This book was made into a touching and wonderful movie, but I found that as I read the book, there were a lot of differences between the two. The movie is one of my favorite "chick-flicks" but the book jumped up to be one of my favorite of all time. Landon Carter is an only child and has never really had anyone who he felt he could trust. He and his friends are known as the renegades of the small town they live in. When Landon has to take a Drama class as a Senior he is put into the same class as Jamie Sullivan. Jamie is looked at by the other teenagers and younger kids as being odd and she doesn't really fit in with anyone. She spends most her time either at home, or working at the orphanage. She also does a lot of service work and is very involved in her church. Her father is a pastor and as such Jamie has a lot of rules that she has to live by, but she doesn't mind. One of the reasons Jamie is viewed as being weird is because she doesn't dress or talk like most girls her age, she always has her Bible with her and always says she will pray for the person she is talking to.
Little does Landon know that when he walks into his drama class the first day. Throughout the story Landon and Jamie begin to have a friendship due to an act of desperation on Landon's part Jamie tells him he must not fall in love with her. It becomes inevitable and Landon and Jamie will fall in love with each other as the story progresses.
I think this was a wonderful story, and I was super suprized with how different it was from the movie.
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 1, 2004)
- Language: English
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