the lucky one

This was a spectacular book! With the movie coming out I wanted to read the book before I learned any more about the story. How Nicholas Sparks comes up with his stories I'll never know. Each one is spectacular and each one I can't help but cry.

U.S. Marine Logan Thibault has not had it easy, but is very lucky. His friend attribute his luck to a photograph. After getting out of the Marines and an very unlucky accident Thibault along with Zeus, his German shepherd, goes on a long walk that leads him to Elizabeth and a world he never could have imagined.

Somehow, slowly but surly everything in Thibault and Elizabeth's life starts to come together. Thibault slowly realizes that he has found a home. No matter what Keith, Elizabeth's ex-husband, does to get in the way nothing can tear him apart from this place, his home.

Like all Nicholas Sparks books, the end is always full of twists and turns and for a second you think maybe he really did throw in something so very unexpected. But then there is a happy ending, one that everything is as it should be.

a little bit of wild kingdom never did any harm...

It truly is amazing when these two get going. They run with such speed and play so roughly. It's amazing to watch.

 

The Vampire Diaries - The Return: Nightfall

It happened again, Dark Reunion re-captured me at the end and I had high hopes for this book. However, at the end, I'm calling it quits, at least for now. There are two more books that were actually written by L.J. Smith in the series. Eventually I'd like to finish them, but for now I am done.

The thing that angers me about this series is the turn that some of the characters have taken. Elena's character has grown and become strong, but I don't think that is true of most of the others. Caroline, in particular has taken a turn for the worse, she has turned evil out of spite. Stefan and Damon haven't really changed all that much, but I've never been overly fond of the way they have been portrayed. Damon in particular, about mid way through this book I was excited about the development in his character, but in the end he was the same old same old. Bonnie and Meredith have always been some of my favorites, but have been fading from the story line.

In this book the evil has truly taken over the town and as usually it is after Elena. But it is attacking from the outside in. Damon is one of the first under the evil influence, preceded only Caroline who has in a sense made a "deal with the devil". Bonnie, Meredith, and Matt and Elena have their work cut out for them in defeating the evil after Stefan was kidnaped. In the end Elena finds her powers and saves the day.

I hope that when I do decide to continue on with the series that the adventure that Elena, Damon and Matt have started ends with a happen ending.