I read the books Dear John and The Guardian both by Nicholas Sparks. One I really enjoyed and one I did not. They are totally different from each other on so many reasons and I’m here to explain why.
Dear John is a very cute sappy love story about lost love. John is in the army and while on leave, he encounters this cute little southern belle who has a great heart named Savannah. Their love is like a flower- it needs water to grow and a little TLC. After he goes back to war they must have a relationship through only letters and see each other every couple of years. They always end the letters with “I’ll see you soon then”.
John is definitely the hero in this story. He is in the army so that is pretty obvious. He is just a really kind and gentle man. “The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.” Who loves so hard and he realizes when Savannah moves on and gets married to someone else that all if he really loves her, which he does all he wants is for her to be happy. She was his first “real love” so that is very difficult to do but he knows it’s what he has to do.
This was a really different angle that sparks took and I really enjoyed it. I loved, well I wouldn’t say loved that’s kind of mean, but it was interesting how you got to see a totally different view. A point of view from someone in the army and learn about how a relationship might seem in the army how difficult they are and it’s really a good thing and what true love truly is. “So there's something else I wanna tell you. Right before everything went black, you wanna know the very last thing that entered my mind? You.”
Next, I read The Guardian, you think when you pick it up, and “it’ll be a love story”. WRONG! It’s about this hair stylist named Julie who has a late husband and he gave her a dog who watches over her who is “her guardian”. She then dates this psychopath named Richard and when she breaks up with him her life becomes endangered.
Richard is for sure a villain. He seems to be a really nice guy and the begins begin! When Julie breaks up with him for her husband’s best friend Richard becoums enraged and starts stalking her and it gets very bad it seemed as though he may rape her or do something terrible like that. Well, it gets really bad so they flee and of course he finds them and through the investigation we find out he is someone else and that he killed both of his parents, his wife, his roommate, Julie’s dog , and almost killed Julie’s coworker and all he wants in the world is to be with Julie but that isn’t enough.
In conclusion, they were totally different even though they were written by the same author and also, its kind of weird that John knew to let Savannah be happy and “Richard” wanted to h ave Julie even if itt meant hurting her. I really thought that was cool and I can’t wait to read more Nicholas sparks.
