Nov 08, 2012 03:44 PM
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True Believer is written by Nicholas Sparks and is one among the many love stories written by the author. In this book, the author writes about the love story of Jeremy Marsh and Lexie Darnell, and how sometimes in life, we need to embrace unnatural things and accept them as reality.
I’m like, a huge big fan of N. Sparks’ work and usually love whatever he writes. But I was literally, like heavily disappointed with this book. This book is one such book which makes you ‘think out of the box’ , go anti-science, anti-common sense and presents us with a couple of impossible things. Add that to being terribly boring. Don’t get me wrong – such books sometimes work. But definitely not this one.
Like, this book talks about a psychic who can detect the gender of babies before the baby is born just by holding the expecting mother’s hand. Huh! And then there’s this part where the protagonist who has a defect and can’t father children, knocks up a girl. Okay, so maybe the latter situation is still possible, but what about the psychic part?....So…
THE STORY : Jeremy Marsh is a science journalist and works for Scientific American. His only defect is that he can’t father children due to which his wife, Maria, has left him (past event). Anyhow, when he hears about the ghostly apparitions in the town cemetery, he travels to Boone Creek, North Carolina, where he wishes to investigate the matter.
There, he meets Lexie Darnell, the granddaughter of the town psychic (who can detect the gender of babies). He slowly gets familiar with all the small-town ways of the people and gets to know them all. Slowly and steadily, Lexie and Jeremy start falling for each other and spend the night together at some lighthouse. However, differences arise between them when Jeremy is forced to make a choice – get back to his life in New York or leave everything else and join Lexie’s world.
Finally, Jeremy solves the mystery of the ghostly apparitions – which happen to be a ruse – and the book ends with Lexie telling Jeremy that she is pregnant with a girl. (Granddaughter of a psychic! Remember?)
This book also has a sequel named ‘At First Sight’. Sadly, I read the sequel before I read this book but I got the story. So, the sequel mainly talks about Lexie’s pregnancy and preparations for their marriage. The book concludes with Lexie dying at childbirth.
This book was a little different from most of N. Sparks’ books but at the same time, the whole concept seemed the same.
Sometimes, books with simple and minimal story also appeal to the readers and are beautiful to read. This book had minimal story to it but reading this book was more of a burden.
See, the thing about Sparks’ books are that you have to be patient with it and got through a lot of stupid and unimportant things to finally get the beauty of the outcome. There is always a satisfaction or as we put it – ‘soft corner’ in your heart when you finish with a Sparks’ book.
Frankly speaking, I was actually aching for the book to finish and when I would finally be able to leave it. I’m actually, literally surprised that I can ever think like this about a Sparks’ book.
As a conclusion, I’d just like to say – Avoid this book. Try some other titles by Sparks – like The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe etc. – but don’t try this one.
Thanks for reading.
