"The Longest Ride" Overview

As you can probably tell this is a typical "Nicholas Sparks love story", boy meets troubled girl they fall in love and conquer the world together. Well, more or less. Although this is true, Nicholas tells this story in a different way. He tells it from three different perspectives. Very different perspectives. Ira, an old man stuck in the past, and of course Luke and Sophia. Luke and Sophia. Cowboy and Jersey girl. Hot and cold. I guess what they say is true, opposites attract. Yeah yeah its predictable but it keeps the readers reading, you can't argue with that. The scenarios aren't very realistic but that doesn't mean that they aren't relatable, because they are. You can relate to the emotions of the characters. They are "normal" people in a "normal" world,  just like we are. So yes, this book follows the status quo of a sappy love story, but isn't that what we like? We like to know the endings to the book, you'd be lying if you said you've never read the last page of the book before you even started it. As readers we like to know what we are in for because who likes to read a book that doesn't end well. Nobody.