Title: One Star Too Many
Product review: Perhaps those who endeavor to teach the English language should use "Message in a Bottle" as an example of how not to write fiction. The fact that this poorly-written book made it, not only to publication, but also to best-seller status, remains a mystery to me. I'd like to know where Nicholas Sparks' editor was when he/she read the following passage (page 170 of the copy I borrowed from my library): "She was short of breath as she reached for the snap on his jeans. Meeting his eyes again, she unsnapped them, then slowly slid the zipper down." This image of eyeballs with snaps and zippers is horrifying, to say nothing of painful, and it's only one of a thousand glaring stupidities in a banal and trite little book. I finished reading it merely to see just how much worse the plot and writing could get. I wasn't disappointed. It fulfilled all of my lowly expectations.
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