At First Sight, Nicholas Sparks
At First Sight, Nicholas Sparks
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At First Sight

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2005


Synopsis

In this #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to True Believer, a young couple's love faces the ultimate test when the past disrupts the life and family they've built together.
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 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 his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple's marriage.

Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it.

While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks's most deeply moving love stories.

About Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Charles Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska in December 1965. He is an American novelist primarily, but has also developed into a screen - writer and producer of films. He is an Alumni of the University of Note Dame, and is recently separated from wife, Cathy. They have five children.

At 19, Sparks was inspired to begin writing by a comment his Mother made to him. After writing two early novels, Sparks sought to attend law school, but was rejected. He tried several other careers in the next three years before co-authoring a book that only sold 50,000 copies the first year. It was not until moving to Washington, DC in 1993, that he wrote his most famous and celebrated novel, The Notebook. The novel was discovered by a literary agent who found it in her agencies "slush pile". In 1996, The Notebook made the New York Times best-selling listing the first week it was released.

Sparks has had several international best-sellers and several have been adapted to film: Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, The Last Song, The Lucky One, Safe Haven, and The Best of Me.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Angie on 2009-08-28 15:52:08

I love Nicholas Sparks but I already know what is going to happen in every story he writes! Everyone will die! It just gets so old! I didn't even read his newest one because I know the ending already. Can't he write at least two stories where someone can stay together! No more Sparks for me!

AudiobooksNow review by Naomi M on 2011-05-20 15:38:13

I didn't find this story to be particularly interesting. Overall, the pace was slow. I skipped through several sections that felt like it served no purpose other than dragging out the story. I never felt the emotion in this story that I have experienced by other works by this author.

Goodreads review by Erin on July 03, 2007

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 Cree......more

Goodreads review by 🤍 Bookish Em 🤍 on January 05, 2021

This book just further proves why Nicholas Sparks is one of my all time favorite authors. I fell so deep into this book and came out crying. I had no idea how attached I was to these characters until the end of the book. I just love his writing and the ending of this one was so unexpected. I’ll need......more

Goodreads review by Jess on September 18, 2015

Where to begin? This book was atrocious. I felt no connection to the characters at all. I am usually a huge fan of Sparks and his stories - Safe Haven and A Walk To Remember are two of my favorites and they will always be up there when it comes to great love stories. This..? What a load of tripe. Fi......more

Goodreads review by April on September 28, 2007

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......more

Goodreads review by Mashal on April 03, 2017

I don't know what I was expecting when I started reading Nicholas Spark but it certainly was not this, not because it was astounding but ordinary. Ordinary up to the point of bewilderment. The writer has described things beautifully, the common problems in being a relationship,trust issues. The anxi......more