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As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter of the town psychic. Now, if the young lovers are to have any kind of future at all, Jeremy must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows, or do something he could never do before-take a giant leap of faith.
A story about taking chances and following your heart, TRUE BELIEVER will make you, too, believe in the miracle of love.
With over 95 million copies of his books sold, Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved storytellers. His novels include twelve #1 New York Times bestsellers, and all his books, including Three Weeks with My Brother, the memoir he wrote with his brother, Micah, have been New York Times and international bestsellers, and were translated into more than fifty languages. Nine of Nicholas Sparks's novels-The Best of Me, Safe Haven, The Lucky One, The Last Song, Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle-were also adapted into major motion pictures with The Longest Ride coming in Spring 2015. In 2011, he established the Nicholas Sparks Foundation to inspire and transform students' lives through education, curriculum development, and life-changing international experiences. To learn more, go to www.NicholasSparksFoundation.org. The author lives in North Carolina with his wife and family. You can visit him at www.NicholasSparks.com.
It's possible that Sparks might have enjoyed his level of popularity by writing these stories strictly from imagination, but in fact his family's struggles play an important role in many of his books, especially the earliest novels. (For exampleThe Notebook, his tale of a great love affair extending into old age, was inspired by his wife's grandparents; Message in a Bottle drew from Sparks' father's life story and A Walk to Remember from his late sister's.) In addition, a three-week trip he and his older sibling Micah undertook in 2003 became the basis for Three Weeks with My Brother, a unique memoir as moving and tenderhearted as any of his fiction.
Sparks is very methodical about his writing, an approach he makes transparent on his web site with several essays, updates on works in progress, and notes on the mechanics of his novels. Unsurprisingly, critics have faulted him for being too formulaic or cliched. Still, Sparks never fails to move his stories along quickly, maximizing emotional impact and featuring strong, down-to-earth characters. His endings also tend to depart from convention a bit, revealing tragedy where the walk into the sunset should be.
Although he is often classified as a Romance writer, Sparks is quick to point out that his books don't really satisfy the requirements of Romance publishers. Instead, he admits to writing love stories, a different genre altogether. Whatever he cares to call them, one thing's for sure: Nicholas Sparks continues to strike gold with his bittersweet novels of love and loss.
Blockbuster film adaptations of Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and The Notebook have turned Sparks into a successful Hollywood franchise.
Sparks' wife is probably one of the most envied wives around. She met Nicholas in college at spring break, where he informed her that they would be married. She laughed him off, but they were married just over a year later. He told Barnes & Noble.com in a 1999 interview, "I suppose I'm a romantic. Ladies Home Journal has even called me the Most Romantic Husband in America. In fact, I sent my wife a dozen roses today."
Sparks was still selling pharmaceuticals and had only just delivered the final version of The Notebook to his agent when she called, two days after receiving the manuscript, telling him she expected "something big." That something big materialized within the week: a $1 million offer from Warner Books.
Sparks holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Clearing his mind, he tried to focus his attention on the guest again. This guy was beyond ridiculous. In the glare of television lights, Jeremy thought the spirit guide looked constipated as he claimed to hear voices from beyond the grave. He had assumed a false intimacy, acting as if he were everyone's brother or best friend, and it seemed that the vast majority of the awestruck audience-including the attractive blonde and the woman the guest was addressing-considered him a gift from heaven itself. Which made sense, Jeremy thought, since that was always where the lost loved ones ended up. Spirits from beyond the grave were always surrounded by bright angelic light and enveloped in an aura of peace and tranquillity. Never once had Jeremy heard of a spirit guide channeling from the other, hotter place. A lost loved one never mentioned that he was being roasted on a spit or boiled in a cauldron of motor oil, for instance. But Jeremy knew he was being cynical. And besides, he had to admit, it was a pretty good show. Timothy Clausen was good-far better than most of the quacks Jeremy had written about over the years.
