Nicolas Sparks

      If I had to chose a favorite author, I would pick Nicholas Sparks. I recently read two of his novels for Reader's Choice, and from those readings I want to continue following him. The novels I read were A Walk to Remember, and The Lucky One. 
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      Almost every Sparks' novel is a young love story, and there is always either a father, or mother figure missing from the protagonist's life. This is based off Spark's own childhood, he grew up without a father figure in his life and used that in his writing.  For example, in A Walk to Remember, both main characters, Jamie Sullivan and Landon Carter are missing a parent. Jamie lost her mom to cancer when she was younger, and Landon's father is a business man who's always traveling and was never there for Landon. In The Lucky One, Elizabeth, the woman in the picture Logan finds is divorced with a son. Even though he isn't the main character, there is still the essence of a missing parents in a child's life. 

      Spark's also always has the same setting for his novels, a small town in North Carolina. Now it's not always the same town, but they're always a small close community living by the water. In The Lucky One, they followed Logan from Iraq all the way to settling down in Hampton North Carolina where Elizabeth was from. In A Walk to Remember, Beaufort Nc. The Notebook, The Wedding, A Bend in the Road, Safe Haven, all in New Bern Nc. 


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