Another Nicholas Sparks book, I'm sorry

Zaczęło się nawet dobrze. Fabuła wydawała się ciekawa i nietypowa, jednak im dłużej czytała, tym gorsza stawała się ta książka. Była po prostu coraz bardziej nudna, ciężko mi się ją czytało i nawet nie chciało mi się jej czytać.

Pod koniec trochę się to naprawiło, ale wciąż historia mnie nie porwałą. Nie zżyłam się z bohaterami. Całość była bardzo przeciętna, a Nicholas Sparks miał zdecydowanie lepsze książki.

Classificação: 3,5 em 5 estrelas
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Só tenho uma coisa a dizer, quase nada me surpreendeu neste livro. Se pensava eu que finalmente tinha conseguido ultrapassar a minha crise com Nicholas Sparks este livro mostrou-me que estou completamente enganada. Parece que apenas gosto dos livros mais antigos do escritor, não sei que se passa mas este livro não foi nada o que eu esperava, no mau sentido.

O enredo é deveras interessante, tenho de admitir isso, e se houve coisa que gostei foi do tema falado no livro. Só com isso o livro mereceu 2 estrelas logo. Mas, infelizmente pouco ou nada mais me impressionou.

Adorei a Lexie, consegui identificar-me com ela. E aí o livro recebeu mais 1 estrela. Já vamos na 3 estrelas, mas o livro não conseguiu subir muito mais na minha consideração. Se Lexie era uma personagem interessante, as outras restantes eram demasiado chatas. Incluindo Jeremy, por momentos pensei em gostar dele, cheguei a tentar. Mas ele agia sempre de maneira tão previsível que desisti de tentar gostar dele.

O romance entre Lexie e Jeremy era tão previsível não só por ser um livro de Nicholas Sparks, como pelo facto de eles estarem sempre juntos. Demasiado tempo juntos até. O romance deles era "Eu gosto de ti mas vou fazer-me de difícil porque sim". E isso irrita-me profundamente nos livros. Se gostámos de alguém devemos dizer e pronto.

E mais de metade do livro foi assim, eles ali meio que a ter um "romance" enquanto trabalhavam juntos. Mas que máximo, e mais originalidade? Não? Ok. Sim, fiquei profundamente irritada com este livro, queria mesmo dar-me bem com Nicholas Sparks mas depois deste livro vai ser complicado conseguir integrá-lo na minha lista de escritores favoritos.

Decidi dar 3,5 estrelas devido ao enredo, podia estar muito mais bem desenvolvida claro, mas isso não depende de mim. Graças à Lexie, às vezes és chata mas eu consigo lidar com isso. E claro, também à escrita de Nicholas Sparks que por vezes consegue ser de outro mundo. E é tudo, até uma próxima Nicholas, isto se houver próxima.

Tears in the eyes, smile and laughter all along, butterflies in the stomach... Nicholas Sparks definitely knows how to make his readers feel as his main characters do. And I should definetely give a credit to his sense of humour which made me smile so many times. Not one of his best books (in my opinion) but still a very addictive and cute love story. I did like Lexie a lot, since I think this is how a woman should be, full of charm and mistery. Well,and Jeremy is definitely the guy that every woman dreams about...ready to go to the moon and back in order to be close to his love.
I thought the solving of the ghosts mistery would be quite more exciting than it was, but the ending of the book managed to make me cry, so it didn't really matter how did the ghost stuff end.
Anyway,I am sure that next time I am gonna be buying a new book it will be one written by Nicholas Sparks. :)

Not my favorite Sparks novel but that ending though!!

I had high hopes with Jeremy, a journalist, chasing a ghost story. Interesting read but a tad on the slow side.

يسعني القول أن الرواية ممتعة ومكتوبة بإتقان وواقعية، وأنها كمثيلاتها من الروايات المترجمة تعطي فكرة مهمة عن المجتمع الذي تدور فيه، وأعني هنا بحثها في العلاقة بين ولايات الشمال والجنوب الأميركي، إضافة إلى التفاصيل الصغيرة والانطباعات التي تزود بها القارئ عن الشخصيات والأماكن وطرق العيش والتعامل وغير ذلك مما يسر المرءَ تلقيه في قالب روائي.
لكن في ما عدا ذلك، ليس في الرواية شيء غير عادي، إنها مجرد رواية رومانسية مكتوبة بجهد، ولا تحمل في طياتها أكثر مما يدور في فلكه هذا النمط، ربما يُحسب لها أنها تطرح جانب التضحية في بناء العلاقات من جانب الرجال، إذ العادة تقضي بأن النساء هن الجانب المضحي عموماً، لكن هذا أقصى ما ترمي إليه، وليس من المفيد أن يتوقع القارئ منها أكثر من ذلك.

