True Believer Review

Anybody who has ever read a book by Nicholas Sparks knows that he rights heart string pulling books.  He writes a good romance but is not someone you want to read if you are looking for a quick gratification romance or a steamy novel.  Sure there may be a tiny bit of steam, but the books focus more on the relationship than the steam. True Believer is certainly no exception to what seems to be the rule of Nicholas Sparks.

Jeremy Marsh is a New York Scientific investigative Journalist.  Jeremy is 37 years old, divorced, and apparently pretty sexey.  He has recently been called to North Carolina to a town called Boone Creek to scoop a story.  Jeremy enjoys debunking things that other people beleive are supernatural, and he gained enough attention to catch the eye of a psychic restaurant owner by the name of Doris, who has called Jeremy and has invited him to come investigate some strange and frightning lights that have been appearing at the local cemetary.  She thinks that they are ghosts.

Doris's attractive grandaughter  Lexie Darnell becomes Jeremy's toar guide.  Lexie also beleives that these lights are ghosts, and many of the towns people do as well.  Jeremy is bent on trying to prove that the lights are not ghosts.  While he is conducting his investigation he falls for the lovely Lexie.  Since they seem to come from two different worlds Lexie tries her best not to fall for the handsome Jeremy.  The fact that the towns deputy Rodney Hopper also has designs on Lexie makes things even more difficult.  Jeremy knows that if he proves the ghosts are not real then he will then head back to his own world and possibly blow any chance that he has with Doris, but he is determined.

Unlike most of Spark's books there is no real tragedy here.  Usually in his books someone is sick or someone dies, but this is more of a straightforward romance, it may be tear jerking like his other novels but not for anything more tragic than love.  Like all of the Spark's novels that I have read the romance is not rushed.  The romance takes time, and this makes the romance more believable and their love more important to the reader.  I read so many books and watch so many movies where we are suppossed to believe people are so deeply in love after rushing in to things, that is what I like about Nicholas Spark's books.  Not that I don't like the steamier novels, I do, but sometimes I like to read a book that is more about true love.

This is a nicely written book that did plenty to fill my needs for a nice romance that takes its time.

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