Book Blogger Hop #345

 

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This week's question is: Have you ever read a Nicholas Sparks romance novel? If so, what is your opinion on his endings? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

MY ANSWER: Okay, prepared to be shocked and amazed! Yes, I have read 1 and only 1 Nicholas Sparks' novel! It was in my early days of reading when finding paranormal books was like finding a needle in a haystack.

The book I read? A Walk to Remember. Why? How? How did I come upon this novel? Well, I was at the movies--another ancient pastime, what movie it was I can't remember, clearly not anything at all related to what previews were playing! Lol. I saw a preview for Mandy Moore's A Walk to Remember! I can't remember if this was her acting debut or just one of her early movies, but I liked her music and the previews looked...cute? I guess this was back in my youthful phase of being ever so hopeful and not nearly as cynical or suspicious of the world. Lol. 

But anyway, the previews were basically showing how the bad boy falls for the preacher's daughter and I thought it just looked cute! Then I saw those words: BASED ON THE NOVEL...and I remember needing to go to Borders asap!

I want to say, that I ended up going to a Borders in Chicago when we were doing a celebratory birthday trip for my older sister and I found a copy of the book with THE ORIGINAL COVER! As even at that age, I wasn't real big on "movie" book covers. Unless it was a media tie in book, i.e. the movie/TV show came first, then it's expected! But anyway, I bought the book, read it and was like oh. That was...insert word choice.

Now does he do this all the time? I don't know. I read one book and had no desire to go back as contemporary books were/are not my thing, but in the early days, I had to make some exceptions as there weren't any alternatives. I might have even put this one in my donate pile during the occasional purge.

If his endings always tend to be evicting those kinds of emotions, I can't say I'd be a fan to read that every time he wrote a book. So yeah. I mean based on this story, the ending was expected and in of itself, it was sweet and sad, but yeah.

 

 

Would've been cooler if Landon was a vampire and turns Jamie into one, effectively healing her and then they go on to be happy together forever...but that's just me!