Ho letto l'edizione serbo-croata pubblicata da bestseller #1 politica. Il libro in sè, è più bello di quello precedente. Almeno a me è piaciuto, un pò di più. Parla del riscatto di una relazione che era vicina allo sfasciamento totale.

Gli do 3 stelle, perché l'ortografia fa schifo. Se lo volesse leggere uno studente straniero che ha voglia di imparare la mia lingua madre, si incasinerebbe totalmente...
Vergogna!

I've never read one of Nicholas Sparks' books because so many are out as a film, I tend to watch them instead. However, my friend read this book and she absolutely loved it, as did I. It was so romantic, with a massive twist (for the better), and almost made me cry at the end - and that doesn't happen to me very often!
I definitely want to read more of Nicholas Sparks' books, as I'm sure they'll all equally as amazing, and romantic.

4,8

3,5/5⭐

Most love stories happen before and end with marriage, and the story ends and they've supposedly lived happily ever after. This book, however, shows that even after the rocky path that follows marriage, there's still a loving ending.

The concept of the book is so beautiful, but the way it was presented was very difficult to get into at first. I also found that after reading many of his books, they start to become very similar, and predictable.

The story was incredibly heartfelt, nonetheless, and I was so touched.

Ik weet niet zo goed hoe ik het boek moet waarderen. Aan de ene kant vond ik het een prachtig verhaal, maar aan de andere kant begon ik het verhaal wel beu te worden naar het einde toe. Het verhaal ging eigenlijk alleen maar over de bruiloft, heel veel meer kwam er niet aan te pas. Desondanks vond ik de redenen, het verhaal, het realistische aspect wel mooi. Ik denk dat er heel wat meer huwelijken eveneens in een slop zitten, dus het is mooi dat dit verhaal toont dat zelfs al heb je een 30 jarig huwelijk, je altijd nog kan veranderen.
Jane is de dochter van Noah en Allie. Haar huwelijk is niet zoals ze zich het had voorgesteld, zeker als Wilson hun 29 jarige bruiloftsdag is vergeten. Jane is daar kapot van en verblijft even bij haar zoon.
Daarom wil Wilson iets speciaals organiseren voor hun 30 jarige bruiloftsdag.
Hij bereidt een romantisch etentje voor waarbij hij door middel van aanwijzigingen Jane naar het oude huis van Noah leidt. Daar danst Wilson ook met Jane, zoals Noah en Allie dat vroeger ook deden.
Wilson overtuigt zijn dochter Anna ervan om op de dag dat hij 30 jaar getrouwd is, te trouwen. Anna vertelt dit last minute aan Jane, die daarop in de stress schiet om toch nog alles te organiseren voor een mooie bruiloft. Wat ze eigenlijk niet weet, is dat ze haar eigen bruiloft aan het organiseren is. Het is niet Anne die in het huwelijk treedt, maar Jane en Wilson zelf. De eerste keer dat ze trouwden, was een simpele bruiloft en Jane heeft daar altijd spijt van gehad. Zij wou immers net dezelfde grote liefde vinden als haar ouders. Daarom wilde Wilson haar nu een bruiloft geven met alles erop en eraan.

Allie is in dit boek gestorven. Noah denkt echter dat Allies geest zich nu bevindt in een zwaan, die altijd bij het rusthuis zit. Op de bruiloft is dezelfde zwaan eveneens aanwezig. Ik vind het een zeer mooie gedachtegang dat Noah denkt dat Allie een manier heeft gevonden om na haar dood terug bij hem te zijn.

Wat een heerlijk boek! Je waant je weer helemaal in de wereld van The Notebook, Allie en Noah zijn op een fijne manier in het verhaal aanwezig. De romantiek is volop aanwezig, maar blijft realistisch. Ditzelfde geldt ook voor de personages die allemaal als mooie maar realistische mensen worden neergezet. Complimenten voor de verrassende twist! 4-4,5⭐️

Even though I only gave this book 4 stars, I really did love the story that Sparks created. I'm a fan of his work. It was a really sweet love story, and it gave me the warm & fuzzies after I read it!! With that said, it didn't draw me in immediately. In fact, it actually took me a long time to read this book. I love it when a book can be so completely engaging that I just can't wait to find out what happens next. It just took me awhile to get into the story, but once I was in it--- I was in it, and I couldn't put the book down. It was a story that I ended up sharing with my husband, and it provoked some interesting conversations between the two of us. Soooooooo--- if you can get past the first 100 pages or so, I would be surprised if you didn't end up liking the story. I would like to note that the first 100 pages aren't painful to read. It's all information that needs to be told for the whole story to come together at the end.

Genre: Romance
Rating: 5/5 stars

I just love the way Nicholas Sparks uses his writing talent and imagination to create such touching, emotional and romantic stories. I've read a few of his works and there is not a single one that I didn't like. "The wedding" encompassed everything I wanted and needed from a romantic novel. I liked the characters, the way the story developed over time, and the end was a shock to me. I did not expect it at all, and that's the main reason why it turned out to be so beautiful.

I most definitely recommend reading this book to someone in search of love and hope in their life.

Pokušaj da se nastavi roman "Bilježnica".
Kažem pokušaj jer je pomalo mlako. Simpatično, ali ništa posebno.

U ovakvim slučajevima poželim pola zvijezdice jer bi to onda bilo 3,5.

A friend of the family loaned me two Nicholas Sparks books. The friend is very nice. However, reading Nicholas Sparks, to quote Tommy Smothers, makes me realize why some animals eat their young.

Okay so nobody died. Yay! Still, it was boring.It was basically this guy who was making calls the whole year to get things in order. I was waiting for a conflict but there was none whatsoever. That's a lot coming from someone who doesn't like conflict very much. It also got predictable halfway through the book. As in I knew, somehow, who the wedding was for. I think it was because she said her daughter would regret it if she didn't have a "proper wedding" ... but that's just me.

The book was well written as in it was easy to read so it was okay. My major issue is in the story. I see why most women would love this book (that may sound stereotypical but, hey ...). I mean, who wouldn't want to feel like a queen and have her husband court her again ... and over and over again? I'd love that too but I feel for a guy who is faithful to his wife and did his best to provide for his family but, apparently, is still "majorly" flawed because ... I dunno, he couldn't say "I love you" all the time because it wasn't in his nature. It seems a bit petty. If, for example, he brought her perfume for their anniversary, one that he let his secretary pick, would he have known that she felt that way? Would she have cried? Would she go to NY to be away on her own? Also, I'm not an expert on being a parent and in marital affairs but would a mother go to her kids about marital issues? Would a mother burden her children about it? Hey why don't I make my son the shock absorber, never mind that he'll surely pick my side and hate his father afterwards. Again, I'm no expert but I think I'd go to my friends. Or my siblings, even.

There's another side to this so why lay blame? Maybe she was too busy tending to the kids too that when they left, she, herself, didn't know what to do with the two of them being alone. She did bury and busy herself in redecorating the house after their kids left, right? And they didn't say in the book that she asked him to go away on vacation or anything. Men can be dense.

Don't get me wrong. I loved that they made the marriage work in the end. Or I should say HE did something to make it work in the end. But people say a relationship is always a two-way street ...