Even though I began this book a bit disappointed but I think that was mostly my own doing. I haven't read a Sparks book in such a long time and my expecatations were "Notebook" good and it's just not. I am however going to give all four stars for the pure pleasure of the suspense. I was shocked when I was reading the first confession of murder, I hadn't guessed who could have been. I had some wild idea's but I still shocked. It's wraps up in a good old Sparks way with a love story but still a very real, emotional feel to the charectors. I didn't feel like the scenerio in the could never happen in real life just that emotion of love, fear, the desire for a new love and hope.