A Bend in the Road
Selected Book Details
- Mass Market Paperback
- Author: Nicholas Sparks
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Release Date: July 2002
- ISBN-10: 0446611867
- ISBN-13: 9780446611862
- List Price: $7.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryMiles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love. |
Customer Reviews
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Entertaining enough but nothing special - abridged audio CD
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This book (abridged audio CD) was engaging enough to keep me occupied during my daily commute, but I'm not sure if I would have continued it were I to have been reading the actual book. I thought it was a bit slow even in abridged version. The reader, John Bedford Lloyd, has a very good "normal" narrator voice but I had a hard time with the Southern accents many of his characters had...overexaggerated and slow, quite irritating. And sometimes it was confusing which character was speaking, because Mr. Bedford's normal voice would spill over into the characters and vice versa.
Amazing story of love!
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A Bend in the Road happens in a small town where enemies are extremely easy to come by. Miles Ryan and his son, Jonah; suffer the appalling loss of a wife and a mother. In attempts to get their life back, school teacher also Jonah's tutor, Sara Andrews comes along for a change in her own life as well. Sparks sets a spooky mood of defeat, revenge and unconditional love, making you turn yet, another page. I give it a 5 star review for such an amazing romance/betrayal read. And, sometimes this can happen in real life giving you a Bend in the Road.
Could have been better, but a worthwhile mystery romance read...
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** spoiler alert ** I'm a Sparks fan so I wanted to love "A Bend in the Road" from the get-go and although I really enjoyed the first half, the second half felt that much more hollow because of the richness of the first half. IMHO, here are my random thoughts: Brian's character needed to be more fleshed out....I found myself feeling somewhere between loathsome and pity for him and not because we got to know him as a real person, but strictly because of his actions explained from Missy's death forward. As this was the "big twist" of the book (which I figured out half way through anyhow), I really desired to know more about what drove Brian to react to the accident the way he did. Running off at the scene was completely believable, but stalking the family for a year while hiding in trees, carrying binoculars, watching Miles' son Jonah play at school, and then saying nothing for two years? A bit creepy to me? He obviously needed some serious therapy and there wasn't the slightest nod to this, just fast forward a decade and he's happily married, saving lives in the ER, and just like that he's healthy, healed, and hopeful for the future? A bit hard for me to buy into without more explanation of his journey toward healing, departing from his stalking days, and what the hell was he like before he accidentally killed Missy (saying he was shy and introverted fell short, way short)? So aside from that, I adored Sarah and Jonah and even Sarah's annoying mother. Miles was easy to fall in love with until his rage took over a long three years after his wife's death and meeting the second love of his life - again difficult for me to buy into after seeing his actions begin to reflect a sense of letting go and moving on for himself and his son in the first half of the book. He too obviously needed some serious therapy (obsessing over Missy's supposed "killer" as an almost nightly ritual) and not once did he apologize to Sarah for jumping the gun (no pun intended) accusing her of deceit after all of the tender moments and self-truths they shared. I wanted to smack him upside the head....lol. The brief ending of Sarah seeing Miles return to her, thank God, helped to uplift my waning enthusiasm somewhat in end. But even then, I wanted to see some sort of final dialogue between these two main characters to show that Miles was able to come to the realization that as he lost his wife (Missy), Sarah too, in a way lost someone irrevocably, her brother's innocence coupled with a forever tarnished future for both her brother and herself, knowing that Miles' loss was caused by someone she deeply loved
Great book
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This is a fantastic book! I recently started reading Nicholas Sparks books and now I can't get enough of them. His stories are intriguing and delightful.
A Bend in the Road tugs at your heart
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What does a man do when the love of his life is killed by a hit and run driver while jogging? And this love of his life is not only his childhood sweetheart, but also his wife and mother of his son, Jonah. Sheriff Miles Ryan felt he died the night his wife Missy was fatally struck, but was determined to find her killer and spent the next two years focused on investigating every lead.
While Miles immersed himself with his search, seven-year-old Jonah suffered. He missed not only his mother, but also his father's attention, causing his school work to suffer. Sarah Andrews, Jonah's teacher, decided to step in to set things right by suggesting Jonah needed tutoring and to her astonishment offered to help him after school, which she wouldn't normally do. She develops a fondness for Jonah and feels an attraction to the handsome sheriff, whom she starts dating. Before long she realizes she is falling in love with Miles, though she knows a relationship is unlikely for he is still in love with his dead wife. But Miles is surprised to find himself falling for Sarah and plans to spend the rest of his life with her.
One night while on patrol, Miles arrests a local for drunk driving. Because this man is on parole, knowing he'll be sent back to jail, he tells Miles he knows who killed Missy, but won't impart that information unless Miles lets him off. Though it was wrong, but needing to know the truth about Missy's death, Miles goes against the rules to get this information. Only thing, the information is wrong and Miles goes after the wrong man--a man who has been a thorn in his side for years. While Miles is seeking vengeance, Sarah learns the truth and realizes she must tell him, but knows that by doing so would kill any chance for them. Sick at heart, she does the right thing, and Miles, feeling betrayed lashes out terminating their relationship.
Mr. Sparks grabs the reader's emotions, enabling them to feel his characters' pain. He writes with such tenacity and aplomb that the reader is pulled in from page one until the end. This is a story that sticks long after the last page.
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