Ομορφο και συγκινητικό βιβλίο. Λίγο περισσότερο μελό από ότι θα ήθελα και με ένα θεμα που δεν ξέρω ποσό μπορεί να αφεθεί κάποιος να το ακολουθήσει καθώς είναι αρκετά βαρύ αλλά πολύ ανθρώπινο . Κάποια στοιχεία μου άρεσαν πολύ και μου προκάλεσε έντονα συναισθήματα αλλά και κάποια στοιχεία θα τα ήθελα περισσότερο δουλεμένα και μελετημένα . Μενει περισσότερο στο συναισθηματικό σύμπαν από ότι χρειάζεται και σε πολλά σημεία αυτό λειτουργεί αρκετά Καλα αλλά έχει και κομματια που είναι κακό . Θα ήθελα περισσότερο δουλεμένο τον αντρικό βασικό χαρακτήρα …. Τον βρήκα λίγο λιγότερο τρισδιάστατο από ότι του αξίζει . Τα αλλά στοιχεία μου άρεσαν . Και για κάποιον που θέλει μια δακρύβρεχτη ιστορία αγάπης με κάποιες καλές σκέψεις (στο σύμπαν του μπαμπά κύριως, του γιου δευτερευόντως και της πρωταγωνίστριας σε Τρίτη μοίρα …. ) είναι μια αποπειρα που θα πάρεις αυτό που περιμένεις . Ίσως και λίγο παραπάνω .

This was as good as I remember. It’s the first Nicholas Sparks book I read a long time ago and it was great to read it again!

haha, haven't been reading a bunch of Nicholas Sparks's books lately...
I have no idea how the movie is, but it must be far beyond the level of this book. But the ending is SOOOO damn sad. Seriously.
And because of that thing called my short-term memory span, I can't remember their names, so I'll just phrase it with pronouns. :D
So she finds a message in a bottle (thus the name) and falls in love with the way the man (OMG, I REMEMBERED HIS NAME, just now :P) writes and expresses his most definete true-to-heart feelings. Her friend is positive that giving it publicity would help her find the guy (since she's a newspaper publisher or whatever). And it does. She is able to find 2 more and has a clue about where the guy is and takes a trip there just to see what he's like. She meets him quite randomly at the docks and they fall in love. Through obstacles I have no mood to explain, they get so close to making a decision about their future, but Garret (the guy) ruins it by hanging too close to his past. And in the end, a life was lost and a life changed forever. :] How adorable, huh? X]

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I love about all of Nicholas Sparks' books! Not my favorite of his, but still a worthy read!

Wow. Perfection. Heartbreaking. Such a good storyline and the end was unpredictable in the best way. Might be my favorite Nicholas sparks I’ve read. It’s one of those books you finish and you don’t know what to do with yourself

the best book by Nickolas Sparks .
love the story , the characters and everything in between .
it made me cry , laugh and think .

Most of my friends around these parts are probably wondering what the hell is wrong with me. I don't normally read such... Squishy books. I read a couple Sparks back when I was a heart sick teenager, cried my eyes out, and then moved on. Well, at some point, long long ago (inagalaxyfarfaraway), I apparently bought this book. I then proceeded to place it on my book shelf, where it remained until earlier this week. I had just finished another book, and I knew the perfect book to start next. I grabbed my next book, sat down with it… And stalled. I just wasn’t feeling it. In fact, I wasn’t feeling anything that I had previously planned to read for the next few months (I’m a planner). I needed something completely different, completely random.. And that’s when I noticed this book, alone and neglected, tucked into a corner of my “not as cool as the other books” book shelf. The pages were yellow from neglect… It needed some love. So I gave it the reading it always desired, the reading it yearned for. I read it good...

Ok, that got a little weird. For real though. This was just what I needed… It’s not a five star or even a four star, but it’s a solid three. It’s not my favorite Sparks, actually it’s my least favorite of the now four I’ve now read. I have gripes, but it fulfilled my need to change it up a little, and that’s all I asked from it.

This isn’t really a spoiler, but I’m going to mark it just in case, just to protect those who are more picky about spoilers. So Garrett? My main gripe with this book is that he was totally.. I don’t know. I realize he had lost his wife and was learning to love again and all of that.. But he was soooo clingy, it made me feel anxious just to read it. This will get a little more specific, but still not really a spoiler.. Even his memories of conversations with Catherine were creepy. Not that he was remembering her, it would be weird if he wasn’t, just the clinginess he displayed even in his own reminiscence. Don’t leave me, I’ll miss you, waaaaah…. It wasn’t a big deal, because I wasn’t looking to hit that anyway, but it did kind of hamper my ability to lose myself in the story.. A moment would start to get romantic and then he would go all cling on Theresa and it made me feel anxious and set of my *FLEE* instinct.

Other than that, this is DEFINITELY a spoiler… The ending? Sad. I didn’t expect it, though I should have. It’s been so long since I read Sparks, I forgot that it’s not usually a happy ending, all the ones I’ve read have been bittersweet. I can’t say it was a tear jerker for me, mostly because of the stuff I mentioned in the other spoiler.. But it definitely did make me whimper a little. Just a tiny one… Don’t judge me.

That’s about it. I think I’ll read a couple more Sparks to continue to cleanse my palate. Yep, just cleansing the old palate… I don’t like it at all, just gotta be done... Nothing to see here, move along now.

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I think it was the book by Sparks that I liked the least so far, so much suffering and grief are not my cup of tea.
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Creo que ha sido el libro de Sparks que menos me ha gustado hasta el momento, tanto sufrimiento y pena no son santos de mi devoción.

⭐ 2/5 ⭐
Y no le doy menos, no sé por qué.

Un libro super cliché donde Theresa encuentra un mensaje en una botella en la playa y se obsesiona con conocer al hombre que escribe esas cosas tan bonitas. Obviamente le encuentra y se enamoran.

El conflicto al que se van a ver expuestos está muy claro, pero no era problema para mí. Los personajes no he conectado con ninguno ni me caían súper bien, pero era tolerable todo. Aunque él me parece un dependiente emocional de manual (aunque qué espero de un libro de 1998) y ella, en la última parte del libro, toma una decisión que me parece muy valiente y algo con lo que comulgo desde siempre.

PERO ESE FINAL???? Innecesariamente triste, desesperanzador e injusto para la historia de los protagonistas. El aprendizaje sería exactamente igual con un final menos dramático. Vamos, totalmente injustificado.

En resumen: no lean a Sparks, solo quiere haceros sufrir sin ninguna razón.

Tissues highly recommended.