See Me

Book Review

See Me

By: Nicholas Sparks

Riley got me this book for Christmas when it was still in its hardcover stage. I’d taken my time, reading it slowly, knowing full well it would be a little while before another one sat in storefront displays.

That should have been my first sign.

When I’m able to physically avert my eyes and put down the book for weeks, even a month, at a time and not even think about it… I must not be that attached to the story.

It was a classic tale of “against all odds romance” where main characters come from different pasts, different worlds, different… well you know the drill.

However, something in the magic Nicholas Sparks recipe-for-romance turned the book, not sour, but just off somehow.

I have a theory that this may be another one of the books that was written under the impression that it’ll be the next blockbuster hit. It’s as if Sparks whispered “You’re gonna make it to the big screen See Me, just you wait!” before sending off his manuscript.

There are some good parts in the book that reminded me of Sparks’ earlier works, but the cliché element didn’t touch my heart.

Certain chapters would make for good thriller scenes in a movie, but the book’s content just didn’t all add up. In my opinion, See Me would have required an extra 200 pages of prologue for readers to understand all the puzzling elements that the main story lacked to make sense by the end.

If one positive thing came out of reading See Me, is that it makes me that much more excited to try stand up paddleboarding (or SUP as the cool kids call it) next weekend. The long description about “how good of a workout it is” and “how it clears the mind” tempted me.

Otherwise, the best way to describe Nicholas Sparks’ most recent romance novel is with main character Colin Hancock’s favourite catch-phrase: “Okay.”

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