*Spoiler alert*
Message in a Bottle is a story about. . . Well, I suggest that you read its summary somewhere else. The blogger is too stubborn to give you a glimpse of the whole novel. But here's a short review:
Like any other Nicholas Sparks novel, it has these several "predictable" scenes. Maybe it has something to do with his style of writing or maybe it has just something to do with the way I foresee the events happening in the characters' lives.
But I'm glad that despite this "little" disappointment I felt as I was reading the novel, I've got to learn and realize something about love.
Garrett, despite his grief and great love for Catherine, was able to move on after years and began to love again. Theresa, despite her sadness and heartbreak after Garrett had died, was able to realize after some time that she, too, would be capable of having something beautiful too in the future. It wouldn't be easy, it would take time, but Garrett has given her hope...
We can really never live competing and comparing ourselves with the people that our "boy/girlfriends/husbands/wives" have loved before. At one point in their lives, they have let go of and moved on from them. What matters is that they love us now, and we have the hope that in the future, they still will. Both people involved in the relationship have to make it work, because the moment one has stopped trying, we'll never know when it'll be all to late... Just like what happened to Garrett and Theresa. They've taken too much time when they could have worked it out...
- E.
