A review by carolinereader
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

2.0

I'm pretty certain Nicholas Sparks just spends weekends writing sickeningly bad stories meant to touch women who really just want to read romance novels but don't want to be seen reading them. The writing is poor, the plot lines are dumb and predictable, and there is rarely anything to make you look back and thing, "Well, at least I got that out of it."

That said, each of his books seems to be uniquely qualified to become a Lifetime-esque chick flick. Hollywood seems to agree. So if that's your favorite movie genre, but you need something to bring to the beach that could just as easily be swalled up by the tides, these are your books.