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At First Sight

by Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)

3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 · rating details · 38,687 ratings · 2,040 reviews

There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he’d never do: he’d never leave New York City; never give his heart away after barely surviving one failed marriage; and never become a parent. Now Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, engaged to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the start of their family. But just as his life see...more

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Published September 5th 2006 by Grand Central Publishing (first published October 18th 2004)

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Nov 18, 2010 Books Ring Mah Bell rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Oct 11, 2011 Dana added it

Well, so far this book makes me want to die while vomiting. Patently unoriginal and laden with cliches, this book is about a romance between 2 people in their thirties who have the emotional development of teenagers. The characters' thoughts and behaviors are trite, predictable & almost always stereotypical. This book is a Harlequin romance packaged as literature, except not as good.

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Jan 10, 2009 treehugger rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Ok, usually I really like Sparks - his books are enjoyable, quick reads that don't take too many brain cells and sometimes give you a few warm fuzzies.

Now, I didn't put this together with "True Believer" until I started to write this review, so I was pissed throughout the entire book because there was NO detail about how they fell in love, so it was completely unbelievable - it sounded like Jeremy was constantly trying to talk himself into believing he was in love.

I was listening to this one in...more

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Jul 03, 2007 Erin rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Nicholas Sparks brings back the characters first introduced in True Believer - Jeremy Marsh, a writer from New York City; and Lexie Darnell, the small-town, southern librarian. In At First Sight, Jeremy and Lexie are preparing for their upcoming wedding shortly after Jeremy's move down to Boone Creek, N.C. to be with her. On top of the wedding stress, the couple is also trying to keep it under wraps that Lexie is pregnant.

The book follows Jeremy and Lexie through the pregnancy, the subsequent pu...more

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Aug 18, 2008 Jordan rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No one.

Shelves: romantic, fiction

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Jan 24, 2012 Dana rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Dana by: Anu! Can I puhleeez kill you!? x)

Shelves: love, young-adult

After reading many Nicholas Sparks books, I thought that he lost his magic. I no longer cried for any of his books and my rating lessened to 3-4 stars. So, when I first saw this book, it had 'boredom' written all over it. But little did I know that this book was that "tear-trigger" of a book!! The guy is wicked! He made me cry. Uncontrollably! I mean how could he do this!? I thought this book was gonna end with a happy note just like True Believer (its first part!). But here I'm crying like neve...more

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Mar 05, 2013 Sadie Kaminske rated it 5 of 5 stars

"At First Sight" was the best love story I have read. Jeremy Marsh told himself that he would never give his heart away; he also promised himself that he would never leave New York. That all changed when he met Lexie Darnell he packed up and moved to Boone Creek, North Carolina. He is also starting a new family of his own. When he thinks everything is going good, he gets a chain email that changes everything. Now he has doubts and doesn't know if he is in love as he thought he was. I don't think...more

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Feb 01, 2011 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Aug 11, 2008 Janice rated it 4 of 5 stars

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The followup to "True Believer", if published together as one story it would have made a great novel. But I liked it and enjoyed reading it. You may need kleenexes to get through it.

There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of hi...more

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Sep 28, 2007 April rated it 4 of 5 stars

I picked this up on a whim at the airport, on my way to see clients in Texas. Up until then the only Sparks book I'd read was Nights in Rodanthe. I think I'd received it as a selection of the month once when I forgot to return the slip. Though I found the character descriptions to be a bit over the top, fantastical as it may have been I did enjoy the story. So much so, that a couple of weeks later I was travling again and I picked up True Believer.

These books certainly aren't challenging my inte...more

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Mar 26, 2009 Charly rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who has read True Believer

Sparks continues what he started in True Believer, not only with the story line but the wonderful twists. This is an author who is growing on me. Just when you think his story line is going to go down obvious paths he twists it around on you.

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May 07, 2012 Marisa Perdigao rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Acredito que sim, é sobretudo confiança que se tem de ter um no outro numa relação! Se não tens, a relação não tem "pernas para andar"...

