Synopsis from Book Cover: Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter from a man claiming to be his father. A safari guide, born and raised in Zimbabwe, Tru hopes to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding his mother's early life and recapture memories lost with her death. When the two strangers cross paths, their connection is as electric as it is unfathomable...but in the immersive days that follow, their feelings for each other will give way to choices that put family duty against personal happiness in devastating ways. Illuminating life's heartbreaking regrets and enduring hope, Every Breath explores the many facets of love that lay claim to our deeper loyalties while asking the question, How long can a dream survive?
Thoughts Before the Book
I've been obsessed with Nicholas Sparks since forever. I think I have pretty much every single book he has wrote in some format, so of course I needed to read this book! Since Book of the Month had the very same book on the website for an add on book I had to do make sure that was in my box this month! So let's bring on the ugly cry baby tears that every Nicholas Sparks book does to everyone!
(11/20/2018)
Halfway Through the Book
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I think I'm getting to the point where Nicholas Sparks books are getting a little repetitive. I really like his books, however, I know it is a 50/50 if I'm going to like it. I love just as many as I don't like it. So I'm really conflicted with this book so far. I kinda love it! I really do, but I feel like I'm getting ready to read the downside. Hope and Tru's connection is so interesting, but I'm curious how it will turn out between the two. Mainly because Tru has a kid in Zimbabwe and Hope explicitly said she doesn't want to leave the States. So who is going to give in order for them to stay together? Do they even stay together? Plus I'm getting ready to meet Tru's father and see what happens at the wedding. Both of these events make me feel like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff and getting ready to fall into a dark abyss. Mostly because I think Josh is going to show up just because it is something that happens a lot in Sparks books. But on the other hand he doesn't really act like he cares about Hope at all, like I think this break up is the final one and I really hope it is. Right now knowing what I've read so far my ideal ending would be Hope moving to Zimbabwe with Tru and living happily ever after. But I know this rug I'm standing on is about to be pulled right out from underneath me because this is a Nicholas Sparks book and my heart has not been shattered yet.
(12/02/2018)
Final Thoughts
Just like I promised I finished this book! I loved the concept of this story. Hope and Tru had a remarkable spin on a usual Sparks book. I kind of went on a little scavenger hunt learning more about the Kindred Spirit. For those of you who haven't read the book, and still for some reason reading this post regardless of the spoilers, the Kindred Spirit is a mailbox at Sunset Beach in North Carolina that people go and leave things in for others to read or see. Sparks got the idea for this book based off of a story that was in the Kindred Spirit. According to the book Sparks tracked down the couple that the story was written about. I really wanted to learn more about the mailbox since the book is actually more or less about the mailbox. The reason why I say that is because if it wasn't for the couple putting their story out there Sparks wouldn't have found it, the mailbox held a very special place for the couple, and then the mailbox brought the couple back together. Granted the mailbox is literally just a mailbox it can't go out into the world and make people do as it say. However, people use it as a platform to get their work out there, to speak about what is holding them down, and also just talk because they know they can say whatever they need to say and that there will be someone there to 'listen.' Everyone has the option to either sign their name or leave it anonymous. I think it is an awesome idea, very therapeutic. It is something that I would actually love to go and experience one day. I did tag the link above that will take you to an article about the Kindred Spirit and give you a little bit more information.
I had to jump into a little background in order to explain how I feel about this book. Like I mentioned during the middle of the book review I kind of had really conflicting emotions towards the book, but by the time I was halfway through the book it was really starting to pick up. The first third of the book is filling the reader in on who is Hope and Tru and what brings them to Sunset Beach. They are actually staying in the houses that neighbor one another. These two actually meet because of her dog pretty much. I felt bad for Hope because of what she was doing, but I loved Tru! He was undoubtedly the hero in the story. Not many people in his shoes would just tell Hope to do what she needs to do and he will accept that as well as wait on her, when it came to being with him or with Josh. I kept yelling at Hope through the book to pick Tru, because not only was he perfect but Josh was a jerk! Hope and Josh's relationship was awful and emotionally distressing mainly for her because it sounded like Josh was just out there living his life and he had Hope when he felt like it. Hope definitely had her faults. But overall I loved their story. It did break my heart when she basically said that Tru couldn't give her kids and that was the main reason why she just could not stay with him. I've never been the person that thinks having kids is a huge thing I would want to do. So if I was in her shoes I feel like I would pick Tru because I would've been fine with adopting or not having any kids at all. So it is interesting to see another's point of view in this situation. So I cannot say that I hate Hope, I just really did not like her in that scene in the book. Every other moment of the book I was rooting for her just as much as I was rooting for Tru. I wanted her to wake up and realize that she would be okay without Josh in her life. It was a very intense story and I hope whoever chooses to read it does so with an open mind and doesn't just give up one the book because it starts out pretty slow. Any Sparks fan should know that he does start his books out kind of on the slow side, but there is a reason for it. During those moments you get a lot of the character's information like their backstory and explains why they are doing whatever they are doing.
(12/03/2018)
(12/03/2018)
★★★★✩
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