"I know it's hard," Clausen said into the microphone, "but Frank is telling you that it's time to let him go now."
The woman he was addressing with oh-so-much empathy looked as if she was about to faint. Fiftyish, she wore a green-striped blouse, her curly red hair sprouting and spiraling in every direction. Her hands were clasped so tightly at chest level that her fingers were white from the pressure.
Clausen paused and brought his hand to his forehead, drawing once more on "the world beyond," as he put it. In the silence, the crowd collectively leaned forward in their seats. Everyone knew what was coming next; this was the third audience member Clausen had chosen today. Not surprisingly, Clausen was the only featured guest on the popular talk show.
"Do you remember the letter he sent you?" Clausen asked. "Before he died?"
The woman gasped. The crewman beside her held the microphone even closer so that everyone watching on television would be able to hear her clearly.
"Yes, but how could you know about-?" she stammered.
Clausen didn't let her finish. "Do you remember what it said?" he asked.
"Yes," the woman croaked.
Clausen nodded, as if he'd read the letter himself. "It was about forgiveness, wasn't it?"
On the couch, the hostess of the show, the most popular afternoon talk show in America, swiveled her gaze from Clausen to the woman and back again. She looked both amazed and satisfied. Spirit guides were always good for ratings.
As the woman in the audience nodded, Jeremy noticed mascara beginning to stream down her cheeks. The cameras zoomed in to show it more clearly. Daytime television at its dramatic best.
"But how could you ...?" the woman repeated.
"He was talking about your sister, too," Clausen murmured. "Not just himself."
The woman stared at Clausen transfixed.
"Your sister Ellen," Clausen added, and with that revelation, the woman finally let loose a raspy cry. Tears burst forth like an automated sprinkler. Clausen-tan and trim in his black suit with nary a hair out of place-continued to nod like one of those bobbing dogs you stick on your dashboard. The audience gazed at the woman in utter silence.
"Frank left something else for you, didn't he? Something from your past."
In spite of the hot studio lights, the woman actually seemed to pale. In the corner of the set, beyond the general viewing area, Jeremy saw the producer rotating an upraised finger in a helicopter pattern. It was getting close to the commercial break. Clausen glanced almost imperceptibly in that direction. No one but Jeremy seemed to notice, and he often wondered why viewers never questioned how channeling from the spirit world could be timed so perfectly to fit with commercial breaks.
Clausen went on. "That no one else could know about. A key of some sort, is that right?"
The sobs continued as the woman nodded.
"You never thought he'd save it, did you?"
Okay, here's the clincher, Jeremy thought. Another true believer on the way.
"It's from the hotel where you stayed on your honeymoon. He put it there so that when you found it, you would remember the happy times you spent together. He doesn't want you to remember him with pain, because he loves you."
"Ooohhhhhhh ...," the woman cried.
Or something like that. A moan perhaps. From where he was sitting Jeremy couldn't be certain, because the cry was interrupted by sudden, enthusiastic applause. All at once, the microphone was pulled away. Cameras zoomed out. Her moment in the sun completed, the woman from the audience collapsed in her seat. On cue, the hostess stood from the couch and faced the camera.
"Remember that what you're seeing is real. None of these people have ever met with Timothy Clausen." She smiled. "We'll be back with one more reading after this."
More applause as the show broke for commercials, and Jeremy leaned back in his seat.
As an investigative journalist known for his interest in science, he'd made a career out of writing about people like this. Most of the time, he enjoyed what he did and took pride in his work as a valuable public service, in a profession so special as to have its rights enumerated in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. For his regular column in Scientific American, he'd interviewed Nobel laureates, explained the theories of Stephen Hawking and Einstein in lay terms, and had once been credited with sparking the groundswell of public opinion that led the FDA to remove a dangerous antidepressant from the market. He'd written extensively about the Cassini project, the faulty mirror on the lens of the Hubble spacecraft, and had been one of the first to publicly decry the Utah cold fusion experiment as a fraud.
