In my experience, you either love or hate Nicholas Sparks. Even
if you hate him, it is a loving hate because he writes such powerful and
emotional love stories. In his book, The
Choice I have a loving hate for him this time around mainly because for the
first time while reading one of his books, I have someone in my life who I
think about when reading.
The Choice tells the story of Travis, a veterinarian in South
Carolina and Gabby, a physician’s assistant at a small practice in the same
town. The novel starts with the present
Travis reminiscing about how he met Gabby and fell in love. Only later when the novel comes back to the
present does the reader fully understand the meaning of love and what Travis
was thinking when he thought of the past.
The book kept me thinking the whole time. I found myself having to reread passages to
see if my hunches were correct. As
Sparks moved from the present to the past back to the present, he wove a story
about love that transcends time – at least for this couple. He wasn’t afraid to go after the nitty gritty
of relationships – the betrayals, the back talk, the negativity, the annoyance. All of those things are part of a healthy,
working relationship and marriage. No one said it would be easy; they just said
it would be worth it.
That is the lesson taken from this book. Love is hard work. You have to be a strong
person to be willing to take it on. But in the end, through all of the trials
and tribulations there is a beautiful light that shines over everything in its
path and that moment makes everything worth it.
Sparks stays true to what he knows best – love, compassion and romance. Some critics say that because all of his
books have those themes in them, they are not original and are dull after
reading 2 or 3. I say they are
wrong. Love, compassion and romance
might be apparent in all of his novels but with an infinite number of stories
to be told about love, compassion and romance his novels will be anything but
dull. As long as there is love in the world, Sparks will keep writing and
evoking those emotions by his readers.
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