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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
When I first started reading this book i had a hard time getting into it but I found it started to pick up to the point where it was painfully hard to out down. This book was beautiful, sad, and touching. You can ask anyone who knows me I do not get emotional over romance but this book had me ugly crying, but in a good way. I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a lovely story that can be predictable at timea but hard to put down.
I couldn't get into it. I dint have a driving desire to read read read. spoiler...he died at the end....no need to relocate
Can't give this a real review because I couldn't even finish it.
Although a tear dropped from my eye few pages to the end of the book. It doesn't change the fact that this book isn't for me. I rolled my eyes most of the time and I sped read the last 4-5 chapters. Someone I rarely do. I enjoyed other Nicholas Sparks and didn't want to DNF this. All the characters were boring especially Jeb Blake who seemed too perfect, knowing what to say, when to say it, knowing the exact thing his son is feeling and thinking. How convenient. And the end??? I have nothing good to say about it. It was dissapointing.
I rememeber reading this one when I was younger and crying so hard at the end... this time I knew what happens so it barely made an impact on me.
I didn't like Theresa or the fact that she published private messages she found - even though she redacted the names then came to find the author of the letters and she falls in love with him - yeah she didn't make him fall in love with her but it still came off as if she were stalking him. And when he rightfully gets upset when he finds the letters she was pretty much hiding - when she should've told him from the beginning she gets upset as well and it's ... just a mess.
I didn't really care for Garett either. He was good looking and grieving but that's about all we learn from him, oh and he really, really likes his rutine and hates changes. He barely has any personality and whilst his death was sad... it was also dumb. He is an experienced sailor, he saw the weather changing but instead of going and putting on a life jacket he is too stubborn and tries to go further out into the sea, despite having all the warnings over the radio that the wind is picking up fast. He waits until the last possible moment to get the raft or the life jacket and is then swept overboard and drowns because he is stubborn. I felt no sympathy for him or Theresa.
It was just so bland and boring. I used to love Sparks books but now they seem so predictable- two main characters fall in love then something happens and one of them dies - either one of them either someone close to them and then rinse and repeat. It gets stale and boring after a while- though this one was one of the bolder ones where the main romantic interest dies. So that was different and bold, too bad we barely spend any time afterwards since the book wraps up pretty fast after Garett dies.
I didn't like Theresa or the fact that she published private messages she found - even though she redacted the names then came to find the author of the letters and she falls in love with him - yeah she didn't make him fall in love with her but it still came off as if she were stalking him. And when he rightfully gets upset when he finds the letters she was pretty much hiding - when she should've told him from the beginning she gets upset as well and it's ... just a mess.
I didn't really care for Garett either. He was good looking and grieving but that's about all we learn from him, oh and he really, really likes his rutine and hates changes. He barely has any personality and whilst his death was sad... it was also dumb. He is an experienced sailor, he saw the weather changing but instead of going and putting on a life jacket he is too stubborn and tries to go further out into the sea, despite having all the warnings over the radio that the wind is picking up fast. He waits until the last possible moment to get the raft or the life jacket and is then swept overboard and drowns because he is stubborn. I felt no sympathy for him or Theresa.
It was just so bland and boring. I used to love Sparks books but now they seem so predictable- two main characters fall in love then something happens and one of them dies - either one of them either someone close to them and then rinse and repeat. It gets stale and boring after a while- though this one was one of the bolder ones where the main romantic interest dies. So that was different and bold, too bad we barely spend any time afterwards since the book wraps up pretty fast after Garett dies.
This is the fourth Nicholas Sparks book I've read (read them all within a couple of weeks of each other - started with Dear John and ended with Message in a Bottle). I loved Dear John and A Walk to Remember. Message in a Bottle...not so much.
Although the story itself was quite charming and I found the characters to be likable, as I started the book I already had an inkling as to how it was going to end. It was very predictable, and it lacked the emotion of Dear John or Walk to Remember.
I like Nicholas Sparks and will continue reading his books, especially when I need a good cry...but I'll wait a while before picking up one of his books. If for no other reason but to allow myself a clear and fresh view of the new book.
Although the story itself was quite charming and I found the characters to be likable, as I started the book I already had an inkling as to how it was going to end. It was very predictable, and it lacked the emotion of Dear John or Walk to Remember.
I like Nicholas Sparks and will continue reading his books, especially when I need a good cry...but I'll wait a while before picking up one of his books. If for no other reason but to allow myself a clear and fresh view of the new book.
Same old Nicholas Sparks. Don't know if it's cause I know his writing, or if it's cause I'm jaded, but I laughed instead of cried.
