Wow. What. A. Book. It was kind of life-changing. Well, figuratively speaking, that is. It's a simple story of a boy who unexpectedly falls in love with a girl who's diagnosed with leukemia. The protagonist, Landon Carter, tells us the story from his point of view and does the time travel thingy - you know, tells us of the past incidents. He is an average guy with no special qualities and he's known Jaime Sullivan - the daughter of the reverend - for a long time. But due to the normal 'cliques' tendency, he never talks to her and just considers her a weird girl who wears the same brown sweater everyday and keeps her bible with her always. Everything changes when he becomes the school president, takes her to a school dance and takes up drama and he gets to know her. He walks her back to her house and she asks him to do the lead role in the play. After the play, he wonders how he could fall for her, but by then, she was all he could think of. When he confesses that he loves her for the first time, she tells him that she has leukemia. His whole world seems to fall apart but she gives him hope and confesses that she loves him too. She says the only way she was able to hold up so long was because of him. He spends more time with her, but feels like there was more he could do. Then he realizes that he must fulfill her wish - to get married in a church full of people and for her father to walk her down the aisle. On the day of the wedding, the church was bustling with people and her father says that he can share the happiness his daughter gave to him with another person too. The story ends with Landon, who is 57 years old, ending the story by telling us that he still wears his wedding ring and saying the miracles do happen.
The whole story is a complete package of some humorous lines coupled with the confusion inside the narrator's mind. The change in the narrator can be sensed by the reader. Also, the background of the story - the school with cliques, peer-pressure, etc. - is also something we all can easily relate to. It leaves a great impact on the us and left me teary-eyed. I would give it 4 hearts. A lovely book all in all and recommended to all romance-lovers. :)
Love,
Dawn ^_^
Love,
Dawn ^_^
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