The Last Song written by Nicholas Sparks is a really emotional book about a seventeen year old girl named Ronnie who has to go visit her father in North Carolina for a summer. She is not looking forward to seeing him, based on the fact that he left her, her mother and her brother to pursue his musical career. Ronnie and her father had not talked since he left New York which was three years ago and she did not plan on making much conversation while she was there. The book is mainly about how Ronnie adjusted to life with a man who she dreaded thinking about and another who was a North Carolina native with strong feelings for her.
Ronnie gets to North Carolina with her younger brother, Jonah and immediately rejects her father's attempts to reach out to her and has plans to get herself back to New York before the summer ends. Ronnie has a hard time making friends and getting along with people and you can tell that makes her feel very uncomfortable, though she would never admit that. But by a strange twist of events she meets Will, who she is clearly attracted to and who is clearly attracted to her. It's a rocky start for them but eventually they form a bond that really sucks you into the book and makes you want to keep reading. Now, Ronnie finds that she can't get herself to leave North Carolina and decides to at least make ends meet with her father, which is the conflict. Ronnie has a hard time opening up and letting her father back in her life after everything that happened. He repeatedly tries to make things better and eventually succeeds.
"'I'm out of here, okay? I'm calling mom and I'm going home.' 'That bad, huh?'She turned toward him.'Please don't make me stay. I don't like it here. I don't like the people here. I don't fit in here. I don't belong here. I want to go home.' Her dad said nothing, but she saw the disappointment in his face. 'I'm sorry,' she added. 'And it's not you, okay? If you call, I'll talk to you. And you can come see me in New York and we'll spend time together, okay?'
Ronnie goes through a lot of happiness and a lot of pain throughout the story. During the climax of the book, you find out that Ronnie's father, Steve, is very ill with stomach cancer which puts a near-future limit to how long he has to live, her and Will's relationship gets messy and all in all she has a hard time figuring out how to handle everything that used to be so good, and is now so complicated. Both Will and her father have become very important people to her so it's not easy to go through such an emotional rollarcoaster of events with both of them.
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