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Aug 18, 2008 Karen & Gerard rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone contemplating marriage, lovers of romance

Shelves: relationships, romance, sparks-nicholas

This book is a romance between Jeremy, a successful New York
magazine columnist, who falls in love with Lexie, a country girl, and moves to her neck of the woods away from the city. The author delves into the dynamics of friendship, commitment, marriage, pregnancy and fatherhood. It gave insights into the adjustments involved in entering and maintaining a serious relationship by centering on Jeremy's and Lexie's feelings as their relationship progressed. The ending surprised me so I'd say it is...more

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Apr 02, 2009 Priscilla rated it 3 of 5 stars

Does love at first sight really exist? In Nicholas Sparks’ fictional novel At First Sight, the story of Jeremy Marsh and Lexie Darnell proves that this amazing phenomenon is indeed possible. I chose this book because I have enjoyed Sparks’ other books and wanted to read an upbeat breezy novel. Sparks gives an interesting recount of how two people, however different from one another, can find an indescribable and intense connection, even if for only a short period of time. The protagonists, Lexie...more Does love at first sight really exist? In Nicholas Sparks’ fictional novel At First Sight, the story of Jeremy Marsh and Lexie Darnell proves that this amazing phenomenon is indeed possible. I chose this book because I have enjoyed Sparks’ other books and wanted to read an upbeat breezy novel. Sparks gives an interesting recount of how two people, however different from one another, can find an indescribable and intense connection, even if for only a short period of time. The protagonists, Lexie and Jeremy are brought together in the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina where Jeremy was sent to work on an article for the science magazine he works for. They have essentially just met each other but quickly realize that they are in love, and that Lexie is pregnant. However, they are forced to overcome challenges, including Jeremy’s best friend Alvin trying to break them apart and Jeremy’s persistent writer’s block. Their story makes you want to throw up at times from their cheesy love, but at other times the emotions it makes you experience are intense and moving. This book conveys the fact that everything goes away in the end, which is why enjoying every moment is so imperative.
Jeremy and Lexie’s main conflict is their struggle against the opinions of the people surrounding them. They fight to find a way in which their love will be accepted, no matter how unconventional it is to be getting married after only knowing each other for about a month. But Lexie and Jeremy stick together and persevere in able to have the result of their love being even stronger than before because of the burdens that they have been able to overcome together.
The theme of this novel as I perceived it is love is never perfect and can be cruel, but it is the greatest thing that a person can experience. Through this theme I was able to realize that every moment should be treasured because it is never evident what will happen, no matter how perfect everything can seem. Sparks was able to beautifully portray this theme through the heart wrenching tale of Jeremy and Lexie’s love and lives with each other. They are able to appreciate their love and recognize it as a blessing, and therefore are happy with one another. One of the central motifs of this novel was the concept of trust and faith. It asks the questions, why do people believe in things without evidence, and how is it truly possible to wholeheartedly trust another person? People are able to base facts on solely instinctual events that don’t have any scientific basis because they know in their hearts that it is true, and most of the time they are right. This motif is conveyed in the concept of love at first sight, and how you can tell it is truly love that you are feeling, and through a variety of other events.
Nicholas Sparks has a very romantic and effortless writing style. He writes in the same way people would talk if they were having a conversation, but is still able to be very descriptive and portray emotions very well. It is easy to relate to his characters because of the laid back way he writes. In this novel his writing was somewhat repetitive in the beginning, making it a slower start to the novel, but the end was moving and compelling. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good love story and enjoys books that make them cry because this book did. It was a good book about the lessons of life and love.
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Mar 26, 2009 Jason_W. rated it 4 of 5 stars

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The book at First Sight is a book about two people named Lexie and Jermey. Jeremy has left New York City and his family as a collums writer for numerous magazines and newspaper. Leaving NY he goes down south to marry Lexie who after 1 week he proposed. His family and friends thinks he's rushing it but Jeremy feels good about his descion. Jeremy then goes through many troubles with their relation, and after the marriage.

I can connect to the world how many people like Jeremy have to give up all th...more

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May 18, 2013 Angela Liu rated it 4 of 5 stars

At First Sight is the second Nicholas Sparks book that I have read and since the first one was Dear John, I have to admit that I had pretty high standards for this novel and it did live up to the standards however, in a way that I didn’t expect it to. I bought this book at a school fair last year and apart from the dog-eared top right corner and some dusty residue left on the back, I would say that it was in a lovely condition; a condition lovely enough to attract my attention despite all the ot...more At First Sight is the second Nicholas Sparks book that I have read and since the first one was Dear John, I have to admit that I had pretty high standards for this novel and it did live up to the standards however, in a way that I didn’t expect it to. I bought this book at a school fair last year and apart from the dog-eared top right corner and some dusty residue left on the back, I would say that it was in a lovely condition; a condition lovely enough to attract my attention despite all the other new books untouched on my bookshelf.