فاجأني في الرواية أنه من العادي في بلدات الجنوب أن لا يكمل الشبان تعليمهم في الكليات الجامعية وأن ينصرفوا إلى العمل مباشرة بعد تخرجهم من الثانوية على اعتبار أن هذا أنفع لهم.

وأذكر أيضاً أنني استمتعت بالتفاصيل التي أوردها الكاتب حول محرري ساينتفك أميركان وكتّابها، لا أعلم ما إذا كانت المعلومات مستقاة من الواقع أم لا، ولكنها كانت إطلالة موفقة على إحدى أهم مجلات العلم "العاميّة" في العالم.

نهايةً، ما لم يعجبني في الكتاب هو التناقض الساذج بين بدايته وانتهائه، النقلة بين الشك المطلق، وتقبل الأمور "الخارقة" لم تكن مقنعة.

I generally like Nicholas Sparks novels. Reading his books are generally pleasing...I don't believe any I've read are masterpieces or anything, but they've all been at least "okay."

This one, however, was a letdown. True Believer has to be his weakest book. It didn't draw me in like his other work. I didn't care much about the characters, and the story, I thought, was quite dull. It's been a while since I read it, so I can't remember specifics, but my general feeling was that it was poorly written, and it seemed like he was just churning out a book to get more money faster, not really doing it for art's sake.

«جرمی مارش» خبرنگار جوان و خوش چهره ی داستان برای ماموریتی به کارولینای جنوبی می رود. حضور او با ماجراهایی همراه است که علاوه بر درگیر شدن، با «لکسی» به عنوان یکی از مطلعین حوادث رخ داده در آن منطقه آشنا می شود. «لکسی» دختر جوان و زیبارویی است که در کنار «جرمی» و کنجکاوی های او به عنوان یک خبرنگار، حوادث جالب و غیر منتظره ای را تجربه می کند و...

Before last week, I was a 22 year old girl who had never read a Nicholas Sparks novel or, for that matter, seen one of the movie adaptations of his books. I know! People criticized me for it, and I almost felt like my woman card was going to be revoked or something. To remedy the situation, I bought a huge stack of his work last summer (they were cheap garage-sale finds!), and almost a full year later, I actually sat down to read one.

Jeremy Marsh is a science journalist who gets his kicks exposing the smoke and mirrors behind supernatural occurrences. Riding high from a recent investigation that has every major television network begging him to join their teams, Jeremy decides to make a quick trip to North Carolina to expose the mysterious ghost lights in Boone Creek’s graveyard. A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it town with its fair share of eccentrics, Boone Creek doesn’t have much to offer a born and bred New Yorker like Jeremy, but an encounter with a beautiful woman has him thinking all sorts of crazy things.

Lexie Darnell is the town librarian and one of the pillars of Boone Creek society. She’s had her experiences with the outside world and decided to come back home, swearing that she’ll never give up her small-town life again. Lexie and Jeremy become smitten, but with both possessing strong, stubborn personalities, how can they possibly make a relationship work when their hearts lie in two different places?

Romantic in a non-graphic way (no heaving chests or throbbing members or anything like that) with a hint of the supernatural, this book was… an interesting take on chick lit, but decidedly not my thing.

Not to sound sexist, but I wasn’t a big fan of romance from the man’s perspective simply because it made Lexie a little less relatable to me. Sparks switched back and forth from Lexie to Jeremy’s point of view, but overall, Jeremy was the protagonist, and I couldn’t really understand Lexie’s motivations most of the time. Or, well, I should say I understood it, but I didn’t necessarily believe it. The plot was also very predictable, and the ending was more than a little cheesy.

I also wasn’t a big fan of the extra drama Sparks added in. Relationships should be easy! Fun! Laid back! Sparks’ characters make mountains out of molehills, fight about non-issues, lie to avoid talking about their feelings, and run away when things get tough. Life isn’t that hard! I hate being in relationships where people just can’t be honest, I hate hearing from my friends about the drama going on in their love lives, and I hate having to read about it with fictional characters. Big issue? When an ancient curse overpowers your emotions and makes you fight your soul mate to the death to fulfill a blood debt, a la Starcrossed. Little issue? The guy you like lives in a different state.

The premise was interesting, and you can tell Sparks is an old pro when it comes to writing: his book opened beautifully, the back stories of the characters were divulged seamlessly, and the writing was eloquent. When it comes to emotions, though, I think Sparks missed the mark.

4,5

This book lost me at the sentence, "he breathed her name like a prayer." That would never happen in real life. And if it did happen it would be creeptastic.