Elizabeth Delos Reyes
Message in a Bottle is one of the most incredible and finest novels written by Nicholas Sparks. The story starts when a woman, named Theresa Osborne, who is a newspaper columnist, goes to Cape Cod on her break from work, and finds a bottle washed ashore. Inside the bottle is a letter that unfolds an intensely felt love of Garrett Blake to his wife. Theresa becomes curious and eager enough to search out others who may have found similar messages in a bottle. Without realizing it, Theresa herself falls in love with Garrett as she collects all those letters. She decides to search for this man, and finds him in a small, North Carolina town, from which the romance between these two characters springs. They both give into this strong feeling and fall in love with each other. However, Garrett still has not gotten over his wife and is not ready to let her go yet, so the conflict between them crops up.
A very unique love story indeed, the book makes you believe that true love exists, and makes you dream that perhaps someday you will find the love as strong and powerful as the main characters have in this novel. It also makes you realize that it is possible to love once more even though you think that you will never be able to love again.
