- By Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks touches your heart and plays with your emotions. Bend
in the road is not any different. It has love, affection, forgiveness,
confession, guilt – all the factors that seem to make an emotional bomb
and is let loose from the word go, to boom at the end.
Miles
Ryan, a deputy Sheriff of North Carolina town of New Bern, and his wife
Missy, were a happy couple until the destiny intervenes to change their
lives irrevocably. Missy will be a fatality in a hit and run car
accident and the case is closed unsolved. But Miles was unwilling to let
it go and mounts his own futile investigation. On the doomed day of
Missy’s death, his life seems to be void of spark and he seems to mourn
his own life and if not for their son Jonah, his life would have held
little meaning for him after the death of his high school sweet heart.
Jonah,
after the untimely death of his mother had difficult time in his
education and the other teachers, understanding his emotional state,
just let him be, until Sarah came along as his second-grade teacher.
Sarah Andrews moves to the quiet town of North Carolina to overcome the
grief of a difficult divorce and finds solace and comfort as a
second-grade teacher in that quiet town. She reaches out to Jonah,
perhaps at the hurt in his eyes and probably to nurse her own emotional
wounds, she eventually courts Miles Ryan, until fate intervenes, yet
again, with a wicked bend in the road.
The rest of the
journey is a battle of love, faith, forgiveness and as the master
conjurer whips his magic of words, the readers are inevitably bound to
the spell that would last until the gripping moment of the truth that
links them casts its light at the most inopportune moment, to swirl
their lives.
A good read for any readers who love romantic genre.
