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Title: The Lucky One
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 336
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Genre: mainstream fiction
Yearly Count b: 95
I have never read a Nicholas Sparks book before, and this time I didn't really read it, I listened to the audiobook version of it. I love audiobooks right now, since I am in the middle of knitting up a storm for Christmas gifts. I liked it, it was really good and like many of his other books, I believe that it is movie worthy (The Notebook, Message in A Bottle, A Walk to Remember....I am sure there are more :)
The Lucky One is about destinies, and making your own. Logan, a soldier in the Iraq war has a sense that everything will be okay, that he is safe, because he holds a picture of "his lucky gal" however the strange part is that he has never met her. When his time is up will he go find her? Does he owe her for this protection her photo has provided for him?
Goodness, it was good. It could be weird based on that description I have right there, but it isn't mystical or strange, it all feels just really right and makes complete logical sense to me. Maybe it tugged on my heart strings, I know it did, and I let it because I wanted it to.
This was a romantic book, not chick lit, not romance, fiction and yet it was somehow more tidy than most. I need a book like this many times after reading the gore of a modern lit novel. I need bad to be bad and good to be good and there be separation between them. I really enjoyed this book on so many levels it is a sweet book of life in small town America. Many of us have, at least at some point, lived in that small town type place and will be able to relate easily to Sparks The Lucky One.
Author Website: Nicholas Sparks
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 336
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Genre: mainstream fiction
Yearly Count b: 95
I have never read a Nicholas Sparks book before, and this time I didn't really read it, I listened to the audiobook version of it. I love audiobooks right now, since I am in the middle of knitting up a storm for Christmas gifts. I liked it, it was really good and like many of his other books, I believe that it is movie worthy (The Notebook, Message in A Bottle, A Walk to Remember....I am sure there are more :)
The Lucky One is about destinies, and making your own. Logan, a soldier in the Iraq war has a sense that everything will be okay, that he is safe, because he holds a picture of "his lucky gal" however the strange part is that he has never met her. When his time is up will he go find her? Does he owe her for this protection her photo has provided for him?
Goodness, it was good. It could be weird based on that description I have right there, but it isn't mystical or strange, it all feels just really right and makes complete logical sense to me. Maybe it tugged on my heart strings, I know it did, and I let it because I wanted it to.
This was a romantic book, not chick lit, not romance, fiction and yet it was somehow more tidy than most. I need a book like this many times after reading the gore of a modern lit novel. I need bad to be bad and good to be good and there be separation between them. I really enjoyed this book on so many levels it is a sweet book of life in small town America. Many of us have, at least at some point, lived in that small town type place and will be able to relate easily to Sparks The Lucky One.
Author Website: Nicholas Sparks