Unfortunately, as impressive as it sounded, his column didn't pay much. It was the freelance work that paid most of his bills, and like all freelancers, he was always hustling to come up with stories that would interest magazine or newspaper editors. His niche had broadened to include "anything unusual," and in the past fifteen years, he'd researched and investigated psychics, spirit guides, faith healers, and mediums. He'd exposed frauds, hoaxes, and forgeries. He'd visited haunted houses, searched for mystical creatures, and hunted for the origins of urban legends. Skeptical by nature, he also had the rare ability to explain difficult scientific concepts in a way the average reader could understand, and his articles had appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines around the world. Scientific debunking, he felt, was both noble and important, even if the public didn't always appreciate it. Frequently, the mail he received after publishing his freelance articles was peppered with words like "idiot," "moron," and his personal favorite, "government flunky."
Investigative journalism, he'd come to learn, was a thankless business.
Reflecting on this with a frown, he observed the audience chatting eagerly, wondering who would be chosen next. Jeremy stole another glance at the blonde, who was examining her lipstick in a hand mirror.
Jeremy already knew that the people chosen by Clausen weren't officially part of the act, even though Clausen's appearance was announced in advance and people had fought wildly for tickets to the show. Which meant, of course, that the audience was loaded with life-after-death believers. To them, Clausen was legitimate. How else could he know such personal things about strangers, unless he talked to spirits? But like any good magician who had his repertoire down pat, the illusion was still an illusion, and right before the show, Jeremy not only had figured out how he was pulling it off, but had the photographic evidence to prove it.
Bringing down Clausen would be Jeremy's biggest coup to date, and it served the guy right. Clausen was the worst kind of con man. And yet the pragmatic side of Jeremy also realized that this was the kind of story that rarely came along, and he wanted to make the most of it. Clausen, after all, was on the cusp of enormous celebrity, and in America, celebrity was all that mattered. Though he knew the odds were utterly improbable, he fantasized about what would happen if Clausen actually picked him next. He didn't expect it; being chosen was akin to winning the trifecta at Santa Anita; and even if it didn't happen, Jeremy knew he'd still have a quality story. But quality and extraordinary were often separated by simple twists of fate, and as the commercial break ended, he felt the slightest twinge of unjustified hope that somehow Clausen would zero in on him.
And, as if God himself wasn't exactly thrilled with what Clausen was doing, either, that was exactly what happened.
Three weeks later, winter in Manhattan was bearing down hard. A front from Canada had moved in, dropping temperatures to nearly zero, and plumes of steam rose steadily from the sewer grates before settling over the icy sidewalks. Not that anyone seemed to mind. New York's hardy citizens displayed their usual indifference to all things weather-related, and Friday nights were not to be wasted under any circumstance. People worked too hard during the week to waste an evening out, especially when there was reason to celebrate. Nate Johnson and Alvin Bernstein had already been celebrating for an hour, as had a couple of dozen friends and journalists-some from Scientific American-who'd assembled in Jeremy's honor. Most were well into the buzz phase of the evening and enjoying themselves immensely, mostly because journalists tended to be budget-conscious and Nate was picking up the tab.
Nate was Jeremy's agent. Alvin, a freelance cameraman, was Jeremy's best friend, and they'd gathered at the trendy bar on the Upper West Side to celebrate Jeremy's appearance on ABC's Primetime Live. Commercials for Primetime Live had been airing that week-most of them featuring Jeremy front and center and the promise of a major exposé-and interview requests were pouring into Nate's office from around the country. Earlier that afternoon, People magazine had called, and an interview was scheduled for the following Monday morning.
