Typical Story, untypical style of writing for Sparks

I read this whole book on an airplane trip...now mind you it was a 17 hour trip but never the less it kept my attention. The book starts out with a few main characters. The characters are well thought out but not very descriptive. The style of writing of the book was also a little different than the typical Nicholas Sparks book.

Adrienne Willis, has three children she has brought up. Matt, Amanda, and Dan are the loves of her life. Adrienne sits her daughter down one day, and decides to tell her girl the story of her life because she is upset that she is not handling her father's death from cancer well. This is where the true story begins.

What is interesting about this novel is that instead of flashing back to the past and then going to the present at the end of the book, this book goes back and forth like a true store being told. It is a unique way to portray the story and although the story is predictable within a few chapters there is a great deal of realistic emotion and deals with situations that many individuals can relate to.

The way he describes the situations, characters and their lives never fails to be wonderful but this book is a little cliché a little awkward and underdeveloped at times. I would still read it but I do not think it is his best work. I also have high expectations reading all of his other books before this one.