Message In A Bottle-Nicholas Sparks

Message in a Bottle is a hitch-hike through the paradigms of love, grief and hope. It is a heart wrenching story about two people who both have lost the love of their lives in one way or the other. Theresa, a newspaper columnist is on a vacation along the seaside when she unexpectedly finds a bottle with a scrolled up letter in it alongside the shore. Interesting as it gets, it is addressed to someone named Catherine.

The letter is poured with emotions about losing her and immense love for her, by a person named Garret. This puts Theresa into an inquisitive speculation, about who these people are and what is the story behind the letter. She somehow finds Garrett, and tells her about her spree which sort of shocks him, as he always expected that those bottles will never be found by anybody. This begins a whole new romantic spree altogether between the two of them, and they get closer. Theresa and Garrett, both are at very different crossroads of lives but at a same sort of junction. They both are deprived of love and find solace in each other. Their relationship reflects solidarity and maturity that they have gained over the years.

To find love again, when all hope is gone from one’s life is one of the most beautiful gifts one can receive. The strength and power of love and affection, that Spark’s words radiate is astoundingly enriched. He is not known as the God of Romantic novels for no reason. To know the ending you definitely have to read the book, and I assure that one has to sit with a box of tissues to get through the whole book. This one is definitely for the romantics. I will give it a 9/10.