![]() ![]() ![]() Sparks's prose has the amiable, folksy rhythm of a rocking chair on a wraparound porch, but beware: his dialogue can be knuckle-bitingly bad ("Now, dat dere's a purty ring," one yokel tells Lexie). Now he has decided to move down South to marry her - despite the fact that, as a friend points out, he's "only spent a week with her." Sure enough, Jeremy soon discovers that while the air in Boone Creek may be "scented with perfume and pine and salted mist," there's very little for a transplanted city boy to do - except fall into a fugue state of paranoid jealousy. Sparks's latest romance revisits two characters he introduced in an earlier novel, "True Believer." Jeremy, a divorced magazine writer from New York, fell in love with Lexie, a young librarian, while doing research in her hometown in North Carolina. ![]()
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