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The second part of the book leaves you a little nervous because you are so attached to them. Several times I caught myself just sitting there grinning.
I loved this book. I picked up The Choice Saturday morning and by Saturday afternoon I had read the entire book.
The story of Travis and Gabby was both heart warming and funny. The characters were great.
Travis and Gabby were great together and interesting on their own. I love books that can make you feel such emotions.
Great Read.I would recommend this book to anyone.
The first centered on the free-wheeling, risk-taking Travis Parker and his new neighbor, Gabby--a girl who prefers life to be more predictable and safe. I've read just about all of Nicholas Sparks's books. It helped pass the time on a long overseas flight and, in some places, helped me sleep while on the plane.Sparks has the ability to weave an interesting story, develop characters real enough that you feel you know them, and sprinkle in liberal doses of realistic dialogue and dashes of humor. It actually is more like two novels in one. Overall, we both enjoyed the book. A love story always contains elements that anyone who has ever been in love can identify with.
So far, the story rings true and exciting.The other story is split between an introduction that portends an as yet undefined problem and a leap 10 years into the future to discover what the problem was and how it was resolved.The end result is a novel that's a mixed bag. And this one is GOOD--it's just not his best.My wife and I shared this book while on vacation. As the love story develops, each morphs to become a little more like the other--Travis becomes willing to settle down, and Gabby engages in adventures she would have never considered if she hadn't met Travis. Every once in a while, my wife would comment "Does this remind you of anyone." This is the best compliment I could give the novel--that lovers see themselves in parts of the story. We both identified with Travis and Gabby--two "opposites" who nevertheless are attracted to each other.The difficulty I had with the novel was in its structuring. The story comes off as somewhat contrived and disjointed.
But it was a little like listening to a beautiful concert--sandwiched between the discords of an orchestra tuning their instruments.
I really enjoyed "The Choice". If I had to select a favorite character it would be Stephanie. It started off slow but then became suspenseful. I loved the ending. I would like to see a sequel.Brenda D. Willis
He has a circle of friends that have been together seemingly since elementary school. They get married, have a couple of kids and find the ideal balance as partners and friends together.Then, a terrible choice is presented to them. So, while he has grown up his whole life in the same small North Carolina town he's arranged to travel to different interesting places all over the world. Travis is a very steady guy with an adventurous streak. What happens when a couple finds true love in each other but then is faced with a terrible choice. When I closed the book after finishing it, I thought it was a well-written story. Most of the book is focused on the description of how these people found themselves loving each other. She is pretty much of a lone, but has been dating the same guy for a few years and is waiting for him to propose to her so she can settle down into married life.Gabby becomes Travis's neighbor and over the course of one weekend they meet each other and fall in love.
I will say that this choice is of such a great and terrible nature, that we all know that no matter which way they go, the risks and effects will change their lives forever.The choice is made, and very quickly thereafter the results of that choice become clear. While her parents wanted her to follow a specific route in Savannah, GA, she decided to go to school and become a Physician's Assistant and moved away from Savannah to be purposely removed from her family circle. A choice that has immense implications to their futures.This is a romantic story that explores this situation. I will not go into the details of what it is and how it comes about as that would give too much of the plot away. He has a steady job and is content with his life - except that his friends have moved into the "married with kids" stage and he is still dating girls on occasion, but not finding the right one.Gabby is the rebel. This move represented her first adventure of any kind. Again, it would not be fair for me to describe more of what happened, but I will say that the various threads in the book are tied up and closed in a way that I found satisfying. It had that feeling of authenticity to it, and I could certainly feel for the two subjects and care about what happens to them.
This is my first book from this author (who I primarily know from the success of A Walk to Remember and The Notebook) and one that I picked up randomly off the shelf and decided to try.My overall though. I didn't like Gabby. it was okay. It took me longer to read than it should have - primarily because the characters and plot just didn't suck me in the way they should have. Her character rubbed me in all the wrong ways.But it was okay. Something that will sit on my shelf for a couple of years until I feel the need to read it again.
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