Name: The Last Song
ISBN: 9781615234837

Nicholas Sparks

"Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains alienated from her parents, particularly her father-- until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she and her brother spent the summer with him"--Jacket.

The Last Song

The last song

It's the bond between the Dad and the girl for me 

Ipshita Kanungo

Samantha gust 

The last song really got to me i felt so sad and cried at parts but there were also parts that i laughed at. I felt connected to the book like it was speaking to me maybe it was just me but if you have not read it. READ IT WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR

Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.

Wooo first book of the year! Just finished at Orbach library and omgosh the ending got me all giddy. I was surprised at how quiet and reserved the father was in the book compared to how the father was portrayed in the movie. I also enjoyed the little messages of forgiveness and morals. This book would've been such a great summer read.

Alyssa 

soooooooo sad! i was crying at the end! glad that Ronnie and Will made up at the end and they get to be together! :) glad she and Blaze were able to be friends at the end even after all the stuff they'd been through! good book!

Menna Khaled

in this book i cried alot but considering the way the story started and ended. i am grateful for the satisfaction i felt after reading the story. after so much care and love and tears comes that happiness that inlights the characters life one more time after a really great summer.

Her teenage life turned upside-down by her parents' divorce and her father's relocation out of state, Ronnie Miller remains bitter three years later when her mother urges her to spend a summer with her father, a concert pianist who is quietly immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. Reprint. Movie tie-in.

Sara Hakkoum

Very, very touching. I don't think I've cried over any other book. The only thing I disliked about it was that I wished it was a little bit longer, or that the author didn't sort of rush through the story so fast.

Brittany Savage

Regina

I can't help it, but his books are just not my thing. Might try to read this again in the future but it's three stars for now.

Michaela Gillmore

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to throw the book out the window basically all the things you should feel in a good romance novel.

Stefanie Sugia

As most of Nicholas Sparks' books, The Last Song is a book with a mixture of feelings. Some are happy, some are fun, yet some are also devastating and heart-breaking. I could say it's a bitter-sweet journey reading this book.

The story is about Ronnie (short for Veronica), a seventeen-year-old whose parents just got divorced and her father moved to North Carolina. This made her angry, especially to her father who seems so easily leave the family. Three years later, she still acts indifferent toward her parents. Even worse, she haven't been talking to her father for those three long years, even though her father called. And suddenly, her mother decides that Ronnie and her brother - Jonah -, will stay with their father for the summer.

Of course, with the fact that Ronnie hates her father, she disagrees with the idea. But she got no choice but to go there for the summer, without having a single idea of what's going to happen there.

Ronnie and her father had a deep relationship before her parents got divorced. Her father - Steve - used to be a piano teacher in Juilliard, and had also become Ronnie's piano teacher. It seems Ronnie had her own talent when it comes to music, because she's been playing and composing music with her father. But after the divorce, Ronnie seemed to hate everything related to piano. She stopped playing and got really angry when her mother listened to her piano recitals recordings. 

The time when they arrive Wrightsville Beach, is where everything started happening. Ronnie meeting a guy who spilled soda all over her shirt named Will. She also met this girl named Galadriel, but prefer to be called Blaze. And then there's Blaze's friends, the scary-looking Marcus, who's very good with playing fireballs and other 2 friends (who're not really important).

Ronnie got into a lot of trouble by meeting the wrong people. Some things even got her involved with police. But the weird thing that she almost doesn't believe is that her father has been very understanding and he even trusted her. So from there onwards, 2 love grows inside of Ronnie: her love for Will, and her long-lost love towards her father. 


I'll stop telling the story right here, so I won't spoil anything. Now, for my impressions towards the book. I was a lot more touched with the growing affection between Steve and Ronnie, rather than the summer romance between Ronnie and Will. The first 300-pages was like all about knowing Will and the troubles with Marcus, only small things about Steve was described. But the last 100-pages suddenly unfolds the reason why Steve did it, his love towards both Ronnie and Jonah. It's sad, yet beautiful love to be remembered. :):)

My favorite character is my number 1 cute guy: Jonah. :D He's just so cute! Wanting cookies everytime. And i think the most touching scene in the book is done by him. :) Another character that I like is also Steve. Such a great father with a big heart and loads of love. I honestly admire his character. Here's a quote that made me adore Steve (it's from a letter written to Ronnie):

"I hope that in your heart, you'll find some way to forgive me for leaving. It doesn't have to be now, or even soon. But I want you to know this: When you're finally ready, I'll be waiting with open arms on what will be the happiest day of my life. 

I love you,
Dad." 

Great story! Hope the movie won't screw up the beautiful story :):)

Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts . . . and heal them.

Lauren Talevski

Finally finished another book after going back to Uni in March.

So good to reminisce on this book, so cute and makes me miss Miley and Liam.

Kathryn 

*4.75*
ITS 3:20AM AND I HAVE ALOT OF FEELS RIGHT NOW.

