ISBN: 751536571
When we last left 37-year-old Jeremy Marsh (a scant six months ago, in Sparks's April pub True Believer), the science columnist had traveled from his New York base to Boone Creek, N.C., to get a story?and ended up falling in love with Lexie Darnell, the 30-year-old town librarian. Now Lexie's pregnant?but it's true love (and a portable job) that's allowing divorcĂŠ Jeremy to move down so they can marry and build a life together. The book centers on the tension-filled runup to the wedding. Sparks pulls out all the smalltown stops?psychic grandmother, meddling mayor, sullen townie ex, jealous best friends?and offers Mars/Venus commentary on what makes his characters tick. Jeremy's writer's block, instead of heightening the will-they-or-won't-they tension, is as enervating for readers as it is for him. More compelling are the mysterious e-mails Jeremy receives that suggest Lexie may not be telling the truth (about who the father is, for one thing), and the character of Lexie's psychic gra...