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The Guardian
by Nicholas Sparks
Some characters felt really fleshed out (like Julie, I liked her instincts most of the time) but others seemed quite one-dimensional (almost everybody, especially Andrea. Mike seemed overly stupid to me--came across as significantly younger than he was supposed to be).
Richard was effectively creepy, though I would have liked more about what he was considering as his motives. I felt Sparks really just pointed to a shitty/abusive childhood as the cause and then never explored this; I got the willies reading some of the things he did throughout the plot, but would have enjoyed his twisted reasoning more.
Book was very predictable, much more a thriller (IMO) than any sort of romance. I thought Julie's feelings toward Richard were okay: she likes him but doesn't feel much else and also thinks his dates are unrealistic/too fancy/not to her lifestyle. But then she decides that she really liked Mike and wanted to date him very quickly, without a "trigger" or something that changed her thinking (almost insta-love).
There were a few times this book came across to me more as a Mary Higgins Clark than a Nicolas Sparks.
Richard was effectively creepy, though I would have liked more about what he was considering as his motives. I felt Sparks really just pointed to a shitty/abusive childhood as the cause and then never explored this; I got the willies reading some of the things he did throughout the plot, but would have enjoyed his twisted reasoning more.
Book was very predictable, much more a thriller (IMO) than any sort of romance. I thought Julie's feelings toward Richard were okay: she likes him but doesn't feel much else and also thinks his dates are unrealistic/too fancy/not to her lifestyle. But then she decides that she really liked Mike and wanted to date him very quickly, without a "trigger" or something that changed her thinking (almost insta-love).
There were a few times this book came across to me more as a Mary Higgins Clark than a Nicolas Sparks.