True Believer by Nicholas Sparks Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of True Believer
Book Review: Powerful Lovestory
Summary: 5 Stars
This book brings out the best of romance, Sparks really knows how to make you care for the people he writes, and brings North Carolina to life for those that have not been lucky enough to have been born there. Book Review: hmmm something off here....
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't know what to say about this book...Something was not quite right with the storyline...OK so, they meet and fall in love. I guess the hardest part of this story is the ending and how Jeremy decides to stay in NC with Lexie in the end...I feel like it was a huge sacrifice for him...
The book also does not paint New Yorkers or Southerners in a positive light. Its very strange. I'm not sure what else is off with this book, but it is definitely not the best Nicholas Sparks book I have read.
Book Review: Avid reader who is not afraid to say she's a Sparks fan!
Summary: 4 Stars
Wow, I am really surprised at a lot of the negative reviews this book got. Much more, surprised that a lot of readers don't enjoy Spark's writing. Someone even said they enjoyed the MOVIES better?! I tell you, I read a LOT, and also am a huge movie addict and off the top of my head can't think of more than one or two movies that I liked better than the book. Anyway.....I am not afraid to say that in addition to reading many other authors and genere's novels, that I am always a sucker for a Sparks book. Maybe it's just because I can sit down and forget about all my problems or stress and just get lost in the story and characters.
Ok, now on for my thoughts specific to this book. As always, I enjoyed the character development and the story. I actually really liked the story line because it was different than what Sparks has written before. Mainly because it focused a lot on Jeremy's job (as a journalist/ghost hunter) and there was a little bit of mystery involved. I suppose it is reminscent of Message in a Bottle, but in that case I felt like the love story was way more prominent. As for the characters, I didn't have a hard time accepting their attraction. Perhaps it is in part because often when I read I'm not a reader who asks a lot of questions- I sort of take things as they are and enjoy the story. Afterwards I might do a bit of thinking, but I guess I either like the book or I don't and I don't usually look for the authors to "convince" me of anything in their story. It's face value for me.
I suppose that True Believer is not my favorite Sparks book, but I wasn't disappointed either. As always, he provided a fun, easy read. I guess if that's not what you're looking for, he might not be for you.
Book Review: don't bother
Summary: 1 Stars
I have to agree with many of the other reviewers. The premise had me interested then the story did not amount to much. I was let down at the end. The problem is I finished the book because I already bought the next one At First Sight. I think Sparks really dropped the ball on this one. It was such a let down from his other novels that I was surprised.Book Review: Beware: This is NOT a ghost story!
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm writing this review in the hopes of dissuading anyone from buying it based on what the synopsis says on the back cover! Here's the part I'm referring to: "...Jeremy Marsh [Scientific American journalist hero of the story] specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. ...he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery..." Based on this, I thought there would be some great ghostly intrigue interspersed with the promised love story.
Well, we don't get the first glimpse of the ghosts until page 167! And in the whole book, perhaps 30 pages (of 322) have ANYTHING to do with ghosts. As a matter of fact, the whole ghost business is a limp, mostly lifeless subplot to an equally limp love story.
And I like good love stories. But this is not one of them. Contrived and cliche, I never really cared much for the relationship of Jeremy and Lexie, the small town librarian he meets while investigating the 'ghost story'.
I believe this book would never have been published had it been a first novel - the writing drags and winds, badly in need of tightening, and neither the love story nor the ghost story, by themselves, are worth the read.
Lastly, I have to say shame on the editor for letting Mr. Sparks dish out erroneous science - a new moon is NOT caused by the moon being in the earth's shadow! That would be an eclipse. A new moon is when the moon is not visible because all of the light from the sun is hitting the side of the moon currently not visible. Google it. Amazing that such a silly error could pass the editor. But given the drivel of the rest of the book, I guess I'm not surprised.
In summary: just another shallow sappy love story, with little bits about ghosts (which turn out to be nothing anyway) interspersed. Do not buy.