A review by kschilke
Two By Two by Nicholas Sparks

2.0

It pains me to give a Sparks book two stars, but this book was actually painful to read. I'm a huge fan of his books, which might be why I was so disappointed with this one. I wanted to love it. And I read all 400+ pages hoping my mind would change. But the quality of this book...the plot, character development, even the writing...was not that great. So many typos!! Did someone even edit this? Was it rushed to the press too soon?? Not only was the story so-so but the typos were just distracting. Words were missing, or words appeared twice right after each other. For a well known writer I expected a little more attention on that front.
The story just lacked his usual touch for me. I found myself getting angry and frustrated with the some of the characters and unfortunately did not get any relief from this frustration.
I never write reviews on here...but I felt he need to for this. My mother in law and I usually share copies of his books or buy each other copies as gifts. I was too embarrassed to buy her a copy of this one, and even gave her many disclaimers before she borrowed my copy.
I hope his next book is much better quality than this.