The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

I had been seeing the trailer for the movie, 'The Last Song', for a while. It made me want to read the book. At first, I thought that this would be a boring book about a teen's experience during a summer in the Carolinas, but it was so much more. Ronnie goes to stay with her dad for the summer. She is very angry at him because he left their family and ran away to live in his hometown. Ronnie falls in love with a boy named Will, and gets involved with a few criminals roaming the beach town where her father lives. From start to finish, I was hooked on this book. At the end of the book, the reader finds out that Ronnie's dad has cancer, and that is why he wanted to spend the summer with his kids- it would be his last summer. During the last third of the book, I could only read about five pages at a time because I was crying so much. I was truly touched by this book. It teaches many lessons about forgiveness and looking beyond peoples' exterior. I can't wait to see the movie!