Remain by Nicholas Sparks with “M. Night Shyamalan”
How would you convince a person to read a romance novel which is specifically not their cup of coffee, except when it’s written by Haruki Murakami? You bring in M. Night Shyamalan.
I’ve been binge-watching all of M. Night Shyamalan's movies (watched all his movies in 3 days), and it was a surreal experience to learn so much about filmmaking (Highly recommend you watch all his movies). So I was researching everything about this great director, and that’s when I came across that he is now working on a new movie, which is also made into a book (idea by M. Night Shyamalan, written by Nicholas Sparks). I knew the next moment that I’m gonna drop whatever book I was reading and gonna start reading this supernatural romance novel.
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When a book or movie mentions supernatural, it’ll always be the usual stuff: ghosts, jump scares, people getting haunted, and inanimate objects moving on their own. Well, this book got those as well, but it’s all said in a very different way, a unique approach to a supernatural romance story, which doesn't make it cliché.
When you're somewhere around chapter 5 or 6, you might have an idea that this story is gonna be like the movie “The Sixth Sense” (if you know you know). But the next chapter immediately takes that idea away from you and puts you on a different ride, which is so smooth the whole way. The characters were well written, and each chapter feels like a perfectly written screenplay for a movie. Since I haven't read any of Nicholas Sparks' novels, I'm not sure what his writing will be like. But the flow was very good; I never felt a drag anywhere in the middle of the story.
The story, in simple terms, is about the protagonist trying to get out of his depressed mind and finding love with the help of a girl. Sounds simple, right? I can’t say anything beyond this, because I can’t move forward anymore without breaking the beautiful part of the story. I highly recommend that you pick up this book right away and start reading. Because once you start, there’s no stopping.
