True Believer

by Nicholas Sparks

Hardcover, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

FIC K Spa

Publication

Warner Books (First Edition)

Pages

322

Description

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.

Collection

Barcode

1985

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2005

Physical description

322 p.; 8.5 inches

ISBN

0446532436 / 9780446532433

User reviews

LibraryThing member bellamia
I am very disappointed in this book. I love Nicholas Sparks but this one, in my opinion, was not good. It took me awhile to get through it. I wanted to put it down but kept thinking it had to get better. It did...chapter 14. That didn't last long. I didn't like Lexie at all or the story line for
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that matter. She drove me crazy! I did like Jeremy's character but as for the book as a whole....very diappointing.
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LibraryThing member beckylynn
Typical Nicholas Sparks book. For some reason I was drawn to this one because it advertised it as a kind of 'ghost hunter' book. Yeah, that doesn't have a whole lot to do with the plot. Speaking of plot- it's the same as every other book of his I've read. Two people fall in love, realize they can't
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be together for x reason, learn to live without each other, and then BAM something amazing happens and they all live happily ever after.
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LibraryThing member picklechic
I really enjoyed this book. It was a really simple, sweet story with complex, yet likeable characters. I enjoyed the mystery and romance involved. I was a tiny bit dissappointed that the end wasn't less predictable and I wish it had more plot resolution. Overall, a pretty good book, though.
LibraryThing member melissiag
Predictable like his other books, but not as enjoyable as his others.
LibraryThing member bookwormteri
A little predictable, but heartwarming and enjoyable. A good book to cuddle up with on a stormy night.
LibraryThing member bibliophile26
I read the sequel first; I found this one to be smarmy and not as good, but that could be because I already knew the ending.
LibraryThing member KKovach
What Else does Nicholas Sparks write about but the power of Love. A Skeptic Scientific Jounalist Jeremy from NYC investigates psychics,spirit guides,and faith healers which brings him down to investigate a cemetary in North Carolina. Instead of ghosts he found something else.
The story was
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interesting but just more and the same from Sparks.
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LibraryThing member rachelann
This book was beyond goofy. I'm all for cheesy non-gross romance stories but this one was just dumb, esp the final ending. Boo on this one.
LibraryThing member zohar
Didn't like it all that much. Seemed contrived and clichéd.
LibraryThing member sharlene_w
The beginning of the book had me wondering if Nicholas Sparks was veering from his usual tale, but once the guy meets the girl, things are back into their predictable place. Sparks leaves the couple "happily ever after" but with a twist...to be continued in the next book, "At First Sight".
LibraryThing member kristicw
A good love story. Nothing spectacular or unpredictable, but good enough.
LibraryThing member indygo88
It's been quite a while since I've read a Nicholas Sparks, so I'm not sure if my reading tastes have changed or if this one just wasn't up to par. It was an okay storyline, but very predictable & as another viewer stated, cliched. Maybe not so bad for a quick weekend or beach read, but nothing deep
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here.
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LibraryThing member dbhutch
In this book a sleepy little town in North Carolina has “Ghosts” Emery leaves his life and friends in New York to prove the “ghost lights” are something more than ghosts As he does he falls in love with Lexie and is amazed that he is that deeply in love with her only after days. This books
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another awesome and inspiring love story from Nicholas Sparks.
This story continues in the book At First Sight.
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LibraryThing member bhowell
This book is truly awful, cliched, and predictable. The story could have been interesting but there are no surprises and the writing is so, well, bland. There isn't a single swear word in the book (not that this is required) but it is just an example of how the author sanitizes everything and in
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the result produces a vacuous boring read. It wouldn't challenge a ten year old.
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LibraryThing member bribre01
A cute story, but somewhat predictable. This is the first Nicholas Sparks book I have read, and I really liked his writing style. I will be reading more of his work.
LibraryThing member edspicer
I would recommend this book to a friend who likes love stories. Jeremy, the main character, is a lonely single man who is a journalist. He goes down to a town in the middle of nowhere. That town is called Boone Creek. When he gets there he wants to research the legend of the cemetary in the town,
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so her can writed a story on it. He goes to the library, to research, and meets the librarian, who is a lot perttier than expected. Her name is Lexie. They end up falling in love and tehy both find that they want to spend the rest of their lives together. There is adventure in how much they will sacrifice for each other.
4Q, 4P; Cover Art: Awesome!
This book is best suited for middle and highschoolers.
It was selected out of love for the author.
Grade (of reviewer): 9th
(KD-AHS-NC)
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LibraryThing member sallyawolf
On a routine investigation of a weird phenomenon a scientific research writer finds more then he bargains for in the small town of Boon Creek. This book is all about love loss and the power of a community to look out for one of their own. I loved the sentiment of this book that true love can not be
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put in a box and studied scientifically. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes romance and the mysteries of small towns.
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LibraryThing member countrylife
Just a beach read, somewhat lame and predictable. A writer, whose best work involves debunking, is invited to come investigate mysterious lights in a cemetery in North Carolina, where a romance develops. I wasn’t enamored of any of these characters, and can’t abide stories where people fall in
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love with no other underlying attraction than looks. And speaking of that little problem, this was better than Twilight, but not by much.
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LibraryThing member Amzzz
Not as captivating as the Nicholas Sparks I'm used to
LibraryThing member ctmsnocr
The book "True Believer" by Nicholas Sparks is about a boy named Jeremy Marsh who is a science journalist.

His career is at the zenith after he shows his audience he is fooling a psychic. Now, he's heading to North Carolina to check out mysterious lights in an old cemetery. The mayor is hoping to
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boost tourism, so he welcomes Jeremy with the key to the town. Jeremy begins to enjoy the community and characters he meets there especially, a young woman named Lex.

Before Jeremy knows what's happening, he's fallen for Lex, whose grandmother Doris sent the information that got Jeremy into this investigation in the first place.The big city journalist figures out what caused the spooky cemetery lights, but not all the town's mysteries. There's a love triangle. But Jeremy is a man who has the sense to forget science by which he has always lived when it comes to matters of the heart.
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LibraryThing member cherylcm
Compared to books like The Last Song, Message in A Bottle, Dear John, etc... This had an okay storyline only.
LibraryThing member tinas37
Good love story. Not as good as the Notebook or Message in a Bottle, but I enjoyed it nonetheless
LibraryThing member sallyawolf
On a routine investigation of a weird phenomenon a scientific research writer finds more then he bargains for in the small town of Boon Creek. This book is all about love loss and the power of a community to look out for one of their own. I loved the sentiment of this book that true love can not be
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put in a box and studied scientifically. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes romance and the mysteries of small towns.
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LibraryThing member Katie_Dieleman
"True Believer" was the first book by Nicholas Sparks that I had read and I instantly got attached. It was a truley an amazing novel and i couldn't wait to read the sequel.
Jeremy Marsh is sent to a small town in North Carolina to investigate and do a report on ghosts in the cemetary. He meets
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Lexie Darnel and instantly falls for her. Drama comes their way in trying to break them up but does that stop them?
Amazing Novel.
I highly recommend reading "True Believer"
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LibraryThing member jennifer.a.mcgee
It didn't suck, but certainly not one of Spark's finest novels. It was all very predictable from beginning to end, but I did like the small town charm and the mysteriousness of the story. Did it make me a "true believer", unfortunately it did not. This is a shame because I was really needing a
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little something to believe in at the time.
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Rating

½ (700 ratings; 3.5)

Call number

FIC K Spa
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