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The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (review)
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Where did you meet your beloved?
Was he a fix-up, a down-load, or a sideswipe as you ran for the elevator? Did you notice him from afar and hope for an introduction? Or was he the passion perpetrator, actively angling to meet you?
Cupid ain’t stupid and now you’re together. But from where does true love spring? Is it fate or feat?
In Logan Thibault’s case, it’s feet. He walked across
He wasn’t looking for a snapshot. He was looking for some quiet time to think, so Logan Thibault ran through the desert every morning before his regiment awoke. On that particular morning, though, the sun lit the Iraqi desert and reflected off a laminated picture half-buried in the sand.
“Keep Safe!” it said, signed with an “E”. A beautiful, smiling girl with an E-name, wearing Lucky Lady t-shirt.
He tried to find the snapshot’s owner, but nobody claimed it. After a week, Thibault put the photo in his pocket. He took it out now and then and thought about her, wondering. Victor, his best buddy, said it was fate that Thibault found the photo.
Maybe it was.
Word got around that the Lucky Lady picture brought Thibault his own bit of luck. He won more poker games. He survived sniper attacks. He was lucky enough to come home, wasn’t he?
But he couldn’t get the woman out of his head. There were clues in the photo, and his heart told him he needed closure. He started walking in search of her.
Beth made a lot of mistakes in her life. Marrying Keith Clayton was one of them, but if it wasn’t for that union, her son Ben wouldn’t be around. Ben was ten years old and while he was a great kid, Beth knew he disappointed Clayton. Clayton was sports-minded; Ben wasn’t. Clayton was a bully; Ben was gentle. Ben hated weekends with his father, but since Clayton’s family practically owned
The first run-in Keith Clayton had with that Thigh-bolt guy didn’t go so well. He wished there was a way to get rid of Thigh-bolt for good. Clayton would do anything to keep Beth from dating.
Anything.
I feel pretty lucky I got to read this book. “The Lucky One” is possibly one of author Nicholas Sparks’ finest novels.
Perhaps best known for his almost-a-romance novels, Sparks mixed this one up a little bit with better character development than I thought he had in the last book, a bad-guy who’s simply despicable, and a little bit of suspense to keep you going. Not to be a spoiler, but this novel is a page-turner and very hard to resist.
If you’re a fan of Nicholas Sparks or if you’re wondering what the hoo-rah is all about, you’ll want “The Lucky One”. Picture yourself reading it this week.
“The Lucky One” by Nicholas Sparks
c.2008, Grand Central Publishing $24.99 / $27.99
