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    Safe Haven

    Written by Nicholas Sparks

    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman

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    About this audiobook

    When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.

    But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateSep 14, 2010
    ISBN9781607886181
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    Safe Haven
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    Nicholas Sparks

    Nicholas Sparks nació en Estados Unidos en la Nochevieja de 1965. Su primer éxito fue El cuaderno de Noah, al que siguió Mensaje en una botella, que han sido llevadas al cine, al igual que otros de sus éxitos como Noches de tormenta, Querido John y La última canción. Es autor de más de 20 novelas que han sido traducidas a más de 50 idiomas y publicadas en 25 países.

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    • 4/5
      Predictable, but good.
    • 3/5
      I stopped being a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks around the time I hit twenty. His writing and story lines used to seem so romantic to me, but then I started to notice trends among each of his books. Someone always dies and it was usually the character I wanted to live. Depressing to say the least.

      I read that this novel was different so I thought I would try again. I almost stopped towards the beginning of the novel when the main characters were beginning to "fall" for one another because I literally started to choke due to the mere cheesiness of it all. Luckily, Kevin's first chapter and "Kate's" back story began to emerge. It became interesting and I stuck with it. I liked seeing into Kevin's twisted mind because it is so far from my own. I wanted Kate to kick his trash!

      I like it up until the end. Kevin gets incredibly drunk and the narration becomes so hard to follow that I felt as if maybe I was drunk. (Then I realized it was the middle of a work day and I don't drink.) Sparks began to lose me again and then completely lost me with that weird ending. It isn't that I don't believe in spirits, it was just too much for me to handle.

