Hey everyone! Thanks for coming back to read my monthly review. Like I told you last time, I decided not to write about The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time. I want to write about The Last Song by: Nicholas Sparks. Just so you guys know, right now I am extremely tired and got home an hour ago and just finished dinner, so please excuse me if I made mistakes. I will go over this again when I am less tired and make the corrections, so for now, just bare with me. So lets begin my review.
For what audience(s) is this book intended, and how can you tell? (In other words, for whom would you recommend this book?)
I feel this book is more for teen girls because it has teen drama and romance in it which most guys I know don't want to read. There were parts in the book where I cried, but I can't tell you why because it would spoil it for people who have not read the book yet. The drama included people getting arrested, arson, love triangles, and the usual. Use your imagination if you don't want to read it, but it is a really good book. I recommend it to all teen girls. I mean, we all need a few tears now and then. I read so many books that made me cry and that tells me the author did a really good job writing the book because I was able to visualize it in my mind and it felt like I was watching a movie. I would cry because most of the time it was because the book was about teens who have been diagnosed with cancer or other diseases and died. Even though they all were similar, they were still different in their own way because they each had their own story to tell. So anyway, the guys might like the book, but I doubt it. They usually read about action or nonfiction, so I will just stick with the girls.
How would you describe the author's style of writing? What's your opinion of the style?
I like the author's style of writing in this book because in the beginning, he started out near the end of the storyline, and had the main character reflect on her events during summer that changed her life. Then he went back the the very first day of summer and from there, he alternated between characters. So it would be Ronnie (Short for Veronica and the main character), then it would sometimes be Steve (Ronnie's dad), other times Will (a guy that I'm not going to talk about), and once in a while Marcus (a strange and freakish teen). He alternates between the characters so we will get a feel of what each character is feeling. And as you continue reading the book, you learn about things that happened in the past or you see one event in different perspectives. It's like one moment your reading about how the church accidentally burned down, and later on in the book, you learn from a different perspective about how the church burned down by one of the characters (again I would love to tell you guys everything, but then you wouldn't want to read the rest). I personally like this style because it makes you feel that more than one author wrote this. And also when you read the book, you can tell how differently they all think. One moment your reading about girl stuff, and the next it's about cars or something.
Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.
The character that was the most interesting to me would probably be Steve, Ronnie's dad, because no matter what situation he was in, he was always calm and he listened to his kids. He didn't judge them, he always believed them. He always does what's best for his kids. He let them do whatever they want because he knew they were good kids. They were responsible and smart enough to make the right choices. Even when Ronnie was arrested for something she didn't do, he stayed calm and listened to them. He's not the type of person who interrupts their children and grounds them without hearing their side of the story first. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer which spread to his pancreas and lungs. To keep his mind off of the pain, he decided to play the piano. He loves the piano almost as much as he loved his children. He used to teach at Juilliard in New York, and he was Ronnie's first piano teacher. She used to love the piano as much as he did, but when he 'left' his family, Ronnie's swore she would never play the piano again and that she hate it. So anyway, the proof that he loves them is that he was willing to give up playing the piano for her happiness even though it was his only source he had for avoiding the pain in his stomach.
I'm sorry if this is a really bad review. I warned you guys like a month ago that I am horrible at these kind of things. Plus the fact that I'm exhausted. If you guys are lucky, then I might come back and fix it, but for now it would have to do so I don't get a zero. So anyway, that's all I have for today folks. Come back in two weeks because this coming week is STAR Testing, so that means no blog. So in two weeks, I think it would be time to do The Journal Of Chloe Saunders (Part 5), but I'm not sure. It depends on if I'm at my dad's house, or my mom's. Oh well. We'll just deal with it when the time comes, so for now, wish me luck for my testing and see you in two weeks. Until then, see ya!
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