Nicholas Sparks Is A Sadist

"It's almost summer!! You have to read Safe Haven," a bookish friend of mine recently suggested as we passed each other at the ballpark. "It's so good and you'll love it." I nodded. I'm always looking for a good book.

"And when you finish," she continued, "we can go watch it at the movies."

"It's a date!" I proclaimed, made a note in my phone and headed home. When I kicked the kids off of the computer, I looked up Safe Haven to see if our library had it. We are three weeks from summer vacation--it's time I started my summer-fun reading.  Good news was that they did have the book. Bad news was that it was written by Nicholas Sparks.