The Last Song Book Review || Nicholas Sparks

Book: The Last Song

Author: Nicholas Sparks 

Pages: 405

Publisher:

Genre: Romance, 

Started: October 28th 2017

Finished: November 16th 2017

Goodreads: 2*

I've always had a thing about Miley Cyrus. I've never really liked her that much and so when I decided to read The Last Song I knew it would be difficult. And in some ways it was. I didn't like the flipping between characters in the book. I like the book to be simple and easy to read.  

I got over the fact that it's got Miley Cyrus on the cover, and got over half way through the book. And then bam. I am have trouble with it. I know Nicholas Sparks is well known for his romantic novels set in North Carolina but there was something about the book that isn't as good as the other books that I've read by him. 

There was so much going on within the book that made it an ok book but still didn't like the flip flopping between the characters in each chapter. 

I was expecting the chapters to be shorter because of all the different storylines going on within the book but I'm glad that it didn't. 

Did it need all the smaller storylines? In my opinion no, the storyline about Ronnie stealing I knew right away that it wasn't going to go anywhere because another storyline would pop up, which I don't like. If it's major enough to have in the story, then give it some bang. Ok so Blaze told the truth about what happened on the night of a tragedy happened, but that only because she had something bad happen to her (that was also kind of related to the first accident), and that she felt bad for Ronnie 

I looked through the discussion questionsat the back of the book and one question was about how much Ronnie changed throughout the book, yeah she changed but who wouldn't change. Isn't that the whole point of the book to see her change. 

Another is about why Will fell for Ronnie, and it's an obvious answer.  Because he wanted to be nothing  like his family. He wanted to be with someone who is so completely different then himself. I call it the rich-poor syndrome. Where one person in the relationship is rich while the other isn't and it's a bit of a pet peeve when reading books. 

The whole book could have been a lot better then it is. And that's why I gave it a 2* rating on Goodreads because it could be such a good book. Most of the storylines could and should have gone somewhere, the romances within the book should have gone further and not have even happened. 

Lauren

xoxo