After reading and greatly enjoying ‘Dear John’a few months ago I decided to try another of the author’s works. ‘A Walk to Remember’is awash with glowing praise,but I found the story itself predictable and heavy handed.It deals with a teenage boy who gradually begins to notice a girl he has always been indifferent to or irritated by previously.In a small North Carolina town the two are thrown together in drams classes and slowly a tentative relationship develops.despite the obstacle of the girl’s religious beliefs and strict Father.I don’t want to spoil the story’s main revelation(although I found it obvious)but I will say that once it has been exposed things take an even more sentimental and mawkish turn.This book obviously wants to be a great love story and a classic coming of age novel but sadly it is neither and is mercifully short.I am willing to read more by Nicholas Sparks,I only hope the next one I pick up is much better than ‘A Walk to Remember’.
Tags: A Walk to Remember, Books, Nicholas Sparks, read in 2008
