Review of:
The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
I have always loved watching the Nicholas Sparks movies. So when I saw that The Best of Me movie edition was on the shelves at Walmart I snatched it up and didn't look back. I was so happy I got it too.
Title: The Best of Me
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publication: August 26th, 2014 by Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback, Movie Tie-In Edition, 333 + Excerpts from The Longest Ride
Source: I bought it.
Genres: Romance, Chick Lit, Contemporary
Rating: ★★★★
Synopsis:
"Everyone wanted to believe that
endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was
eighteen." In the spring of 1984, high school students
Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they
were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to
defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But
as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would
tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths. Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and
Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the
mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived
the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love
that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the
instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they
thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they
held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two
former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made.
And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living,
and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?
Thoughts:
I got this book for the same reasons I got Horns. Because the movie was coming out but also because I really wanted to read a Nicholas Sparks book. I always loved the movies based on the books he wrote and it was about time I read an actual book he wrote. I don’t regret it one bit. I loved it, from start to not really the end. Still can’t believe it.
I loved the characters, the emotions, the description of the places made me see it in my mind, and even the realness of it all. Even if there were scenes that seemed unrealistic to me they weren’t. Like the first part where he survives the explosions and the part where Dawson hit his brother with a tire iron in the face and he still walked. I really, really fell in love with this story.
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