A review by pearlgenius
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

3.0

A Walk To Remember was nothing like I thought it would be. I wholeheartedly enjoyed it, although it's not one of my favourite romances because I did not see it as a romance novel. I don't think it was so much about the romance but about how love and kindness can change people, which was written well in this book. One thing I'll say is how child-like Jamie is, I mean I know they're both teenagers, but there was an innocence and purity in Jamie that isn't really found in teenagers. I think it would have been a better story if perhaps there was no romantic love, but a platonic love between Jamie and Landon, and if Jamie was a child. I feel that makes more sense because of the was Jamie was written. I think if Jamie and Landon had connected any other way than romantically the story would have had a bigger impact on me. I did not like that they got married, that felt weird and forced and I guess it was normal in the 1950's but I didn't really love it, looking at it from a modern perspective. Still generally a great message which I like to believe to be true, so overall a nice read.