The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
The Best of Me by
Nicholas Sparks
Oh, how
the mighty have fallen. I went through an entire Nicholas Sparks phase where
whenever I needed a lighthearted easy to read, romance novel I turned to him. The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, The Lucky
One and countless others were quite enjoyable and great at passing the
time. I was a Sparks fan. I bought The
Best of Me earlier this year thinking I would give him a shot again. Then I
did a quick browse through my Nook and realized that I already owned it. A look
back at a prior reading list showed me that I had already read it too. Well,
this didn’t look good at all. But I decided to pick up and read it anyway since
I remembered absolutely nothing.
Here is
what happened: A teenager from the wrong side of the tracks dated a girl on the
right side of the tracks and her parents hated him. His family had a really bad
history and you know, in a small town, family means everything. They break up
because he knows she can do better. The teenage guy ends up in a jail after the
teenage girl goes off to college. Over twenty years pass. She is married. He is
not. His family is still horrible. Her family still dislikes his family. They
are still in love. Drama ensues. Tragedy happens. The end.
Sparks
isn’t a bad writer. He is actually a really good writer. He just has to weave
together extravagant and unnecessary plot lines. This whole story was
ridiculous and unnecessary. I didn’t care about any of the characters. He
couldn’t forgive himself for his past mistakes. She was a grown woman still
acting like a little girl scared of her mother. Then in the background you had
his crazy cousins running around wanting to find him and kill him. I didn’t
care at all about this novel. I read it because I was hoping to feel that spark
(pun intended) that I used to feel when reading Sparks novels. I realized after
reading this for a second time that I hadn’t read a Nicholas Sparks book since
reading this one for the first time in 2012. This is November of 2015. I give
this a 2 out of 5 stars.
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