There hadn't been enough time to organize a private room for the get-together, but no one seemed to mind. With its long granite bar and dramatic lighting, the packed facility was yuppieville. While the journalists from Scientific American tended to wear tweed sport jackets with pocket protectors and were crowded into one corner of the room discussing photons, most of the other patrons looked as if they'd dropped by after finishing up at work on Wall Street or Madison Avenue: Italian suit jackets slung over the backs of chairs, Hermès ties loosened, men who seemed to want to do nothing more than to scope out the women in attendance while flashing their Rolexes. Women straight from work in publishing and advertising were dressed in designer skirts and impossibly high heels, sipping flavored martinis while pretending to ignore the men. Jeremy himself had his eye on a tall redhead standing at the other end of the bar who appeared to be glancing his way. He wondered if she recognized him from the television ads, or whether she just wanted some company. She turned away, apparently uninterested, but then looked his way again. With her gaze lingering just a little longer this time, Jeremy raised his glass.
"C'mon, Jeremy, pay attention," Nate said, nudging him with his elbow. "You're on TV! Don't you want to see how you did?"
Jeremy turned from the redhead. Glancing up at the screen, he saw himself sitting opposite Diane Sawyer. Strange, he thought, like being in two places at once. It still didn't seem quite real. Nothing in the past three weeks had seemed real, despite his years in media.
On-screen, Diane was describing him as "America's most esteemed scientific journalist." Not only had the story turned out to be everything he'd wanted, but Nate was even talking to Primetime Live about Jeremy doing regular stories for them with a possibility of additional features on Good Morning America. Though many journalists believed television was less important than other, more serious forms of reporting, it didn't stop most of them from secretly viewing television as the Holy Grail, by which they meant big money. Despite the congratulations, envy was in the air, a sensation as foreign to Jeremy as space travel. After all, journalists of his stripe weren't exactly at the top of the media pecking order-until today.
"Did she just call you esteemed?" Alvin asked. "You write about Bigfoot and the legend of Atlantis!"
"Shh," Nate said, his eyes glued to the television. "I'm trying to hear this. It could be important for Jeremy's career." As Jeremy's agent, Nate was forever promoting events that "could be important for Jeremy's career," for the simple reason that freelancing wasn't all that lucrative. Years earlier, when Nate was starting out, Jeremy had pitched a book proposal, and they'd been working together ever since, simply because they'd become friends.
"Whatever," Alvin said, dismissing the scolding.
Meanwhile, flickering on the screen behind Diane Sawyer and Jeremy were the final moments of Jeremy's performance on the daytime television show, in which Jeremy had pretended to be a man grieving the boyhood death of his brother, a boy Clausen claimed to be channeling for Jeremy's benefit.
"He's with me," Clausen could be heard announcing. "He wants you to let him go, Thad." The picture shifted to capture Jeremy's rendition of an anguished guest, his face contorted. Clausen nodded in the background, either oozing sympathy or looking constipated, depending on the perspective.
"Your mother never changed his room-the room you shared with him. She insisted that it be kept unchanged, and you still had to sleep there," Clausen went on.
"Yes," Jeremy gasped.
Continues...
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Posted Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The PW description seduced me into thinking it was a story about journalist investigating mysterious lights. It isn't. The lights serve only to get Our Hero to the place where he meets cliched smart beautiful librarian, so that he can ultimately embrace the charms of rural life.
Now, just about every romance formula is done over and over, and if it is done well, I enjoy it over and over. I did not think this was done well. The characters were all surface; there was no apparent reason for Hero to fall for this particular woman or she for him (except that pickings are slim in a very small town). And it struck me as being purely anti-modernist/technological -- a tiny backwater town equated with all that is good.This is a delightful novel. I liked the setting, because it is an area of NC I know quite well. As with many of Sparks' novels, any twists or turns in the plot are resolved, usually positively. Reading about good things vs action and killing is refreshing.It seems every book I read gets better and better. I love anything and everything that Nicholas Sparks comes out with. I love the fact that he takes me inside the books and I can't help but to read on.
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Posted Mon May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2005
i had a countdown of the days til 'true believer' came out in stores. i bought it and was immediately immersed in it. when i was down the shore this weekend, i never left my room, racing to satisfy my thirst of nicholas sparks' romance, but slowing myself just enough so i could enjoy it. 'true believer' has many turns and twists - and although some of sparks' books can be somewhat predictable- this one was different. i was extremely pleased.