Johanine Larichelle Bacuño

Georgia Carr

Veronica “Ronnie” Miller is sent, alongside her younger brother, to live with her dad for the summer after her behavior at home is seen to be rebellious. Thrown headfirst into a rural beach town, where everyone knows everyone else’s business, Ronnie finds herself resenting both of her parents and wanting nothing more than to go back to New York. Through protecting turtle eggs on the beach, falling in love and making questionable friendships, Ronnie realizes that everything is rarely what is first seems to be. You will laugh, then you’ll cry before laughing some more, and then inevitably run out of tissues from even more tears. The story itself does not finish how you would expect, everyone does not end up happy, and it deals with very real topics. Ronnie's character is one that is not easily forgettable, and it's very moving to see her grow throughout the book. Nicholas Sparks delivers another heart wrenchingly beautiful piece of writing, and it will stay with you for a long time.

Jimena Vázquez Oliver

I really spent the majority of this book complaining only to cry like a baby at the end, hey? Life is wild.

Tiffany Robinson

I really thought this was a great book and once I started reading I could not put it down! This book is about Ronnie who has not talked to her dad in 3 years beacuse he left home. The summer after high school she has to go to his place and spend the summer with him along with her brother Jonah. At first she dosen't even try to talk to her dad since she is still mad at him, but slowly they start to build a new relationship and start to better understand each other. Also during the summer she meets Will who does not seem like her type at first, but then she starts to experience her first love. I don't know how this is going to be as a movie, but as a good it's very well done even if it is kind of depressing.

Averi Hobbs

This is only the second Nicholas Sparks book I've read and I loved this one! I love the alternating perspectives of the main characters and the twists and everything about it! It was a really good read!

Olivera Mitić

The plot was very predictable, the characters weren't realistic and the writing wasn't as good as people claim it to be and this is one of the rare cases when the movie is better than the book.
I had some high hopes for this one.

The first book I ever full on cried in :’)

Jade Flynn

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” 

Before I read any of Nicholas Spark's books, I thought they were just some fluffed up, sappy romance novels...boy, was I wrong.

Kath Lau

I was crying (hard) last night while reading the last few chapters of this book. I remember a good friend of mine (Ate Aida, Bennito's second mom) who died last month because of cancer. I visited her when she was in Hospice and after almost 3 weeks, to her burial. She is a nice person and it's sad that she's not with us anymore.

I bought this book last year (one of the first books i bought when I arrived here) and started reading it until the first chapter. Instead of continue reading, I watched the movie online and cry over it. Then I forgot already to continue reading the book. I know right! The book is much better.. They didn't include some of the best scenes (that can be found in the book) in the movie.

The last time that i cried (hard) over a book was after reading Tuesday's with Morrie by Mitch Alboms. I definitely love this book and will include it on my favorite list.

This was the first book I nearly put back in my shelf but I fought through it and honestly... The ending was even worse.
I bought the book for a cheesy romance (like I expected from Sparks) and got a family drama where half the book is about Ronnie's dad dying.


Amie Liane

This is one of the few books that I've read after watching the adaptation, and I wasn't totally sure how I was going to feel about it. I loved the movie and it made me cry my eyes out, and it turns out that I loved the book and it made me cry even more. The plot was really beautiful and I loved the character development. I wouldn't say this is anything out of the ordinary for a YA book, I get the impression that some people think Nicholas Sparks is the best of the best for these types of stories, and it was good, but not that good. I also had a little trouble with the perspective, it was written in third person but I often felt like it would have been a lot more natural in first person.

All in all, though, it was a really good book. I would definitely re-read.

Siobhán

This is my second Nicholas Sparks novel and after being disappointed in The Notebook, I was really nervous about this. It sound like the kind of story I could fall in love with and unlike The Notebook, it was a story I fell in love with. It just a beautiful and heartbreaking story that will be loved by young and old for year come.

The Last Song is told from a view points of view and sometimes authors make it really confusing. However, Sparks managed to master is just perfectly. The is a range of different characters, some you will love, some you will hate and others that will just make you want to jump into the pages and steal them. The four main characters in this is Ronnie, Will, Steve and Jonah. Ronnie is the rebellious teen who is sent to live with her father for summer and at first she hates it. However, everything changes when she meets and falls for loveable, kind Will. Steve is Ronnies father and it is clear that he loves his children more than life itself. Jonah is my favourite character. He is Ronnies little brother and he is just so cute, adorable and has th funniest lines.

Sparks has managed to create a beautiful story that deals with alot of serious issues and really gets you thinking about life and how there is no time for regret.

If you haven't read this yet. I beg you, go beg, borrow or steal a copy. You won't regret it. However, if you are like me and cry very easily have plenty of tissue because this will have you bawling like a baby. Even as I write this review I have a lump in my throat and my eyes are watery just from thinking about the story.

The Last Song

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