      I think this is one of Sparks better novels. (All the people you really like don't randomly die.) I think this will be the last one I pick up for a few years. I need to recover from the cheese factor.
    • 4/5
      A sweet book. One that I read in a couple of days. I liked a lot of things about this book. Katie, the struggles that she has faced and decided she needed to fix it. Alex, widower with 2 sweet kids, trying to so his best. They both live in the same small down. And inevitably they meet. Kevin also an interesting character. It was great to get to see how he thought.I felt that this was a well written book with so much to keep you reading and keep your interest. 4 stars.
    • 5/5
      Really exciting book!!
    • 3/5
      A little slow at the start but then it picked up during the last few chapters. I didn't even go see the movie.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the suspense toward the end of the book. It was more suspenseful than other Nicholas Sparks I have read. An enjoyable easy relaxing book to sit in the recliner with on a Saturday afternoon.
    • 5/5
      The suspense in this book kept me from putting it down. Not like other Nicholas Sparks books where I was left sobbing. I really enjoyed reading this book. Don't watch the movie. Hollywood didn't do it justice. The book is much better,
    • 4/5
      Another great work by Nicholas Sparks. Katie is making a new start in a small town called Southport. She has a dark secret past that she's fearful of exposure. She has very little to call her own, but she's safe... for now. She meets two people she befriends and begins to slowly trust amidst her reluctance to grow close to anyone. Her past haunts her and she knows she must face it again one day, but when that happens will she take a stand or will she give up everything she's worked for in Southport?
      This was a great read. I enjoyed the way the reader learned about Katie's past in sections until it finally all came out. It was a pretty realistic portrayal of situations some women might find themselves in. This was pretty face paced and full of action towards the end.
    • 4/5
      Safe Haven is about a woman named Katie who flees to an obscure town in North Carolina after years of suffering from the abuse of her husband. She meets a widowed man named Alex and falls in love with him and his two kids. There is just one problem; Katie is still married, and her husband is looking for her.Safe Haven was a pretty typical Nicholas Sparks book. There were sad parts and happy parts, and I really liked the ending. It ended as well as it good have under the circumstances. After reading Nicholas Sparks' memoir, I began to notice a lot of similarities between things that happen in his books and things that happen in real life. I really like that he adds such personal connections to his stories.If you like Nicholas Sparks books, you will like this one.Happy reading!
    • 3/5
      While Nicholas Sparks is not a fantastic writer, he does know how to tell a love story any girl will fall for. Overall the writing was predictable and flat, but the more I read, the more I needed to finish.
    • 3/5
      This was a breeze to get through. One lazy Sunday and BAM it's down. Occasionally, I like to read a fast, no brainer, romantic book and this fit the bill. Nicholas Sparks has the ability to suck you in with his too good to be true romances and this is no exception.Katie is a girl running from a haunted past (aka abusive husband) and she lands in, Southport, a sleepy town thousands of miles away from her husband. She tries to stay inconspicuous and under the radar but soon she attracts the attention of Alex, an attractive widower with two small children. Of course Alex is the most perfect of men and she succumbs to his good looks and manners, but what happens if her past catches up to her? Read to find out more. This is a perfect beach read, although not my favorite Nicholas Sparks novel (I do however plan on seeing the movie next month!)
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this Nicholas Sparks novel. The characters are well-drawn and likeable and the suspense builds up to a satisfying climax. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie.
    • 5/5
      Safe Haven is not the type of love story that we all imagine. She is running away from home because her husband used to abuse her, she could never defend herself, she needed to run away. When she enters a little town, she finds the love of her life afraid of the other man coming for her. I really liked this novel and felt like it was a great book. Nicholas Sparks really knows how to write books. I think I would put this book as a reading, but just the first parts, when she is running away. Students should know that women get abuse by their couples, and that we must stop that.
    • 5/5
      I loved the relationship between katie and alex and admired katie for her strength and intelligence she needed to outwit her husband and get away. Im taking psychology now and i had a huge impression that kevin the husband had schizophrenia. The ending was very sweet and had a little twist I hadn't expected.
    • 4/5
      This book had me intrigued from the getgo. It did take me a while to get into enough that I couldnt put it down. Once I hit about page 60 I.couldnt stop. I feel kevins story was a little drug on with i.sufficient details. I would have liked to know more about him and maybe why he was the way he was. Whether it stemmed from child hood or maybe more. I also would have enjoyed knowing if Katie ever want back to visit her elderly neighbor. The book like I said was good. I gave 4 stars because it was kinda drug on. If the author was going to go so in depth with details I would have liked it being more relevant things. I would have also like to see Kevins outcome a little different. It seemed too easy, he felt like he was playing God I would have liked him to get what he deserved. He got it too easy for what he put katie through. I also would have liked to see him get a littke more than a slap on the wrist from his captain. Seriously nobody had any suspicion about erins whereabout to actually look into?
    • 3/5
      This novel is pretty much a mystery centered around a women named Katie that moves into a new town. She never wants to speak about her past or where she came from. She becomes close with a man named Alex and falls in love with him. In the end, Katie ends up telling her neighbor the horrifying truth of her past and how she is running from her husband who used to abuse her. I personally enjoyed the book because I love mysteries and drama, but I would probably not read it with students because I do not believe it is appropriate. I think it is important to address abuse and domestic violence, but I think other books would address it better educationally.
    • 5/5
      I enjoy the way Nicholas Sparks writes and brings the main characters to life even if the plot is a little predictable - I wanted Katie and Alex to fall in love, but I didn't imagine all the twists of how this would happen.
    • 1/5
      This is the last NS I am going to attempt. I couldn't get into it, felt so slow to me, and I DNF it.
    • 3/5
      Another okay Sparks' book. The same old Sparks' plot with different characters in different circumstances and situations. A woman or man with a past and they fall in love but the other one is hesitant because of the his/her past but what the heck they still fall in love. A man is always present to ruin their relationship but at the end there will always be a confrontation wither verbally or physically and their love becomes stronger. One of them will be a single parent or divorced or both. I've read it all before with "The Lucky One", "True Believer", "Dear John", "The Rescue", etc. Ever since "The Notebook" and "A Walk to Remember" Sparks haven't written a BETTER novel. I've been waiting for it for so long and I'm always disappointed or left hanging. One thing good about this novel is the twist in the end where Katie's friend Jo is really Carly, Alex's dead wife. Creepy but a really nice touch. The letters she wrote would really affect you and I love how Sparks write letters (remember the letters in "Message in a Bottle"? Really good). I do hope his next novel would be really really good!
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the suspense toward the end of the book. It was more suspenseful than other Nicholas Sparks I have read. An enjoyable easy relaxing book to sit in the recliner with on a Saturday afternoon.
    • 5/5
      I didn't think I would like this book but I was shocked that in the end I loved this book. This was the first book by this author that I have read and I was pleasantly surprised. I loved the storyline in this book and I loved everything about the ending. I saw parts of the ending coming but the major parts I had no idea was going to happen and I love when books can surprise me.
    • 3/5
      So goddamn depressing. Good book though. Definitely not my ideal evening read.
    • 5/5
      Another wonderful love story by N. Sparks that provides great reading for a rainy weekend or vacation time read. A woman escapes her abusive husband-who also is a cop-to rebuild her life in a new town. Of course her past comes back to haunt her and she must face her abuser.
    • 3/5
      Yikes really thought I wrote a review for this...

