Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Dear John is set in North Carolina where John Tyree grew up. The book starts in 2000 when John is talking about his strained relationship with his father, Bill Tyree. His father only talks to John about his coin collection. When John enters his teenage years and high school, he gets into a fight with his dad about how his dad never talks about anything other thing other than the coins. As soon as the fight is over John doesn’t talk to his father. John starts to get into the wrong crowd of people and becomes involved with alcohol and lets his grades fall dramatically. After high school, John enlists into the army and on his first leave he meets Savannah Lynn Curtis and Nicholas Sparks describes their relationship. When John is in Iraq, Savannah writes him, and this is how John falls in love even more with Savannah. However, don’t think this is a happy love story, it has its own twist to it.  

I completely fell in love with this book! Sparks wrote the book in such a moving way, that after reading the book I felt inspired. I could feel how John and Savannah felt every moment of their relationship and I completely admire how Sparks describes the time the couple spent with each other. The one part of the book that I dislike is that Sparks doesn’t reveal anything about Savannah’s perspective on what’s going on in the book. It’s only written in John’s point of view. I strongly recommend this 176 page novel for anyone who likes a romantic tragedy.

Hannah Natowitz
Pages: 176
5/5 stars