Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

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Summary: I Don't Know About These Other Reviewers, But...
Review: I'm pretty hard-nosed and I cried like a baby. I listened to the audiobook as opposed to reading it, so maybe there's a difference. I'd never do it again, it was a heart-wrenching story and so emotional that I'd never put myself through it twice.

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Summary: A beautiful story! Wonderful read from start to finish!
Review: If you have a sentimental side at all, you have to read this book!! Through Patterson's words, the book draws you quickly into the lives and heart-felt emotions of the characters. It tugs at your heart from beginning to end at it leads the reader through sorrow, joy, discovery, and some of the most important lessons life has to offer. If you are easily brought to tears, you may want to invest in a box of Kleenex. You won't be disappointed!

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Summary: Way to perfect
Review: I got very sick of the perfect family of Suzanne and Nicholas, no one loves their life that much. It was a cute love story but everything worked out a little to well. There wasn't enough twist and turns for my taste. Also it is hard enough to find one soul mate let alone two soul mates in a life time .

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Summary: Surprisingly Deep
Review: an understated tear jerker which will break your heart... nothing is as it seems to be... man/wife/lover/child relationships told in an unfolding mystery with a satisfying denouement
7/10

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Summary: Romantic, fun-loving new genre!
Review: This is definitely a successful change! James Patterson, renowned author of suspense novels such as Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider, When The Wind Blows and his newest 1st to Die surprised his readers when he came out with a fun-loving, romantic page turner called Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. This wonderful novel pulls the reader into a story about a woman named Suzanne, a doctor who at 35 has a heart attack and decides she needs to slow down and take her demanding career somewhere else. Suzanne moves to Martha's Vineyard and opens up her own practice when one day fate brings her to meet a sweet, caring housepainter and aspiring poet named Matt. The two of them fall blissfully in love and eventually decide to have a child together they name Nicholas. Throughout Nicholas' short life, Suzanne keeps a diary for her child to read when he is older. Their life is perfect until a horrible car accident leaves Matt all alone. Then, the author introduces another woman named Katie Wilkinson, an editor in Manhattan, who is dating a great guy named Matt. Katie thinks Matt is her true love, but she is inexplicably left all alone feeling so naïve, so lost and suddenly pregnant. A few days later, a diary mysteriously shows up on her doorstep and Katie reads it. She finds out Matt had been able to love before her, but that love ended all to quickly. As the story all comes together, it is apparent that this book is overflowing with sentiment and simple truths about finding love and the reality and pain of a loss. James Patterson reveals the theme through a clever plot. This book will definitely satisfy the reader's curiosity by catching the interest and the hearts of all who read this bittersweet novel.

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Summary: Best Book Ever!
Review: Talk about a good book! Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson was exceptional. Katie Wilkinson is heart broken and suprised when a year into their relationship her new love, Matt, disappears; but it gets worse when she reads the diary he left with her. She tries hard not to destroy the diary from Matt, but she overcomes her anger and starts to read. As Suzanne's heart melts at the stories that are told, it kept her at the edge of her seat. When you read this awesom book you will never want to put it down. When you read the diary entries in the book your heart will melt too. Matt's first wife, Suzanne, wrote the diary to their son Nicholas. Suzanne has a heart attack at 35 years old. So she decided to slow down. She moved to Martha's Vineyard and found a job as a town doctor. When she needed something fixed on her house she got a name form a neighbor, Matt Harrison. He knocked on her door one day and she fell in love with him at first sight. As the truth is revealed in the diary, I learned so much. Though Katie is in pain from reading the diary, she begins to know and like Suzanne and her infant son Nicholas. This book teaches you so many lessons. You learn how to love and how to forget most importantly how to balance your life. The way James Patterson wrote this book makes you not want to put the book down. It's so easy to flow though, a great addition to anyone's library.

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Summary: A Romantic Lesson in Life
Review: What a great read this was! Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, by James Patterson, keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the whole thing. When I first starting reading this, I wasn't too sure that I would enjoy it. After a while, I couldn't put it down! Patterson makes the characters live through you, as you journey along with Katie and Matt, to find their true love at last. This book should seem familiar...guy's wife and son dies, guy moves on to someone else, guy breaks up with new girl, then ends up going back to her. That's how some people may portray this book. It is like that, in some sense, but so much deeper. Matt is a wonderful man, always caring, thoughtful, and trying to respect others...almost the perfect guy. He was to Katie, until they broke up. When Matt sends her the diary of his deceased wife, she understands the life that he lived, and how much he had loved and lost two very important people. It is hard not to get involved in this book, because of how much it relates to a lot of people in real life. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas gives out so many lessons...how to love, how to forgive and forget, and most importantly, the lesson of the five balls. The lesson describes how your life should be balanced, and what the most important things are. It cannot explain life any better. The love that the characters share in this book is so strong, that it will make the reader think twice about how they live their life.

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Summary: A DIARY FOR THE ROMANTIC & CARING TYPE
Review: Even though other readers have downed this book I truly loved it. It might seem sappy or corny, but true love can be that. It's hard for an author to write a diary from three different points of view, yet James Patterson does a wonderful job of including emotions, details, and everything you would need to know about the characters to make you feel right there with them. Some parts want to make you cry and others parts you are overwhelmed with joy for the happiness of one of the characters.

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Summary: Love and Romance for the Supermarket Checkout
Review: This is an unabashedly horrible, horrible piece of creative expression that should have been ritually burned or thrown out to sea once it had been written. Trees should never have been cut down to provide the paper for this awful abortion of a narrative. Think how better the man- and womanhours that were spent publishing this book could have been spent--even aimless wandering behind just-off-the-interstate gas stations can tell you more about the human condition than this hardback excrement; read the litter strewn behind such a gas station--it will have more depth of soul, purpose, and humility. If there is a hell, this is the book they give you in the waiting room.

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Summary: Great read!
Review: I loved this book! I read a lot of books, very often serious books, but I like to read a romantic book once in while too and this certainly is! To be honest when I was reading some of the reviews I got the idea that it is not cool to admit you enjoyed a romantic tearjerker, but why not?! I read this book on a rainy Sunday and it was great. The way in which it is written feels as if you are really reading a woman's diary (hard to imagine it was written by a man). It was all so sensitive. I cried my eyes out and I still think about it a lot. My advice: buy it and plan a sunday afternoon off to read this wonderful book.