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Summary: Wonderful easy read!
Review: This is the 3rd Sparks novel that I've read and as the others, this one was too beautifuly written. I finished the book in 2 days. Although it had a somewhat sad ending, it was an excellent read. I'm not sure why this book only received 3 stars. It deserves more credit.
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Summary: Look elsewhere
Review: Not typically the type of book I read, but was surprised by the elementary grade school level happenings and the unemotional feeling I was left with....
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Summary: Least favorite.
Review: This was my least favorite written by Sparks, but I still was amused by the plot. It seems surreal for a women and man to fall in love so quickly. A man comes down, meets this women who works at an Inn. I don't believe in this love at first site ordeal, but I guess it could happen.
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Summary: Tragic romantic tale!
Review: As is typical with any Nicholas Sparks novel, you are bound to find love so strong and then grieve as it is taken away. Well, Nights in Rodanthe is no exception to this rule. Sparks weaves the present day with the past telling a story about love, divorce, pain, loss, and learning to live again. After the tragedy of the book is revealed, the main character is still happier "to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." It is an amazing message and one in which I hope each reader can remember to take each day with loved ones as a gift and appreciate them, because we are all lucky to have that chance to love too.
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Summary: Love found--love lost
Review: Nicholas Sparks is back at doing what he does best--writing about lost love. Adrienne Willis, the divorced mother of three, is looking back on her life and realizing that she needs to tell her love story to her daughter who is grieving over the death of her husband. She surprises her daughter by telling her of her meeting with surgeon Paul Flanner who is seeking solace in an old Inn on the Outer Banks which Adrienne is tending for a friend. Of course a big storm comes and they discover a love for one another which is to change the course of their lives. Some of this is entirably predictable, but Sparks has a way of writing which captures your heart.
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Summary: Nights in Rodanthe
Review: An extremely moving story about two middle-aged adults who fall in love unexpectedly. They meet by chance in a bed and breakfast inn in Rodanthe, North Carolina. Adrienne is 45, divorced and a mother of 3 teen-agers. Paul is a 54 year old surgeon, divorced, with one son who detests him. Recently, he has been through a tough legal battle over a malpractice case and he is currently reevaluating his life-path. Just recently retired, he is now planning to move to Ecuador to serve as a missionary doctor along side of his son. After just a few interactions, Adrienne and Paul both realize that they have been searching for each other for all of their lives and are drawn together in Rodanthe during a violent storm. They part with great pain as friends and lovers, vowing to correspond since she is unable to leave her children and move to Ecuador. They decide to stay in touch my mail. Then tragedy strikes...
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Summary: tear jerker
Review: If I could've given it three and a half stars I would have done that, but four stars it is. This is the first book I have read by this author so I don't know how it compares to his others, but from what I read from the other reviews they were better. I found that tissues would indeed come in handy when I read the book. After years of marriage Adrienne Willis's husband leaves her for another woman and with the biggest share of taking care of their three children. She is devastated. To get away for a while and make some extra money, she takes care of a Bed and Breakfast Inn for a friend of hers for a few days. The only guest staying is a doctor who has sold his medical practice and is going to Ecuador to work with his son and try to make amends for years he neglected his son. Of course, they are drawn to each other and fall in love. They both feel it is important that he goes to Ecuador to make amends. He will be gone for a year and they will have their letters to each other to get better acquainted. Fifteen years later, Adrienne is sixty and still single, but now it is her daughter who is devastated because of the death her young husband to cancer. Amanda is having such a hard time coping with her loss that her children are not getting the attention and care that they need and Adrienne feels she needs to step in and help. She asks her daughter to come over for a talk, hoping that by telling her story that it will help Amanda to realize what she is doing. There weren't any big climatic surprises but it was an enjoyable, if somewhat a sad story.
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Summary: Bring the tissues, all right...
Review: The quote on the front of the book claims that I will be reaching for the tissue box. Well, I did. This story was so sappy-sweet that my eyes watered up due to sugar shock. I had to remind myself that I wasn't reading Bridges of Madison County, the story lines were so similar. The characters, Paul and Adrienne, are likeable enough, but the plot is just too predictable. From the first chapter, this book's plot can be perfectly mapped. There are no sudden twists or turns or anything all that compelling, really. I have had so many people recommend Nicholas Sparks' novels to me, and now, I have to wonder why. I like a good romance as much as the next person, but I also would like a little plot. I give the book two stars because I did enjoy the characters and some of the dialogue; however, most of this novel lacked "sparks."
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Summary: Did Sparks write this?
Review: The story is about Adrienne and Paul, two individuals who have both recently divorced and are now going through a serious state of depression. Unlike Sparks' traditional opening, the novel unfolds with the protagonist recounting an experience she had to her daughter (who has just lost her husband). This introduction takes away a significant amount of the suspense, since the reader already knows that this mystical man that Adrienne met is no longer with her, so obviously he died.
Paul's wife divorces him, after complaining that her husband is a workaholic who does not care for his son. The divorce acts as a wake up call for the character, who promises to patch up the relationship with his son after he takes a brief vacation in Rodanthe, North Carolina.
Adrienne's husband divorces her, after he realizes that younger women are more fun with than older ones. Though she realizes that it is not her fault that he divorced her, she still goes into a state of depression and retires to Rodanthe to clear her mind.
So, here are two depressed individuals, who end up staying in a beaten down motel on a story, rainy weekend with no other guests. I wonder what could happen? A dark room lit only by a fire, and a fifty-year old lady with blood red lipstick, and the outside weather is enough to drive Paul love-crazy. In less than two days, they each claim that they have finally "found the one" and make love, without thinking of their future.
As a Nicholas Sparks fan myself, I can vouch that this book is not an emotionally touching addition to the rest of his romance collections. It makes the reader wonder where on earth Sparks gets such immoral plot ideas from. Furthermore, Sparks also portrays the two main characters-Adrienne and Paul-as unrealistic and surreal characters, which thus makes it difficult for the reader to relate to the story. Similarly, the plot not only is weak, but shifts from a slow, flashback into a fast pace roller-coaster ride as though the author was restricted to finishing the novel within a certain number of pages.
Apart from the above faults, the story is relatively quick and easy to read. I think anyone who enjoys an unrealistic and immoral love story will enjoy Sparks' book
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Summary: Nights in Rodanthe
Review: I really enjoyed this Nicholas Sparks book, in many respects it is written quite like his other books with the style and the elements of suspense, and romance. However, to me this book seemed different than most of his others. Sparks does an excellent job with all the sub plots he throws in. The main plot was also very intriguing. Sparks kept me guessing about what would happen between Adrienne and Paul. I enjoyed not having any clue as to what Robert Torrelson would say, how Paul's son would act, or how Paul and Adrienne's story would play out. In most of Sparks' books, you can pretty much guess after reading a few chapters what could have happened or will happen. But in Nights in Rodanthe I never knew what plot twists would come and when they would emerge! Sparks kept this novel very down to earth, and not so dream-like. I really liked that aspect. I would recommend this novel to anyone, as long as they know once they read a Nicholas Sparks book, they probably will want to read all of them! I know that happened to me!
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