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A review by leggup
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
2.0
People cry reading these books? Maybe my standards were too high. Maybe I shouldn't have read Tolstoy's short stories right before Nicholas Sparks...
The entire book flouts "Show, Don't Tell." Every single page is "She walked towards door and then she closed the window and then she looked out it and here are her feeling about it." We are dragged around as two phenomenally uninteresting people are like-so-totally awkward around each other while still being freaking-attractive and so-smart-like-look-at-their-jobs!
Character development is dead in the water. I think this book was meant to be a great long list of terrible love quotes and things that people want to see about themselves. A book that a 16 year old girl can make a Facebook status from... for every day of the year.
The entire book flouts "Show, Don't Tell." Every single page is "She walked towards door and then she closed the window and then she looked out it and here are her feeling about it." We are dragged around as two phenomenally uninteresting people are like-so-totally awkward around each other while still being freaking-attractive and so-smart-like-look-at-their-jobs!
Character development is dead in the water. I think this book was meant to be a great long list of terrible love quotes and things that people want to see about themselves. A book that a 16 year old girl can make a Facebook status from... for every day of the year.