can only imagine how many middle aged women went out, wrote a message, put it in a bottle and then threw it into the ocean after reading this. Or spent all their time at the beach trying to find a message all their own. Sparks just seems to have that kind of power.
Theresa is on vacation when she finds a bottle that contains a letter to a lost love inside, on the beach. Urged by her editor, she publishes it in her weekly column and through readers, discovers two more letters from the same man. They touch her, and she wants to know more about him, so she sleuths her way to finding him and develops a connection she didn't think possible.
Theresa is kind of a stalker. I realize it's hidden under the guise of doing a reporting job, but we all know she went for herself, not the column. And despite having no harmful intentions, that's still kind of creepy. And Garrett, I honestly didn't see the appeal. He's stuck on his dead wife and devoted in that aspect, but on his own he seems kind of moody and unforgiving. Sure, he grows in the novel, but the time Theresa is near him he really doesn't seem that happy with her and I just can't figure out the attraction unless she's pining for the love she felt in his letters to his dead wife. And although there is supposed to be a connection between them, I never really felt it in this book.
I did like the idea of the plot. There is something romantic about finding love through a bottle tossed into the sea. And the sea itself is always the subject of a lot of romances. There's a little bit of sex scenes thrown into this book but nothing overly descriptive and I'd call it a tame romance. The only part of the writing I wasn't that fond of were Garrett's letters themselves. They were too cheesy for my taste and again, I didn't see the attraction there. But then again I'm not a girl that really appreciates poetry either, so maybe it's just lost on me.
It's an ok quick romance and while the story is original, I just didn't care for the characters. Luckily Sparks has plenty of other good books out there to try though.
Message In a Bottle
Copyright 1998
322 pages
Review by M. Reynard 2013
More of my reviews can be found at www.ifithaswords.blogspot.com
Theresa is on vacation when she finds a bottle that contains a letter to a lost love inside, on the beach. Urged by her editor, she publishes it in her weekly column and through readers, discovers two more letters from the same man. They touch her, and she wants to know more about him, so she sleuths her way to finding him and develops a connection she didn't think possible.
Theresa is kind of a stalker. I realize it's hidden under the guise of doing a reporting job, but we all know she went for herself, not the column. And despite having no harmful intentions, that's still kind of creepy. And Garrett, I honestly didn't see the appeal. He's stuck on his dead wife and devoted in that aspect, but on his own he seems kind of moody and unforgiving. Sure, he grows in the novel, but the time Theresa is near him he really doesn't seem that happy with her and I just can't figure out the attraction unless she's pining for the love she felt in his letters to his dead wife. And although there is supposed to be a connection between them, I never really felt it in this book.
I did like the idea of the plot. There is something romantic about finding love through a bottle tossed into the sea. And the sea itself is always the subject of a lot of romances. There's a little bit of sex scenes thrown into this book but nothing overly descriptive and I'd call it a tame romance. The only part of the writing I wasn't that fond of were Garrett's letters themselves. They were too cheesy for my taste and again, I didn't see the attraction there. But then again I'm not a girl that really appreciates poetry either, so maybe it's just lost on me.
It's an ok quick romance and while the story is original, I just didn't care for the characters. Luckily Sparks has plenty of other good books out there to try though.
Message In a Bottle
Copyright 1998
322 pages
Review by M. Reynard 2013
More of my reviews can be found at www.ifithaswords.blogspot.com
I‘m not really sure how i rate this book, i guess 2,5 stars it is. The first 250 pages of this book - i‘m being honest here - bored me so much that i thought about dnfing it. The last 50 pages were when the book took it‘s turn. The story itself and how it turned out in the end is beautiful and tragic. But i don‘t know if this saves it for me - Theresa‘s and Garret‘s love story (yes i know this book is older, relationships might have been looked at differently) was a little too toxic in my eyes to really „feel“ it and feel with them.
Great idea, but not my writing style and not my idea of a good relationship. I have another Nicholas Sparks book on my tbr and i‘m excited to see if i‘ll like this one better.
Great idea, but not my writing style and not my idea of a good relationship. I have another Nicholas Sparks book on my tbr and i‘m excited to see if i‘ll like this one better.
This books starts a little slow but it's a good read. It will make you fall in love and cry but that's expected with Nicholas books. Great read!
I have been reading a variety of books lately, but this is by far the most boring book I have read in a long time. I just found most of it unbelievable, and mundane. I spent the whole book waiting for something dramatic to happen, thankfully something did at the end to finish this story for good.
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Well that was a waste! Why did he have to die?
This book is a definite tearjerker, and the letters are downright mushy and sweet. The start of the book was beautiful, and the finish, despite my dislike of such terrible ends, was also an amazing closed cycle of events.
However, [a:Nicholas Sparks|2345|Nicholas Sparks|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1468247396p2/2345.jpg] dragged on a bit too much in most of the middle parts of the story.
I loved the characters, Theresa was strong, smart and kind, and Garrett's penmanship is what forces you to sit with a box of tissues when you read his letters; and their relationship was so real and inspiring.
The book is a quick light read, however, it is not one of the better romance novels that I have read in the past.
This book is a definite tearjerker, and the letters are downright mushy and sweet. The start of the book was beautiful, and the finish, despite my dislike of such terrible ends, was also an amazing closed cycle of events.
However, [a:Nicholas Sparks|2345|Nicholas Sparks|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1468247396p2/2345.jpg] dragged on a bit too much in most of the middle parts of the story.
I loved the characters, Theresa was strong, smart and kind, and Garrett's penmanship is what forces you to sit with a box of tissues when you read his letters; and their relationship was so real and inspiring.
The book is a quick light read, however, it is not one of the better romance novels that I have read in the past.
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced