The Rescue

Rating:
Summary: Family Read
Review: Having a firefighter in the family, this really hits close to home. I thought it dealt with some true to life issues that come with that job, and the lasting effects of tramautic events. It ended on a hopeful note.

Rating:
Summary: Real life characters
Review: This is the second novel by Nicholas Sparks that I've read and I truly enjoyed it. I found the characters to be very real and the struggles that both main characters go through to be heart wrenching at times. The foreshadowing was a bit predictible and easily to spot, but overall I enjoyed how real the setting and the characters were.

As someone else pointed out, Taylor's "fear of commitment" was a bit much. He seemed so mentally unstable that I found it hard to believe at times he was able to function as a human being. Although, I do make it sound worse than it really was. By the end I was sort of glad Denise had reacted the way she did, albeit a bit late.

I did shed a tear or two by the end of the book, so I think Sparks did what he set out to do. As much as I enjoyed this book, "A Bend in the Road" is still my favorite thus far.