"The Last Song" written by: Nicholas Sparks

A novel that I enjoyed a lot and recently finished is called “The Last Song” written by: Nicholas Sparks. This book is about an 18 year old girl, called Ronnie, and she lived in New York with her younger brother Jonah and her mom, since her parents were divorced. Their dad lived in Wilmington, North Carolina and for the summer their mom decided, that it would be good if Ronnie and Jonah spent time with him. Ronnie hated her father ever since they got divorced, because he cheated on her mom. Jonah in the other hand was thrilled for spending the summer with him. Ronnie’s father (Steve) used to be a piano teacher in Julliard University and Ronnie had a special talent in piano since she was 3 years old, but left it when her father moved.

Near Steve’s house, a church burnt down months ago, and was getting fixed and Steve was making a window which Jonah helped with. Instead Ronnie was taking care of some sea turtles eggs that were in her dad’s backyard. The summer time Ronnie and her father shared, made them open up and forgive their mistakes and become really trustful good friends. Ronnie met a boy her age called Will and both spent the whole summer together and fell in love with each other.  The day the sea turtle eggs hatched, Steve was taken to the hospital, and realized he had lung cancer and was spreading around his body and was too late to remove. When summer was over, Ronnie decided to stay with her father until the end, and forgive him once again for his acts, and catch up for all the years they missed together. The time Ronnie spent in the hospital with him was for him to open her eyes into the piano once again and accept the Julliard Scholarship she had received.

I enjoyed immensely this novel because it had a lot of details, and I could picture what was happening easily. The main message of the story was the relationship Ronnie shared with her father because both of them had to learn how to forgive and to leave the pain in the past. Steve opened many times Ronnie’s eyes to the future ahead of her, which helped her with collage and her love towards Will. This novel was made into a movie not long after the book was published and I have to say that the book was way better because it had more of a complete story and many things weren’t mentioned in the movie, besides of the different endings. I would greatly recommend this book to, mainly teenage girls, or women that like romantic, tragic, and sad but leaving a teaching message that will remain inside of you, since that’s the way it was for me.