The category that this book completes is the ‘A book written by a male author’ option and I think given the stirring thoughts that this story has provided me, I was assured that Nicholas Sparks writes some sickly realistic tales. I believe this category on the bingo board is crucial because it encourages people to experiment with different authors and different styles of writing/narration. There even could be chances for you to learn about the author themselves. Just by reading two of Nicholas Sparks’ books, I have noticed that he names the girl characters of his stories after his daughters. Or maybe it was just by coincidence.

My favourite quote in the book is “I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon” although there are other ones in the book which are powerful, but in a sense they were too complicated for me. The quote I chose is cheesy and fuzzy and it made me smile when I read it.

There wasn’t much to learn in the book because unlike Dear John there weren’t any occasional army references or quirky information about coins so in its own respect, this story was easy to read and it didn’t take too much knowledge to keep up with. If there was one thing that I was reminded of, or maybe re-educated on, from this novel, it was that two strangers could fall in love very, very easily. In the beginning of the book there was effort put into emphasising the fact that Jeremy (main character) didn’t really know his fiancé before they got engaged but there he was: about to get married to a woman who he didn’t know the middle name of, and about to move from New York to North Carolina so he could live with her. I do understand the situation but at the same time I don’t, and although this story is a good example of that scenario, I know it is also nowhere near the extremes of what happens in reality.

Exactly like the generic person, my favourite character from the book is of course the main character, however no offence but he wasn’t the one who interested me the most. Doris, Jeremy’s wife’s grandmother, wins this acknowledgement and I say this because her character happens to have an ability of predicting the sex of babies when they’re still inside the mother. I actually found this so interesting because the thought of predicting something like that, without any scientific instruments to aid with accuracy, would be insane. With that ability Doris also happens to get all her guesses right; if people in real life could really do that, it would possibly be the closest to a psychic there’d ever be. And she also offers good advice to Jeremy and Lexie (Jeremy’s fiancé).

The ending of the story, I should have known through reading some previous reviews, I considered a tragedy but the epilogue taught me that even though life is a heck of a bumpy road, we still have to keep on going. Great book, would recommend to people who enjoy stories that don’t include too much action but is still intense.
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Apr 12, 2013 Shanel rated it 5 of 5 stars

In this book, “At First Sight,” by Nicholas Sparks, the protagonist is Jeremy Marsh a man who was once married and in love. After a difficult divorce he thought he’d never be able to give his heart away again, but that all changes when he leaves New York to go investigate for one of his articles in the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina. It is here that he meets Lexie Darnell who he falls in love with from the first moment he sees her and just a few short weeks later they are engaged and...more

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Feb 19, 2013 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone

Nicholas Sparks can write, and he is an amazing storyteller. I don't read a ton of him because he always makes me cry. Always, it never fails. My first book by him that I read, A Walk To Remember had me bawling for hours afterward. I don't think I am still recovered from that. And the movie doesn't even come close to the book what so ever.

This story is about love, but not an ordinary love. About two people from two different walks of life coming together and loving each other, no matter the o...more

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Jan 23, 2013 Sierra Stone rated it 2 of 5 stars

I normally enjoy reading Sparks’s romance novels. Out of the four books I have read of his, I would put At First Sight on the bottom of the list. This book did not hook me, bring tears to my eyes or make me jealous of the story’s romantic plot like I am use to. The ideas used behind the story line had great potential and could have very well been written differently. I never found myself wanting to read more; therefore taking me a while to finish. This book is all about a man, Jeremy Marsh, sacr...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Jordan rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Book Review: At First Sight

The book, At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks, is a book about a man named Jeremy Marsh, a writer from New York. His specialty is writing science fiction, so after successfully writing for a scientific magazine in New York, he decides to work on an assignment in Boone Creek, a town in North Carolina. While working here, he met a woman, Lexie Darnell, a local librarian, who made him believe in love at first sight, hence the name o...more Jordan Nicole Smith
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Book Review: At First Sight

