The Best of Me
2010 • 308 pages
Ratings21
Average rating3.4
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Ratings21
Average rating3.4
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?
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This book was a torture to finish, I swear. The main characters just did not invoke any emotions to me, I could not relate to them. I think the female main is selfish and spoilt and so blah. The male main is so... flat. The entire story just fell flat, it's like drinking a lukewarm, fizzless soda.
And just what is it with Sparks and tragic ending? It is so expected, you know. You pick up a Sparks' novel and you just know that the ending will be tragic. Someone will die at the end. So predictable. So boring. So meh. He should definitely shake things up a bit, maybe let the ending be a happy one for once. Or don't kill off anyone, maybe?
Blergh. Next!
I would probably give this book three and a half stars. It was good, but just okay good.
I guess what I didn't like was at the point of knowing Amanda's son would need a heart transplant, I knew the way the rest of the story would go. Nicholas Sparks did his best in the way he wrote it to try to keep the reader in suspense, but it just didn't work. Saying that though, I don't know how it could have been written where the reader would have been kept in the dark.
I enjoy Nicholas Sparks' books and I did enjoy reading this one.
i haven't finished reading it yet, only halfway through and I'm LOVING it!! i highly recommend it!
