The Guardian

A superbly written love story with elements of thriller by Nicholas Sparks. A zillion years away better and definitely more civilized than the thrash can material Grey trilogy.  Heartwarming narration of Julie who lost her husband Jim when they were in their twenties. She then had to go through silly relationships and lastly a painful experience of coping up with a lunatic stalking Richard on her way to find sweet love in her old friend and hubby's best buddy Mike. Lovely read....in the epilogue I read that Sparks has read thousand of thrillers from which some contributed to his ideas of this novel. How about that? How many books have I read....not as many as I should. But I'm certainly trying and vow to read several hundred more at least. Hope that my dream to pen down my own novel will materialize ultimately.