The book, At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks, is a book about a man named Jeremy Marsh, a writer from New York. His specialty is writing science fiction, so after successfully writing for a scientific magazine in New York, he decides to work on an assignment in Boone Creek, a town in North Carolina. While working here, he met a woman, Lexie Darnell, a local librarian, who made him believe in love at first sight, hence the name of the book. As the story goes on, he leaves his home and friends in New York to live with Lexie, a woman he barely knows, down in North Carolina. After finding out that Lexie is in fact pregnant, he proposes to her. As he makes the transition to go live with her, his friend constantly tells him that it’s a bad idea since he barely knows her. Even before meeting Lexie, Jeremy has been suffering from writer’s block, between being newly engaged with a baby on the way, and having deadlines from his editor on his story, Jeremy has yet to come up with anything. Jeremy searches for the answer to his writers block, and Lexie has put all of her focus on the baby, and the wedding.The book tells us how Jeremy is still messed up from his previous relationship, and that he doesn't know if he becoming a father is such a good idea. He doesn't believe that he could fulfill the duties that it takes to be a good father. So he is very skeptical when it comes to the idea of him being a father. While starting his new life with his, fiance and child on the way, he gets a strange chain of emails that have to do with him actually being the father of the baby, which does not help what Jeremy is already going through.

Throughout the book, Jeremy and Lexie test the idea of love at first sight. They go through ups and downs of being in a relationship such as this one with being newlyweds and new parents as well. Jeremy especially, has a hard time making such drastic changes in his life after already going through one unsuccessful marriage. Jeremy finds out that adapting to a whole new change is the challenge of his life. After having one failed marriage, he doesn't know if his love for Lexie is strong enough to keep them together. And he also doesn't know if his decision to marry her was right. While Jeremy struggles with this new lifestyle, Lexie has the luxury of remaining in a place that she is familiar and comfortable with, in Boone Creek with her friends and family.

In the book you see Jeremy change as a person. He starts of as this carefree guy who falls helplessly in love, and he changes into a mature, and strong, husband and father. You certainly feel drawn into the book and to Jeremy because we are not familiar with Lexie. And we truly don’t know whether Jeremy’s decision to marry and have a child with Lexie is a good one. So you can feel for Jeremy and his struggle to become a new man. You can also relate to Lexie and her struggle to feel comfortable with the in laws, and being a new mother and wife.

The theme of the story is that, you never know how strong your love is. You can be in love with someone but not really know them, or you can not really love someone even though you know them well. You have to go through the struggles of being with someone to really know. For Jeremy, this was love at first sight, and even though he was scarred from his previous failed marriage, he managed to find someone that he truly loved. Like Jeremy, people sacrifice many things that they don’t want to, for love. And by Jeremy making sacrifice and changes for someone he barely knew, he found that love at first sight does exist.

The book is a great one. It tests the strengths and weaknesses of falling in love at first sight, and leaving everything behind you to start a family somewhere new, while dealing with the struggle of keeping your career alive.

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Oct 25, 2012 Alysa Orlandi rated it 3 of 5 stars

My opinion of this book is completely torn in half between good and bad. First of all, the book started really slowly and the characters actually started to make me hate them. I knew them from their previous book, True Believer. Then, something exciting happened and I couldn't put the book down. I wanted to know what was going to happen next, and next, and next. Then, there was a resolve and it was like a new book started. There are two plots that happen separately in the book, like reading two...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Reader.mon rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Apr 28, 2012 Chieky rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Apr 27, 2012 Kirsti rated it 2 of 5 stars

Eh, a tough one. I decided to break away from the regency romance I've been reading, and I found this for fifty cents this afternoon in an op shop. I needed to kill some time chilling at a coffee shop, and then continued to read it out in the sun with the dogs at my feet this afternoon.

The story was usual for Sparks; romance and angst all in one. But the romance seemed forced, even for him. Somehow I don't believe his love at first sight theories; I believe in lust, attraction, friendship, comr...more

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Apr 13, 2012 Nicole Lim rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance

At First Sight is really a heart-warming story from one of the best authors, Nicholas Sparks. It does not tell us just about Lexie Darnell's and Jeremy Marsh's romance but it touches their relationship with God and science.

