Nights in Rodanthe A2

Name: Maria Gomez
Class: A2
Book: Nights in Rodanthe
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 212
Rating: ***

Recommendations: This book is about a strong relationship drama, and is also fun to read. It is also full of love and sacrifice. I recommend this book for those who love drama and who are truly in love. It is a very romantic story.
Summary: This is the story of a sixty- year-old women whose name is Adrienne Willis. She decides to tell her daughter the story about how she rebounded from losing her spouse. Fifteen years ago, Adrienne’s husband and father of their three children left her for a younger women and she felt her world had ended. Adrienne is trying to help Amy, her daughter, handle with the death of her husband. Amy’s mom starts telling her the story by saying that her story began at an inn in Rodanthe, North Carolina where she met Paul Flanner. Paul was a surgeon with no time for his wife and son because work was everything for him. His world buckled when a patient died. When Adrienne gets to Rodanthe, searching for tranquility, she meets Paul and in one weekend, a romance sets that will vibrate throughout the rest of their lives. Paul and Adrienne found comfort with each other.
Explanation of Rating: This was an interesting story for me, but I think it was a little too dramatic. I would have preferred that Adrienne’s husband wouldn’t have left her. It would have been a more romantic story. Other than that, I really enjoyed reading this book because it was also interesting how Adrienne was helping her daughter handle the death of her spouse. It was okay in the way that she met Paul and started a romance, but I think that the story shouldn’t have ended like that. I think it would have been a better ending if Adrienne’s husband wouldn’t have left her so that at the end both would have helped Amy with her problem.
Favorite passage: “It was funny that you could know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.”
I love this passage because it concludes that you can never finish knowing someone perfectly. Its saying that whenever you feel like you know someone perfectly just because you’ve known that person for a long time, out of no one comes something new that you’ve never noticed before. That’s when you see that you can never get to know someone perfectly enough to know exactly how they are.