"A tender story of hope and joy; of sacrifice and forgiveness -- a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's perfect getaway will be ruined -- until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At fifty-four, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in, two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort -- and in one weekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives."
Review:
Just like the non-disputed The Notebook, the story of Paul and Adrienne tells that love is not time-bound, nor is it a matter of age, nor of distance. As always, Nick Sparks never failed to make me cry. The story is remarkable but not as much as the characters themselves - Paul, 50 years old, a very successful surgeon who had ended up loosing the heart of his wife and son along the way, now trying to make everything right in his life ; and Adrienne, 45, a woman who had devoted all those years being a responsible mother of three after a painful divorce, forgetting herself in the process. After reading it, I came up with a realization that the movie is not only about an intimate love story shared by two individuals in the most unexpected circumstances, more than a few days of intimacy during a storm. It also tells us about a mother's love for her daughter (Amanda), who lost her husband at a young age, to whom Adrienne had ended up telling their secret love story to, 14 years after it happened, for her to know that she understands how it felt to lose someone she loves dearly, for she too had lost her heart when Paul, a few months before they can finally be together had died in an accident after saving his son from a landslide while volunteering in Ecuador.
Sparks, a fan of a tragic ending, which somehow depicts reality that love is not always a happy-ever-after did a good job in this story. I tried to compare this to other novels of him, but I cannot. Because every story has it's own impact, they are awesome in their own ways. And despite the same element in the stories: divorce, southern living, death, cancer and long distance love affair, he had made every story distinct from the other. Needless to say, Nights in Rodanthe is superb!
Trivia: The names of the lead characters where Nick's Christmas present to his in-laws - Paul and Adrienne.
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