(9/15/2010)
“The Last Song” is a book about a girl, Ronnie, whose life has changed immensely when her parents divorce and her dad moves from New York City to Wrightsville. Three years afterwards, her mother decides that she and her brother, Jonah, should go down to Wrightsville to visit their father for the entire summer. Ronnie, seventeen, and a typical city girl, is dreading the summer already. She is still recovering from the divorce and considers her father “heartless.” Ronnie’s father is a former concert pianist, who plays practically every chance he gets. He is currently living in a calm, southern town, where he is constructing a masterpiece work of art for a nearby Church that is being built. Ronnie is furious and is mapping every little chance that she may get to leave before the end of the summer. But then she meets Will, the town’s most popular boy and the person she would never think of being attracted to. But soon, Ronnie finds herself genuinely in love, and not wanting to ever return home. But as the summer continues, things turn upside down, dramatic, mysterious, and bewildering. Nicholas Sparks’ riveting novel has captured the attention of so many young readers once again, and has left them star struck by its intense outcome.