"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.."

The second book me and my group are reading is A Walk to Remember, by Nicholas Sparks. Having only seen small parts of the movie, I thought this was going to follow the 'rules' of most romantic stories but like the previous book its anything but.

This book centers around Landon, a small town 'bad boy', who accidentally meets his complete opposite, church-going, long-skirt wearing, preacher's daughter Jamie Sullivan.  As you would picture, the two should instantly fall in love, Jamie changes Landon forever thus surprising everyone around them, and they go off living a pretty peaceful life in the end. Unfortunately not all of this occurs. Jamie dies of Leukemia to Landon's surprise and Landon continues to live his life without his true love.

Throughout most of the story you see how Landon is trying to avoid being seen with someone like Jamie, which makes the reader pretty frustrated because you really want him to just admit his feelings for her. but whats worse is that he doesn't realize his feelings for her until towards the end of the book as well as when his feelings wouldn't even matter anymore.

This book is definitely different in the 'type' of love portrayed. The love isn't a physical one at all, and doesn't even come close to mentioning anything physically relative except for Landon's liking of Jamie's hair. I feel like Landon fell in love with Jamie more because of her actions in terms of her kindness, community service, and faith. The love in the book isn't a tangible one but readers see the growth of his love for her when he mentions small details about her: like the way she tightens the bun in her hair when shes nervous. I guess this is the way one showed love fr another in the 1950's, which probably explains my lack of patience for the pace of the book.

The book is a nice one but not one of obvious love but instead it pushes the reader to look more into characters actions as a way of portraying ones affection which might catch some off guard making the book appear boring and lack-luster rather than the gentle and kind-hearted story that it is.