This was my first book by the author and since then, I have read several by him (read the review of his latest book – Every Breath). There is not much if I talk about the plot, it’s all about emotions that Sparks has successfully woven into the tale.

It circles around two people who fall in love together despite no such intentions, but fate has different plans for them. Please refrain from reading further if you haven’t. A Walk to Remember is perfect autumn fiction, when thoughts turn to changes and life's journeys, both mapped and unmapped.ĭeanna Larson is a songwriter in Nashville.I’m sure most of you must have already read it or at least seen the movie.

Sparks is a modern master of fateful love stories and road-not-taken fables written in uncluttered prose. Bewildered and ecstatic, they nurture their feelings until Jamie reveals the secret that forces Landon to realize what he holds most dear, despite what fate has handed them. They rehearse, they walk home, they talk when opening night arrives and Landon sees Jamie in an angelic costume, he realizes that he's fallen in love. She accepts, and that night Jamie helps Landon out of an embarrassing bind, revealing a strong character that intrigues him despite her relentless and isolating Christianity.Īfter Jamie asks Landon to star in the school's Christmas play, a town tradition which her father instituted, he develops a gradual and reluctant relationship with her. Jamie is such social poison to Landon's insecure circle that he avoids her at all costs, until, as the newly elected class president desperate for a date to the dance, he asks her, certain that she'll be available. There is more than a touch of Holden Caulfield in his character when he encounters Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of a local minister and the goody-two-shoes of the school. Neglect pushes Landon to develop a rebellious streak, and at the start of the story he is both adrift and certain, confident and susceptible to peer opinion in other words, a typical teenager. Compounding the lack of strong male figures in Landon's life is his hypocritical congressman father, who rarely spends time at home.

The Carters are a family whose wealth was built on a grandfather's profits from bootlegging. In A Walk to Remember, Landon Carter narrates the flashback story of his senior year in the late 1950s at Beaufort High in Beaufort, North Carolina, when he first discovers the power of love. Nicholas Sparks waves his magic romance wand once again, this time over the ideal of transformational first love.

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