At First Sight

Jeremy Marsh & Lexie Darnell #2

by Nicholas Sparks

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks is an astonishing story of everlasting love, as the tale begun in True Believer continues. The story of Jeremy Marsh.

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Audiobook, Adult Fiction

204 pages, Paperback

First published September 5, 2006

About the author

Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 92 million copies in the United States alone.

Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), Two by Two (2016), Every Breath (2018), The Return (2020), The Wish (2021), and Dreamland (2022), as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. His twenty-fourth novel, Counting Miracles, will be published on September 24, 2024.

Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars. The Notebook has also been adapted into a Broadway musical, featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson.

Sparks lives in North Carolina. 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. He co-founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina in 2006. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school. In 2009, the team he coached at New Bern High School set a World Junior Indoor Record in the 4×400 meters, as well as US High School National Records in the 800 Medley and 1600 Medley. Click to watch the Runner’s World video with Nicholas.

The Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 2011, to provide scholarships and fund educational programs for underprivileged and disadvantaged youth. Between the foundation, and the personal gifts of the Sparks family, more than $15 million dollars have been distributed to deserving charities, scholarship programs, and projects. Because the Sparks family covers all operational expenses of the foundation, 100% of donations are devoted to programs.

Reviews

[Raluca Elena]

8Imi plac mult cartile lui Nicholas Sparks , sunt romantice, sensibile iar citindu-le ai parte de multe momente neprevazute. La fel a fost si aceasta carte, unde descoperim ca sfarsitul poate fi un nou inceput . Povestea a fost frumoasa dar pe mine nu m-a prins prea tare.
Cartea urmareste viata lui Jeremy si a lui Lexie. Jeremy crede ca nu o sa paraseasca vreodata New York si nici ca se va mai indragosti dupa casnicia esuata, insa totul se schimba cand o intalneste pe Lexie. Asa ca acum Jeremy se muta intr-un mic orasel din Carolina de Nord , se pregateste pentru casatoria cu Lexie si asteapta cu nerabdare ca fiica lor sa apara pe lume. Daca totul este atat de frumos cum pare descoperiți în carte! 😁

[Ioana Laura]

Chiar dacă începutul a fost la fel de lent ca la primul volum, cartea asta mi-a plăcut mai mult. A fost si ea lenta, dar a avut mai multa emoție si un final sfasietor.
După ce se muta in Boone Creek ca să își întemeieze o familie cu Lexie, Jeremy trece prin multe momente in care se întreabă dacă alegerea de a renunța la New York si la viata sa anterioara este cea potrivită. Relația celor doi are mult de suferit, dar faptul ca așteaptă un copil reușește sa ii tina uniți in ciuda a orice.
Nu am prevazut deloc cum se va sfârși cartea, dar de această dată autorul a reușit să transmită emoția cu care eram obișnuită...
Un final miraculos, dar si sfâșietor deopotrivă care ne arata cât de fragilă poate fi viața, chiar dacă este frumoasă....Mi-a plăcut mai mult acest volum, mi s-a părut emoționant si rascolitor si nu am putut sa nu empstizez cu Jeremy...

[Mada]

Mai mult un 3.5/5. Prima parte a cartii a mers putin mai greu, dar dupa ce s-a mutat Jeremy a inceput sa fie mai captivanta cartea. Are multe scene in plus, dar cateva capitole si discutii dintre el si Lexie au fost destul de interesante. Ultima parte a cartii a fost trista si ma asteptam sa se termine intr-un final fericit, dar mi-a placut cum s-a incheiat intr-un mod circular, cu ei in cimitir.