      Do you really only get one chance for love? Safe Haven is a book about one woman who thought she was in love, but only ended up scared for her life. And a man who loved and lost. I liked parts of the book better with the build up of her escape instead of the movie.
    • 3/5
      This may be the first Nicholas Sparks book that didn't make me cry.

      It was going to be a two star, but then at the end, there was a neat twist involving the one character I really liked in the book (Jo), so I bumped it up to three stars.

      NS's books are so ridiculously formulaic, but I continue to enjoy them because I like escaping to and spending time in the small and scenic towns his books are set in, and no matter what, the book is bound to move me at some point. This was the first time I considered purposely choosing an abridged audiobook - I HATE the concept of abridging books - but I really should have gone with the abidged. I don't think the story would have lost much. There was so much content that could have been cut out. But then again, that more mundane content is what contributes to the reader being able to more fully live the characters' lives.
    • 3/5
      A beautiful, powerful ending made up for a bland main character who's personality seemed to be defined exclusively by the man she was with, and the man she left. She seemed to only be motivated by survival and making others happy; she had no quirks, no dreams, no passions. Despite all this, I did enjoy the story much more towards the end.
    • 5/5
      This book was AMAZINGGGGG! I finished it in a day and it was so good! i couldnt stop reading! i thought all the characters were very well developed and the story line was very easy to follow. the characters touched your heart, and thats the mark of a great novel. its just another amazing book by Nicholas Sparks.
    • 5/5
      This book was really good. I bought it to read before I would go see the movie. It started out interesting and ended well. The characters were interesting. I have read other Nicholas Sparks books that were much better than this one but this was a great read as well.
    • 3/5
      Katie's running from her abusive husband who, unfortunately for her, is a very talented police detective. After a lot of ingenuity and courage, she lands in a small North Carolina coastal town where she's trying to pick up the pieces. She meets a local store owner, Alex, who is patient and kind and is a widower with two children whom she is drawn to when she visits the store. She also befriends a woman, Jo, who moves into the cottage next to hers. Jo is a grief counselor and Katie finally shares her story and secrets with her new friend and is encouraged by the somewhat pushy woman to trust Alex and even to start a relationship with him.The relationship progresses slowly and comes across as a true friendship and healing for them both, and Katie provides a needed presence in the children's lives as well.In the meantime, Katie's husband's life is disintegrating and his mental state is progressively getting more and more erratic, causing him to get suspended from the police force. Now he can devote all his time to tracking down his wife. Yikes. I liked how the author gave us his point of view as well and we were able to see what he was thinking as he was in his downward spiral and while he was lost in his rage. Crazy stuff goes down before Katie and Alex get their happy ending. : )
    • 3/5
      Much too predictably Sparks to be anything special. Or my head just wasn't into it.Radically abused wife of police officer finally escapes him and finds herself in a small Southern town. He goes nuts, starts drinking way too much, gets himself suspended and decides to hunt her down and bring her back. Meantime she is just beginning to feel safe and begins to trust people shortly before he finds her. Things turn sour very quickly. Best part of the book:"She'd put the steaks in the marinade the day before:red wine, orange juice, grapefruit juice, salt and pepper.The acidity of the juices made the meat tender and gaveit extra flavor. It was in a casserole dish on the bottomshelf of the refrigerator."I think I am going to have to try that marinade.I rated this one a 2 1/2 star read.