The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

Summer time!! I was so excited, I had all these plans to do with my friends over the break before I started senior year.  But instead my family surprised me with a family trip to California.  I was excited to go on the trip and have a little reunion with my dads side of the family.  While I was there my aunt was reading The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks.  I really liked the way that the cover looked it had a picture of baby sea turtles making their way towards the ocean.  I thought it would talk about marine life animals, so I asked her if I could read it after her. Right before we left she gave it to me and I read it on the plane ride home.  

The book starts off with a teenager and her brother who is going to stay at her fathers house in Florida for her summer break.  She hasn't kept in touch with her father at all because she thinks that he left them on purpose and never bothered to give her a good reason for why he had left.  When she was younger her father was her best friend they did everything together. He even thought her how to play the piano.  Once her father left her life went down hill, she started hanging out with the wrong people getting into trouble, disrespecting her mom. To the point that her mom couldn't handle it anymore.  Over the summer she ends up meeting a boy who comes from a rich family, but wishes his family wasn't rich so that he could find a girl that likes him for who he is and not for what family he comes from.  Along the way they start to develop a relationship with each other over the summer and realize that its time for them to part and go there separate ways in life.  Thought the relationship that she gains with the boy she is also able to renew up her relationship with her father.  She learns that her father isn't in the greatest health condition and that he had asked her mom if he could spend more time with their kids, so that he wouldn't regret anything if he died.   

I really enjoyed this book, I think mostly because I could relate to how the main character was feeling. I enjoyed reading about some marine life animals and how its the simplest things in life that really count.  Nobody know what the future holds so you have to be aware and prepared for what ever it throws at you.  I would suggest that teenagers who don't have both parents living with them that they should read this.  So that they will be able to consider why their parents might have split up and know that no matter what happened its not their fault for their parents breaking up.