The Best of Me

Hey there!

Now for a little variety. The next book up is  The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks. I have already finished "B" so this will be a review for fun.

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?

This book is very similar to The Notebook but it falls very short of my Sparks standards. The past and present are so blurred I don't know where I am. It also felt that this book was just random narrators that might possibly cross paths at some point. This book didn't feel like a Nicholas Sparks book (I didn't even cry) and it seems like Sparks is running out of ideas and writing to writing. I did like the ending and it was a quick read. But to get to the end it was a rough road.

Keep reading!
Mackenzie