Wednesday, April 18, 2018

The Lucky One Book Review

Book: The Lucky One
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 326 (hardback)
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing 
Publish Date: August 11th 2009
Start Reading Date: March 30th 2018
End Reading Date: April 16th 2018
Good reads Rating: 5* 

Nicholas Sparks is the king of romance novels. And the author of one of my favourite books ever Safe Haven. And I swear more of his books have been made into movies then any other author. 

I got The Lucky One for my birthday. Goodwill book store was having a 50% off sale. $4 down to $2. How could I complain. I also picked up the other Nicholas Sparks books.  

The Lucky One is about Logan, a marine. On one of his trips a fellow Marine dies and Logan finds a picture in the rubble and afterwards becomes lucky. Everyone around him says that the photo is lucky because of his luck after finding it. When he leaves the marines he walks from Colorado to North Carolina to find the woman in the photo who he only knows as E.   


I loved this book. It’s right up there with Safe Haven.  

I wasn’t to sure if I would because I’ve seen the movie before reading the book (I love the movie because I love Zac Efron) so when I read it I fell in love.  


If a book has been made into the movie I want to be able to not see those actors in the movie when I am reading the book and in this book I didn’t. Its as if the movie was never made. 

Even though I am not a fan of multiple people narrating a book it kind of worked having three with this book. One of those three Clayton didn’t have many chapters of his own that he narrated but it still works when he does.  

I also liked that most of the book is longer chapters.  

When Beth (Elizabeth) was talking about her brother on his birthday you could tell that she loved him. That whole chapter broke my heart. You could tell Beth wasn’t over the death of her brother.  

Now I’m not the fastest reader in the world. It’s taken me a while to actually finish the book. But that’s because I’m not a fast reader but it actually made me cry in a few places that I had to put it down. 

The last chapters of the book where they are rescuing Ben really broke my heart because I didn’t want anyone to die. But I knew someone had to.  

I love it when I can connect with characters in a book rather then in a movie (sorry I still like the movie) and with The Lucky One I connected with the characters a lot more then the movie. There was one scene in the movie though that wasn’t in the book. Where Beth is showing Logan where Drake had placed her book. While it was a good part in the movie I liked it more with out it in the book. 

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