- - PLOT - - Seventeen year old Ronnie and her younger brother Jonah are spending the summer with their dad, at his home in Wilmington, North Carolina. This is much to Ronnie's disappointment, she loves her life in New York with her friends, and what makes the thought of this summer even worse, is that until now she hadn't seen or spoken with her father for three years since he walked out on them and her mother, and his job as a teacher at prestigious music school Julliard. Ronnie meets Blaze on her first trip to the pier and thinks that she may have found someone who she can spend some time with and maybe call her a friend, Blaze seems equally ...  Read the complete review

I have always enjoyed Nicolas Sparks' books. They have all the elements that i enjoy- love, romance and bittersweet ending. The last song has to be one of the best Nicolas Sparks' book, in fact one of the best book that I have read. The book is about a 17 year old girl named Ronnie who hates her father after he left her, her mom and her little brother to become a concert pianist and then went to live in a quiet beach in North Carolina. With her father's wish and her mother's request, she and her brother are sent to their father to spend the summer with him. Her brother is tremendously happy whereas she is very angry. So she tries to stay away from her dad as ...  Read the complete review

First I should say I have never seen a film based on a Nicholas Sparks book, nor have I ever read a Sparks book before. I bought this on the way back from America, knowing I was to endure a very long flight. I had seen the trailer for the upcoming movie and assumed it was going to be mushy and slushy romantic and that really is not my kind of story, but thought I'd give it ago. I was mistaken. While it is clearly a love story, it is not just one of girl meets boy, but the rekindled love of a girl and her estranged father, a sister and her brother and the sacrifice within friendships. It is an easy book to read and each chapter is from a different characters ...  Read the complete review

This book is the perfect teen chick lit! and even if you're older than a teen I have no doubt you will love it anyway! Nicholas sparks is a brilliant writer and this book does nothing more but prove this, his usual tale of a love story is developed with a larger plot of trouble and social issues. This book has the right amount of teenage angst, summer romance, heart clenching and tear jerking trauma which lets you leave your seat and enter the world of Ronnie Miller. I literally laughed and cried all the way through it and although some parts could be seen as corny by that point the characters are developed to a standard that the words just fit. ...  Read the complete review

This is one of those books that I was so close to not purchasing. I had had enough of reading romance novels, and this looked like it was going to be just that. I was wrong. The front cover (the version with Miley Cyrus) is totally misleading and is bound to put off a lot of readers from buying it. I also saw the trailer for the film which implied that it was just a typical teen romance. After having finally purchasing this book, I could not put it down. I loved reading all the different perspectives even though it still remained in 3rd person. This is so much more than just a romance. The romance only plays a small section in this novel. The ...  Read the complete review