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Book Review By Catie Griffiths
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

Theresa finds a message in a bottle on the shore of a beach in Cape Cod. The letter is from a man named Garrett to his lost love Catherine. She publishes it in her newpaper column and gets a lot of feedback. In this feedback she recieves another letter from Garrett to Catherine and she decides to find Garrett. She goes down to Wilmington, NC and meets an amazing man. Garrett and Theresa fall in love but Garrett is still in love with Catherine, his deceased wife. Will Garrett give all of his romantic attention to Theresa before its too late?


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Inner struggle subplot Yes
Struggle with...
If one lover chases another... - she chases after him
Phone/email/mail relationship Yes
Kind of relationship: - love affair by letters

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Sex makes him

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Effect of sexing

Setting
Water? Yes
Water: - drowning - sail boat - lost at sea - scuba under
City? Yes
City: - Boston

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
What % of story is romance related? - 50%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - Boob talk - Weiner talk
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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