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Posted Sun Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2012
Save your money.....I started skimming very early in this book, say about page 150....then I said a little prayer that it would get much better....it didn't. So predictable and the corny residents of that "quaint" town were awful.
Sparks failed in this endeavor unless you like to be bored.
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Posted Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2012
True Believer
True believer embarks on science journalist Jeremy marsh’s journey of attempting to demystify the unexplained. With Jeremy’s career at its peak, after previously disproving a fake television psychic on live television, he sets off to tackle yet another “explainable” supernatural phenomenon, or so he thought. When word of small town Boone Creek’s mysterious phenomena’s reached Jeremy’s ears he knew he had to research the strange glimmering lights being seen every foggy night in the local cemetery. So he heads off to begin his life changing journey of love and life in a small town.
Jeremy’s first impression of the small town was far from his New Yorker atmosphere of which he previously departed from. Instead he gets complete small town hospitality by quickly being treated like the celebrity that would return the tourists to the forgotten town. After quickly learning all about what small town life was about at the local diner Herbs he set of to find a place to lay his head.
After the mayor manages to employ Jeremy to stay at the Green Leaf Cottages, a local hotel, Jeremy finds himself with a deficiency of technology, heat, and not to mention the constant threatening sounds that haunt his nights. With the current culture shock at hand Jeremy still made due and began his research of the town.
At the beginning of Jeremy’s research he finds himself at the local library in the hopes to kick start the process. At this time he notices Lexie Darnell, the librarian, realizing immediately that she was the girl he observed at his first visit to the cemetery previously that day. After speaking with her he soon finds out she’s the granddaughter of the local psychic Doris Marsh.
Throughout the lackadaisical progression of his research, Jeremy becomes more aware of lexie. He begins to get to know her and begins to notice the person she is, even the cute way that she compelled him by how forward she was, unlike most city girls. This book quickly becomes yet another famous Nicholas Sparks romances, but with a twist.
Throughout their relationship Jeremy learns of the presence of deputy hopper. Deputy hopper had long time had strong feelings for lexie, in which she played a part In keeping the fire going, but never saw it going anywhere. Jeremy quickly swoops in and they fall madly in love leaving deputy hoppers in the dust.
Throughout their love affair Jeremy discovers how related lexie really is to the strange light occurrences. Lexie felt responsible for the mysterious light appearing because after her parents misfortunate accident the lights began to appear. Jeremy quickly discovers in order to keep the girl an keep his happiness, that he must put the matters of the heart first and science behind him, not to mention his previous life. In the end Jeremy discovers the Mayor's father revealed exactly what he thought. The reflection of an incoming train on the local factory, coupled with the extremely thick fog caused by the slow sinking of the soggy graveyard results in the lights appearing on the tombstones. Doris also knows there is a hoax, having her six sense that it was all misunderstood and not ghost’s after all. Jeremy decides to stay with lexie in Boone creek in the end they discover she’s pregnant with a baby girl. They end the book embracing her stomach together.
Overall Nicholas Sparks’ #1 New York Times Best Seller, True Believer is a highly recommended book along with many other of his work such as, The Last Son
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Synopsis:
Jeremy has just pulled off the story of his career about a conman. Now what will he do next? A letter came to him by a lady named Doris from Boone Creek. She told him about some mysterious lights that take place in their cemetery and would be he comes down to investigate? Jeremy journeys to Boone Creek to start his investigation. He meets the people of the town but there is one special one in particular. Lexie Darnell is the librarian who helps Jeremy with his investigation but can she help him with more. What will the investigation discover about the lights?