The story of Lexie's past including her relationship with that police officer was really suspicious from the start because I've read At First Sight first before I'd read True Believer which made me wonder on both characters. But the story became smooth the further you read i

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Apr 01, 2012 Tania Maradiaga rated it 3 of 5 stars

If there’s one thing that definitely influences whether or not I’ll buy or read a book, it’s the enticing book blurb on the back, which is why I chose to read At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks. I myself am a hopeless romantic, and a definite sucker for love stories, so reading the book blurb and hearing that this book is a love story and was also The #1 New York Times Bestseller, I knew this was the book for me. In this book, a regular guy from New York named Jeremy goes to Boone Creak to do res...more If there’s one thing that definitely influences whether or not I’ll buy or read a book, it’s the enticing book blurb on the back, which is why I chose to read At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks. I myself am a hopeless romantic, and a definite sucker for love stories, so reading the book blurb and hearing that this book is a love story and was also The #1 New York Times Bestseller, I knew this was the book for me. In this book, a regular guy from New York named Jeremy goes to Boone Creak to do research for a column he is writing, and meets the love of his life, Lexie. She ends up pregnant with his baby, and they decide to get married. Little did they know, the doctors had missed something, something life-threatening during Lexie’s previous ultra sound. Their baby is at risk of being born with defects, or..worse, dying. My favorite quote in this book is on pg.277 where Claire says: "Is it Mama?" she finally asked. Her voice was no louder than the wind in the leaves above them. He smiled, his throat tight. In the quiet of the night, it seemed as if they were the only two people in the world. Jeremy took a long breath, remembering Lexie, believing that she was here with them, and knowing that if he could see her now, she would be smiling with joy, content in the knowledge that her daughter and husband were going to be okay. "Yes," he said, holding her tight. "I think she wanted to meet you." This is my favorite quote because it shows me that even though Jeremy, Lexie, and Claire have gone through so much, especially with Lexie's death, they still manage to find happiness in knowing that Lexie is watching over them, in a better place. I found Sparks’ plot to be sweet, romantic, and heart felt, but what was really unappealing were the endless descriptions. It took forever just to get through one page because of the dull descriptions he would give, just about the walls of a room or the floors of a house. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys extremely descriptive books, non fiction books, and romantic stories. (less)

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Mar 29, 2012 Jintana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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ถ้าชอบนิยายแนว realistic ขอแนะนำให้อ่านหนังสือของ Nicholas Sparks นักเขียนผู้โด่งดังจาก The Notebook และ A Walk to Remember ที่ได้รับการสร้างเป็นภาพยนต์ เค้าสามารถเขียนหนังสือให้ตัวละครมีสีสันและมีเสน่ห์แบบไม่ต้องเวอร์ เนื้อเรื่องและตัวละครอาจจะดูจืดชืดและค่อนข้างธรรมดา แต่ในความไม่ธรรมดาคือความลึกซึ้งในการมองโลกและการสื่อสารของผู้เขียน

พระเอกเป็นคอลัมนิสต์ที่มีชื่อของนิวยอร์คซึ่งมาตกหลุมรักนางเอกที่เป็นบรรณารักษ์ในเมืองเล็ก ๆ และตัดสินใจย้ายตามนางเอกไปเพราะคิดว่าเป็นนักเขียนจะเขียนที่ไหนก็เหมือน...more

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Feb 23, 2012 Samuel rated it 3 of 5 stars

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For the most part this was a good book, enjoyable enough in that Sparks way. Which is to say in a nice unchallenging way. It's the kind of book that you can relax with after a hard day. It's not his best, not even close, but it's adequate.

The characters aren't that great, and sometimes they do really dumb things. At one point I had to stop reading because I was shouting at Jeremy for acting like a child, but I came back to the book. I wish I hadn't, but more on that later.

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Dec 13, 2011 Molly rated it 3 of 5 stars

