Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks

This was a nice shorter story to read.  I'm a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks, so when I had some Amazon gift cards to use this was one of my first purchases.

The book is an extension, in a way, of The Notebook.  It revolves around Jane and Wilson Lewis.  Jane is one of the children of Noah and Allie.  In this book, Allie has passed away, and Noah is still living at Creekside (so a bit of a departure from The Notebook).  Wilson is an estate lawyer, and is a very organized, rational man that doesn't do romance.  On their 29th wedding anniversary, he forgets about all the hints Jane has been dropping and has his assistant buy her a nice, expensive tennis watch.  It hurts Jane, and she ends up spending some time away from Wilson with their son.  After two weeks she comes back home and life continues on.  A week away from their 30th anniversary, their oldest daughter Anna gets engaged and decides she wants to get married in one week, even though it's their anniversary.  The book covers that week and all the planning involved to make the wedding happen.

This is one of those beautiful romance books that makes you look at your husband and say "why don't you do this kind of stuff for me?!"  It's beautifully written (in true Sparks style) and has enough plot twists to keep the story going.  The way Sparks shows Wilson trying to be more romantic is inspiring.  It is also written in a way that takes the entire story to develop, instead of one day doing a nice gesture and their relationship returning to normal.  That gives the whole story a more believable sense, since relationships don't get fixed in a day.  It's a beautiful reminder that love is work, and to treat your marriage as anything other than something to continually work on and polish is to let that love go.


<3, jacq

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