Nicholas Sparks, an American author, wrote "Nights in Rodanthe". This is a love story that tells about the relationship between man and woman. It shows how love can surmount the obstacles that keep these two loving humans apart. .
Paul Flanner, a surgeon, and Adrienne Willis, a part-time librarian, meet at the Inn in Rodanthe, North Carolina. Meeting each other was only destined by fate. They fall in love and end up splitting to their original ways only to regret leaving each other. .
The sacrifice they take to part their ways makes each other realize how much they love each other. Paul and Adrienne keep in contact by letters while Paul is in Ecuador. The distance between the two grows as each one is excited to see each other when Paul returns from his mission trip. The day Adrienne received the letter from Paul's son was the most devesating day of her life. She learned how Paul died in a horrific mud slide. .
The regret she builds up for letting Paul travel to Ecuador to see her son is only for the good. She wanted him to go, but she lost the man who made her the happiest. She teaches her own daughter, who lost her husband to cancer, to move on with her life. Remembering the past is hard when you share wonderful memories, but one needs to live each day to the future and not ponder the past with regret.
I have enjoyed this author up until now. His books seem to be all sappy love stories that have bad endings, besides "A Walk to Remember". The theme in this story was a little difficult, but it drew out a lesson to teach the reader about moving on after death. I don't think I would recommend this book to others, because it was a disappointment to me.
