is a story unlike any other. While it has the typical love story that you see in all of Nicholas Sparks novels, it spends the majority of the story exploring the relationship of father and daughter. Ronnie is a 17 year old girl, who goes to spend a summer with her dad. Ever since her parents divorced 3 years earlier, she has hated her father and wants little to nothing to do with him. So she and her younger brother, at the request of her mother, travel to Wilmington NC to spend the summer.
In this story you see the love of a father for a daughter. And the way that the love of a daughter for her father can change. You see Ronnie experience her first love. But more than anything else, as the description on Sparks website states the book shows: "The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms – first love, the love between parents and children – that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts… and heal them."
When you read this story, at the end, you really just want to call your dad up and tell him how much you love him. I did! The story is one that is unexpected in every way (Unless you have seen the movie).
The movie staring Mylie Cyrus did an excellent job with the story. I was surprised how much I felt like the movie stayed true to the book. Mylie did an excellent job playing Ronnie. If you have seen the movie, you know how the story goes, and that will change how the book is read. You notice more in the beginning of the book that you wouldn't know if you didn't know the ending (But I guess that is the way it is with the movie too). But whether you have seen the movie or not, run and get this book and read it. It will really touch your heart, and maybe throw in a healing or two.
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