Book Review: "The Last Song"

So, as you all should know by now, I LOVE TO READ!!!! And my mom's favorite author is Nicholas Sparks, and so she let me borrow her book, "The Last Song", for me to give a try.

IT WAS AWESNIFCANTACULAR!!!!! (Insider.)

The whole book was very emotional, and it just ripped your heart in a million directions. So much suspense, angst, romance, change, anger, sadness, tragedy, happiness.... How you can possibly squeeze it all into one summer, much less one book, is totally beyond me. But Nicholas Sparks did it, and the story flowed seamlessly from beginning to end.

Ronnie and her little brother, Jonah, are shipped away from their home in New York City to spend some time with their dad, Steve, in North Carolina for the summer. The only problem? Ronnie absolutely hates her father. He walked out on the family three years ago, and all that was left in his wake were the impossible memories of she and him sitting and playing the piano. It was something special that they shared, their gift in music, but when Steve left, Ronnie would have none of it. She never touched a piano again. When Julliard came knocking, Ronnie declined. The three years made her bitter towards her mother, ignorant of her father, and lost within herself. Gone was her all-American-girl image, and in its place was a tough, edgy girl Who wouldn't take any crap from anybody.

Jonah takes an immediate liking to his dad, but Ronnie avoids him, convinced that not speaking to him for three years was the easiest thing she's ever done. In the process of hiding out from Steve, she runs into- quite literally- Will. He's a volleyball player that every girl is drooling after, and he harbors a deep guilt from an incident involving his best friend. But, years ago, his best friend saved his life- Will keeping the secret was the only thing he had to do in return.

She also meets Blaze, a girl with a tough exterior, and girlfriend of Marcus, who, summed up in two words, was bad news. In one word? He was a sociopath. And Ronnie isn't stupid. She knows to stay away.... but Ronnie has a certain lure for him....

Throughout the course of the story, Ronnie changed. She finds true love, and she saves a baby turtle nest. She is accused of shoplifting by someone she thought was her friend, attends a wedding that no one will forget, and finally comes to terms with her future might hold. Throw into the mix a relentless raccoon, a job that involves touching slimy fish, and a girl on fire, things can get seriously confusing. It's no wonder that she misses some things that are going on with her dad, things that are right in front of her eyes. Things that are suddenly so heartbreakingly, impossibly, inescapably real, that the rest of her world falls apart.

But when she finds a piece of music in her father's drawer, an original composition, not yet perfected.... she knows what she has to do. The only thing that will make her at peace with herself, the only thing that might make things better, in some strange, twisted way. Ronnie swore that she would never play the piano again.... but, ironically, sometimes the promises that are the very easiest to break are the ones that you make with yourself.

And so she played his song, her song, their song. The last song. And when the music flowed from her fingertips, Steve found what he was looking for all his life. The presence of God became clear to him, and all was well.

This book is so freaking awesome, if you don't read it, I'm going to kill you :D

Love,
Patty ♥☼♫♪