Katherine C. (KBC) reviewed on + 42 more book reviews
Nice easy read. If you like sweet love stories, you'll love this book (from the same author that wrote The Notebook).
When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman, Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks- risks no one else in the department would ever take- to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He cant fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves a s soon as their crisis is over, as soon as the relationship starts to become truly intimate.
Then, one day, a raging record-breaking storm hits his small Southern town, Denise Holton, a young single mother, is driving through it when her car skids off the road. With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything. Unconscious and bleeding, she- but not Kyle- will be found by Taylor McAden. And when she wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to both of them: Kyle is gone.
During the search for Kyle, the connection, the lifeline, between Taylor and Denise takes root. Taylor doesn't know that this rescue will be different from all the others, demanding far more than raw physical courage. That it will lead him to the possibility of his own rescue from a life lived without love. That it will require him to live life to the fullest by daring to love.
In The Rescue, Nicholas Sparks weaves his inimitable spell, immersing us in the passions and the surprising complexities of modern relationships- and in doing so, teaching us something about our own.
When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman, Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks- risks no one else in the department would ever take- to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He cant fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves a s soon as their crisis is over, as soon as the relationship starts to become truly intimate.
Then, one day, a raging record-breaking storm hits his small Southern town, Denise Holton, a young single mother, is driving through it when her car skids off the road. With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything. Unconscious and bleeding, she- but not Kyle- will be found by Taylor McAden. And when she wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to both of them: Kyle is gone.
During the search for Kyle, the connection, the lifeline, between Taylor and Denise takes root. Taylor doesn't know that this rescue will be different from all the others, demanding far more than raw physical courage. That it will lead him to the possibility of his own rescue from a life lived without love. That it will require him to live life to the fullest by daring to love.
In The Rescue, Nicholas Sparks weaves his inimitable spell, immersing us in the passions and the surprising complexities of modern relationships- and in doing so, teaching us something about our own.
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