My Thoughts:
Having been a fan for a long time, I found another great book by Nicholas Sparks. I was very much entertained by the author’s description of this small town and its characters. I think my favorite character was the mayor of the town Mayor Gurgken who helped ad some humor to the story. The main character in this book includes an interest in science. Science personally is one of my least favorite subjects in school. I was as interested in the investigation but felt the story lagged a little.
What makes a story great to you? What flavor does a story need? Do you like romance? What feeling do you need expressed by the author to truly enjoy a book?
What I like is a great relaxing story that occasionally provokes some thought. Nicholas Sparks is great at evoking emotion out of his readers.
I hope you enjoy Nicholas Sparks as much as I have. Please visit his Facebook and website.
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Posted Thu Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2012
Even tho I am a Sparks fan I have to admit it was a bit of a slow start. Once it did pick up I enjoyed it very much.
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Posted Sat Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2013
I always love a nicholas sparks book, & he's done it again!
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Posted Thu Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2013
Nicholas Sparks is AMAZING one day i WILL meet him!!!!!!!!!
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Posted Mon May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2013
He is the best.
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Posted Fri Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2013
Y would u hate itiloveit
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Posted Wed Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2011
I liked this, but it was boring sometimes
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Posted Fri Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2011
This is my least favorite book by Nicholas Sparks. It was slow to start and left little to the imagination. I knew the ending before it was over. I was hoping I was wrong and that there would be a curve ball.. unfortunately not. I feel like I'm reading about similar characters and story lines in every book. I'm taking a little break from his novels.
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Posted Wed Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2011
This was a great book...definately a must read
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Posted Wed Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2010
So I didn't know that At First Sight was a sequel to this book and read that one first. I probably would have enjoyed this one a little more had I not known what was already going to happen. It was very slow for me in the beginning and I had a really hard time getting into it. It picked up a bit the last 100 pages or so. I would recommend reading this one first then reading At First Sight.
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Posted Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014
Well I just got done reading this one and I surely had a way more difficult time getting into it. I am kind of disappointed with this novel and is most likely my least favorite compared to the others which I loved! This is slow and easy to determine the outcome. Not much romance and no cliff hangers or foreshadows. On to the next!
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Posted Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2014
Great Read! I really enjoyed this book, and I think you will, too! Enough said....
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Posted Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2014
I was disappointed by True Believer. I usually find it to be a bit harsh when reviewers label a book as boring, but on this one, I'm afraid I have to agree. This story dragged out, though it finally picked up a little towards the end, it was a very long time coming. Although I am a fan of many of Sparks other books, I am finding that they all have in common the fact that the male lead character always loves the female more than she loves him. Also, I've noticed that in many of his books, I just really don't care for the female characters. I couldn't understand why Jeremy fell for Lexie- and so quickly at that. Her sense of humor came off as very condescending to me. It may be cliche, but can't the women be a tiny bit more charming?
True Believer by Nicholas Sparks
Jeremy Marsh is a New York journalist with the popular magazine "Scientific American,". He is a
skeptic in anything supernatural, fortune tellers, mind readers, ghost hunters, etc. He is sent to a
small South Carolina town named Bone Creek, to investigate the legend of "lights" being seen in the
local cemetery.
Lexie Darnell is the town librarian and the one he goes to for researching this story. Jeremy soon fall
for the lovely Lexie, although she is hesitant to give up her heart so easily. Soon Jeremy is faced with a
major life altering decision. Should he follow his head or his heart?
I liked the story like, the main characters were likable. The descriptions of life in a small American
town (in my opinion) were very accurate. I also loved the cover, yes I do admit Lighthouses are
appealing to me, the cover drew me in, Nicholas Sparks name caught my interest, and the story kept
me reading until late at night.
Romance lovers should enjoy this read.
Anonymous
Posted Sat Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2014
Great Book
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Posted Wed Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2013
What I thought was going to be one of Sparks less popular books ended up being fantastic! I had to read a few chapters before it got really interesting, but it was well worth my time. Excellent book and the follow up book, At First Sight, is excellent as well. Highly recommend this read and all of Spark's works.
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Overview
As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town ...