'Music like that doesn't just grow like bananas, you know.''(38) Nana is such a likable character, it's impossible for her not to grow on you. 'Seventy-six going on seventeen, she laughed out loud, banged pans with the spoon when she cooked, adored baseball, and turned the radio up to ear-shattering levels whenever NPR featured the Big Band Era. She's an old lady, but is full of young spirit, with quirky sayings that leave me thinking. But once everything settled down, I immediately fell in love with each character. The Lucky One, by Nicholas Sparks, shows the impact of what one person may have and the interesting twists our lives take.Īt first, I wasn't quite sure what part each character had in the book, and it took a while before Logan and Elizabeth met face to face. Though this romantic novel was slightly hard to get into at first, I powered on, and the intriguing characters and sweet moments kept me hooked. However, as he grows closer to their family, and closer to Elizabeth, the secret of his photograph might ruin everything he's been lucky enough to find. Logan ends up in North Carolina and finds himself a place in the lives of Elizabeth Green, her son, Ben, and her Nana. When he returns from his tour, he finally decides to go on a journey to find her.

But during a tour of Iraq, when he finds photograph of a young woman, he suddenly has a streak of good luck. Superstition, lucky charms, fate - U.S Marine Logan Thibault has never believed in that stuff.

The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks