The Last Song Review

Whether you consider The Last Song to be an evocative love story or a coming-of-age tale, it will provoke a cacophony of intense emotions, more profound when you identify with each character and the story unfolds from each character’s point of view. The Last Song is about the unconditional love of a parent, the complicated emotions of a teen growing to adulthood and realising their parents have feet of clay. The Last Song investigates the complicated emotions entangled amidst the growing knowledge that other people’s needs and emotions are as important to them as yours are to you. The Last Song is an awakening: each character describes, from their own point of view, how they became entwined in this state of affairs that has led to this summer they are sharing.

Veronica Miller is seventeen when her parents get divorced. As a result, her father moves from the family home in New York City and sets up his new home in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. The Last Song describes how, for three years, Veronica Miller refuses to have anything to do with her father as she blames him for breaking up the family. From the father, Steve’s, point of view, he was a teacher and former concert pianist whose desperate need to create his own masterpiece led to the break-up of his marriage. Following his dream cost him the love of his children. The Last Song also tells his story, as described by him. Veronica’s mother decided it was time for Veronica to get to know her father and attempt to re-build their relationship. Veronica and her brother Jonah are packed off to spend the summer with their father at Wrightsville Beach.

The Last Song describes how, as well as the emotions surrounding the fractured relationship between herself and her parents, Veronica becomes involved with Will. This meeting, according to The Last Song will alter the channel of her life to date. Will has his own role to play in The Last Song, narrating his own feelings and emotions that are entwined with Veronica’s. This novel is a love story with a difference. The love involves the experiences surrounding first love, the love for parents, the love of parents for their children - and all the complications these emotions engender. Ultimately, The Last Song is about forgiveness: learning how to forgive yourself for past actions and errors of judgement that impinge on the lives of those surrounding you - those people you realise that you love and are as much a part of yourself as you are.

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