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Such a heart-wrenching story. Just like a Nicholas Sparks novel.  I loved it.

Ronnie was a confused kid trying to grip the fact that her father just up and left her, her mother, and her little brother. She hasn’t talked to him when he called or even open any of his letters. All of a sudden her mother decides that it’s time that little Jonah and Ronnie need to leave New York for the summer and spend it with their father. He lives on the beach in North Carolina. It has been three years since she’s spoken to him and now her mother wanted them to share a home for the whole summer in a foreign town. Ronnie’s relationship with her mom has been on the rocks for quite some time.

Once they got down there, she was lost as to what to do and where to go from there. She found a volleyball game going on and while checking that out, one of the players ran into her and spilled her soda down her shirt. She knew right off that he was good looking but didn’t think that he was her type or the other way around. She was lost in what she was going to do for the whole summer. How was she going to survive a whole summer, plus she had to share a room with her little brother.

It starts off after the soda spilling incident when she runs into someone else and spills the rest on her shirt. Meeting a girl that had potential to be someone to hang out with was that result. Her name was Blaze and her attitude matched Ronnie’s to a tee. One thing happens and then another and everything turns upside down. Learning to know who you really are isn’t an easy road.

I cried and cried with this book. I thought that my heart would break right along with Ronnie’s. I felt her joy and I felt her pain. I was touched by the whole story. I was scared by the time I was half way through this story since I thought what was going to happen. I am also familiar with Nicholas Sparks’ writing. I knew that the ending would cut me one way or the other but it left me hanging till the very end. If you’re looking for a solid story that you can relate to and need an emotional moment, you need this book. I give it 5 stars out of 4. It’s that good. Have some tissues readily available for it though. Enjoy!

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My name is John Tyree. I haven’t been the greatest son but I make a really good soldier. I finally figured out that I had to do something with my life. I didn’t want to go to school and had no ambitions so I joined the Army. On one of my leaves home, I was at the beach surfing without a care in the world. I had two weeks to kill before I went back to Germany. I noticed a group of college kids had rented one of the beach houses for the summer but didn’t give it much thought. While taking a break from surfing I saw a couple of girls walk by and one said hi. There wasn’t anything that I thought about that either except there was something about that girl that was nice. When her bag fell into the water and the boys that joined them wouldn’t go after it, I decided to. When I got out and handed her bag back to her, she insisted that I have something to eat with them since it was the last thing she could do.

Even spending a little time with this girl made him feel complete. Savannah Curtis seems to feel the same way about John. Knowing that they only had 2 weeks together before he left, they spend all their time together that they could. He took her all around town showing her sights that she wouldn’t have seen without him. He also took her to meet his father. His mother wasn’t in the picture anymore and his father was one of a kind. He was a habitual person and didn’t seem to talk about anything but collecting coins. That was his passion. When John was fed up with only discussing coins, there wasn’t any conversations then. After meeting Savannah, John was beginning to have a little more patience with his dad.

Once John left to return to Germany, their relationship was still going strong. They would write all the time and he would even call when he had the time but when it comes time to come home, there seemed to have problems and the longer away he stayed the worse their relationship got.

You have to read this. I saw the previews of this movie and decided that I would really like this. I know from other Sparks’ books that this would be sad but I wanted to read it anyway. I was finished in less than 2 days. You wouldn’t believe how easy he is to read.  I was into this story from page one and my interest never wavered. I don’t usually read these kinds of books. I rather like magic and vampires but this relationship was magical in a way. I couldn’t believe the ending though. I greatly recommend this one to anyone who has feelings. You will laugh, cry, scream, and want to throw the book across the room, but that’s what makes it so GREAT!!