Review by Jojo (Age 17, USA)
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Seventeen-year-old Veronica ‘Ronnie’ Millier’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York to Wilmington, North Carolina. Since then she has remained angry and alienated from her parents, until her mother decides she should spend the summer with her father.
Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town. He is immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centrepiece of a local church.
What unfolds is an unforgettable story about love – both first love and the love between parents and children – that demonstrates the many ways that relationships can break our hearts... and heal them.
My Opinion:
I’ve never read something from Nicholas Sparks before and I have to say, that the book was really good. I liked it. It’s a typical book about love and friendship and sometimes it’s may be a little bit foreseeable. But the writing is perfect. It was a very good book. Also the metamorphosis of the character of Ronnie, who at first hates her father, is very good. It’s wonderful writing.
Also for the German-readers (like myself): The English isn’t very difficult, for me, who can’t speak and understand English very well, it was easy to understand. I didn’t have too many problems.
And also for the people who check the book out after this and like it; there will be movie of ‘The Last Song’, starring Miley Cyrus. It’s currently slated for an April 2009 release. Going by the trailer, the film is very good and true to the book.