Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks - Reshelved Books

Hello Dewey Readers!  

At least the book is kind of pretty.

I usually adore Nicholas Sparks novels.  Who doesn't like a romance novel every now and then that could make even the coldest of hearts believe in love?  So I was super excited to get my hands on Sparks' latest novel Every Breath.

What a disappointment it was.  

This novel follows the story of two people who fell in love over the course of a couple days.  Hope, from North Carolina, is having relationship troubles with this man the she's been with for 6 years.  She wants to get married and have kids, while Tru is from Zimbabwe.  He has a son and is now sterile due to a complication from an illness.  They live in different countries, and Hope wants kids so their romance ends.  

Or does it?

Eh.  You can probably can guess what happened and how the story ends.   

I used to feel like I was immersed inside the the text of Sparks' novels.  I DEVOURED At First Sight, The Best of Me, The Choice, etc.  With those novels I felt like I was with the characters.  The writing style of Every Breath lacked this quality and I became bored with it. 

So Dewey Readers, I leave you with  a rating of 1.5 out of 5 Coffee Beans.

Until the next read!
~Jessica 

P.S.  The epilogue left me with weird stalker vibes from the narrator (who may be Sparks? I skimmed through it.)  Did anyone else feel this way?