The Last Song

The main character is  Ronnie Miller. Three years ago, the world has changed. The reason was his father, Steve, a talented pianist. He abandoned his career, giving up his post as a teacher in New York and returned to the town of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. His flight also marked the definitive end of a marriage Miller.

Although three years have passed since those events, Ronnie still feels great remorse and still do not want to maintain any contact with his father, as evidenced by even the stacks of unread letters. The situation changes suddenly when a few months before her eighteenth birthday mother sends Ronnie and his younger brother Jonah the whole summer to Wilmington.

The beginnings are difficult. Raised in New York, steeped in his lively and entertaining accustomed to the company of friends, our heroine will be faced with the sleepy atmosphere of coastal townships and dislike of his father. It is believed that she will most boring summer in life. Further topics show how wrong think .

Sparks describes many interesting topics , for example the first love of Ronnie and Will Blakelela, volleyball player, who reciprocates her feelings or  ten-year-Jonah, full of vigor and sympathy, the novel adds freshness and a sense of humor. Deadly disease father, which contributes to a significant transformation of our heroine from the eternally dissatisfied seventeen in a sensitive, compassionate, mature teenager. It is all presented in a warm, wise and endearing.

"The Last Song" is written in simple language, and at the same time accompanied by a profound message. The book deals with the serious subject of which is the death  and the family's struggle to come to terms with the illness and death.