Dear John (Mass Market Edition) Book Review

Book: Dear John (Mass Market Edition)
Author: Nicholas Sparks 
Pages: 360 Mass Market Edition (237 hardback) 
Publisher: Warner Books 
Publish Date: October 30th 2006
Start Reading Date: April 16th 2018
End Reading Date: April 22nd 2018
Good reads Rating: 3




Another Nicholas Sparks book. I know I know. I think this is the 4th one I’ve finished this year so far.  


Dear John is about John and Savannah who meet one day in North Carolina while John is on leave from the army. They have an intense relationship both together and apart and soon enough Savannah writes a Dear John letter.  

If you have no idea what a ‘Dear John’ letter is (it’s an actual thing that happens in real life not just in this book) it’s where a woman writes a letter to her boyfriend who is in the military and breaks up with them. 

With this book I wasn’t to sure about it. This is the first book that I’ve read where I can see the actors who played the characters.  

I’ve not seen the movie for The Last Song, and have for Safe Haven and The Lucky One and in those movies when I’ve read the book I couldn’t see the actors while reading the book.  

But with Dear John I could see Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried in the book. Which I don’t like, and it’s nothing because of them being on the front. 


The Topics
With any Nicholas Sparks book you’ll always have two things. A love story and it being set in North Carolina and Dear John is no different.  

I like how there is other topics within the book such as Autism, friendships and the military. 


Overall
Overall I was super disappointed with the book. I felt that it lacked something. What I don’t know. But it lacked it. I am not normally someone who likes mass market books. 

I felt as if the romance of the book was forced I don’t doubt that they loved each other even though Savannah did break John’s heart.  

I think the characters were way to different to make it a believable love story.  

I don’t hate the book. There are some great factors about it. Such as the compassion the two main characters have. But I think it just didn’t work out great. The summer they met the love was great between them. But afterwards I don’t think it works well. They are completely different people.  

By the end of the book after John’s dad died I liked John a lot more. But through out the book I didn’t like Savannah at all. 

I read the book in less then a week. Which is really quick. For me any way. It’s such a quick, fast moving book I mean it Starts with him in talking about highs school and joining the army, being in the army over the years, 9/11. I think roughly it starts in 1996 and ends in 2006. So it’s over the cause of 10 years. 


Lauren
xoxo