The Rescue

Second Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central Publishing, 2000. Genre: Romantic Fiction

The Rescue is about a volunteer fireman named Taylor McAden and a single mother named Denise Holton who live in a small town in North Carolina. Both meet each other during a terrible storm and start a relationship, although this makes Taylor open up and talk about his life that has been locked up inside him for years. This makes Taylor choose to make the biggest commitment of all; to fall in love with someone.

“Sparks, who is becoming well known as a sophisticated writer of romances, has a beautifully natural way of portraying a complicated and intense love story. THE RESCUE is yet another example of his imagination and skill.” – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

The Rescue shows Nicholas Sparks telling about men with problems not just the women. We get to see it from both of the main characters sides, Taylor’s and Denise’s. We get to see how their past affects their choices, and Nicholas Sparks writes with strong passion when we see it through the two main characters eyes. Even though this is the first book I read by Nicholas Sparks I saw the movie called The Notebook, which was a book written by Sparks. The Notebook reminds me of The Rescue because of the setting and the passionate love story.

In The Rescue you get to see how some love is complicated and not always a fairy tale. Nicholas Sparks shows people who are afraid to fall in love because they don’t want to hurt anyone. We see that women aren’t the only ones who have problems in their past and women aren’t the only ones to not open up to someone.

I am now a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks after reading this book. I love how Sparks doesn’t make this love story sappy as some other authors do. This showed me what struggles people go through to fall in love because real life isn’t like Cinderella. I really enjoyed the way he writes The Rescue because I would think it would be the woman in the book, Denise who would have the problems to fall in love, but it is really the man, Taylor who does. I am definitely going to read more books by Nicholas Sparks and hope they are as good as or better than The Rescue.