Overall, I thought At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks was okay. It wasn’t very exciting until the end of the book. The characters seemed very realistic because Jeremy, the main character, is a man who worries a lot and over thinks everything. His fiancé, Lexie, is a sweet woman who likes to go with the flow. My favorite character was probably Lexie because I like how she would always be calm whenever Jeremy worried about something.
The plot of the book seemed very realistic. The book is about Je...more Overall, I thought At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks was okay. It wasn’t very exciting until the end of the book. The characters seemed very realistic because Jeremy, the main character, is a man who worries a lot and over thinks everything. His fiancé, Lexie, is a sweet woman who likes to go with the flow. My favorite character was probably Lexie because I like how she would always be calm whenever Jeremy worried about something.
The plot of the book seemed very realistic. The book is about Jeremy and Lexie’s story of their marriage and when they have their baby. Most couples in the real world get married and have children while going through some tough times like Jeremy and Lexie. The plot of the book seems like a basic story for a romantic novel. I don’t like how slow the story moved in the beginning of the book because it made it seem like the book would be boring to read. I absolutely hated the ending because I was expecting a happily ever after like most romantic novels. The sad ending is not what you would expect in a story like this.
I don’t really like the style that Nicholas Sparks wrote the book in. I wish he had written it from Jeremy’s point of view because then I would’ve been able to understand what was going through his mind throughout the story easier. For example, at the end when Lexie was at the hospital having the baby, I think I could’ve better understood how Jeremy felt if he was telling the story. What I did like about the book was how descriptive the author wrote it. It made it easier to understand what was going on.
I think the point or theme of the book was that you won’t always get what you want and sometimes things you would have never expected can happen at any time. In the beginning of the book, I really liked how Jeremy’s friend Alvin talks to Jeremy about finding your soul mate. He says that you have to agree with each other on most of your decisions, and if you do, then you can get married.
Even though this wasn’t one of my favorite books that I have read, I would recommend this book to anyone who has a heart. Someone who is good at figuring out what will happen in the story when they read would probably be able to understand this book. It is easy to understand what is going on throughout the story. This book is similar to a lot of other romantic novels, so if you are interested in that kind of literature, you might like this book.
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Oct 16, 2011 Adilene Garibay rated it 5 of 5 stars

In the book At First Sight by Nicholas Spark, jeremy is engeged to Lexie Darnell after only spending a week as a couple. He feels that the time is right and that they truly love each other. The novel begins with Alvin, a close friend of Jeremys. Alvin tries to convice Jeremy he is insane for wanting to do this, he claims Jeremy doesn't even know Lexie. To try and prove his point Alvin asks Jeremy if he know what Lexie's middle name is, and just as Alvin assumed, Jeremy has no idea. To get Alvin...more

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About Nicholas Sparks

As a child, Nicholas Sparks lived in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska, finally settling in Fair Oaks, California at the age of eight. His father was a professor, his mother a homemaker, then optometrist's assistant. He lived in Fair Oaks through high school, graduated valedictorian in 1984, and received a full track scholarship to the University of Notre Dame.

After breaking the N...more As a child, Nicholas Sparks lived in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska, finally settling in Fair Oaks, California at the age of eight. His father was a professor, his mother a homemaker, then optometrist's assistant. He lived in Fair Oaks through high school, graduated valedictorian in 1984, and received a full track scholarship to the University of Notre Dame.

After breaking the Notre Dame school record as part of a relay team in 1985 as a freshman (a record which still stands), he was injured and spent the summer recovering. During that summer, he wrote his first novel, though it was never published. He majored in Business Finance and graduated with high honors in 1988.

He and his wife Catherine, who met on spring break in 1988, were married in July, 1989. While living in Sacramento, he wrote his second novel that same year, though again, it wasn't published. He worked a variety of jobs over the next three years, including real estate appraisal, waiting tables, selling dental products by phone, and started his own small manufacturing business which struggled from the beginning. In 1990, he collaborated on a book with Billy Mills, the Olympic Gold Medalist and it was published by Feather Publishing before later being picked up by Random House. (It was recently re-issued by Hay House Books.) Though it received scant publicity, sales topped 50,000 copies in the first year of release.

He began selling pharmaceuticals and moved from Sacramento, California to North Carolina in 1992. In 1994, at the age of 28, he wrote The Notebook over a period of six months. In October, 1995, rights to The Notebook were sold to Warner Books. It was published in October, 1996, and he followed that with Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), and Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), Three Weeks with my Brother (2004), True Believer (2005) and At First Sight (2005) all with Warner Books. All were domestic and international best sellers and were translated into more than 35 languages. The movie version of Message in a Bottle was released in 1999, A Walk to Remember was released in 2002, and The Notebook was released in 2004. The average domestic box office gross per film was $56 million -- with another $100 million in DVD sales -- making the novels by Nicholas Sparks one of the most successful franchises in Hollywood.

The film rights to Nights in Rodanthe, True Believer and At First Sight have been sold, and Nicholas Sparks has written the screenplay for The Guardian, though he has not offered it for sale at this point.

He now has five children: Miles, Ryan, Landon, Lexie, and Savannah. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and children.

His ancestry is German, Czech, English, and Irish, he's 5'10" and weighs 180 lbs. He is an avid athlete who runs daily, lifts weights regularly, and competes in Tae Kwon Do. He attends church regularly and reads approximately 125 books a year. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually.(less)

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