If it’s a contemporary, heart-breaking love story, it must
be a Nicholas Sparks novel.
So let me start off by saying that I really actually love all of Nicholas Sparks’ works. I’ve read every novel he’s written and usually, I’ve gobbled them up in less than a day’s time.
However it did take me quite a while to read, The Longest Ride.
This book begins with a first person point of view from Ira
Levinson, a Jewish man born in 1920 who you find has just recently crashed his
car into the winter laden woods of North Carolina. Scary, and quite heartbreaking at times,
throughout this entire ordeal, you are able to learn quite a bit about Ira and
the woman he’s loved his whole life.
But this is only one side of the story.
You also meet Sophia Danko and Luke Collins. Sophia is a senior at Wake Forest University,
ready to graduate and explore a new world full of art and excitement and everything
she’s ever really truly looked for. Then
you meet Luke Collins. He’s seen such excitement…and
pain…in his life due to being a professional bull rider as well as helping his
mother to take care of their farm.
Due to her friends insisting she get away from the books for
a while, Sophia is dragged out to a bull riding contest, where there are tons
of “hot cowboys”. She finds this to be
the case when she finally meets Luke. Of
course the two of them instantly see sparks with one another and thus you are
lead through the second love story within this book.
As the book progresses you are continually brought into
memories of the past with Ira and Ruth, and then pulled back to the here and
now with Luke and Sophia. While both
stories are equally poignant and heart wrenching, they also tend to follow some
of the same sort of equation that you generally find in Sparks’ works.
All in all, I gave this book a 3.5 out of 5 stars. There’s no way that you can really NOT like Nicholas
Sparks’ novels, but I found this one to be a bit redundant. Maybe it was just me or I wasn’t feeling this
book completely. Maybe I’ll read through
it again just to pick up on some of the emotions and the things I may have
missed. Otherwise, I was kind of
disappointed with this book.
If you’ve read The
Longest Ride, please leave a comment below and let me know what you
thought. If you’d like to purchase this
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Thanks to everyone for taking the time out to read my review
and, as always, “Spread the joy of reading.
Lives can change with the turn of a page!”
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