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Although Sparks does not delve into the connection between Adrienne and Paul as much as his reader would like, I do believe he did so with a purpose. I believe Sparks meant for Adrienne's own experiences with love and losing those you love to help her daughter Amanda move on and realize that you just have to continue on in life and that life does not just stop once one person is gone. After having read four of Nicholas Sparks' other books I have come to realize that I need to have no expectations when starting one of his books. The story of their love is told by Adrienne to her daughter Amanda, who is still struggling with the death of her husband. Readers must look at the bigger picture that the book creates and not just the love story that helps create that bigger picture. I have loved some of his books and have been disappointed with others at the same time. I felt that Nights In Rodanthe was the book I needed after having finished the book Stargirl, which is for a younger group.
She then reveals that she cried all of the time in the first few months of seperaton. Nicholas Sparks has out done himself again. The main character, Adrienne Willis, goes through so many emotions and shares her feelings that divorced women can relate too.
You will fall in love with this book and with the characters themselves. Don't waste another minute. This will give you hope that life goes on, there is someone else out there for you, but most importantly you will one day be okay and make peace with the situation of being divorced.
If you are divorced with children or even without, this book is for you. Any woman can probably relate to her and would love to hear her words of wisdom and her story of how she met Paul Flanner. Buy this book now, so you too can fall in love with the romance of Adrienne and Paul during their "Nights in Rodanthe."
She talks about the initial schock of knowing that her marriage was over, and like any person, looks back to see what went wrong, and when they first realized it, but chose to ignore it. She was afraid for herself because she thought she would be alone after her children left and she was afraid for her children because they were going through the difficult years of being teenagers.
It was hard to turn it off. I loved the story. A good plot.
Promising to return to Adrienne at Christmas so they can have their HEA but. With a violent storm brewing our protagonists share a walk on the beach and two meals together then fall hopelessly in love. (This did feel a little rushed to me but whatever it's Nicholas Sparks we all know where he's going) After five blissful days together Paul leaves Rodanthe to join his son at the medical clinic in Ecuador. Even in a book that's only 222 pages long Nicholas Sparks manages to weave his magic. Well it's Nicholas Sparks isn't it.This is a quick, smooth read with well developed characters and the typical tugging of the heartstrings we have all come to expect from N.S.Recommended for an afternoon at the beach or a short flight."The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over those two elements always go together" Reminiscent of bridges of Madison County this a quick, easy read but a great story nonetheless.The story begins with Adrienne telling her widowed daughter the tale of her brief love affair fourteen years earlier with a surgeon named Paul. Building a level of suspense as we await breathless to learn of Paul's fate. We then alternate between Paul and Adrienne's points of view as we learn the story of their lives and what brought them each to divorce before they found themselves at the inn in Rodanthe.
I had to look at the author's name a few times as I was reading to assure myself that this was not a woman righting under a psuedonym. I found it incredible that a man could so realistically express some of the emotions that women experience. I now understand why Sparks' books have been made into moview. This was my first reading of Sparks' books (I missed the movie versions of Letter in a Bottle and The Noteook). It made me a real Sparks' fan.
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