The Lucky One

Title: The Lucky One

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Published: 2008

Genre: Fiction

Rating: 3 out of 5

This book was a chick-lit and an easy read (easy-listen rather). This was my second book by Nicholas Sparks. A very good beach read.

This book is about a soldier Logan serving in Iraq, who finds a picture of a woman. No one claims the picture and he keeps the picture and like a lucky charm, he believes that that picture saves him through tough times, or at least all the other soldiers say so. After retiring from the Armed Forces, he is determined to find the lady in the picture. He walks all the way to Hampton, NC. Logan finds that the name of the woman in the picture is Elizabeth. He gets a job at a Dog Training Center which is run by Elizabeth's grandmother. Elizabeth is a divorcee and her ex-husband Keith is a law enforcement officer. She also has a son Ben.

Long story short, Logan becomes their best friend with Ben and falls in love with Elizabeth. It iss all romance for a while and Keith finds that Elizabeth is dating Logan and tries to stop. The end was really curious, but it was definitely predictable. As with any other chick-lit by Sparks, I would read more books by him. This was an audiobook and kept me thinking during the daily commute.

Favorite lines from the book :

• He was the toast to her butter.
• Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.
• There is nothing like love. You should try it.
• Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
• And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.