3 out of 5 stars
Once again i read a Nicholas Sparks book. It was A Walk To Remember. My reason for reading this book is because i saw the movie and loved it as a teen. I also remember tons of girls in high school who loved the book, so i figured it wa time for me to read it.
The book is about a boy named Landon who lives in a small town in North Carolina in the year 1958. It's his senior year of high school and his dad persuades him to run for student body president. Because he won the race, it meant he had to help and go to the homecoming dance. He waited to long on finding a date so all the pretty girls were picked. So he had to pick one of the unattractive and unpopular girls. He chose to take Jamie to homecoming.
Jamie is the preacher's daughter and, in Landon's opinion, weird. She wears clothes that are unflattering on her, she's ALWAYS cheerful, she finds the good in others, and she carries a bible around school. It annoys him that she is such a good person and volunteers at the orphanage and it bugs him that every adult in the community LOVES Jamie.
After taking Jamie to homecoming, he than tries to avoid her. One after noon she called him and ask him to try out for a lead in the Christmas play. It took a lot to persuade Landon to do this, but he finally said he would.
He ended up falling in love with Jamie and than some tragic news come up. the rest of the book is talking about how Landon and Jamie deal with this news.
It was a good book, but not my favorite out of the three book's of his that i've reviewed in the last wweek or so. I was actually kind of disappointed in this story! It didn't caught my attention because the kids were in a very different stage of life than i am. It's hard to be married with kids and read a book about high school students falling in love. If i would have read this while in high school, it would have been at the top of my favorite book list, but i really didn't the book since I had a hard time relating to the characters.
Also, the first couple of chapters of the book drove me crazy because of a single phrase . . . "If you know what i mean." on one of the pages it was said THREE times!! I wanted to yell at him and say "YES I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!!! NOW SHUT UP AND GET ON WITH THE STORY!!" I got to a point where i decided that if the narrator said that phrase two more times i would be done with the book . . . he said it one more time after that, thank goodness that was it!! so i guess the book started off bad for me.
It was a great story, but not one I would place at the top of my list or would desire to read again any time soon.
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