Now this was a good book. This book kept me wanting to read more. I'd have liked it much more if not for these things.

One, it was overall very very predictable. Two, the extremely dramatic and over-the-top ending left me feeling that Sparks was writing this book more from a Hollywood point of view than that of reality. Three, the characters are just too cliched. The beautiful single Mom. The handsome, chivalrous ex-solider. The feisty grandmother. The villainous ex. The precocious young child. They're just too perfect in their own ways to be real. ( )

Romance

Marine finds picture while serving in Iraq. He finds he is destined to find her.

I didn't read this. Got the book in a lot with other things. The book has some stains on the page edges like something was spilled on it. Not my kind of book so I'm not even rating it.

Okay, I did it. I read a Nicholas Sparks book. I am not the target audience. So don't ask me to do it again. ( )